Fully restored 4K screening of Ken Russell's 1971 film 'The Devils', starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, as part of QUAD's Shocktober season.
Ken Russell's The Devils is coming to QUAD for a run of screenings from Friday 6 November to Thursday 19 November. It's a fully restored 4K version of the 1971 British drama, and it's being shown as part of QUAD's Shocktober season, which runs from 9 October to 20 November.
For a long time, The Devils was one of those films you could only see in fragments. It was censored for more than half a century, and this is the first time it's been publicly released as Russell intended, cut to his own direction. It had its big reveal at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, arriving 55 years after it first came out. The story is based on the true account of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century priest accused of bewitching a convent of nuns, with Oliver Reed in the lead and Vanessa Redgrave starring alongside him.
Beyond the main cast, the film brings together some heavy hitters from the crew. The cinematography is by Academy Award-winner David Watkin, the editing is by Michael Bradsell, and the production design is by Derek Jarman, whose work here marked his feature film debut. Seeing it restored in 4K on the big screen is a fair way to take it in, especially given how long it's been kept under wraps.
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There are eight screenings in total, spread across the two weeks: Friday 6 Nov at 20:30, Saturday 7 Nov at 18:00, Sunday 8 Nov at 16:30, Thursday 12 Nov at 20:30, Friday 13 Nov at 18:00, Saturday 14 Nov at 12:45, Sunday 15 Nov at 18:30, and Thursday 19 Nov at 20:45. Descriptive subtitles are available on the 14 and 19 November screenings. Tickets are £10.50 standard and £8.50 concession.
