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The Devils (film)

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The Devils is a 1971 British historical drama horror film directed by Ken Russell and starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. [1]

88 relations: Abbess, Adam Chodzko, Aldous Huxley, Alex Cox, Altar, Altered States, American Cinematheque, Andrew Faulds, Angela Merici, Belladonna of Sadness, Brian Murphy (actor), British Board of Film Classification, British Film Institute, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, Cardinal Richelieu, Catholic Church, Charles Haid, Christopher Logue, Confessor, Crucifix, David Munrow, David Watkin (cinematographer), Death by burning, Derek Jarman, Derek Malcolm, Drama (film and television), Dudley Sutton, Early Music Consort, East End Film Festival, Enema, Exorcism, Femur, Fires of London, Fornication, Gemma Jones, Georgina Hale, Graham Armitage, Historical period drama, Home video, Horror film, ITunes Store, John Whiting, John Woodvine, Judith Crist, Ken Russell, Kenneth Colley, Krzysztof Penderecki, Loudun, Loudun possessions, Louis XIII of France, ..., Mark Kermode, Masturbation, Max Adrian, Michael Gothard, Mother Joan of the Angels, Murray Melvin, National Board of Review, Nationwide Festival of Light, NTSC, Oliver Reed, PAL, Peter Maxwell Davies, Protestantism, Relic, Roger Ebert, Sacrilege, Scoliosis, Sexual repression, Show trial, Shudder (streaming service), Spike Milligan, Stuart Baird, Terpsichore (1612), The A.V. Club, The Boy Friend (1971 film), The Crucible, The Devils (play), The Devils of Loudun, The Devils of Loudun (opera), The Proms, University of Southampton, Urbain Grandier, Ursulines, Vanessa Redgrave, Venice Film Festival, Warner Bros., Witchcraft, X rating. Expand index (38 more) »

Abbess

In Christianity, an abbess (Latin abbatissa, feminine form of abbas, abbot) is the female superior of a community of nuns, which is often an abbey.

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Adam Chodzko

Adam Chodzko (born 1965) is a contemporary British artist, exhibiting internationally.

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family.

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Alex Cox

Alexander B. H. Cox (born 15 December 1954) is an English film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author, broadcaster and sometime actor.

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Altar

An altar is any structure upon which offerings such as sacrifices are made for religious purposes, and by extension the 'Holy table' of post-reformation Anglican churches.

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Altered States

Altered States is a 1980 American science-fiction horror film directed by Ken Russell based on the novel of the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky.

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American Cinematheque

The American Cinematheque is an independent, non-profit cultural organization in Los Angeles dedicated exclusively to the public presentation of the moving image in all its forms.

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Andrew Faulds

Andrew Matthew William Faulds (1 March 1923 – 31 May 2000) was a British actor and politician.

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Angela Merici

Angela Merici, or Angela de Merici (21 March 1474 – 27 January 1540), was an Italian religious educator, who is honoured as a saint by the Catholic Church.

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Belladonna of Sadness

, also known as La Sorciere, Tragedy of Belladonna, or simply Belladonna, is a 1973 feature film produced by the Japanese animation studio Mushi Production and distributor Nippon Herald Films.

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Brian Murphy (actor)

Brian Trevor John Murphy (born 25 September 1932) is an English actor, best known as the henpecked husband George Roper in the popular sitcom Man About the House and its spin-off series George and Mildred, and as Alvin Smedley in Last of the Summer Wine.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival

The Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF), previously named Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film (Festival international du film fantastique de Bruxelles, Internationaal Festival van de Fantastische Film van Brussel) was created in 1983 as a venue for horror, thriller and science fiction films.

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Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac (9 September 15854 December 1642), commonly referred to as Cardinal Richelieu (Cardinal de Richelieu), was a French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Charles Haid

Charles Maurice Haid III (born June 2, 1943) is an American actor and film director, with notable work in both movies and television.

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Christopher Logue

Christopher Logue, CBE (23 November 1926 – 2 December 2011)Mark Espiner, The Guardian, 2 December 2011 was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival, and a pacifist.

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Confessor

Confessor is a title used within Christianity in several ways.

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Crucifix

A crucifix (from Latin cruci fixus meaning "(one) fixed to a cross") is an image of Jesus on the cross, as distinct from a bare cross.

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David Munrow

David John Munrow (12 August 194215 May 1976) was a British musician and early music historian.

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David Watkin (cinematographer)

David Watkin BSC (23 March 1925 – 19 February 2008) was a British cinematographer, an innovator who was among the first directors of photography to experiment heavily with the usage of bounce light as a soft light source.

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Death by burning

Deliberately causing death through the effects of combustion, or effects of exposure to extreme heat, has a long history as a form of capital punishment.

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Derek Jarman

Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author.

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Derek Malcolm

Derek Elliston Michael Malcolm (born 12 May 1932 in Marylebone, London) is an English film critic and historian.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Dudley Sutton

Dudley Sutton (born 6 April 1933) is an English actor.

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Early Music Consort

The Early Music Consort of London was a British music ensemble in the late 1960s and 1970s which specialised in historically informed performance of Medieval and Renaissance music.

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East End Film Festival

The East End Film Festival is one of the UK’s biggest film festivals.

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Enema

An enema is the injection of fluid into the lower bowel by way of the rectum.

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Exorcism

Exorcism (from Greek εξορκισμός, exorkismós "binding by oath") is the religious or spiritual practice of evicting demons or other spiritual entities from a person, or an area, that are believed to be possessed.

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Femur

The femur (pl. femurs or femora) or thigh bone, is the most proximal (closest to the hip joint) bone of the leg in tetrapod vertebrates capable of walking or jumping, such as most land mammals, birds, many reptiles including lizards, and amphibians such as frogs.

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Fires of London

The Fires of London, founded as the Pierrot Players, was a British chamber music ensemble which was active from 1965 to 1987.

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Fornication

Fornication is generally consensual sexual intercourse between two people not married to each other.

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Gemma Jones

Jennifer Gemma Jones (born 4 December 1942) is an English character actress on both stage and screen.

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Georgina Hale

Georgina A. Hole (born 4 August 1943), known professionally as Georgina Hale, is an English actress notable for many stage, film and television appearances; often in the works of director Ken Russell and writer Simon Gray.

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Graham Armitage

Graham Armitage (1936–1999) was an English film and television actor.

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Historical period drama

The term historical period drama (also historical drama, period drama, costume drama, and period piece) refers to a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television.

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Home video

Home video is pre-recorded video media that is either sold, rented or streamed for home entertainment.

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Horror film

A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences.

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ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, and has been the largest music vendor in the United States since April 2008, and the largest music vendor in the world since February 2010.

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John Whiting

John Robert Whiting (15 November 1917 – 16 June 1963) was an English actor, dramatist and critic.

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John Woodvine

John Woodvine (born 21 July 1929) is an English actor who has appeared in more than 70 theatre productions, as well as a similar number of television and film roles.

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Judith Crist

Judith Crist (May 22, 1922 – August 7, 2012) was an American film critic and academic.

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Ken Russell

Henry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell (3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011) was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style.

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Kenneth Colley

Kenneth Colley (born 7 December 1937) is an English actor.

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Krzysztof Penderecki

Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (born 23 November 1933) is a Polish composer and conductor.

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Loudun

Loudun is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.

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Loudun possessions

The Loudun possessions was a notorious witchcraft trial in Loudun, France in 1634.

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Louis XIII of France

Louis XIII (27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1610 to 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.

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Mark Kermode

Mark James Patrick Kermode (nocat Fairey; born 2 July 1963) is an English television and film critic and musician.

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Masturbation

Masturbation is the sexual stimulation of one's own genitals for sexual arousal or other sexual pleasure, usually to the point of orgasm.

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Max Adrian

Max Adrian (1 November 1903 – 19 January 1973) was a Northern Irish stage, film and television actor and singer.

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Michael Gothard

Michael Alan Gothard (24 June 19392 December 1992) was an English actor, who portrayed Kai in the television series Arthur of the Britons and the mysterious villain Emile Leopold Locque in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.

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Mother Joan of the Angels

Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniołów, also known as The Devil and the Nun) is a 1961 drama film on demonic possession, directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, based on a novella of the same title by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz.

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Murray Melvin

Murray Melvin (born 10 August 1932) is an English stage and film actor noted for his work with Joan Littlewood, Ken Russell and Stanley Kubrick.

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National Board of Review

The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures is an organization dedicated to discuss and select what their members regard as the best film works of each year.

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Nationwide Festival of Light

The Nationwide Festival of Light was a short-lived grassroots movement formed by British Christians concerned about the rise of the permissive society and social changes in English society by the late 1960s.

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NTSC

NTSC, named after the National Television System Committee,National Television System Committee (1951–1953),, 17 v. illus., diagrs., tables.

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Oliver Reed

Robert Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 – 2 May 1999) was an English actor known for his upper-middle class, macho image, hellraiser lifestyle, and "tough guy" roles.

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PAL

Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a color encoding system for analogue television used in broadcast television systems in most countries broadcasting at 625-line / 50 field (25 frame) per second (576i).

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Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Relic

In religion, a relic usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangible memorial.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Sacrilege

Sacrilege is the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object or person.

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Scoliosis

Scoliosis is a medical condition in which a person's spine has a sideways curve.

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Sexual repression

Sexual repression is a state in which a person is prevented from expressing their own sexuality.

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Show trial

A show trial is a public trial in which the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt of the defendant.

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Shudder (streaming service)

Shudder is an over-the-top subscription video on demand service featuring horror, thriller and supernatural titles owned and operated by American cable television network AMC.

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Spike Milligan

Terence Alan Milligan, (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was a British-Irish comedian, writer, poet, playwright and actor.

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Stuart Baird

Stuart Baird (born 30 November 1947) is an English film editor, producer, and director who is mainly associated with action films.

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Terpsichore (1612)

Terpsichore is a compendium of more than 300 instrumental dances published in 1612 by the German composer Michael Praetorius.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop culture media.

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The Boy Friend (1971 film)

The Boy Friend is a 1971 British-American musical comedy film directed by Ken Russell and starring Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Tommy Tune, and Max Adrian with an uncredited appearance by Glenda Jackson.

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The Crucible

The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller.

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The Devils (play)

The Devils is a play, commissioned by Sir Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company and written by British dramatist John Whiting, based on Aldous Huxley's book, The Devils of Loudun.

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The Devils of Loudun

The Devils of Loudun is a 1952 non-fiction novel by Aldous Huxley.

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The Devils of Loudun (opera)

Die Teufel von Loudun (The Devils of Loudun) is an opera in three acts written in 1968 and 1969 by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, and then revised in 1972 and 1975.

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The Proms

The Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.

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University of Southampton

The University of Southampton (abbreviated as Soton in post-nominal letters) is a research university located in Southampton, England.

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Urbain Grandier

Urbain Grandier (born in 1590 in Bouère, Mayenne – died on 18 August 1634 in Loudun) was a French Catholic priest who was burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft, following the events of the so-called "Loudun Possessions".

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Ursulines

The term Ursulines refers to a number of religious institutes of the Catholic Church.

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Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress of stage, screen and television, and a political activist.

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Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is the oldest film festival in the world and one of the "Big Three" film festivals, alongside the Cannes Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Witchcraft

Witchcraft or witchery broadly means the practice of and belief in magical skills and abilities exercised by solitary practitioners and groups.

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X rating

In some countries, X is or has been a motion picture rating reserved for the most explicit films.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devils_(film)

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