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…
Lisztomania (1975): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Roger Daltrey, Ringo Starr, Fiona Lewis; Ken Russell's erotic send–up of the bawdy life of virtuoso composer Franz Liszt – whose piano performances were attended by hordes of…
Valentino (1977): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Rudolph Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips…; Rudolph Nureyev portrays his promiscous namesake for Ken Russell's typically irreverent screen biography of the silent movie star.
Altered States (1980): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. William Hurt, Blair Brown; William Hurt plays a scientist with a penchant for mind exploration in his starring debut. Russell's overly talky but fascinating film has found a…
Crimes of Passion (1984): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins; An outrageous, kinky psycho–drama in which Kathleen Turner portrays a high–class hooker, shadowed by crackpot priest Anthony Perkins…
Gothic (1986): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson; Ken Russell's account of a night when Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and friends unravel their deepest fears. An enjoyable frolic, stamped with many of the…
Salome's Last Dance (1988): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns; Oscar Wilde drops in to witness a risque performance of his own play. A perfect reason for Ken to indulge in opulent overstatement with Glenda…
Lair of the White Worm (1988): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Sammi Davis…; Dir. Ken Russell's campy masterwork combines many estranged ideas from his previous films for an outlandish horror spoof. As hilarious as it is…
Rainbow, The (1989): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Sammi Davis, Amanda Donohoe; The director steers away from his usual excesses for D.H. Lawrence's portrait of a young woman's sexual and feminist liberation, set in Edwardian…
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990): Dir. Ken Russell, Tony Richardson, Frederic Raphael
Feat. James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Peter Weller…; Three stories of love from the pens of famous Americans, in the hands of three great directors.
Prisoner of Honour (1991): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Oliver Reed, Peter Firth…; Fact–based story of a military official Alfred Dreyfuss who was wrongly convicted of espionage in the French army c1900. Richard Dreyfuss (no…
Whore (1991): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Theresa Russell; Theresa Russell in a likeably loathsome dead–pan performance in this portrait of a prostitute as blunt as its title. Ken did it better with…
Holst - The Planets (1992): Dir. Ken Russell; Ken Russell plunders newsreel archives for his kaliedoscope of vivid imagery set to the classical work of Gustav Holst. While it works in its own…
Lady Chatterley (1993): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Joely Richardson, Sean Bean, James Wilby; Following THE RAINBOW, dir. Russell plunders D.H. Lawrence again with an encore of tongue–in–cheek dialogue, stilted acting, hokey sex…
Mind Bender (1996): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Terence Stamp, Ishai Golan; Ken Russell recreates the exploits of controversial spoon–bender and parapsychologist Uri Geller, but seems puzzlingly reluctant to provoke.…
Mr. Nice (2010): Dir. Bernard Rose
Feat. Rhys Ifans, Chloe Sevigny, David Thewlis…; Droll tale of the life raconteur and international drug smuggler Howard Marks who Ifans plays as a smug hippie–capitalist. The endless…

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