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2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s In Dubious Battle

The unpredictability with this filmmaker-actor is that he has got plenty of projects stoking the fire and we never know which item might push...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s Bukowski

Feeding our curiosity for what a major transgressive adonis in future literary world might look like in the pre stench of cigarettes and booze era, I'm imagining something...

2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s Bukowski

Right after he wrapped up his '13 Sundance experience, Franco, the movie industry's poetry geek, hit the brinks and commenced lensing in Los Angeles...

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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.