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No Good Men | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Up Close & Personal: Sadat Subverts the Spotlight in Stellar Melodrama In her third directorial feature, No Good Men, which is part of a five...

Mexico 86 | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

Coup de Madre: Díaz Revisits Violent Turmoils with Intimate Familial Drama Director César Díaz continues his cinematic exploration of Guatemala’s brutal civil war, considered the...

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Winner of the prestigious Caméra d'Or in 2019 for his debut Our Mothers (we were on hand - check out our coverage) Guatemalan filmmaker...

Interview: César Díaz – Our Mothers (Nuestras Madres)

Directed by Guatamalan filmmaker César Diaz, Our Mothers premiered at Cannes Critics' Week section and took home the top prize for a first time...

The Orphanage | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review

Back in the U.S.S.R.: Sadat Goes Back to Soviet-Ruled Afghanistan in Amiable Sophomore Film Following the success of her celebrated 2016 debut, Wolf and Sheep,...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #91. The Orphanage – Shahrbanoo Sadat

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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.