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Savage Messiah: Ken Russell => Savage Messiah: Ken Russell => Topic started by: Iain Fisher on March 22, 2015, 08:57:01 PM
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The Devils” is on at the Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, USA on 25 March 2015.
"Most religions believe that by crying, ‘Lord, Lord!’ often enough, they can contrive to enter the kingdom of heaven. A flock of trained parrots could just as readily cry the same thing with just as little chance of success.”
"Like many of the great 70s films, this is a story about power, and what happens when a single man tries to step out of line and go up against the System. Oliver Reed is fantastic as the priest whose charisma and ambition creates a problem for the Church that’s more political than spiritual."
Details are here
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2015janfeb/furious.html#devils (http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2015janfeb/furious.html#devils)