Tag: Jim Williams

Alpha | Review

Turn to Stone: Ducournau Hits a Wall with Disease Allegory “Death is the cure for all illness,” wrote English writer Thomas Browne, which is a...

Hoard | Review

M is for the Many Things You Gave Me: Grief Becomes the Remedy in Carmoon’s Debut “Time heals all old pain, while it creates new...

Resurrection | Review

The Killing Kindness: Semans Explores Love as a Deadly Splendored Thing in Exceptional Psychodrama “You’re Nobody till Somebody Loves You,” a popular 1940s tune made...

Titane | Review

Car Crash Set: Ducournau Crafts a Cult Classic with Grotesque Odyssey of Dysfunction In J.G. Ballard’s seminal 1973 cult novel Crash, infamously adapted in 1996...

Possessor Uncut | Review

The Mind Benders: Cronenberg Returns with Eerie Exercise of Mind/Body Horror Eight years after his 2012 debut Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg returns with Possessor Uncut, an...

Interview: Michael Pearce & Jessie Buckley – Beast

Unveiled at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Platform section with additional premieres at Sundance and Rotterdam earlier this year, Michael Pearce's directorial...

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Paper Tiger | Review

In the Forests of the Night: Gray Frames Fearful...

TheyDream | Review

Frames That Mend: Caballero Unevenly Probes Puerto Rican Family...

The Devils (1971) | Review

Sympathy for The Devils: The Suppression of Ken Russell’s...

Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.