Tag: Sundance Selects

Sundance Selects Have No Doubts about Andrew Haigh’s “45 Years”

Among our most anticipated foreign films (#27) for 2015, along with Pablo Larraín's The Club, Andrew Haigh's 45 Years has turned out to be among...

Bastards From a Basket; Sundance Selects Ropes Denis’ Cannes Sensation

A true whodunit type but of a different vibe, the one film from this years' Cannes that should have gotten picked up around the...

The Nanny Diaries; Sundance Selects Think “Finding Vivian Maier” is Worth a Thousand Words

Making it double announcement type day for John Maloof and (Religulous producer) Charlie Siskel’s Finding Vivian Maier - not only has Thom Powers included the docu...

No Staginess on the Part of Sundance Selects; Polanski’s “Venus in Fur” Heads to U.S. Market

Unlike the beating he took for his stage to screen translation of God of Carnage with Carnage, Polanski's Venus in Fur, a film that...

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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.