You don’t know Ken Russel? Of course you do, he directed “Tommy” and a slew on other’s you would have seen -wild visual explosions of sound and vision like “LIztomania” and “The Music Lovers” and… ooooh, “Women In Love” a terrific movie.
Lincoln Center have a retrospective starting today, I am going to Saturday’s “The Music Lover” about Tchaikosky as a wildly, how you say, sexually confused wretched starring the mildly, how you say, sexually ambivalent Richard Chamberlain.
This is what the Film Society Of lincoln Center have to say:
“Russellmania!
July 30 to August 5
Ken Russell in person each evening!
England’s answer to Fellini will always be regarded as British cinema’s greatest enfant terrible. But at 83 and still going strong, he’s also a British national treasure. In the 1960s and 70s Russell trashed the staid conventions of cinematic good taste, forging a subversive cinema of outrageous excess and mischievous iconoclasm. At time when the British film industry was all but moribund, this fearlessly controversial and flamboyant writer-director pulled off an unmatched nine-film winning streak, which we present for your delectation. Join us for six personal audiences with the legendary Ken Russell, British Cinema’s madcap visionary maverick.
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If you go to the saturday 6pm “The Music Lovers” buy me a popcorn!!!