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NEW ISSUE!
KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS
Sex, power, hysteria and sacrilege - the masterpiece returns as you’ve never seen it before
Featuring new writing from Mark Kermode, Linda Ruth Williams and @RealGDT
+ an unearthed 1995 interview with writer-director Russell, a new interview with continuity supervisor Ann Skinner, and behind-the-scenes images from the BFI National Archive
Amanda Kramer delivers a wry commentary on the objectification of women and commodity fetishism by turning Juliette Lewis into a piece of designer furniture.
Tara Judah reviews By Design, out now. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
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“One thing I remember very clearly was hitting [the Evening Standard’s long-time critic] Alexander Walker with his own review of The Devils because there were two instances to which he referred which were simply not in the film.
“One was that we see Oliver Reed’s penis being crushed. Well, that may be wishful thinking, but it simply is not in the film.”
— Ken Russell, speaking to Mark Kermode in 1995
Sight and Sound magazine retweeted
NEW ISSUE!
KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS
Sex, power, hysteria and sacrilege - the masterpiece returns as you’ve never seen it before
Featuring new writing from Mark Kermode, Linda Ruth Williams and @RealGDT
+ an unearthed 1995 interview with writer-director Russell, a new interview with continuity supervisor Ann Skinner, and behind-the-scenes images from the BFI National Archive
“Destined to be pored over by acting students for years to come, this simply mounted two-hander effectively ended the 2027 Best Actress race when The Debut premiered”
@BohemiaStable reviews Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut, the closing film tonight at #LFF bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
Sight and Sound magazine retweeted
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
“Clio Barnard’s latest continues the director’s deep commitment to exploring working-class characters, this time set in Birmingham and lodged in a group of long-time pals” – B. Ruby Rich
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“One thing I remember very clearly was hitting [the Evening Standard’s long-time critic] Alexander Walker with his own review of The Devils because there were two instances to which he referred which were simply not in the film.
“One was that we see Oliver Reed’s penis being crushed. Well, that may be wishful thinking, but it simply is not in the film.”
— Ken Russell, speaking to Mark Kermode in 1995
Read in full here: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/i…
Sacrilege and censorship: a Ken Russell’s The Devils watchlist – get Devils ready with a list of further viewing, selected by the S&S team
How many have you seen?
The list in full
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“While Koreeda has adapted from manga before, Look Back’s source material is more commercial... The director brings that style down to a simmer, playing in a subtler, characteristically naturalistic mode”
Blake Simons reviews. Premiering tonight at #LFF bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
“A film about loss of innocence, but its cleverness lies in how it demonstrates that this loss cuts in multiple directions. A child’s sense of safety has been shattered, but so has her parents”
Rachel Pronger reviews. Premiering tonight at #LFF bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
Read our interview with Josephine's director Beth de Araújo here #LFF
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Thank you to all who attended Friday's UK premiere of Ken Russell’s The Devils, presented at @BFI London Film Festival in association with Sight and Sound
The inaugural projection of a newly struck 35mm print. Introduced by Mark Kermode, and S&S managing editor Isabel Stevens
“With its exuberant revisionist take on 20th-century national history, La Bola Negra may well transform Calvo and Ambrossi from Spanish household names to international auteurs on the rise”
Elisabet Cabeza reviews La Bola Negra, screening today at #LFF bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
Ken Russell’s The Devils screens tonight on 35mm in all its restored, uncut glory at the 70th @BFI London Film Festival, presented in association with @SightSoundmag.
@RealGDT, Linda Ruth Williams and Ken Russell himself tell us about the film and its reception: a 🧵
Ken Russell on The Devils, from a 1995 interview with Mark Kermode
“For myself, although I am not a political creature, I always viewed The Devils as my one political film. To me, it was about brainwashing, about the state taking over.”
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Read more about the film, including Mark Kermode's deep dive and a new interview with continuity supervisor Ann Skinner, in our new issue, available to order from the BFI Shop
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“Though the fourth wall remains intact, there is a Peter Watkins element both to the film’s handheld style and to its aspirations to class analysis”
@henrykmiller reviews Paul Greengrass’s The Uprising, out now. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
