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Ken Russell

British director Ken Russell started out training for a naval career, but after wartime RAF and merchant navy service he switched goals and went into ballet. Supplementing his dancing income as an actor and still photographer, Russell put together a handful of amateur films in the 50s before being hired as a staff director by the BBC. Russell made a name for himself (albeit a name not always spoken in reverence) during the first half of the ‘60s by directing a series of iconoclastic TV dramatizations of the lives of famous composers and dancers. And if he felt that the facts were getting in the way of his story, he’d make up his own — frequently bordering on the libelous. If he had any respect for the famous persons whose lives he probed, it was secondary to his fascination with revealing all warts and open wounds.

A film director since 1963, Russell burst into the international consciousness with 1969’s Women in Love, a hothouse version of the D.H. Lawrence novel. No director… read more

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Sean

14Jan12

What a piece of crap

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Eri Mascarenhas

9Jan12

I will never not love this movie! It's cracky and it's eerie, it's creepy and it's kooky. It's about some of my favourite people and even though some moments are questionable at best, it includes little nods to minor details about their lives (nicknames, for example).

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Michael Convery

13Dec11

Gothic: Julian Sand's performance is the weakest part of the film, but then who could embody the poetry of Percy Shelly?

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Eri Mascarenhas

3Nov11

I will never not love movies about what some of my favourite people were up to in the Summer of 1816. Especially if they're cheesy horror movies.

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Ken Russell, 1927 - 2011

By David Hudson on November 28, 2011

The British director was 84.

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