Ken Russell

Ken Russell

Nacimiento : 1927-07-03, Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK

Muerte : 2011-11-27

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Henry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell (3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011) was an English film director. He is known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his controversial style. He has been criticized as being over-obsessed with sexuality and the church. His subject matter is 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. He is best known for his Oscar-winning film Women in Love (1969), The Devils (1971), The Who's Tommy (1975), and the science fiction film Altered States (1980). One noted admirer, the British film critic Mark Kermode, attempting to sum up the director's achievement, called Russell; "somebody who proved that British cinema didn't have to be about kitchen-sink realism - it could be every bit as flamboyant as Fellini. He now makes very strange experimental films like Lion's Mouth and Revenge of the Elephant Man, and they are as edgy and out there as the work he made in the 1970s." Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Russell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Perfil

Ken Russell

Películas

The Who: One Band's Explosive Story
Self (archive footage)
The story of Roger Daltrey (vocals), Pete Townshend (guitar), John Entwistle (bass) and Keith Moon (drums): The Who, one of the most original, creative and relevant British bands of the sixties and of the entire history of pop music.
Kitsune
Thanks
A man trapped in purgatory must come face to face with his own demons.
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
Himself
Following the recent death of Ken Russell, Alan Yentob looks back over the career of the flamboyant film director responsible for Women In Love, Tommy and The Devils. Friends and admirers - including Glenda Jackson, Terry Gilliam, Twiggy, Melvyn Bragg, Robert Powell and Roger Daltrey - recall a pioneering documentary-maker, talented photographer and fearless film director.
The Devils Original on-set footage
On-set footage of the film The Devils (1971) with commentary by editor Mike Bradsell
Mr. Nice
Russell Miegs
Mister Nice, el apodo del destacado traficante de cannabis y presunto espía británico Howard Marks, da título a su exitosa autobiografía, publicada en 1996. Howard (Rhys Ifans), conocido como “Mister Nice” es una leyenda. Traficante internacional de drogas, espía, físico nuclear, profesor de colegio, blanqueador de dinero... Es socio de la Mafia, la CIA, el IRA y el M16, además de ser un erudito defensor de la marihuana. Desde sus comienzos en el pueblo de Kenfig, en Gales del Sur, el prodigioso ascenso de Howard le lleva a viajar por diferentes países, a conseguir poderosos aliados y a ganar más dinero del que nunca podría haber imaginado. Es, sobre todo, un experto manipulador que desde muy joven supo sacar partido a cada situación y estar en el lugar y el momento adecuados.
The Aristofrogs
A short promotional film for the 2010 Oldenburg Film Festival consisting of various actors and film personalities telling a joke about an exceptionally talented frog.
Boudica Bites Back
Screenplay
A cine-opera retelling of the legend of Boudica, warrior queen and her uprising against the Roman occupiers of Britain.
Boudica Bites Back
Director
A cine-opera retelling of the legend of Boudica, warrior queen and her uprising against the Roman occupiers of Britain.
Boudica Bites Back
Roman Senator
A cine-opera retelling of the legend of Boudica, warrior queen and her uprising against the Roman occupiers of Britain.
A Kitten For Hitler
Writer
The result of a challenge from Melvyn Bragg to write a film that Ken Russell himself would be eager to see banned, was A Kitten For Hitler – a 10-minute short in which a plucky young Jewish boy traverses the globe on a quest to warm the Führer's heart with the gift of a cuddly feline.
A Kitten For Hitler
Santa
The result of a challenge from Melvyn Bragg to write a film that Ken Russell himself would be eager to see banned, was A Kitten For Hitler – a 10-minute short in which a plucky young Jewish boy traverses the globe on a quest to warm the Führer's heart with the gift of a cuddly feline.
A Kitten For Hitler
Director
The result of a challenge from Melvyn Bragg to write a film that Ken Russell himself would be eager to see banned, was A Kitten For Hitler – a 10-minute short in which a plucky young Jewish boy traverses the globe on a quest to warm the Führer's heart with the gift of a cuddly feline.
10 Best Elgar
Self (archive footage)
A line up of star performers celebrate the very best of Edward Elgar's music in the 150th anniversary year of his birth.
Watch the Birdie
Director
The work of professional photographer David Hurn, shown tackling a wide range of subjects from fashion to photojournalism to candid paparazzo shots.
The Real Blue Nuns
Self
An investigation into nunsploitation, and why men find images of nuns involved in sexual situations erotic. The programme also controversially covers the Muslim hibab and burka.
Trapped Ashes
Director
Siete personas que están visitando unos estudios de Hollywood quedan atrapadas en la casa de los horrores. Para poder salir con vida se les impone una condición: deben contar las historias más terroríficas que puedan concebir.
Trapped Ashes
Dr. Lucy
Siete personas que están visitando unos estudios de Hollywood quedan atrapadas en la casa de los horrores. Para poder salir con vida se les impone una condición: deben contar las historias más terroríficas que puedan concebir.
The Moving Finger
Rev. Caleb Dane Calthrop
Troubled war veteran Jerry Burton and his sister Joanna rent a cottage in a seemingly tranquil English village which is plagued by a spate of poison pen letters... and murder.
Colour Me Kubrick
The Man In Nightgown
Ésta es la verdadera historia de un hombre que, durante el rodaje de "Eyes Wide Shut", se hizo pasar ante la sociedad londinense por el famoso y atrabiliario director de cine Stanley Kubrick. De este modo consiguió las mejores mesas en los restaurantes, acceso a las fiestas más exclusivas y los mayores elogios de multitud de personas que desconocían el verdadero aspecto del realizador.
The Miner's Picnic by Ken Russell
Director
Ken Russell revisits the location of his 1960 documentary about coal mining in Northumberland and catches up with some of the people who appeared in the film. In 2005, the last of the deep mines was closed down. As the remnants of a once-proud industry was about to disappear, Ken returned to Northumberland to meet the men and women he filmed almost half a century earlier.
Brothers of the Head
Himself
In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and rock music.
Revenge of the Elephant Man
Producer
A short directed by Ken Russell.
Revenge of the Elephant Man
Writer
A short directed by Ken Russell.
Revenge of the Elephant Man
Director
A short directed by Ken Russell.
Revenge of the Elephant Man
A short directed by Ken Russell.
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
Self
Hell on Earth is an hour-long documentary presented by Mark Kermode. It's about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils which is one of the most controversial films ever made. Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the films stars Georgina Hale and Murray Melvin. Also included are scenes that were cut from the released film for being too controversial.
Elgar: Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle
Director
Ken Russell revisits the life of Elgar, with musical background provided by the composer's works.
The Fall of the Louse of Usher: A Gothic Tale for the 21st Century
Dr. Calahari
Rock star Roddy Usher's wife is murdered and Rod is sent to a lunatic asylum in this gothic-comedy-horror-musical.
The Fall of the Louse of Usher: A Gothic Tale for the 21st Century
Director
Rock star Roddy Usher's wife is murdered and Rod is sent to a lunatic asylum in this gothic-comedy-horror-musical.
Lion's Mouth
Ken
A short musical directed by Ken Russell.
Lion's Mouth
Screenplay
A short musical directed by Ken Russell.
Lion's Mouth
Director
A short musical directed by Ken Russell.
Dogboys
Producer
Corrupt officers track men for sport with dogs.
Dogboys
Director
Corrupt officers track men for sport with dogs.
Ken Russell: In Search of the English Folk Song
Writer
This documentary begins with Ken Russell posing the question: "What is a true English folk song, if there is such a thing?" After recieving an indifferent response from his dog, Ken journeys around the countryside of England searching for an answer. He bumps into and interviews such famous artists as; Donovan, Fairport Convention, Osibisa, Eliza Carthy, So What, Edward II and The Albion Band among others.
Ken Russell: In Search of the English Folk Song
Himself
This documentary begins with Ken Russell posing the question: "What is a true English folk song, if there is such a thing?" After recieving an indifferent response from his dog, Ken journeys around the countryside of England searching for an answer. He bumps into and interviews such famous artists as; Donovan, Fairport Convention, Osibisa, Eliza Carthy, So What, Edward II and The Albion Band among others.
Ken Russell: In Search of the English Folk Song
Director
This documentary begins with Ken Russell posing the question: "What is a true English folk song, if there is such a thing?" After recieving an indifferent response from his dog, Ken journeys around the countryside of England searching for an answer. He bumps into and interviews such famous artists as; Donovan, Fairport Convention, Osibisa, Eliza Carthy, So What, Edward II and The Albion Band among others.
In Search of Dracula with Jonathan Ross
Self
A look at "Dracula" in the arts and his supposed real-life inspiration Vlad Tepes.
Enigma, la verdadera historia de Uri Geller
Writer
Cuenta la historia de uno de los psíquicos mas poderosos de la historia, Uri Geller. Sus poderes no conocían fronteras. Los comienzos de Geller no fueron nada sencillos. Comenzó en Oriente Medio mostrando al mundo sus increibles cualidades parapsicológicas doblando cucharas, trucos con relojes... Esta etapa no duraría mucho, ya que un científico se queda prendado de sus poderes al observarle en plena acción. Éste decide convencerle y llevarle a los Estados Unidos para que se de a conocer. No consigue la fama hasta que llega a la tierra prometida. Tener poderes tan increíbles llegaron a jugar en su propia contra.
Enigma, la verdadera historia de Uri Geller
Director
Cuenta la historia de uno de los psíquicos mas poderosos de la historia, Uri Geller. Sus poderes no conocían fronteras. Los comienzos de Geller no fueron nada sencillos. Comenzó en Oriente Medio mostrando al mundo sus increibles cualidades parapsicológicas doblando cucharas, trucos con relojes... Esta etapa no duraría mucho, ya que un científico se queda prendado de sus poderes al observarle en plena acción. Éste decide convencerle y llevarle a los Estados Unidos para que se de a conocer. No consigue la fama hasta que llega a la tierra prometida. Tener poderes tan increíbles llegaron a jugar en su propia contra.
Tales of Erotica
Director
A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings.
Tales of Erotica
A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings.
Treasure Island
Director
Ken Russell's 1995 TV movie adaptation. This is a re-working of the Treasure Island theme with Long Jane Silver instead of Long John Silver. Hetty Baynes plays this role in the style of Marilyn Monroe.
Empire of the Censors
Self
The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.
Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue
Self
Documentary covering the career of French composer Georges Delerue, famous for film scores for such films as Platoon, Contempt, Shoot the Piano Player, and Jules and Jim.
Alice in Russialand
Director
Documentary by Ken Russell that shows Alice traveling through a century of Russian's history, from the period of Tsarism, through Socialism and Glasnost. Alice's original characters embody ideological conflicts crossing politics, art and cultural movements.
The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch
Writer
A short directed by Ken Russell.
The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch
Director
A short directed by Ken Russell.
The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch
Mr. Kirsch
A short directed by Ken Russell.
The Mystery of Dr Martinu
Director
This biographical film of Czech composer Martinu is in two parts: the first part a recurring dream, the second a Freudian analysis of the dream.
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
Writer
A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
Director
A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
Sir Arnold Bax
A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.
Prisoner of Honor
Director
France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the imprisonment of the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus after being convicted of espionage in 1894.
Puta
Camera Operator
Película de carácter semidocumental en la que Liz, una atractiva prostituta, se dirige a la cámara mientras habla de los avatares y peligros de su profesión. Después de dejar a su chulo, trabaja por su cuenta, pero vive en un barrio marginal, dominado por la delincuencia. Un hombre joven y de apariencia respetable se le insinúa, pero pretende formar un trío con un amigo suyo. Liz tiene sus reglas y rechaza la oferta. Sin embargo, Liz no puede evitar la brutalidad de cierta clase de hombres: los que la tratan con violencia para que se sienta humillada y, peor aún, los que quieren destruirla física y emocionalmente, pues no buscan sexo, buscan venganza.
Puta
Screenplay
Película de carácter semidocumental en la que Liz, una atractiva prostituta, se dirige a la cámara mientras habla de los avatares y peligros de su profesión. Después de dejar a su chulo, trabaja por su cuenta, pero vive en un barrio marginal, dominado por la delincuencia. Un hombre joven y de apariencia respetable se le insinúa, pero pretende formar un trío con un amigo suyo. Liz tiene sus reglas y rechaza la oferta. Sin embargo, Liz no puede evitar la brutalidad de cierta clase de hombres: los que la tratan con violencia para que se sienta humillada y, peor aún, los que quieren destruirla física y emocionalmente, pues no buscan sexo, buscan venganza.
Puta
Waiter (uncredited)
Película de carácter semidocumental en la que Liz, una atractiva prostituta, se dirige a la cámara mientras habla de los avatares y peligros de su profesión. Después de dejar a su chulo, trabaja por su cuenta, pero vive en un barrio marginal, dominado por la delincuencia. Un hombre joven y de apariencia respetable se le insinúa, pero pretende formar un trío con un amigo suyo. Liz tiene sus reglas y rechaza la oferta. Sin embargo, Liz no puede evitar la brutalidad de cierta clase de hombres: los que la tratan con violencia para que se sienta humillada y, peor aún, los que quieren destruirla física y emocionalmente, pues no buscan sexo, buscan venganza.
Puta
Director
Película de carácter semidocumental en la que Liz, una atractiva prostituta, se dirige a la cámara mientras habla de los avatares y peligros de su profesión. Después de dejar a su chulo, trabaja por su cuenta, pero vive en un barrio marginal, dominado por la delincuencia. Un hombre joven y de apariencia respetable se le insinúa, pero pretende formar un trío con un amigo suyo. Liz tiene sus reglas y rechaza la oferta. Sin embargo, Liz no puede evitar la brutalidad de cierta clase de hombres: los que la tratan con violencia para que se sienta humillada y, peor aún, los que quieren destruirla física y emocionalmente, pues no buscan sexo, buscan venganza.
La Casa Rusia
Walter
Barley Scott Blair, un editor de literatura rusa afincado en Lisboa que inesperadamente comienza a trabajar para la inteligencia británica, recibe el encargo de investigar los propósitos de Dante, un científico disidente atrapado en la decadente Unión Soviética que se desmorona debido a las nuevas políticas aperturistas.
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
Director
This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes.
The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner
Director
The life of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner and his numeromania.
El arcoiris
Producer
Adaptación de la novela de D.H. Lawrence. Una mujer joven se ocupa de su a su manera personal de las pruebas y experiencias de la adolescencia y la juventud en la Inglaterra de principios de 1900.
El arcoiris
Screenplay
Adaptación de la novela de D.H. Lawrence. Una mujer joven se ocupa de su a su manera personal de las pruebas y experiencias de la adolescencia y la juventud en la Inglaterra de principios de 1900.
El arcoiris
Director
Adaptación de la novela de D.H. Lawrence. Una mujer joven se ocupa de su a su manera personal de las pruebas y experiencias de la adolescencia y la juventud en la Inglaterra de principios de 1900.
A British Picture
Writer
The updated autobiography of Britain’s most controversial film director, the maker of Women in Love, The Devils, The Music Lovers, Tommy and The Rainbow, is as unconventional and brilliant as his best films. Moving with astonishing assurance through time and space, Russell recreates his life in a series of 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 film-maker, beginning with an extraordinary interview with Huw Weldon for a job on Monitor. Full of marvellously funny anecdotes and fascinating insights into the realities of the film director's life, A British Picture is a remarkable autobiography.
A British Picture
The updated autobiography of Britain’s most controversial film director, the maker of Women in Love, The Devils, The Music Lovers, Tommy and The Rainbow, is as unconventional and brilliant as his best films. Moving with astonishing assurance through time and space, Russell recreates his life in a series of 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 film-maker, beginning with an extraordinary interview with Huw Weldon for a job on Monitor. Full of marvellously funny anecdotes and fascinating insights into the realities of the film director's life, A British Picture is a remarkable autobiography.
A British Picture
Director
The updated autobiography of Britain’s most controversial film director, the maker of Women in Love, The Devils, The Music Lovers, Tommy and The Rainbow, is as unconventional and brilliant as his best films. Moving with astonishing assurance through time and space, Russell recreates his life in a series of 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 film-maker, beginning with an extraordinary interview with Huw Weldon for a job on Monitor. Full of marvellously funny anecdotes and fascinating insights into the realities of the film director's life, A British Picture is a remarkable autobiography.
Il Mefistofele
Director
Arrigo Boito's Il Mefestefele was first performed in 1868 and his most known work. In Ken Russell's modern interpretation presented by the Genoese Opera, it has Faust as an ageing hippy. He smokes marijuana and is tormented by his lost youth. Mephisto makes a bet with God that he can turn anyone to pagan life, even someone as innocent as Faust. From then on it is a battle of good against evil in a flamboyant, surreal display of primary colours, PVC costumes, nurses with swastikas, rocket trips, love and even characters dressed as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. Ken Russell said because the devil is always with us is his reason for the contemporary setting.
La guarida del gusano blanco
Police Radio (voice) (uncredited)
En un apartado rincón del norte de Inglaterra, el joven arqueólogo Angus Flint desentierra una calavera misteriosa que va a causarle infinitos problemas.
La guarida del gusano blanco
Producer
En un apartado rincón del norte de Inglaterra, el joven arqueólogo Angus Flint desentierra una calavera misteriosa que va a causarle infinitos problemas.
La guarida del gusano blanco
Screenplay
En un apartado rincón del norte de Inglaterra, el joven arqueólogo Angus Flint desentierra una calavera misteriosa que va a causarle infinitos problemas.
La guarida del gusano blanco
Director
En un apartado rincón del norte de Inglaterra, el joven arqueólogo Angus Flint desentierra una calavera misteriosa que va a causarle infinitos problemas.
Salomé: el precio de la pasión
Screenplay
Londres, Inglaterra, 5 de noviembre de 1892, Noche de Guy Fawkes. El famoso dramaturgo Oscar Wilde y su amante, lord Alfred Douglas, acuden discretamente a un burdel de lujo donde el propietario, Alfred Taylor, ha preparado una sorpresa para el renombrado autor: una representación privada y muy especial de su obra «Salomé», prohibida por las autoridades, en la que participarán el propio Taylor y los peculiares habitantes del exclusivo establecimiento.
Salomé: el precio de la pasión
Cappadocian
Londres, Inglaterra, 5 de noviembre de 1892, Noche de Guy Fawkes. El famoso dramaturgo Oscar Wilde y su amante, lord Alfred Douglas, acuden discretamente a un burdel de lujo donde el propietario, Alfred Taylor, ha preparado una sorpresa para el renombrado autor: una representación privada y muy especial de su obra «Salomé», prohibida por las autoridades, en la que participarán el propio Taylor y los peculiares habitantes del exclusivo establecimiento.
Salomé: el precio de la pasión
Director
Londres, Inglaterra, 5 de noviembre de 1892, Noche de Guy Fawkes. El famoso dramaturgo Oscar Wilde y su amante, lord Alfred Douglas, acuden discretamente a un burdel de lujo donde el propietario, Alfred Taylor, ha preparado una sorpresa para el renombrado autor: una representación privada y muy especial de su obra «Salomé», prohibida por las autoridades, en la que participarán el propio Taylor y los peculiares habitantes del exclusivo establecimiento.
Your Honour, I Object! Guccione V Russell
A courtroom 'drama' featuring Bob Guccione versus Ken Russell in a breach of contract case regarding disagreements over a script for a film version of Daniel De foe's "Moll Flanders" which Guccione hired Russell to direct.
Aria
Writer
Película realizada por diez famosos directores y salpicada a menudo con toques humorísticos. Los distintos episodios están dedicados a arias operísticas de grandes compositores: Verdi, Puccini o Wagner, entre otros. Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge, Julien Temple y Bill Bryden son los directores que participan en esta película.
Aria
Director
Película realizada por diez famosos directores y salpicada a menudo con toques humorísticos. Los distintos episodios están dedicados a arias operísticas de grandes compositores: Verdi, Puccini o Wagner, entre otros. Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge, Julien Temple y Bill Bryden son los directores que participan en esta película.
Gothic
Tourist
La historia de la terrorífica velada entre Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft y el Dr. Polidori, que, aislados a orillas del lago Ginebra, se propusieron sufrir el miedo en carne propia. Ese fin de semana nacieron las inspiraciones para las novelas "Frankenstein" y "The Vampire".
Gothic
Director
La historia de la terrorífica velada entre Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft y el Dr. Polidori, que, aislados a orillas del lago Ginebra, se propusieron sufrir el miedo en carne propia. Ese fin de semana nacieron las inspiraciones para las novelas "Frankenstein" y "The Vampire".
Elton John : Cry to Heaven
Director
Video promo for Elton John: Cry to Heaven.
Faust
Director
Mexican tenor Francisco Araiza stars as Faust, and Erich Binder conducts the Vienna State Opera and Chorus in this 1985 production of Charles Gounod's five-act opera based on Goethe's poem. In an epic tale of good versus evil, Faust sells his soul to the devil (played by Italian bass Ruggero Raimondi) and tries to save Marguerite (Slovakian soprano Gabriela Benackova) from an eternity in hell. Walton Gronroos and Alfred Sramek co-star.
La pasión de China Blue
Director
Joanna Crane vive una doble vida. Durante el día trabaja como diseñadora de moda pero durante la noche es la prostituta de clase alta China Blue. Como está acusada de espionaje industrial, Bobby Grady es contratado para seguirla. Sin embargo, se enamoran. Mientras tanto, un predicador psicópata comienza a acecharla.
The Planets
Director
Based on the famous Gustav Holst musical suite, this musical film takes watchers on a magnificent journey of the planets of the Solar System.
Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait
Writer
South Bank Show documentary concerning the life and music of Ralph Vaughn Williams.
Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait
Producer
South Bank Show documentary concerning the life and music of Ralph Vaughn Williams.
Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait
Director
South Bank Show documentary concerning the life and music of Ralph Vaughn Williams.
Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait
Self
South Bank Show documentary concerning the life and music of Ralph Vaughn Williams.
Un viaje alucinante al fondo de la mente
Director
El científico Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) cree que hay otros estados de conciencia que son tan reales como la vida cotidiana. Utilizando la privación sensorial y añadiendo medicamentos potentes y alucinógenos, investiga estos estados alterados y soporta experiencias que hacen que la locura parezca una bendición.
The Who: The Kids are alright
La película fue principalmente trabajo del fan de la banda Jeff Stein, quien a pesar de que no tenía experiencia previa en el cine, fue convencido y apoyado por la banda para desempeñarse como director. Stein había producido un libro en 1970 con fotografías de los conciertos de la banda cuando sólo tenía 17 años. En 1975 se acercó a Pete Townshend, el compositor principal y guitarrista de The Who, para proponerle una compilación y colección de clips de la banda para proveer de una referencia histórica a los fans. Townshend quién incialmente rechazó la idea, fué persuadido por el mánager del grupo para darle un sí al proyecto.
Valentino
Rex Ingram
Biografía de Valentino, famoso actor de origen italiano que triunfó en Hollywood en la época del cine mudo y que llegó a ser considerado la encarnación del latin lover. Murió a la edad de 31 años. Estructurada en una serie de flashbacks desde su funeral hasta sus primeros años en América.
Valentino
Screenplay
Biografía de Valentino, famoso actor de origen italiano que triunfó en Hollywood en la época del cine mudo y que llegó a ser considerado la encarnación del latin lover. Murió a la edad de 31 años. Estructurada en una serie de flashbacks desde su funeral hasta sus primeros años en América.
Valentino
Director
Biografía de Valentino, famoso actor de origen italiano que triunfó en Hollywood en la época del cine mudo y que llegó a ser considerado la encarnación del latin lover. Murió a la edad de 31 años. Estructurada en una serie de flashbacks desde su funeral hasta sus primeros años en América.
Lisztomania
Screenplay
La película muestra a franz Liszt (Daltrey), gran compositor y virtuoso pianista, como si fuera la primera estrella de rock (tiene fanáticos, escándalos y groupies). Cuando, tras un recital de piano, recibe una invitación de la princesa Caroline de San Petersburgo (Kestelman), abandona a su amante Marie d'Agout y a sus hijos e inicia una relación amorosa con la aristócrata rusa. Después de que el el Papa (Starr) desautorice su nuevo matrimonio, Liszt se convierte en Abad, y recibe una misión: exorcizar a Richard Wagner, amigo suyo y marido de su hija Cosima.
Lisztomania
Director
La película muestra a franz Liszt (Daltrey), gran compositor y virtuoso pianista, como si fuera la primera estrella de rock (tiene fanáticos, escándalos y groupies). Cuando, tras un recital de piano, recibe una invitación de la princesa Caroline de San Petersburgo (Kestelman), abandona a su amante Marie d'Agout y a sus hijos e inicia una relación amorosa con la aristócrata rusa. Después de que el el Papa (Starr) desautorice su nuevo matrimonio, Liszt se convierte en Abad, y recibe una misión: exorcizar a Richard Wagner, amigo suyo y marido de su hija Cosima.
Tommy
Cripple (uncredited)
Un niño queda ciego, sordo y mudo como consecuencia del trauma sufrido al contemplar el asesinato de su padre a manos del amante de su madre. Con el paso del tiempo se convierte en estrella mundial del pinball.
Tommy
Producer
Un niño queda ciego, sordo y mudo como consecuencia del trauma sufrido al contemplar el asesinato de su padre a manos del amante de su madre. Con el paso del tiempo se convierte en estrella mundial del pinball.
Tommy
Screenplay
Un niño queda ciego, sordo y mudo como consecuencia del trauma sufrido al contemplar el asesinato de su padre a manos del amante de su madre. Con el paso del tiempo se convierte en estrella mundial del pinball.
Tommy
Director
Un niño queda ciego, sordo y mudo como consecuencia del trauma sufrido al contemplar el asesinato de su padre a manos del amante de su madre. Con el paso del tiempo se convierte en estrella mundial del pinball.
Una sombra en el pasado
Writer
Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) fue un eminente compositor y director de orquesta. De origen judío, desde muy niño soportó el antisemitismo. Tuvo una salud precaria y una neurosis obsesiva por la muerte. Ya mayor se casó con una mujer joven, culta y muy bella, teniendo un matrimonio apasionado y lleno de conflictos.
Una sombra en el pasado
Director
Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) fue un eminente compositor y director de orquesta. De origen judío, desde muy niño soportó el antisemitismo. Tuvo una salud precaria y una neurosis obsesiva por la muerte. Ya mayor se casó con una mujer joven, culta y muy bella, teniendo un matrimonio apasionado y lleno de conflictos.
El mesías salvaje
Producer
"El mesías salvaje" narra la historia de la relación platónica entre el joven escultor francés Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Scott Antony) y una mujer mayor, Sophie Brzeska (Dorothy Tutin), en la Europa previa a la Primera Guerra Mundial. Las maneras desenfrenadas del joven son contrarrestadas por el carácter equilibrado de la mujer.
El mesías salvaje
Passenger getting off train in station (uncredited)
"El mesías salvaje" narra la historia de la relación platónica entre el joven escultor francés Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Scott Antony) y una mujer mayor, Sophie Brzeska (Dorothy Tutin), en la Europa previa a la Primera Guerra Mundial. Las maneras desenfrenadas del joven son contrarrestadas por el carácter equilibrado de la mujer.
El mesías salvaje
Director
"El mesías salvaje" narra la historia de la relación platónica entre el joven escultor francés Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Scott Antony) y una mujer mayor, Sophie Brzeska (Dorothy Tutin), en la Europa previa a la Primera Guerra Mundial. Las maneras desenfrenadas del joven son contrarrestadas por el carácter equilibrado de la mujer.
El novio
Producer
A principios del siglo XX, las películas de cine por fin empiezan a incorporar sonido. El teatro real de Portsmouth, en Inglaterra, representa una obra musical llamada "The Boy Friend". El público es tan escaso que, casi siempre, hay más actores que espectadores en la sala. La actriz principal, Rita Monroe, se lesiona y deja a sus compañeros colgados a unas horas de comenzar la representación. Justo ese día, un famoso director de Hollywood va a asistir a verlos, en busca de nuevos talentos para su próxima cinta sonora. Los actores de la compañía no saben qué hacer para solucionar el entuerto y llamar la atención del cineasta. La película es una innovadora obra maestra. Esta adaptación de los musicales de antaño está hecha con inspiración, el espectáculo deja sin aliento, pero también contiene momentos de una exquisita simplicidad que nos recuerda a la maestría visual de las primeras películas de Russell
El novio
Screenplay
A principios del siglo XX, las películas de cine por fin empiezan a incorporar sonido. El teatro real de Portsmouth, en Inglaterra, representa una obra musical llamada "The Boy Friend". El público es tan escaso que, casi siempre, hay más actores que espectadores en la sala. La actriz principal, Rita Monroe, se lesiona y deja a sus compañeros colgados a unas horas de comenzar la representación. Justo ese día, un famoso director de Hollywood va a asistir a verlos, en busca de nuevos talentos para su próxima cinta sonora. Los actores de la compañía no saben qué hacer para solucionar el entuerto y llamar la atención del cineasta. La película es una innovadora obra maestra. Esta adaptación de los musicales de antaño está hecha con inspiración, el espectáculo deja sin aliento, pero también contiene momentos de una exquisita simplicidad que nos recuerda a la maestría visual de las primeras películas de Russell
El novio
Director
A principios del siglo XX, las películas de cine por fin empiezan a incorporar sonido. El teatro real de Portsmouth, en Inglaterra, representa una obra musical llamada "The Boy Friend". El público es tan escaso que, casi siempre, hay más actores que espectadores en la sala. La actriz principal, Rita Monroe, se lesiona y deja a sus compañeros colgados a unas horas de comenzar la representación. Justo ese día, un famoso director de Hollywood va a asistir a verlos, en busca de nuevos talentos para su próxima cinta sonora. Los actores de la compañía no saben qué hacer para solucionar el entuerto y llamar la atención del cineasta. La película es una innovadora obra maestra. Esta adaptación de los musicales de antaño está hecha con inspiración, el espectáculo deja sin aliento, pero también contiene momentos de una exquisita simplicidad que nos recuerda a la maestría visual de las primeras películas de Russell
Los demonios
Producer
Controvertido y célebre flim sobre un clérigo, en la Francia del XVII, acusado de herejía. Basada libremente en hechos reales ocurridos en el convento de Laudun, en Francia, en el que supuestamente unas monjas Ursulinas fueron poseídas por el diablo en 1634.
Los demonios
Screenplay
Controvertido y célebre flim sobre un clérigo, en la Francia del XVII, acusado de herejía. Basada libremente en hechos reales ocurridos en el convento de Laudun, en Francia, en el que supuestamente unas monjas Ursulinas fueron poseídas por el diablo en 1634.
Los demonios
Director
Controvertido y célebre flim sobre un clérigo, en la Francia del XVII, acusado de herejía. Basada libremente en hechos reales ocurridos en el convento de Laudun, en Francia, en el que supuestamente unas monjas Ursulinas fueron poseídas por el diablo en 1634.
La pasión de vivir
Producer
Biografía del compositor ruso Tchaikowsky, un hombre torturado que sólo era feliz con su música. A pesar de su condición homosexual, se casa con Nina Milukova, una joven apasionada y neurótica. Un matrimonio fracasado que le lleva al borde del suicidio y acaba con la salud mental de su mujer. Las relaciones de Tchaikowsky con su mecenas, Madame von Meck, también se deterioran cuando ésta se entera de su pasado amoroso. Incapaz de ser feliz, a pesar de su fama mundial, se suicida a los 53 años.
La pasión de vivir
Director
Biografía del compositor ruso Tchaikowsky, un hombre torturado que sólo era feliz con su música. A pesar de su condición homosexual, se casa con Nina Milukova, una joven apasionada y neurótica. Un matrimonio fracasado que le lleva al borde del suicidio y acaba con la salud mental de su mujer. Las relaciones de Tchaikowsky con su mecenas, Madame von Meck, también se deterioran cuando ésta se entera de su pasado amoroso. Incapaz de ser feliz, a pesar de su fama mundial, se suicida a los 53 años.
Dance of the Seven Veils
Director
Russell's composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss's music as "bombastic, sham and hollow", and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime. The film depicts Strauss in a variety of grotesquely caricatured situations: attacked by nuns after adopting Nietzsche's philosophy, he fights duels with jealous husbands, literally batters his critics into submission with his music and glorifies the women in his life and fantasies. (BFI Screenonline)
Mujeres enamoradas
Director
Gudrum y Úrsula son dos hermanas educadas en la recatada Inglaterra de los años 20. Una es maestra y la otra escultora pero ambas coinciden en que saben muy poco del amor. Por eso cuando emprenden sus tórridas aventuras amorosas con un playboy de mala fama, Rupert, y un oscuro conquistador, Gerald, lo que descubren acerca de sus amantes y de sí mismas resulta mucho más fascinante y peligrosamente arrollador, de lo que hubieran atrevido a imaginar nunca.
Song of Summer
Writer
The last five years of Frederick Delius's life through the eyes of a young composer and aide, Eric Fenby.
Song of Summer
Priest
The last five years of Frederick Delius's life through the eyes of a young composer and aide, Eric Fenby.
Song of Summer
Director
The last five years of Frederick Delius's life through the eyes of a young composer and aide, Eric Fenby.
Dante's Inferno
Director
The story of the influential 19th century British poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his troubled and somewhat morbid relationship with his wife and his art.
Un cerebro de un billón de dólares
Director
El agente de inteligencia británico Harry Palmer descubre que un general multimillonario posee un ejército particular y un enorme ordenador, con los que intenta aniquilar el comunismo mediante el fomento de revoluciones en países soviéticos.
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
Director
The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as "part genius and part charlatan".
Russell at Work
Documentary shows Ken Russell at work on various BBC TV documentaries, with clips from Diary of a Nobody, The Debussy Film, Always on Sunday, Don't Shoot the Composer, Elgar and behind the scenes directing of Isadora Duncan. He discusses his working methods and filmmaking philosophy and is also shown at home entertaining his daughter Victoria.
Always on Sunday
Producer
Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.
Always on Sunday
Scenario Writer
Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.
Always on Sunday
Director
Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.
The Debussy Film
Scenario Writer
An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.
The Debussy Film
Director
An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.
The Diary of a Nobody
Writer
Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - George and Weedon. Starring Bryan Pringle, Avril Elgar and Murray Melvin. Adapted by Ken Russell and John McGrath. First shown on BBC2 at 10.10pm on Saturday 12th December 1964 - as part of the 'Six' strand.
The Diary of a Nobody
Director
Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - George and Weedon. Starring Bryan Pringle, Avril Elgar and Murray Melvin. Adapted by Ken Russell and John McGrath. First shown on BBC2 at 10.10pm on Saturday 12th December 1964 - as part of the 'Six' strand.
Bartók
Screenplay
A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in his country's folklore.
Bartók
Director
A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in his country's folklore.
Aderezo francés
Director
Un cuidador de tumbonas de la decadente población costera de Gormleigh-on-Sea es ascendido de repente a responsable publicitario. Para despertar el interés en la ciudad organiza un festival de cine e invita a una destacada estrella del cine francés. Las maquinaciones de los alcaldes de ciudades rivales pronto siembran el caos...
Elgar: Portrait of a Composer
Director
A partly dramatised account of the life of classical composer Sir Edward Elgar. An episode of the BBC arts series Monitor.
Mr Chesher’s Traction Engines
Director
Explores the worldview of A.W. Chesher, who has a special interest in painting steam traction engines.
The Preservation Man
Director
Ken Russell's third Monitor documentary from 1962 is both a development from and inversion of the first, Lonely Shore. In that, an alien presence surveys a stretch of coastline strewn with assorted objects from early 1960s British lifestyles and tries (and mostly fails) to divine their meaning or purpose. The Preservation Man is also set in a series of object-strewn settings, but here they're part of the artist Bruce Lacey's collection of random junk, and their original function is irrelevant. Sensibly, Russell and commentator Huw Wheldon keep analysis to a minimum, preferring to use the film as an excuse to spend quarter of an hour in Lacey's amiable company.
Monitor: Pop Goes the Easel
Director
Peter Blake explores his passion for pop icons, Peter Phillips is featured with his cool companions, Derek Boshier voices his concerns with the American influence on British life and culture, and Pauline Boty, Britain's great female pop art painter who was to die only four years later, performs in a short dramatic dream piece.
The Lonely Shore
Director
One of the most conceptually original of all the films that Ken Russell made for Monitor, this imagines an expedition of alien archaeologists (represented only by the soundtrack commentary) examining various artefacts strewn along a stretch of Britain's coastline and musing on their possible significance.
London Moods
Director
Ken Russell is often cited as one of the fathers of the music video, with Tommy (1975) widely recognised as one of the pivotal works in the development of the form. However, as the far more obscure Monitor item London Moods from 1961 proves, he was experimenting with non-narrative illustrations of pre-recorded music fourteen years earlier.
Old Battersea House
Director
Mrs Wilhelmina Sterling shows her vast collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings, pottery and other artefacts at her home in Battersea.
Walk With The Damned
Hood
Gangsters run rampant until they encounter a gutsy minister.
Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
Director
Ken Russell directed a short document of German actress (and widow) of famed composer Kurt Weill performing many of his best known compositions for BBC TV series "Monitor"
Prokofiev
Director
Prokofiev (BBC, tx. 18/6/1961), subtitled 'Portrait of a Soviet Composer', was the second of Ken Russell's composer biopics, though it takes a rather different approach from his first, Gordon Jacob (BBC, tx. 29/3/1959). Whereas in the earlier film Russell had access to the composer himself, Sergei Prokofiev had died eight years earlier (coincidentally, on the same day as Stalin), and there appeared to be no authentic moving-image footage of him in existence
Antonio Gaudí
Director
A study of Antoni Gaudí's architecture (especially the Church of the Holy Trinity in Barcelona), his sources of inspiration and his influence on Picasso. (BFI)
The Light Fantastic
Director
While most of Ken Russell's documentaries for the BBC's Monitor arts strand focused on a single creative figure, he would also occasionally make more wide-ranging surveys of the state of a particular art. The Light Fantastic (BBC, tx. 18/12/1960) was written and presented by Ron Hitchins, a Cockney barrow boy who has long been interested in a great many dance forms, and who has recently taken up Spanish dancing. Hitchins participates in some of the dance sequences, but his main contribution is an enthusiastic commentary that helps personalise what could have been simply a disparate collection of dance footage. He's not shy about expressing likes and dislikes, being none too keen on ballroom dancing (too choreographed), rock'n'roll (too monotonous) and Morris dancing (just doesn't like it), though anything genuinely spontaneous gets a thumbs up, even if it's a room full of people dressed in black swaying to the sound of a gong.
Shelagh Delaney's Salford
Director
Short documentary about Shelagh Delaney and her hometown Salford.
A House in Bayswater
Director
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.
The Miners' Picnic
Director
In 1960, Ken Russell visited Bedlington Colliery, Northumberland to make one of his first documentary films, following life in the mining community.
Journey Into a Lost World
Director
John Betjeman reminisces on Britain's great historical exhibitions since the 1870s: including Alexandra Palace, the Empire Exhibition at Wembley and the Festival of Britain. Also features a very special guest appearance by the National Film Theatre (today’s BFI Southbank).
Scottish Painters
Director
A double portrait of the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, seen at work in their Suffolk studio while discussing their paintings.
Portrait of a Goon
Director
Portrait of Spike Milligan, then part of The Goon Show examining his views on comedy,
From Spain to Streatham
Director
Also known as Guitar Craze and the more evocative Hound Dogs and Bach Addicts, this Monitor item (Ken Russell's third for the pioneering BBC arts strand) offers a whistle-stop tour of how Britons are enthusiastically taking up the guitar in all sorts of ways. The instrument's sudden popularity came about as a by-product of the skiffle revival, which led a wide range of people to form bands whose instrumentation was generally as cheap and cheerful as possible. Washboards and comb-and-paper combinations were common, and the only conventional musical instrument was often the humble acoustic guitar.
Variations on a Mechanical Theme
Director
Ken Russell directed short documentary for the BBC TV program me "Monitor"
Gordon Jacob
Director
A portrait of the English composer Gordon Jacob.
John Betjeman: A Poet in London
Director
The film was Ken Russell's first for television and was commissioned by Huw Wheldon, the head of the BBC's Monitor arts programme. Betjeman is shown visiting locations including Vauxhall Park, Aldersgate Street station (now the Barbican), Camden Town and Hatfield. He recites his poems 'Monody on the Death of Aldersgate Street Station', 'Business Girls', 'The Olympic Girl' and 'Hertfordshire'.
Amelia and the Angel
Cinematography
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.
Amelia and the Angel
Story
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.
Amelia and the Angel
Writer
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.
Amelia and the Angel
Director
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.
Peepshow
Director
A parable made in the manner of an old silent comedy about artistry and illusion.
Knights on Bikes
Director
A romance between a clumsy knight and a damsel in distress.
PuzzleFace
god
PUZZLEFACE - 18min short film (CAN) Episode #7 from Spookey Ruben's Dizzy Playground TV series starring: Denis 'SNAKE' Belanger & VOIVOD, Ken Russell (RIP), Lisi Tribble, Maylee Todd, Rodrigo Gudiño (Rue Morgue), Rae Matthews, Jef Farquharson, O.T. Biggs and Spookey Ruben.