Ken Russell — Director (39)
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Dance of the Seven Veils (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dance of the Seven Veils
director: Ken Russell actor: Christopher Gable / Judith Paris …
Russell's composer biopics were usually labours of love. However, this was the opposite: Russell regarded the music of Richard Strauss 'bombastic, sham and hollow', and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime. Strauss is depicted in a variety of grotesquely caricatured situations: attacked by nuns after adopting Nietzsche's philosophy, duels with jealous husbands, literally batters his critics into submission with his music, and glorifies the women in his life and fantasies.
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In Search of the English Folk Song (1997) IMDb TMDB
In Search of the English Folk Song
director: Ken Russell actor: Ken Russell / Donovan …
Filmmaker Ken Russell poses the question: "What is a true English folk song, if there is such a thing?" After recieving an indifferent response from his dog, Russell journeys around the English countryside seeking for an answer. He encounters and interviews such famous artists as Donovan, Fairport Convention, Osibisa, Eliza Carthy, So What, Edward II and The Albion Band, among others.
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A House in Bayswater (1960) WikiData IMDb TMDB
A House in Bayswater
director: Ken Russell actor: Helen May
A personal and nostalgic film about an apartment building in Bayswater, where Russell once lived, and about the residents who inhabited it. The building is demolished to make way for an unattractive and bland office.
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A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible (1989) IMDb TMDB
A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible
director: Ken Russell actor: Ken Russell / Rupert Russell …
Moving with astonishing assurance through time and space, Russell recreates his life in a series of unconventional interconnected episodes – his thirties childhood in Southampton; his first sexual experience (watching Disney’s Pinocchio); his schooldays at the Nautical College, Pangbourne; early careers in the Merchant Marine and the Royal Air Force; dancing days at the Shepherds Bush Ballet Club; and of course his career as a filmmaker, beginning with an extraordinary interview with Huw Weldon for a job on Monitor.
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Amelia and the Angel (1958) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Amelia and the Angel
director: Ken Russell actor: Mercedes Quadros / Míka van Bloemen …
A young girl (Amelia) is distressed and feeling guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. Then she notices an angel and follows the angel into a dark building. Upstairs in the attic, bathed in heavenly light, is an artist's model - the ANGEL. The painter ascends a ladder until he is out of shot - supposedly to heaven-and reappears to restore Amelia's joy with a pair of wings.
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Tales of Erotica (1996) IMDb TMDB Douban
Tales of Erotica
director: 鲍勃·拉菲尔森 / Ken Russell … actor: Sharon Angela / Richard Barboza …
other title: 情色男女 / 情色传说
Four erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings: 'The Dutch Master': a woman who enters a living painting; 'The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch': a woman is lured by noises from a chamber; 'Vroom Vroom Vroooom': a motorcycle transforms into a woman; and 'Wet': a hot tub salesman seduced by a woman.
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"Omnibus" Song of Summer: Frederick Delius (1968) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
"Omnibus" Song of Summer: Frederick Delius
director: Ken Russell actor: 麦克斯·艾德里安 / 克里斯托弗·盖布尔 …
other title: 夏日之歌：弗雷德里克·戴留斯 / Song of Summer
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 in the Sixties, Song of Summer is an immensely moving story of sacrifice, idealism and musical genius.
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The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch (1995) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch
director: Ken Russell actor: Hetty Baynes / Simon Shepherd …
other title: 凯瑟尔夫人的欲望 / 恶魔的教育之凯瑟尔夫人的欲望 …
A writer taking a rest in a country hotel is obsessed with a strange woman in the same hotel. The woman seems to observe him in provocative ways, but he does not dare to approach her. One day he follows her to her room and listens to strange “erotic” sounds from inside, and begins to have erotic thoughts.
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法式调味酱 (1975) Douban
French Dressing
director: 肯·罗素 actor: 詹姆斯·布斯 / 罗伊·金尼尔 …
other title: French Dressing / 渔村春色
A drab little English seaside town tries to improve its image - and increase its revenues - by holding a film festival. When a famous continental star agrees to attend, things get out of hand.
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Prisoner of Honor (1991) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Prisoner of Honor
director: Ken Russell actor: Richard Dreyfuss / 奥列佛·里德 …
other title: 荣誉的罪迷宫 / Prisioneiros da Honra …
France, 1897: Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that leads to the imprisonment of the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus after being convicted of espionage three years earlier.