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On the cover: Ken Russell’s The Devils: the controversial masterpiece returns. Inside: Paweł Pawlikowski discusses his new feature Fatherland, Boots Riley on I Love Boosters, a look inside a rediscovered scrapbook detailing the workings of F.W. Murnau’s Faust, the Venice film festival bulletin, David Thompson pays tribute to Jeremy Thomas, and we return to our archive and to a conversation between Billy Wilder and designer Saul Bass.
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The Uprising: A murky retelling of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt
Paul Greengrass’s 14th-century historical drama keeps the action moving, but leaves its character development in the mud.
By Henry K Miller
“My one political film”: Ken Russell on The Devils
By Ken Russell
Queer Edward II: New Derek Jarman documentary captures a vital piece of cinematic history
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The Face of Horror: Anna Biller bewitches with a tragic medieval horrorshow
By Savina Petkova
Digger: an unwieldy but compulsively watchable satire
By Philip Concannon
“Sick and kinky”: The BBFC and Ken Russell’s The Devils
By Linda Ruth Williams
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“My one political film”: Ken Russell on The Devils
For a special 1995 Sight and Sound supplement on film censorship, the writer and director of The Devils detailed his ambitions for the film – including his rationales for its most scandalising scenes – and his run-ins with its range of detractors.
By Ken Russell
“It comes out of an anger about the way things are”: Martin Scorsese on The Departed
By Ian Christie
On Bresson: Olivier Assayas, Paul Schrader, Aki Kaurismäki and more discuss the French director
By Michael Brooke
The making of a super-producer: Jeremy Thomas interviewed in 2014
By Nick James
The discreet murderer of the bourgeoisie: an interview with Claude Chabrol
By Rui Nogueira and Nicoletta Zalaffi
“He is the blockbuster given human form”: J. Hoberman on Arnold Schwarzenegger
By J. Hoberman
“We wanted the film to have a vibrancy, to be larger than life”: Danny Boyle on Trainspotting
By Geoffrey Macnab
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