Ken Russell
2) Tommy
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A classic rock opera about a boy who is traumatized by the death of his father. He is "cured" several years later, only to be hailed as a "Messiah."
3) Lisztomania
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Outrageously hedonistic 'rockopera' casts contemporary rock god Roger Daltrey as the world's first music superstar, Franz Liszt. Loosely based on the life of the composer, the film takes a fantastical voyage through rock'n'roll excess and adventure, peppered with cameos from such pop icons as Ringo Starr (as the Pope) and Rick Wakeman (as Thor).
Pub. Date
©2010, ©1998.
Language
English
Description
Research scientist Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) believes other states of consciousness are as real as everyday reality. Using sensory deprivation, then adding powerful hallucinogenic drugs, he explores these altered states ... and endures experiences that make madness seem a blessing.
Series
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Language
English
Description
Georges Delerue's music shaped many of the films of the French New Wave from Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour to Truffaut's Jules and Jim. Explores the intersection of French, British and Hollywood film culture through Delerue's collaborations with Truffaut, Oliver Stone and Ken Russell.
6) Gothic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
In 1816, a sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of horror and madness. Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, her stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears and share the terrifying fantasies that chase them through the castle that night.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The Lair of the White Worm tells the story of a woman who worships a pagan god, the White Worm. When a party of unsuspecting people visit her castle, she works her unique charms on one of the guests to use her as a sacrifice to the snake!
8) Valentino
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The story opens with the super-star actor Rudolph Valentino in his coffin, dead at the age of thirty-one. As one by one the women in his life come to pay homage to "The Sheik," Valentino's rise from tea dance gigolo to screen idol unfolds in a series of extravagant flashbacks - highlighted by beautifully rendered sepia-toned recreations of his silent films. Freely mixing fact and fiction, director Russell, a man of ideas as well as baroque images,...
11) Tommy
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The Who's classic rock opera about a deaf, dumb, and blind boy who becomes a pinball wizard and the object of a religious cult, is brought energetically to life by an outstanding cast including many of music's biggest stars.
12) Women in love
Series
Criterion collection volume 916
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Set in an English mining community on the crest of modernity, this traces the shifting currents of desire that link the emancipated Brangwen sisters to a freethinking dreamer and a hard willed industrialist, as well as the men's own erotically charged friendship.
14) Aria
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
Ten of the world's best-known film makers were given a free hand to make real any vision.
15) The music lovers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
About two ill-matched lovers in this divine bio-pic of the great musician Peter Tchaikovsky, a lavish film filled with brilliant Tchaikovsky music selections.
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