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2011 | 1994
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Ken Russell obituary
29 November 2011 8:21 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Formidable film director with an impish sense of humour and a talent to entertain and provoke
Ken Russell, who has died aged 84, was so often called rude names – the wild man of British cinema, the apostle of excess, the oldest angry young man in the business – that he gave up denying it all quite early in his career. Indeed, he often seemed to court the very publicity that emphasised only the crudest assessment of his work. He gave the impression that he cared not a damn. Those who knew him better, however, knew that he did. Underneath all the showbiz bluster, he was an old softie. Or, perhaps as accurately, a talented boy who never quite grew up.
It has, of course, to be said that he was capable of almost any enormity in the careless rapture he brought to making his films. He could be dreadfully cruel to his undoubted talent, »
- Derek Malcolm
Ken Russell celebrated his – and my – eccentric musical obsessions
29 November 2011 1:00 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Russell got inside the psychological and emotional realities of the composers he loved, for which we should be ever grateful
I had two surpassingly strange obsessions as a teenage music lover: Anton Bruckner and Arnold Bax. And so, it turned out, did Ken Russell. I could hardly believe it when, after making his Bruckner film in 1990, The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner – a study of the Austrian composer's obsessive compulsive disorders, monastic seclusion and infatuation with young girls – Russell made a TV film a couple of years later about Bax, The Secret Life of Arnold Bax, the biggest prime-time exposure this otherwise little-known English composer is probably ever going to get.
Russell himself played Bax, and Glenda Jackson took the role of one of Bax's lovers, the pianist Harriet Cohen (in fact one of her last acting jobs before devoting her life to politics). But the scene that's burned into »
- Tom Service
Obituary: Ken Russell
28 November 2011 6:55 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Ken Russell, who has died aged 84, was so often called rude names – the wild man of British cinema, the apostle of excess, the oldest angry young man in the business – that he gave up denying it all quite early in his career. Indeed, he often seemed to court the very publicity that emphasised only the crudest assessment of his work. He gave the impression that he cared not a damn. Those who knew him better, however, knew that he did. Underneath all the showbiz bluster, he was an old softie. Or, perhaps as accurately, a talented boy who never quite grew up.
It has, of course, to be said that he was capable of almost any enormity in the careless rapture he brought to making his films. He could be dreadfully cruel to his undoubted talent, »
- Derek Malcolm
Ken Russell dies aged 84
28 November 2011 5:35 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Ken Russell, the veteran director of Women in Love, The Devils and Tommy, has died at the age of 84
• Ken Russell: a career in photos
Ken Russell, the director behind the Oscar-winning Women in Love has died aged 84. Russell died on Sunday in his sleep, according to his friend, the arts writer Norman Lebrecht.
Known for a flamboyant style developed during his early career in television, Russell's films mixed high and low culture with rare deftness and often courted high controversy. The Devils … a religious drama that featured an infamous scene between Oliver Reed and Venessa Redgrave sexualising the crucifixion – was initially rejected by Warner Brothers. It will be released in its entirety in March next year, 42 years after it was made, when it will form part of the British Board of Film Classification's centenary celebrations.
Women in Love, released in 1969, became notorious for its nude male wrestling scene »
- Henry Barnes, Catherine Shoard
2011 | 1994
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