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Savage Messiah: Ken Russell => Savage Messiah: Ken Russell => Topic started by: Rosebud on December 16, 2017, 08:26:09 AM
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https://www.criterion.com/films/28688-women-in-love
I am so excited that the Criterion Collection is finally releasing a KEN RUSSELL film. The release will also include "A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible." Hopefully if sales are good others will follow. I've got my fingers crossed for the Directors Cut of "The Devils."
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2018 may be a good year.
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wow, that is great news!
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The details are:
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Two audio commentaries from 2003, one featuring director Ken Russell and the other screenwriter and producer Larry Kramer
- Segments from a 2007 interview with Russell for the BAFTA Los Angeles Heritage Archive
- A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible, Russell’s 1989 biopic on his own life and career
- Interview from 1976 with actor Glenda Jackson
- Interviews with Kramer and actors Alan Bates and Jennie Linden from the set
- New interviews with director of photography Billy Williams and editor Michael Bradsell
- Second Best, a 1972 short film based on a D. H. Lawrence story, produced by and starring Bates
Trailer - An essay by scholar Linda Ruth Williams
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I just purchased my Criterion blu ray copy of "Women In Love" today. Fantastic disc. The film looks terrific. Great interviews with Billy Williams and Michael Bradsell. A very interesting short Film, called "Second Best," was also a great addition. My one disappointment with the release is that "A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible" was not restored. The print appears to be transferred from a tape source, though it does look a lot better than my bootleg copy. Still, that should not detour people from buying the disc. If sales are great, more Russell films may follow!!!!!!!!!!!
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I got my copy. Agreed A British Picture is poorer quality (in terms of restoration) but it is great it is on official DVD, and it is a good overview of his career. I enjoyed watching it again.
Lots of extras, still working through them, and still to actually watch Women in Love again !!!
I hope Criterion do more of Ken's films, with extras.
Iain