Censored for more than half a century, Ken Russell’s visionary masterpiece returns to the big screen fully restored in 4K and cut to Russell’s direction — the first publicly released version of the film as intended by the filmmaker.
Unveiled at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, the definitive version arrives 55 years after the film’s original release. Starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, Ken Russell’s The Devils remains a landmark exploration of religious persecution, hysteria and institutional corruption.
Credits
UK 1971
114 mins
Certificate 18
Dir Ken Russell
With Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave
Screenings
35mm screenings
October
23 October to 29 October
BFI Southbank, London
30 October to 5 November
The Prince Charles Cinema
November
7 to 12 November
Edinburgh Filmhouse
Digital
October
From 30 October
BFI Southbank, London
ActOne Cinema, London
Broadway, Nottingham
Crouch End Picturehouse, London
Duke’s at Komedia, Brighton
Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Brighton
Finsbury Park Picturehouse, London
Greenwich Picturehouse
Hackney Picturehouse, London
Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool
Picturehouse Central
The Cameo, Edinburgh
The Gate, Notting Hill, London
The Prince Charles Cinema
Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
Phoenix Cinema, Leicester
Watershed, Bristol
Chapter Cardiff
DCA Dundee
Glasgow Film Theatre
HOME, Manchester
IFI Dublin
Lonsdale Alhambra, Penrith
Lumiere Romford
MAC Birmingham
The Picture House Cinema, Uckfield
Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast
November
7 November
The Poly Falmouth
9 November
The Cube, Bristol
13 November
Pontio, Bangor
Malvern Theatre
20 November
The Kinema in the Woods, Woodhall Spa
21 November
King Street Cinema, Ipswich
22 November
The Riverside, Woodbridge