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Ken Russell => Ken Russell => Topic started by: Iain Fisher on March 23, 2026, 09:17:40 PM
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The Globe Cinema in Calgary present Ken Russell’s The Devils on 3- 12 April 2026.
“The most controversial film of the 1970s was banned across the world for its deliriously overheated, shockingly blasphemous tale of sexual frenzy and demonic possession in a seventeenth-century French convent. Based on Aldous Huxley’s novel The Devils of Loudun and John Whiting’s play The Devils, Ken Russell’s X-rated spectacle of the depraved stars Vanessa Redgrave as a hunchbacked nun whose lust for priest Father Grandier (Oliver Reed) sets off a perverse witch hunt and unleashes an orgy of sadomasochistic sacrilege”.
I'm not sure about the cinema's description -deliriously overheated, spectacle of the depraved etc, but the film is good.
For the cinema website click here
https://globecinema.ca/ (https://globecinema.ca/)
For more on The Devils click here
https://iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film-the-devils.html (https://iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film-the-devils.html)
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Toronto's TIFF festival will screen the restored The Devils. The dates are not yet announced- more soon.
For the TIFF website click here
https://www.tiff.net/ (https://www.tiff.net/)
For more on The Devils click here
https://iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film-the-devils.html (https://iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film-the-devils.html)
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Toronto's TIFF festival will screen the restored The Devils. The dates are 10 September at TIFF Lightbox and 14 September 2026 at Scotiabank Theatre, Toronto.
"This director’s cut restores Russell’s original intent. Alternately hailed as a masterpiece and derided as pornography, its anti-authoritarian outrage and critique of institutional hypocrisy feel more urgent than ever".
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