Ken Russell
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Delius (1958) 
- Dir. Ken Russell
 
- Ken Russell's BBC film biography of the music and life of English composer Frederick Delius, who had to overcome blindness and paralysis to fulfil…
 
Elgar (1962)
 
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Peter Brett, Rowena Gregory, George McGrath 
- Restrained and brilliant TV docudrama on England’s greatest 20th century composer, Edward Elgar, that made the director’s name and…
 
Ken Russell at the BBC (Elgar; Debussy; Always on Sunday; Isadora; Dante's Inferno; Song of Summer) (1962-1968) 
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Oliver Reed, Vladek Sheybal, Vernon Dobtcheff… 
- The engrossing early works of the controversial director comprises six of his famed artist portraits
 
Billion Dollar Brain (1968) 
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley… 
- The third 'Harry Palmer' spy caper taken from Len Deighton's series, with the bespectacled Caine this time chasing a meglomaniac Texas…
 
Women in Love (1969)
 
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson 
- Ken Russell's esteemed version of D.H. Lawrence's finest novel about a macho entrepreneur, his philosophically and sexually dubious friend and their…
 
Devils, The (1971)
 
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave 
- Ken Russell's subversive foray into Catholic guilt is as bold and disturbing as it is brilliant. Amidst the witch trials of medieval France, Oliver…
 
Music Lovers, The (1971)
 
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson 
- A wonderfully audacious film fantasia based on the life of Russian composer Tchaikovsky, the homosexual who married a nymphomaniac! Richard…
 
Boy Friend, The (1971)
 
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat.  Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian… 
- Unavailable on any format until recently, this long lost flight of fancy finds Ken Russell remodeling the golden age of musicals in his own…
 
Mahler (1974) 
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Robert Powell, Lee Montague, Georgina Hale… 
- Ken Russell's biopic on the life of the Jewish composer. As one critic observed – 'Whether the title of the opus is Mahler, Strauss or Elgar,…
 
Tommy (1975)
 
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat.  Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Eric Clapton… 
- The Who's ground–breaking rock opera about the deaf, dumb and blind kid who plays a mean pin–ball. It's a bad taste extravaganza that…