{
  "id": 17444451,
  "title": "Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’ Feels More Relevant Than It Did 55 Years Ago. That’s Because It’s About a World Gone Mad",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/ken-russells-the-devils-feels-more-relevant-than-it-did-55-years-ago",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-31T17:46:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/columns/ken-russells-the-devils-feels-more-relevant-than-ever-1236936074/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "I’m an ardent fan of Ken Russell, yet I always considered “The Devils” to be a transgressive novelty: a voluptuous exercise in extreme blasphemy and extreme horror. No doubt: It’s both those things. Yet I didn’t think it was anything more than that. (For me, that was enough.) When the film came out, in 1971, […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}