See it! Feel it! It’s finally time for Pop Screen to scale the all-time summit of the rock opera form – Ken Russell’s Tommy, based on the album by The Who. Pete Townsend’s achingly personal tale of a traumatised kid mistakenly hailed as a messiah, it’s got a soundtrack of […]
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The Final Programme (1973) 1970s Psychedelic Cult Classic Still Holds Up (Review)
A Nice Meander With Mike Leander – Cinema Eclectica 232
The Lair of The White Worm (1988) Ken Russell’s campy horror take on Bram Stoker (Review)
Cinema Eclectica 77 – Whats in the BAG?!
This week we play host to some of British cinema’s finest eccentrics with Julien Temple’s “Absolute Beginners” and Ken Russell’s “Crimes of Passion”. The counter programming continues with the Taviani Brothers “Kaos” and the latest entry Jackie Chan’s “Police Story” franchise with “Lockdown”. Our feature presentation is the latest addition […]
Ken Russell: Great Composers (1965-7)(Review)
The music documentary is enjoying a boom period with the likes of 20,000 Days on Earth & Searching for Sugar Man receiving both critical and commercial acclaim, there’s also the channel defining content from the award-winning BBC Four. Staying with the British Broadcasting Corporation, it is easy to forget what […]
Ken Russell: The Great Passions (1965-7)(Review)
How many BBC arts documentaries of the 1960s do you think begin with the exhumation of a mummified corpse, lit by flickering torches and soundtracked by booming horror-movie music? Not many, I’ll wager, but then there weren’t many directors walking the corridors of Broadcasting House who resembled Ken Russell. For […]
Cinema Eclectica 36 – The Mixing Desk is POWER!
This week we get unnecessarily vengeful about a children’s Christmas film. Off the Shelf features Nagisa Oshima’s Cruel Story of Youth and Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool – both from Masters of Cinema. Meanwhile, Ryan delves into the underrated Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and Graham takes on Pop Goes the Easel […]