Ken Russell
Directing
Born 1927-07-03
Died 2011-11-27
Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
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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 romantic drama Women in Love (1969), the notoriously controversial The Devils (1971), the rock musical Tommy (1975), and the science fiction film Altered States (1980).
One noted admirer, 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."
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Filmography
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Agatha Christie's Marple
Lady Chatterley
Omnibus
Film '72
Waking the Dead
The South Bank Show
Celebrity Big Brother
Tommy
The Devils
Altered States
Celebrity Naked Ambition
The Lair of the White Worm
Women in Love
Whore
Crimes of Passion
Valentino
Frank Stubbs Promotes
The Russia House
Plunder
Aria
Mr. Nice
Treasure Island
Mahler
Gothic
Six
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Watch the Birdie
Bela Bartók
Billion Dollar Brain
The Who: The Kids Are Alright
The Boy Friend
Antonio Gaudí
Lisztomania
Colour Me Kubrick
Alice in Russialand
Twiggy
Faust
Trapped Ashes
Savage Messiah
Clouds of Glory
The Music Lovers
Salome's Last Dance
Elgar
The Rainbow
Brothers of the Head
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
Empire of the Censors
French Dressing
John Betjeman: A Poet in London
London Moods
The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch
The Planets
Gordon Jacob
Prisoner of Honor
Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema
The Real Oliver Reed
Tales of Erotica
Dogboys
Always on Sunday
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