Tag: Music Box Films

Maid in Paris: Music Box Films Works Overtime for Eric Gravel’s “Full-Time“

France's pick to represent the country at the Oscars is in, but Music Box Films had gone ahead and landed the well-received Venice title...

Hang Noose: Music Box Films Find Swede Spot with “A Man Called Ove”

Next to Ikea, the Music Box Films folks are perhaps the biggest importers of Swedish culture, so after bringing The 100-Year Old Man Who...

Music Box Have a Wandering Eye For Fontaine’s “Gemma Bovery”

After shoring up in Toronto with their Cannes pick-ups in Alleluia and Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, the Music Box Films folks have landed...

Music Box Madly in Love with Fabrice Du Welz’s “Alleluia”

Definitely in the Godfather: Part II category of films where the second instalment might be the jewel of a proposed trio of films, Fabrice...

Music Box Make a Vow; Pawlikowski’s “Ida” Receives Foreign Oscar Support

A helping hand is always appreciated when it comes to the foreign film Oscar race.  It begins with about 60 submissions from countries such...

IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Sean Baker

IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This November, we feature Sean Baker, an independent...

Two Shades of Blue; Music Box Makes Post Sundance-Berlin Pick-Up of ‘Keep the Lights On’

Contempo Queer cinema is alive and well. After showings at Sundance and in Berlin, Ira Sachs' Keep the Lights On is following along in...

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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.