Russell's Filmy Wilms (5 titles)

The Elephant Man

It's one of my favourite films. It's so larcenous, so sentimental, so painfully romantic - the incredible poetry of this man who is beautiful on the inside and ugly on the outside. Sometimes I feel like the elephant man, when I'm sort of jostled about told to 'go in there now', 'be funny', 'put this on...' I sort of identified with him when he's whirled about.

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• The Elephant Man on DVD (1980)
  Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  John Hurt,  Anne Bancroft
  Director: David Lynch
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  David Lynch brings his own dreamlike style to the heartbreaking yet somehow uplifting story of John Merrick (John Hurt), a hideously deformed individual dubbed the Elephant Man during his years in a circus freak show in Victorian England. After suffering for years at the hands of his circus "master,..read more »
  
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Monty Python And The Holy Grail

I really like the Monty Python films - The Holy Grail...

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• Monty Python And The Holy Grail on DVD (1974)
  Starring: Graham Chapman,  John Cleese,  Terry Gilliam
  Director: Terry Gilliam,  Terry Jones
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  This classic Monty Python comedy, directed by Pythons Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, is a hilarious send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation. When the mythical king of the Britons leads his knights ..read more »
  
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Monty Python's Life Of Brian

... and The Life of Brian.

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• Monty Python's Life Of Brian on DVD (1979)
  Starring: Graham Chapman,  John Cleese,  Terry Gilliam
  Director: Terry Jones
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  Monty Python delivers a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood's depiction of all things biblical with their second--and tightest--full-length film. The setting is the Holy Land in 33 A.D., a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in ..read more »
  
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

And I really like One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest on DVD (1975)
  Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Louise Fletcher,  William Redfield
  Director: Milos Forman
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  In one of the most memorable indictments of mental institutions, and a subtle examination of male anger, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (based on the novel by Ken Kesey) presents a biting, and ultimately tragic, satire. R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson, in a role it would seem he was born to play), a ..read more »
  
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Amadeus

And I like Amadeus still... 'cos he was like that, Mozart: he was a dirty charlie. But because he's a genius, people are like: 'Oh don't, can you be a bit more serious?' But there are letters of his correspondence to his father where he talked about the fact that he just had a marvellous sh*t.

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• Amadeus on DVD (1984)
  Starring: F. Murray Abraham,  Tom Hulce,  Elizabeth Berridge
  Director: Milos Forman
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  In a lavish 18th Century parlor in Austria, an elderly man is found, by his servant, with his throat slashed. The wound is self-inflicted, and the man is the little-known composer Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), contemporary and adversary of the now-famed, but once reviled, composer Wolfgang Amadeus ..read more »
  
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