How Film Critic Mark Kermode Helped Resurrect Ken Russell's 'The Devils' - NC-17 and All

"The Devils" has returned. Ken Russell's controversial cult classic, first released in 1971, has been a source of never-ending controversy and consternation. Based, in part, on a true story (along with 1952 non-fiction book "The Devils of Loudun" by Aldous Huxley and John Whiting's 1960 play "The Devils"), it stars Oliver Reed as Urbain Grandier, a real-life 17th-century Roman Catholic who was accused of witchcraft after he refused to acquiesce to King Louis XIII, who was attempting to consolidate power. Vanessa Redgrave plays Sister Jeanne des Anges, a hunchbacked nun who is . . .