One of my favorites of all is Ken Russell's The Devils. I saw it in its first run in Hollywood, and for some reason, I want to say it was at the Vogue. I have to look that up on a future trip down the rabbit hole. But I then saw it another couple of times over the next few years. I'm not sure about those venues either, but I know one of them was the Nuart.
The insane thing about this movie is that I (all of us, actually, in those days) took it for granted, as far as having access to theatrical showings of it. It never had a really wide release, but it was available, even if in a somewhat trimmed form. It wasn't until a few decades later that one day I realized I hadn't seen or heard of it in all that time, and that it had basically been withheld from circulation. There was only a bootleg DVD available from the UK (a TV capture) which I happily snatched up. Finally, several years after that, BFI was permitted to issue it in a proper DVD release (but not on Blu-ray!), and of course I have that. I also saw it theatrically at Lincoln Center around 2010 when they hosted a Ken Russell festival, which was attended by both Russell and its star Vanessa Redgrave -- truly an unforgettable evening.
