{"id":777697,"date":"2026-05-06T17:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/777697\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:03:22","slug":"ken-russells-restored-the-devils-to-hit-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/777697\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Russell&#8217;s Restored &#8220;The Devils&#8221; To Hit Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ken-russells-restored-the-devils-to-hit-cannes.jpg\" data-caption=\"Warner Bros. Pictures. Courtesy of Alamy.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ken-russells-restored-the-devils-to-hit-cannes.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"ken-russells-restored-the-devils-to-hit-cannes\"\/><\/a>Warner Bros. Pictures. Courtesy of Alamy.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Ken Russell\u2019s infamous 1971 feature \u201cThe Devils\u201d is coming to the Cannes Film Festival this year with a whole new, uncensored 4K restoration reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldofreel.com\/blog\/2026\/5\/5\/ken-russells-the-devils-uncut-to-screen-at-cannes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World of Reel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seen as one of the most major restoration announcements in years, the release hails from the recently announced new Warner Bros. specialty label Warner Bros. Clockwork.<\/p>\n<p>The film is an adaptation of Aldous Huxley\u2019s novel \u201cThe Devils of Loudon\u201d and stars Oliver Reed as 17th-century rogue French Priest Urbain Grandier, who becomes the target of a political witch hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Using the testimony of a mad hunchbacked nun (Vanessa Redgrave), the hysterical inquisitor Father Barre (Michael Gothard) uses torture and violence to whip up the entire city into a rabid carnal frenzy.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s graphic portrayal of violent and sexual content, combined with religion, originally received an X rating and was banned in several countries or heavily edited for exhibition in others.  To this day, it remains one of the most controversial films of all time, and even the edited versions are hard to find either on physical media or streaming.<\/p>\n<p>This screening is reportedly described as a new and uncensored 4K restoration assembled from the original camera negative and will include extra footage.  It is being seen as the closest possible version to Russell\u2019s original vision.<\/p>\n<p>Famed British critic and biographer Mark Kermode and Ken\u2019s wife Elisabeth Russell will be in attendance at the Cannes screening. <\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/warner-bros-clockwork-announces-fall-2026-global-theatrical-release-for-4k-directors-cut-restoration-of-ken-russells-the-devils\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Box-Office Pro<\/a> has announced that this new restoration will get a one-week global theatrical re-release on October 16th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Pictures. Courtesy of Alamy. 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