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Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

How Awful About Allen: Tsukamoto Continues Charting Casualties of War “Ain’t war hell?,” asks the door gunner to Matthew Modine’s protagonist in Stanley Kubrick’s Full...

2026 Venice: Lee Chang-Dong, Werner Herzog & Martin McDonagh in Golden Lion Comp

As we had mentioned in our predictions piece over the weekend, the competition skews heavily dude-centric this year, with May El-Toukhy's Woman Unknown being...

2026 TIFF: Peter Farrelly, Takashi Miike & Michael Dowse to World Preem in Special Presentations Programme

Hirokazu Kore-eda, Shinya Tsukamoto and Lee Chang-dong are the doing the Venice to Toronto double down, Jesse Eisenberg is sticking to a Telluride and...

2026 Venice Film Festival: Projecting the Lido Lineup – 82 Titles in All!

Next week we will know the line ups for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, as well as the 41st International Critics’ Week picks...

Venice Film Festival 2023: All of IONCINEMA.com’s Movie Reviews

We came, we saw, we conquered. Our Nicholas Bell was in review overdrive assessing the entire competition and much more. We'll still have film...

2023 TIFF: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ilker Çatak, Monia Chokri & Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir Selected

Last year the Contemporary World Cinema had plenty of Cannes Film Festival gems in Aftersun, Falcon Lake, R.M.N. and The Worst Ones. This year's...

2023 Venice: Mika Gustafson, Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, Normande+Tiao, Nattiv+Ebrahimi & Ross Bros. in Orizzonti Program

Eighteen is the exact number of films selected last year, and will probably be the case for (the opener was not yet announced) the...

2018 Venice Film Festival: Jennifer Kent, Alverson, Corbet, Schnabel & Coen Bros. in Comp

Surprise, surprise. At the end of the day, Ethan and Joel Coen's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a feature film (not a series)...

2014 TIFF: From Locarno with Love…Wavelengths Offers Rich Programme with Diaz, Costa, Piñeiro & Ming-liang

Yesterday, TIFF’s Wavelengths program unveiled a Locarno-heavy line-up of feature-length films that all aim to push the cinematic medium to its breaking point. Highlights...

71st Venice Film Fest: Oppenheimer, Akin, Bahrani, Andersson & Ferrara Compete for Golden Lion

Whiles the likes of Terrence Malick, Todd Haynes, Alexander Sokurov, Giorgos Lanthimos and J.C. Chandor no where to be found in the fall fest season...

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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.