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Offscreen Notes Ken Russell: 1927-2011
…and iconoclastic British director Ken Russell passed away on November 27, 2011 and the age of 84. Russell was an invited guest of the Fantasia International Film festival in July of 2011 to receive a special lifetime achievement award. I had the good fortune to interview Mr. Russell and his…
November 28th, 2011
Issues Fantasia 2010 – Volume 15, Issue 4 / April 2011
…lifetime achievement award for Ken Russell, along with the screening of his notorious period piece, The Devils, the gala presentation of the restored (digital with orchestra accompaniment) copy of Metropolis, the presentation of Stuart Gordon directed one-man stage show starring Jeffrey Combs as Edgar Allan Poe, Nevermore, and a host…
April 30th, 2011
Articles The Planets (Ken Russell, 1952) & Tommy (Ken Russell, 1975)
…collage of stock footage Russell matched up with a live recording of Gustav Holst’s similarly named orchestral musical suite, with each of the seven movements broken into the name of a planet in the solar system (and aligned in tone with the ‘character’ of the associated planet – ie, “Mars,…
July 27th, 2021
Articles An Interview With Ken Russell and Lisi Tribble
Ken Russell is a name that needs little introduction, as his contributions to British and world cinema from the late 1950s on has been remarkable, as much for the quality of the work as for the tenacity with which he carried on his unique ‘composite’ vision of art (never drawing…
April 30th, 2011
Articles The Final Showdown: 7 Men From Now (1956)
…and screenplay by Burt Kennedy, 7 Men From Now remains a minor masterpiece of the Western genre. Crucial to its success is the unified screenplay by Kennedy which rigorously ties plot elements to dramatic development in masterful fashion. When it was released, the western genre was enjoying a revival both…
November 30th, 2013
Offscreen Notes Fantasia International Film Festival, July 8-28, 2010
…this year has a fascinating round-up of guests, including Ken Russell (and a rare 35mm screening of his notorious The Devils), Jeffrey Combs, H.G. Lewis (the man who innovated blood and cuts to the arsenal of cinema), Neil Marshall, and Stuart Gordon.
July 8th, 2010
Offscreen Notes Sex and Violence 2nd Edition
…added on Greek cinema, Brazilian sexploitation (the pornochanchadas), and Ken Russell. An indispensable book has become even more so.
July 31st, 2007
Articles Asian Cinema Studies Society
…of Chinese Intelligentsia” 1110-1130: Ken HALL: “Hong Kong, 1997: Mexico, 1917. Motifs and Historical Perspective” 1130-1150: Denise TANG: “Coming into Gender Consciousness” 1150-1210: CUI Shuqin: “Female Image and Postmodern Allusion in ACTRESS Afternoon Panel 3 140-200: Gina MARCHETTI: ‘California Dreaming’ in the Chungking Mansions: Spectacle, Commodities, and CHUNGKING EXPRESS” 200-220:…
September 17th, 1997
Articles Fantasia 2009 Report 1
…crucifixion imagery reminiscent of Ken Russell and a glowing pink set shaped as the inside of a womb. In the business of genre cinema, you have to know what you are to deliver the goods. Embodiment of Evil knows exactly what it is, and executes its mandate perfectly. This is…
May 31st, 2010
Articles “Japan Speaks Out!” at the 27th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato at Bologna, Italy, 29 June–6 July, 2013
…see on other occasions, Kenji Mizoguchi’s Furusato (Hometown, aka, “Fujiwara Yoshie no Furusato,” 1930), and, especially, Heinosuke Gosho’s oldest surviving film, Madama to Nyobo (The Neighbour’s Wife and Mine, 1931) show a propensity for experimentation. Although it is stylistically unrecognizable as a Mizoguchi film with jerky (rather than smooth) camera…
March 31st, 2014
Articles Robin Hardy: A Chat with the wicker man
…great character actor Clive Russell, and his maid side-kick Daisy) rather than the final twist. There are still narrative twists, but the fun of the film is in watching the way the two new sacrificial lambs experience their exposure to this new world and respond in surprising ways. Steve’s promiscuous…
May 31st, 2012
Articles Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (Norman Foster, 1955)
…fellow homespun frontiersman Georgie Russell (goofy coot Buddy Ebsen a character actor who was already decidedly seasoned by the time I was watching him on television playing aging private eye Barnaby Jones – with the absurd occasional chase and fight scenes he’d get mixed up into as on-the-level absurd as…
June 19th, 2022
Articles Teruo Ishii, the outcast
…Abashiri Jail, starring Takakura Ken and Tamba Tetsuro, is set in the snowy Hokkaido isle, and was made under difficult circumstances, according to Ishii: We were using every room in the place and some had no heaters – it was really tough. It was so cold that when you woke…
May 31st, 2003
Articles Canadian Movies at Fantasia
…Cunningham, Monte Hellman, and Ken Russell, was a bit of a damp squib. Among the many shorts, the one with the best title by a long way was Aurore l’enfant martyre: la revanche, which should provoke a laugh from anybody familiar with the classic Quebec film or its relatively recent…
April 30th, 2020
Articles How to Make an Avant-Garde Film Without Completely Disappearing Up Your Own Ass: The 47th Toronto International Film Festival
…Darkness (co-directed with Ben Russell, 2013), The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015), and Krabi, 2562 (co-directed with Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2019), but also because the film inundates us with more information than my brain is capable of processing. For starters, it…
October 31st, 2023
Articles The Thing (theatrical release vs network television broadcast cut) (John Carpenter, 1982)
…anti-authoritarian cowboy hero Kurt Russell) is forced to shoot a crazed Norwegian pilot who has shown up at the camp desperately trying to kill the aforementioned dog and anyone who gets in the way. Carpenter spends just an extra beat with Garry, showing us the terrible reality that Garry experiences…
July 5th, 2018
Articles Virgil Bliss: Low Budget Character Study (DVD)
…Maggio are John Cassavetes, Ken Loach, and the Dogma 95 collective. The strength of this film is in the honest performances from the three principals, Clint Jordan in the title role of career criminal Virgil Bliss, Kirsten Russell as his prostitute lover Ruby, and Anthony Gorman as Bliss’ violent ex-con…
October 31st, 2003
Articles Scream and Scream Again (or, as known in Germany, The Living Corpses of Dr. Mabuse) (Gordon Hessler, 1970)
…by Michael Gothard, of Ken Russell’s The Devils fame, who, with his lean, Mick Jagger-androgynous rock-star good looks, is one striking bloke), which keeps suspiciously leading the good detective and his fellow coppers back to the lair of the considerably strange Doctor Browning (otherwise known as none other than our…
April 14th, 2020
Articles Sexcula Rises
…Marsh (Amanda Donohue) in Ken Russell’s The Lair of the White Worm (1988), but this is not shown explicitly and nothing else about the character, besides the occasional cape, suggests that she is even a vampire. Little enough is done to explore the sexual subtext of vampire mythology. Indeed, despite…
July 4th, 2014
Articles The New Candor in Male Friendship Films: Will Reiser’s screenplay 50/50, as directed by Jonathan Levine
…a young therapist (Anna Kendrick), who has not mastered the healing process (she has good intentions but her talk is jargon and gestures artificial). Kyle organizes a party to celebrate Adam’s life, and all who are there try to be comforting, though their own discomfort sometimes makes that difficult. The…
October 31st, 2012