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Outrageously hedonistic 'rockopera' LISZTOMANIA casts contemporary rock god Roger Daltrey as the world's first music superstar, Franz Liszt. Loosely based on the life of the composer, the film takes a fantastical voyage through rock'n'roll excess and adventure, peppered with cameos from such pop icons as Ringo Starr (as the .. Read more

Starring	Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, John Justin
Director	Ken Russell
Genres	Music/Musical

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Critics' reviews (3) of Lisztomania
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LISZTOMANIA is the latest, most outrageous outing for Russell's fecund unconscious and, while we must pause to whisper, 'poor Franz', there's no denying the man is growing peculiarly interesting
- Chicago Sun
- Posted 31 Mar 2009
Since Tommy was Ken Russell's first real commercial hit, it's not surprising that Lisztomania should be a blatant... read more on Time Out
- Time Out
- Posted 25 Feb 2009
Ken Russell's LISZTOMANIA, combines his customary zany and bawdy artfulness with a style close to TOMMY
- Variety
- Posted 31 Mar 2009
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

[Highly rated reviewer]

More of Ken

Let's face it, being disappointed in a Ken Russell movie is like being upset by an Alice Cooper gig, or a Hammer film. You know what you're going to get, you expect excess and chaos - indeed you would be rightly disappointed if you didn't get it. So for Ken Russell fans everywhere, or celebrators of the dire, this is one for you. If not, watch something else. It seems to be trying to be serious at times, linking Liszt to Nazism via Wagner. At other times it's like a high-school remake of the (even worse) Song Without End.
- - Leni from London
  - Posted 07 Jun 2009 06:08
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Fascinatingly awful

To fans of Ken Russell this film will probably come as no surprise.

One has to assume thought that either the standards of the day were very different (which I'm sure they were) or that the everyone involved was taking a lot of mind altering drugs.

I watched it to the end just out of morbid curiosity to see just how bad it could get (which is pretty darned bad).
- - A customer from Ayr
  - Posted 13 May 2009 12:40
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Fascinatingly awful

To fans of Ken Russell this film will probably come as no surprise.

One has to assume thought that either the standards of the day were very different (which I'm sure they were) or that the everyone involved was taking a lot of mind altering drugs.

I watched it to the end just out of morbid curiosity to see just how bad it could get (which is pretty darned bad).
- - A customer from Ayr
  - Posted 13 May 2009 12:40

1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

[Highly rated reviewer]

More of Ken

Let's face it, being disappointed in a Ken Russell movie is like being upset by an Alice Cooper gig, or a Hammer film. You know what you're going to get, you expect excess and chaos - indeed you would be rightly disappointed if you didn't get it. So for Ken Russell fans everywhere, or celebrators of the dire, this is one for you. If not, watch something else. It seems to be trying to be serious at times, linking Liszt to Nazism via Wagner. At other times it's like a high-school remake of the (even worse) Song Without End.
- - Leni from London
  - Posted 07 Jun 2009 06:08
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Fascinatingly awful

To fans of Ken Russell this film will probably come as no surprise.

One has to assume thought that either the standards of the day were very different (which I'm sure they were) or that the everyone involved was taking a lot of mind altering drugs.

I watched it to the end just out of morbid curiosity to see just how bad it could get (which is pretty darned bad).
- - A customer from Ayr
  - Posted 13 May 2009 12:40

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Critics' reviews (3)
LISZTOMANIA is the latest, most outrageous outing for Russell's fecund unconscious and, while we must pause to whisper, 'poor Franz', there's no denying the man is growing peculiarly interesting
- Chicago Sun
- Posted 31 Mar 2009
Since Tommy was Ken Russell's first real commercial hit, it's not surprising that Lisztomania should be a blatant... read more on Time Out
- Time Out
- Posted 25 Feb 2009
Ken Russell's LISZTOMANIA, combines his customary zany and bawdy artfulness with a style close to TOMMY
- Variety
- Posted 31 Mar 2009