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	Ken Russell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Russell was born in Southampton and educated in Walthamstow and at Pangbourne College, he served in both the RAF and the Merchant Navy, and moved into television work after a brief affair with dancing and photography.
		Russell's last American film was Crimes of Passion (1984), and returns to his major themes, sex and religion, contrasting the prostitute with the "priest" and benefits from the performances of Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins.
		By the 1990s, Russell's notoriety and persona had attracted so much media attention that he was widely regarded as unemployable in the cinema, and is now largely reliant on his own finances to continue making films.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ken_Russell (1155 words)

	BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Ken Russell
		Russell made more than 30 films for the BBC Monitor and Omnibus programmes, and became known as one of the finest directors working in British television.
		Russell's later work is not considered to have reached the heights attained in these films, with the possible exception of Altered States (1980), although The Rainbow (1989) and Lady Chatterley (1992) are regarded as impressive pieces of work.
		Some feel that Russell's extraordinary talent never quite matured and believe this may be due in part to the hostile criticism he received in his earlier years, when he was accused of "warping" his subject matter by the misguided application of an excessively lively imagination.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/russellk2.shtml (339 words)

	Ken Russell/ Biography
		Ken Russell was born on July 3rd, 1927 in Southampton, England.
		Although Russell's experience at Pangborne was less than successful, he continued his nautical pursuits by entering the Merchant Navy as sixth officer on a cargo ship bound for the Pacific.
		Russell took one of these films, "Amelia," to the BBC who were impressed by its promise.
	members.aol.com /streettb/krussell/bio.htm (627 words)

	Russell, Ken
		Ken Russell, a British filmmaker, is best known in the United States as director of such feature films as Women in Love (1969), The Music Lovers (1970), Tommy (1975), and Altered States (1980).
		According to Russell, the viewer was "not aware of a personality; just a figure." Russell skillfully combined silent footage of the actors, stock footage of English life at the turn of the century, and photographs of Elgar and his family, all of which were enhanced by Elgar's compositions.
		According to Russell, as quoted in Phillips, Wheldon thought the film "a bit esoteric," and insisted on beginning the film "with a series of photographs of Debussy along with a spoken statement assuring viewers they were about to see a film based on incidents in Debussy's life and incorporating direct quotations from Debussy himself".
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/R/htmlR/russellken/russellken.htm (1680 words)

	The Creative Fire of Ken Russell
		As a child, Russell's closest relationship was with his mother, who frequently escorted him to the cinema after school.
		Later on, Russell found a drugstore that rented films by the likes of Fritz Lang and Leni Riefenstahl who were highly influential in developing Russell's dramatic visual flair as a director.
		In his spare time, Russell started to make some fl and white silent films.Russell took one of these films, "Amelia," to the BBC who were impressed by its promise.
	members.aol.com /streettb/krussell (604 words)

	Ken Russell - Song of Summer DVD&Video
		Ken Russell's films for the BBC Monitor series during the 1960's are regarded by many as some of his finest and most inspired creations.
		Whatever your feelings are regarding Russell's later work for cinema it would be hard to deny the extraordinary vision and passion that he brought to his groundbreaking work during this period.
		Russell, as we learn from the highly informative engaging director's commentary, had been toying with idea of a film about Delius for several years but was unsure how to proceed.
	www.imageandmusic.co.uk /songofsummer.htm (646 words)

	Watered-down Russell film doesn't shock enough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As a result, the film is not wild enough to match the playful excess of Russell's more typical fare, and the film is not subtle enough to succeed as a nuanced work of art.
		Russell bases his film on the D. Lawrence novel, which tells the story of a Midlands England farming family at the turn of the century.
		As might be expected, Russell's film version eschews the dull peasant lives of the earlier generations to tell the story of Ursula, played by Sammi Davis.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V109/N28/rain.28a.html (538 words)

	Astro-Noetics.com:: The Films of Ken Russell
		However, Russell was not always the enfant terrible exploring taboo subjects through radical and outlandish flights of fantasy.
		At this time Russell was not afraid to take risks, to push boundaries, and to go outside established narrative techniques.
		This transit is often associated with major upheaval, crisis, and in the case of artists and creative types, breakthroughs and inspiration.
	www.astro-noetics.com /russell_3.html (323 words)

	The One and Only Ken Russell
		From a directors/adapters point of view it is arguably Ken Russell's greatest work, yet it is a truly horrible film to watch - the horror having been painstakingly recreated with such passion that there are few that even come close to evoking such disgust.
		Russell casts Rudolf Nureyev in the title role and, as is to be expected, his dancing is sublime even if is acting talent is minimal.
		For once, Russell opts too far on the tasteful side and produces a work a little too formulaic for its own good - the TV version with Imogen Stubbs was a lot better.
	www.geocities.com /lairof/subpages/kenrussell.htm (2176 words)

	DELIUS – Song of Summer Directed by Ken Russell: Film Music on the Web CD Reviews January 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ken Russell’s masterpiece was first screened in 1968 as a TV documentary in the highly-influential BBC Monitor arts programme series produced by the late, greatly esteemed Huw Wheldon.
		And, as Ken relates, the film was made on a small budget that did not allow for any overseas location filming so that it was impossible to film at Delius’s house at Grez-sur-Loing, some 40 miles outside Paris; and the English Lake District had to stand in for Norway.
		However, unbeknown to Russell, Fenby actually crept onto the set one day when they were filming the scene in which Fenby and Delius meet for the first time.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/2002/Jan02/DVD_delius.html (873 words)

	Ken Russell's films / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
		Russell's approach to Mahler is to examine the man through his music, while Mahler (Robert Powell) and his wife, Alma (Georgina Hale), examine their own past on a train journey back to Vienna.
		Central to Russell's approach was to allow this biography to be driven by the music, letting its ambiance illuminate both the man and the filmmaker's reactions to the man. Russell believed (and still does) that a man may lie, but his art doesn't.
		It's the 30th anniversary of Ken Russell's film of The Who's rock opera, Tommy, and while the film has withstood the test of time on its own merits, the immensity of its achievement as a startlingly fresh approach to filmmaking is more apparent when considered in the context of 1975.
	www.mountainx.com /guides/2005/1019russell.php (2461 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| News \| Future of film is on the net, claims Ken Russell
		Russell said he was also working on a feature film, entitled Braveheart Versus the Loch Ness Monster, which was shot on video.
		Russell, whose work since the 1990s has been largely commissions for television, said the last three films he had seen were on DVD and he was a huge fan of the medium.
		Russell, whose most famous films include Women in Love, starring Oliver Reed and Alan Bates, the rock opera Tommy, and The Devils, based on a book by Aldous Huxley, could not be contacted for comment yesterday.
	film.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,,1696924,00.html (524 words)

	The Sunday Telegraph
		Ken Russell is the only person in the room who looks like an east European emigre, his dazzling white hair streaming from his temples and a patterned velvet scarf slung round his shoulders.
		Ken Russell has retreated here from London, to work at his cottage on the script of his next film about Uri Geller.
		Russell also thinks Sir Richard Attenborough's film of Chaplin was "disgusting" for treating his life like a Hollywood soap and including only three minutes of Chaplin at the end.
	www.uri-geller.com /russell.htm (934 words)

	The Way of Seeing®-- a simple, practical path
		Ken has extensive training and practice in a wide variety of psychotherapeutic and spiritual disciplines in addition to having lived a very rich and fulfilling life.
		Ken spent a lot of time attending workshops and seminars at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur.
		Ken also studied energy work and transmission with Brugh Joy, MD, incorporating elements of that in his ongoing work with people.
	www.thewayofseeing.com /kens-bio.html (637 words)

	A Who's-Who of the Ken Russell canon / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
		A Who's-Who of the Ken Russell canon / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC News
		Russell's movies have been the subject of no less than five full-length books (including one I wrote) – with two more currently en route to publication.
		Russell's 1974 work about Gustav Mahler starring Robert Powell (perhaps best known as Jesus Christ in Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth) as the Austrian composer is one of the director's greatest works – and, if anything, is an even better musical biography than The Music Lovers.
	www.mountainx.com /ae/2005/1026russell.php (1817 words)

	BBC News \| ENGLAND \| Ken Russell teams up with women's soccer
		Mr Russell, who stunned audiences with his raunchy scenes in Women in Love, has turned his camera on two stars of the Brighton and Hove Albion ladies football team.
		Mr Russell is best known as one of the most experimental and controversial film makers of 1970s with box office hits including The Music Lovers and Tommy.
		Russell started his career at the BBC on the small-budget documentary series, Monitor, in 1957 and stayed as a freelance for 12 years before going on to the film industry.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/1747709.stm (479 words)

	Ken Russell article Vladek Sheybal
		Vladek Sheybal worked with Ken Russell from the early BBC days through to the early films and the classic Russell era.
		Ken thought that he would not be able to finish the film.
		I said to Ken Russell right from the beginning ’How can you imagine that all the provincial actors, in a little theater, would react to the fact that the famous C. DeMille, from Hollywood, suddenly arrived and is in the box watching.
	www.iainfisher.com /russell/rusard.html (3079 words)

	Kenneth Buell, LCDR, Navy, Kankakee IL, 23Mar78 01W073 - The Virtual Wall®
		Ken was a graduate of the Naval Academy and he and I served together in VA-35 1970 - 1972.
		Ken and I were classmates at the Academy and we went through Naval Flight Officer training together and we both got our wings in Corpus Christi.
		Ken and Mary were accomplished bridge players and we had a lot of fun together.
	www.virtualwall.org /db/BuellKR01a.htm (481 words)

	screenonline: Russell, Ken (1927-) Biography
		Russell was born in Southampton on 3 July 1927.
		Russell, Ken, The Lion Roars (London: Faber and Faber, 1994)
		Ken Russell's remarkably imaginative portrait of the composer
	www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/467596 (543 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Ken Russell (the director) - Thoughts?
		If you've seen a Ken Russell movie you know his work can hardly be ignored, but it does seem to be forgotten on these boards.
		But too often I come away from a Ken Russell film thinking that he simply does not live on the same planet as the rest of us.
		Russell by contrast often seems to meander here and there without that overall sense of cohesion which makes for a satisfying film.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=134239 (825 words)

	Ken Russell: Success With Excess, Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In their version of the alienated British war-baby rock star story, the hero is an innocent victim around whom a cult accrues, a deaf, dumb and blind non-entity.
		Russell's telling of Tommy is as surfacy and shallow as the mirrors that obsess its hero.
		While Russell's actors were all a decade too old for the parts they played, at least the tone was right.
	www.filmmonthly.com /behind/Articles/Russell1/Russell1.html (1366 words)

	TIJ Editorial Board: Ken Russell
		In 1988, Ken completed an MBA at London Business School (LBS) whilst working in the pharmaceutical industry and was a research fellow in Operations Management at LBS from 1988 to 1991.
		Ken introduced innovations in the action research approach taken, including defining unique contributions of roles in line with key success factors for the organisation and building objective setting in line with implementing new policies etc and closing performance gaps.
		Russell, K, Rippin, A. and Bovaird, T. "Strategic change at the public-private interface: does competition enhance innovation in public services?" Paper presented at British Academy of Management, September 5-7th 2001, Cardiff.
	www.innovation.cc /editorial-board/russell.htm (391 words)

	Albright, Review of _Gothic_ - Scholarly Resources, Romantic Circles
		Russell, whose films have included Crimes of Passion, Tommy, Altered States, Women in Love, Dante's Inferno, and Devils, is certainly not known for subtlety, and Gothic is surely no exception, as Russell subjects his audience to 96 minutes of his peculiarly excessive vision of the events of Villa Diodati in June of 1816.
		In Russell's hands, the events become a nightmare of drugs, sex, horror and (at least in Dr. Polidori's case), self-immolation.
		The dramatization of Mary's waking dream--and her vision of Fuseli's 1781 painting "The Nightmare" lit by flashes of lightning, (I don't know if the painting was there or not, but it's a nice touch) do provide an interesting atmosphere, and this is the portion of the film I've used a few times in my classes.
	www.rc.umd.edu /reference/misc/ficrep/gothicalbright.html (414 words)

	screenonline: Ken Russell's Composers
		Ken Russell's controversial caricature of the composer Richard Strauss
		Ken Russell's portrait of the English composer at home and at work
		Ken Russell's moving drama about the last years of the blind composer Delius
	www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/1030584 (306 words)

	Ken Dodd, Ken Howard, Ken Russell, Ken Hamm, Ken Osmond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ken Dodd, Ken Howard, Ken Russell, Ken Hamm, Ken Osmond
		ken russell Once in the twenty-two-year-old she had the space and I...
		ken russell By the first indication of the business that it was.
	universe-things.info /ymra02/ken.html (1082 words)

	Suite from The Boy Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After the intensity of The Devils, Ken Russell felt that the best possible 'exorcism' would be a complete volte-face into light relief.
		Russell found this in the simple but ingenious updating of the book from the 'twenties to the 'thirties, and in telling the personal stories of the members of a repertory company while they are engaged in their own production of The Boy Friend.
		This enabled Russell to glamorize the actors in the 'rep' company, and to further elaborate the film with spectacular dance sequences in the style of Busby Berkeley.
	www.maxopus.com /works/boyfrien.htm (815 words)

	Amazon.com: Altered States : The Autobiography of Ken Russell: Books: Ken Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		British filmmaker Russell virtually defines the word "iconoclast" with a career in television and motion pictures studded with controversy, mainly over his interpretations of the lives of famous artists.
		Russell has also been attracted to sources as diverse as D.H. Lawrence (Women in Love, 1969), Sandy Wilson (The Boy Friend, 1971), and Paddy Chayevsky (Altered States, 1980).
		Russell seems to attract odd experiences and people, which may explain the skewed tenor of his films.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553078313?v=glance (875 words)

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