Tag: Sparta

2022 TIFF: Honoré, Seidl, Pálmason, Mungiu & Gueret+Akoka in the Contemporary World Cinema Program

After front-loading the section with Canadiana last week, we now know the entire make-up of the Contemporary World Cinema Program and there are plenty...

2022 Venice Film Festival: 70 Predictions (Part II) Aroonpheng, Lindholm, Hogg & Rolf de Heer

Only hours before TIFF unveil what should be a sizeable amount of their line-up (and in the same sweeping motion confirm a lot of...

2022 Cannes Film Festival: Eight Possible 11th Hour Film Options

Critics' Week made their line-up public yesterday. Directors' Fortnight topper Paolo Moretti mentioned that there is one title from Asia that they are still...

2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls

We've looked at the non-competing sections (10 predictions). We've visited (20 predictions) the possible Critics' Week programme. We explored (20 predictions) options for the...

Piccolo Fratello: Seidl’s Wicked Games Project Spawned “Rimini” and then… “Sparta”

Minutes before Ulrich Seidl's is set to premiere his long-awaited feature, we now learn that there is a companion film that is in the can...

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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.

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