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Redgrave pays tribute to Russell -
29 November 2011
-Veteran actress Vanessa Redgrave has remembered late director Ken Russell as a "genius" and revealed she still treasures a tribute he wrote following the death of her daughter Natasha Richardson.-Tommy director Russell, who passed away on Sunday (27Nov11) aged 84, c
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Daltrey considered re-teaming with Russell before his death -
29 November 2011
-The Who rocker Roger Daltrey has paid tribute to his Tommy director Ken Russell, revealing they re-teamed to discuss a new project just weeks before his death.-The 84-year-old filmmaker, who directed Daltrey in the band's 1975 rock opera, passed away in hospital fol
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Russell: 'Reed should have been given an Oscar' -
17 August 2010
-Moviemaker Ken Russell fears Oliver Reed's wildman reputation cost the late Brit an Oscar - insisting it's a travesty the Gladiator star was never honoured by the Academy.-
-The filmmaker directed Reed in The Devils and Tommy and insists the actor was "brilliant" de
Ken Russell - what members say
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Interesting 2 October 2007
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Songs of summer shall sound as sweet 23 November 2004
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A TIMELESS MASTERPIECE 3 June 2005
Ken Russell - filmography
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Trapped Ashes
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: John Saxon, Dick Miller, Ken Russell
Director: Joe D, Sean S. Cunningham
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Seven strangers on a Hollywood movie studio tour are trapped inside an infamous House of Horror and forced to tell their most terrifying stories to get out alive...
 
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Brothers of the Head
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Harry Treadaway, Luke Treadaway, Bryan Dick
Director: Louis Pepe, Keith Fulton
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From the creators of LOST IN LA MANCHA, comes this mockumentary focusing of the talents of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howes; plucked from obscurity, groomed by rock royalty and ultimately the pair become a punk phenomenon. Based on the novel by Brian Aldiss (writer of Super Toys Last All Summer ..read more »
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Lady Chatterley
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Sean Bean, Joely Richardson, Shirley Ann Field
Director: Ken Russell
Certificate: 
Another of writer/director Ken Russell's D.H. Lawrence adaptations, LADY CHATTERLEY is drawn from the author's unexpurgated novel, as well as the two previously published drafts of the story, 'The First Lady Chatterley' and 'John Thomas and Lady Jane'. In recounting the familiar details of young, ..read more »
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Whore
(1991)
Starring: Theresa Russell, Benjamin Mouton, Antonio Fargas
Director: Ken Russell
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Theresa Russell plays a Californian street prostitute in hiding from her vicious pimp. In a series of flashbacks, she recalls customers good and bad, and how she came to lead that life. Ken Russell directs this adatpation of a play written by London cabbie David Hines, who based it on the stories ..read more »
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The Rainbow
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Sammi Davis, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe
Director: Ken Russell
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Defying the moral constraints of Victorian England and her parents, a young woman engages in unbridled promiscuity with two partners before setting out to capture the fuller sensuality of life itself. Based on the 1915 novel by D.H. Lawrence.
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Lair of the White Worm
(1988)
Starring: Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant
Director: Ken Russell
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A giant skull is found at a castle in England, which is eventually linked to a legendary dragon-like worm, a peculiar religion, a vampiress' estate, and more...
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from 106 members
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Gothic
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson
Director: Ken Russell
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An impromptu party on the picturesque shores of Lake Geneva in July 1816 leads to a ghoulish night of terror: a night which will ultimately inspire the writing of two great horror classics: Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and Dr. Polidori's 'The Vampyre'. Exiles Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne) and his ..read more »
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Crimes Of Passion
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin
Director: Ken Russell
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Ken Russell's sexual caricature finds an all-American man, who's trapped in a sexless marriage, falling in love with a businesswoman who turns into a hooker by night. A psychotic priest (Perkins) tries to prevent their union, driving the wedge between love and sex. A thoughtful, sometimes very ..read more »
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Altered States
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: William Hurt, Blair Brown
Director: Ken Russell
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In this 1980 sci-fi horror film, William Hurt plays Eddie Jessup, a scientist obsessed with discovering mankind's true role in the universe. To this end, he submits himself to a series of mind-expanding experiments. By enclosing himself in a sensory-deprivation chamber and taking hallucinogenic ..read more »
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Tommy
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey
Director: Ken Russell
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Director Ken Russell's vibrant, hyperactive version of the Who's classic rock opera tells the story of a boy (Roger Daltrey) rendered deaf, dumb, and blind by the sight of his father's murder. His psychedelic journey through a maze of abusive relatives and strange "cures" eventually leads to ..read more »
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from 2,146 members
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Lisztomania
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas
Director: Ken Russell
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This audacious, vulgar, freewheeling fantasia on the life of pianist Franz Liszt ranks among director Ken Russell's most outrageous efforts. Roger Daltrey, lead singer for The Who, is awkward yet likeable as the flamboyant piano performer with a bevy of fetching mistresses and groupies, while Paul ..read more »
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Mahler
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Lee Montague
Director: Ken Russell
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From its stunning opening sequence, featuring Georgina Hale (who plays the wife of Gustav Mahler in this Ken Russell film) isolated in full mummy wrap and writhing with erotic yearning to the lush strains of her husband's music, Mahler distinguishes itself as the most poetic and archetypal of ..read more »
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Women In Love
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Alan Bates, Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed
Director: Ken Russell
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Women in Love is set in 1920s England, where free-spirited artist Gudrun (Glenda Jackson) and her schoolteacher sister Ursula (Jennie Linden) make the acquaintance of lifelong friends Gerald (Oliver Reed) and Rupert (Alan Bates). The foursome attends a picnic in honour of a pair of newly-weds, who ..read more »
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Billion Dollar Brain
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Oscar Homolka
Director: Ken Russell
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A second motion picture outing for anti-hero spy Harry Palmer who, since his work deciphering the riddles surrounding 'The Ipcress File' has decided to break away from the Secret Service and make a living as a private investigator. This time he is sucked into a web of conspiracy involving General ..read more »
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Elgar
(1962)
Starring: George McGrath, Peter Brett, Rowena Gregory
Director: Ken Russell
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Partly dramatised account of the life of composer Sir Edward Elgar. Also includes footage of Elgar at the Three Choirs Festival and a recording of the opening of Abbey Road Studios when 'Land Of Hope And Glory' was played.
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The South Bank Show - Volume Two
Starring: Ken Russell, Bill Connolly, Peter Maxwell-Davies
Director: none
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Britain's longest-running arts programme, The South Bank Show was presented throughout by Melvyn Bragg one of Britain's most highly regarded broadcasters and covered every branch of the arts for more than three decades. It undoubtedly set a new standard for arts coverage in the UK and eminently ..read more »
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Gounod: Faust
on DVD
Director: Ken Russell
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Controversial film director Ken Russell helms this production of Charles Gonoud's FAUST, casting Ruggero Raimondi and Francisco Araiza in lead roles. Erich Binder conducts throughout.
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The South Bank Show - Volume One - Ken R...
Starring: Ken Russell
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Ken Russell's eclectic career was undoubtedly defined by music, and he directed some of the most memorable and controversial films ever made about music in general, and composers in particular. Containing numerous watershed moments in the presentation of Arts on film and television he worked in ..read more »
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whereas THIS film wasn't released until 1989 (although both were directed by Ken Russell).
Before watching this DVD I couldn't remember ANYTHING about the storyline....
