This choppy melodrama investigates the life of a prostitute in a pseudo-documentary style. The bottom line of the film is that a life of a hooker isn't easy... I share this on youtube because this film is not available in stores!
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Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek to take control of seventeenth-century France, but need to destroy Father Grandier - the priest who runs the fortified town that prevents them from exerting total control. So they seek to destroy him by setting him up as a warlock in control of a devil-possessed nunnery, the mother superior of which is sexually obsessed by him. A mad witch-hunter is brought in to gather evidence against the priest, ready for the big trial.
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Biographical film of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
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Martin Scorsese and Sir Ben Kingsley pay tribute to the legendary British film and television director who has passed away aged 84.
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Here's an interview I conducted with film director Ken Russell back in 2009 for the DVD release of his film Lisztomania. The interview was originally on our getcloser.com website but I've now put the full version online here at youtube. Ken talks about the film Lisztomania and about his career including working with Oliver Reed, The Devils and much more.
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Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell (3rd July 1927 - 27th November 2011) was an English film director. He was known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his controversial style. He was criticised as being over-obsessed with sexuality and the church. His subject matter was often about famous composers, or based on other works of art which he adapts loosely. Russell began directing for the BBC, where he did creative adaptations of composers' lives which were unusual for the time. He also directed many feature films independently and for studios.
Late on Guy Fawkes Day, 1892, Oscar Wilde arrives at a high-class brothel where a surprise awaits: a staging of his play "Salome," with parts played by prostitutes, Wilde's host, his lover Bosey, and Lady Alice. The movie moves between the play and Wilde's night. In the play, Herod begs his pubescent step-daughter Salome to dance for him, promising her anything she desires. Her mother, Herodias, objects. Salome is stung by John the Baptist's rejection of her affections. The prophet's scolding celibacy puts him between the expressed desire of age and youth. Wilde dallies with a young man as he watches the show, provoking Bosey's jealousy. Two surprises await us.
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Ken Russell's insane take on the Mary Shelley/Frankenstein myth. Natasha Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Timothy Spall and others get caught in the maelstrom. Cool.
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Based on Eric Fenby's 1936 memoir 'Delius as I knew him', it traces the last years of Frederick Delius, and Fenby's dedication in giving up five years of his life to helping the blind, paralysed composer set down the unfinished scores he could hear in his head. Perhaps the finest of the series of biographical films that Ken Russell made for the BBC arts series "Monitor" in the Sixties, Song of Summer is an immensely moving story of sacrifice, idealism and musical genius.
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The bizarre tale of how two hurricane-force hellraisers, actor Oliver Reed and rock star Keith Moon, became best friends.
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The wonderful film with richard chamberlain as tchaikovsky! Piano teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexuality by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a nymphomaniac whom he cannot satisfy.
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Ken Russell will be remembered as one of Britain's most visionary directors. Here, Russell appears on stage during a panel discussion hosted at BFI Southbank on 9 June 2009, recounting the moment he first met Federico Fellini.
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Available on DVD from www.digitalclassics.co.uk and all major retailers. This flamboyant extravaganza, directed by Ken Russell (Tommy, Women in Love) tells the scandalous tale of superstar composer Franz Liszts (Roger Daltry) hedonistic life of groupies, sex and music, as well as his rivalry with the scheming Richard Wagner (Paul Nicholas). A freewheeling, utrageous and over-the-top look at the life of the worlds first pop superstar. Also starring Ringo Starr as the Pope. A berserk exercise of demented genius Roger Ebert Post-Beatles RococoFor Mr. Russell, the shortest line between two points is a pretzel. Vincent Canby, NY Times.
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Tribute Movie with Symphony No. 9. Mov.1 by Gustav Mahler.
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This biographical documentary was produced by the talented British film director Ken Russell and celebrates the life and work of one of Britain's greatest ever composers, Edward Elgar. Elgar's music is set against nostalgic film clips from the early decades of the 20th century with scenes of beautiful rural Worcestershire (which happens to my home County) where Elgar was born and composed most of his works. Long since forgotten and buried in the archives I discovered it recently and wanted to share it as it doesn't seem to be uploaded. The documentary was first shown in 1962 and was commission by Monitor, the BBC's arts series which ran from 1958 until 1965.
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Shelagh Delaney, FRSL (1938--2011) was an English dramatist and screenwriter, best-known for her debut work, A Taste of Honey (1958). Born in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, the daughter of a bus inspector, of Irish descent, she failed the eleven plus exam four times, but transferred to a grammar school at the age of fifteen from a secondary modern, gaining five O-Levels. Thinking she could do better than Terence Rattigan's Variations on a Theme, a play she had seen at Manchester's Opera House during its pre-West End tour, Delaney wrote her first play in ten days, partly because she felt the work showed "insensitivity in the way Rattigan portrayed homosexuals". Her play was accepted by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. "Quite apart from its meaty content, we believe we have found a real dramatist", Gerry Raffles of Theatre Workshop said at the time. A Taste of Honey, first performed on 27 May 1958, is set in her native Salford. "I had strong ideas about what I wanted to see in the theatre. We used to object to plays where the factory workers came cap in hand and call the boss 'sir'. Usually North Country people are shown as gormless, whereas in actual fact, they are very alive and cynical." Reuniting the original cast, the play subsequently enjoyed a run of 368 performances in the West End from January 1959; it was also seen on Broadway, with Joan Plowright as Jo and Angela Lansbury as her mother. It is "probably the most performed play by a post-war British woman <b>...</b>
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A clip from movie by Ken Russell with Roger Daltrey, Peter Nicholas and Ringo Star.
Airs on Sky Arts 15th of January 2012 Sir Peter Blake, the noted British artist, and Ken Russell, the award-winning film director, discuss their childhoods, the heart-breaking story of Ken's cousin's death, and their career
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Official trailer for Ken Russell's The Fall of the Louse of Usher, his low budget final film made in 2000. Watch online (MUBI) mubi.com Further details www.highpointmediagroup.com
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Shortly after being relieved of his ministerial duties, High Rock MP Kenneth Russell returned to Grand Bahama and shared his thoughts with reporters.
Father Barre's wild interrogation of Sister Jeanne from Ken Russell's film "The Devils". Featuring Michael Gothard and Vanessa Redgrave. Confess!
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Film director Ken Russell and his dog Nipper in a 1997 Channel 4 TV documentary about English folk music.
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