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Dreams | Review

Magnificent Obsession: Franco Finds Love is a Hopeless Place Michel Franco lassos Jessica Chastain into his continued class conflict examinations in Dreams, an intimate portrait...

Memory | Review

Remembrance of Things Past: Franco Bargains for Benevolence in Purgative Love Story “Memory is something so complex that no list of all its attributes could...

Interview: Michel Franco – Memory

Unwaveringly dedicated to a cinema of provocation, even if it may appear excessive to more sensitive viewers, auds at the Venice (and Toronto) Film...

Interview: David Zonana – Heroic

In his sophomore feature, David Zonana plunges into the dark underpinnings that propel military college-type institutions in Mexico (not much different around the world)...

Sundown | Review

Slaughter House Rules: Franco Continues with Cinema of Distress The English playwright Robert Bolt wrote “Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.”...

New Order | Review

How Does It Feel, To Treat Me Like You Do?: Franco Flies Into Traumas of Totalitarianism It’s a sign of the times, wherein an apocalyptic...

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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.