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How Film Critic Mark Kermode Helped Resurrect Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’ — NC-17 and All
The film, which was unavailable for years, returns to theaters (uncensored! ) this weekend Ken Russell’s controversial cult classic, first released in 1971, has been a source of never-ending controversy and consternation.
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The film, which was unavailable for years, returns to theaters (uncensored!) this weekend Ken Russell’s controversial cult classic, first released in 1971, has been a source of never-ending controversy and consternation. Based, in part, on a true story (along with 1952 non-fiction book “The Devils of Loudun” by Aldous Huxley and John Whiting’s 1960 play “The Devils”), it stars Oliver Reed as Urbain Grandier, a real-life 17th-century Roman Catholic who was accused of witchcraft after he refused to acquiesce to King Louis XIII, who was attempting to consolidate power.
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