"I think we've all gone mad" [Jennie Linden as Ursula Brangwen]"Pity we aren't madder" [Alan Bates as Rupert Birkin]
Scene from Women in Love (Ken Russell, 1969)
An extract from one of Ken Russell's very first films, Amelia and the Angel (1958)
Russell's weirdly, viscerally, brilliant Altered States (1980) was one of the first films genuinely to whet FSFF's author's off-beat cinematic appetite, and his adaptation of Women in Love (excerpted above) and his portraits of Elgar (1962), Delius (1968) and Mahler (1974) are several of her favourite British films.
Below, FSFF has gathered some links to online scholarly studies of Russell's work, and to related resources. Readers should also check out David Hudson's essential collection of tributes to, and other material about, the British filmmaker for the Mubi Notebook here.
- Ken Russell at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
- Savage Messiah – a Ken Russell site by Iain Fisher
- Michael Adams, 'Ken Russell: Musical Mythmaker', Notes, 66 (September 2009): 143-163
- E. Anna Claydon, 'Masculinity and deviance in British cinema of the 1970s: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n'Roll in The Wicker Man, Tommy and The Rocky Horror Picture Show', in Newland, P. (ed) Don't Look Now? British Cinema in the 1970s, (Intellect Ltd 2010) pp. 131-142
- Adrian Garvey, 'The Boy Friend', The 1970s Project Conference, 2008
- Sergio Lopez Figueroa, 'The anachronism in film music: a brief introduction on the music for “The Devils” (1971)', 1995
- Barry Keith Grant, 'A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible, UK, 1989: Ken Russell', in Grant and Jim Hillier, 100 Documentary Films (London: BFI/Palgrave, 2009)
- Chris Martin, 'Music in British Films in the 1970s: New Directions', The 1970s Project Conference, 2008
- John Kenneth Muir, 'On Ken Russell, and Re-Viewing England’s Last Mannerist', JKM, October 10, 2009
- Donald Phelps, 'Ken Russell's Portraits of Elgar, Delius and Mahler', Rouge, 8, 2006
- David Pomeroy, 'Films: Experiencing Tommy', Theology Today, Vol. 32, No. 3, 1975
- John A. Riley, '[Review of] Kevin M. Flanagan (ed.), Ken Russell: Re-Viewing England's Last Mannerist (London, Toronto and Plymouth: Scarecrow Press, 2009)', Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol. 7, April 2010
- Donato Totaro and Peter Rist, 'An Interview With Ken Russell and Lisi Tribble~ Rock n' Roller at Heart', Offscreen Journal, April 30, 2011
- Linda Ruth Williams, 'Ken Russell: Sweet Swell Of Excess', Sight and Sound, July 2007
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If any of your other readers are in Los Angeles, there will be a 16mm film print of 'Lair of the White Worm' screened at UCLA's Bridges theater tonight. You don't often get to see film these days, let alone Ken Russell. -- Sarvi
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