Tag Archives: Ken Russell
24 Hours with Ken Russell
There is a Monty Python sketch which only lasts about twenty-five seconds, but that’s all it needs. Stately music plays on the soundtrack. It’s a simple country garden. A businessman enters the scene, pursued by a nude woman. They’re chased by … Continue reading
Posted in Marathon
Tagged 60's, 70's, 80's, Amanda Donohoe, Ann-Margret, Automaton, Christ, Christopher Gable, Comedy, demons, Drama, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Frankenstein, Gabriel Byrne, Glenda Jackson, horror, Hugh Grant, Imogen Millais-Scott, Jack Nicholson, Julian Sands, Ken Russell, Liszt, Madness, Mahler, Mary Shelley, Max Adrian, Michael Gough, Musical, Natasha Richardson, Oliver Reed, Oscar Wilde, Peter Capaldi, Peter Vaughan, Pinball, Richard Chamberlain, Ringo Starr, Rock Musical, Roger Daltrey, Surreal, Tchaikovsky, The Devil, The Who, Timothy Spall, Tina Turner, Tommy Tune, Twiggy, Vanessa Redgrave
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Crimes of Passion (1984)
Ken Russell’s major Hollywood foray, Altered States (1980), was a big-budget, FX-driven, mind-bending science fiction fable centered on isolation tank experiments: a 2001 for the New Age set. Though the film made its money back, it ended Russell’s shot at the Hollywood … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Smoking Gun
Tagged 80's, Annie Potts, Anthony Perkins, Kathleen Turner, Ken Russell, prostitution, Surreal
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Valentino (1977)
Well, now Ken Russell had gone too far. It was one thing to cast Roger Daltrey as a rock star/sex-god incarnation of Franz Liszt in his ultimate nutzoid composer bio, Lisztomania (1975), a film that also featured Ringo Starr as … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Ballroom
Tagged 70's, Carol Kane, John Ratzenberger, Ken Russell, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, Rudolph Valentino, Seymour Cassel
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