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Wolfram | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Torn Birds: Thornton Returns to Brutality of the Australian Frontier The sovereignty of Australia was never officially ceded by its First Nations peoples, succinctly...

You BETcha!: ‘Yellow Letters’, ‘Rose’ & ‘Queen at Sea’ are the Golden Bear Frontrunners

YouBETcha! is back, this time for our Berlinale edition, where we guess the odds of the films most likely to pick up the converted...

2026 Berlinale: Mundruczó, Çatak, Aïnouz, Schleinzer, Dulude-de Celles, Anthony Chen, Lance Hammer in Golden Bear Comp

There is a lot of unpack here with the official competition offerings which consists of two international premieres and twenty world premieres for a...

2023 TIFF: Rustin, The Holdovers, Memory, The Beast, NYAD, Fingernails, Hit Man & The Royal Hotel Get Confirmed Itineraries

With one announcement we got confirmations for films that will either exclusively play in Toronto or will hit either Telluride and/or Venice just prior....

2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10

We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...

2023 Cannes: Debut Films by Molly Manning Walker, Felipe Galvez & Delphine Deloget Sprinkle the Un Certain Regard Section

With the likes of Return to Seoul, Godland, Corsage, War Pony and The Worst Ones, last year's Un Certain Regard section was a vintage...

2018 Sundance Add-Ons: Premieres include Hannah Fidell & Tamara Jenkins + Lynne Ramsay Confirmed for Spotlight

The Sundance Film Fest added the final touches to their 2018 edition, and we've now got a bonafide pair of must see films in...

2017 Venice Film Festival: Kechiche, Mandico & Ming-liang in Tommaso Tocci’s Top Five

It’s been a good year on the Lido, with a balanced and compact Competition slate that avoided the rollercoaster feeling of recent years and...

2017 TIFF: Platform Programme Lands World Preems From Clio Barnard, Lisa Langseth & Armando Iannucci

Now in its third "edition" and already proving to be an attractive sidebar within the larger film fest's festivities, TIFF announced their dozen film...

Venice 2017: Weiwei, Haigh, Maoz, Doueiri & Kechiche Compete for Golden Lion

Despite the number of spoilers in TIFF announcements less than 48 hours back, the are some top filmmaker names and highly anticipated film items...

The Conversation: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex

As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Following a glut...

Sweet Country | Review

Once Upon a Time in Australia: Thornton’s Western-inspired Saga of Violent Racial Discrimination Racial tensions in Australian society are given historic treatment in the outback-Western...

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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The Devils (1971) | Review

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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.