- Wrestling from Women
in Love
- Marilyn Monroes from Tommy
- Tchaikovsky seeing all the
"music lovers" while dying in The
Music Lovers
- the extraordinary tracking
shot in the studio during the "Rivera" number
in The Boyfriend
- stone and god in Aria
- Daltry and the giant penis
in Lisztomania
- Alma Mahler quieting the
countryside
- the entire second half of The
Devils
- the public exorcism of
Vanessa Redgrave in The Devils
- the dream sequence in The
Devils in which Oliver Reed appears
as Christ
- Liszt and his friends
dive-bombing Wagner in Lisztomania
- the dream in The
Devils
- the dance of the seven
veils in Salome's Last Dance
- China Blue, a policeman and
a night-stick in Crimes of Passion
- Gaudier's artwork revealed at
the end of Savage Messiah
- Hermione's Russian ballet
in Women in Love
- Mahler's funeral and
cremation in a dream sequence from Mahler
- Rambova's séance in Valentino
- the Charlie Chaplin fantasy
in Lisztomania
- the 1812 Overture fantasy
in The Music Lovers
- "It's So Much Nicer in
Nice" the musical number in The
Boyfriend
- King Louis XIII visiting
the nuns in The Devils
- Mary Shelley's five doors
to the future in Gothic
- the Gypsy
Queen sequence by Tina Turner in Tommy
- Shaw's dinner party in Savage
Messiah
- the opening sequence in The
Music Lovers
-
Kevin's demise in Lair
of the White Worm
- asylum scenes in The
Music Lovers
- "Bye bye,
Blackbird", Louis XIII shooting protestant
blackbirds in The Devils
- the seduction in Lair
of the White Worm
- the mass-crucifixion
sequences in Altered States.
Creepy.
- the Nuns in The
Devils
- the first hallucination in Altered
States
- the 1812 Overture fantasy
from The Music Lovers
- the final shot in
The Devils
- Mahler
- Alma burying musical creativity in a small coffin like
box. Beautifully shot and acted by Georgina Hale
- the death of
Gaudier-Breszka from Savage Messiah
- the Hugo Wolf waltz in Mahler
- letters XYZ in ABC
of British Music
- the airplane sequence in
Lair of the White Worm
- the last quarter of
Savage Messiah
- Palmer finding the body in
the ice house in Billion $ Brain, or
the love scene with giant hypo needle in same film
- anything in Devils
or Women in Love
- the
incubus on top of the sleeping girl enacting Fuseli's
painting in Gothic
- the airplane sequence in Lair
- the dream Sequence in The
Devils
- in Lisztomania
when Wagner bites into Liszt's neck while the two
composers are seated at the piano
- the al fresco lunch where
Rupert quotes the fig poem
- the Piano Concerto
performance in The Music Lovers
- The Debussy Film:
Arrows in St Sebastian women
- Today it rained Champagne,
the bean bath of Ann-Margret in Tommy
- Glenda Jackson's delirious
dance with the bulls, Oliver Reed catching her and their
fatal bonding by the tree
- can't help it . . . I'm
fond of soap suds and baked beans in Tommy
. . .
- anything from The
Devils
- Bates & Reed wrestling
in Women in Love
- the "Room in
Bloomsbury" number in The
Boyfriend
- all three scenes with Kevin
the Scout in Lair of the White Worm
-
anything involving Amanda
Donohoe - of course!
- the Orpheus scene in Lisztomania
(except the dumb piano lid ending). Particularly Liszt
being sucked through the huge vagina of Princess Carolyne
as an inflatable love doll
- 1812 Overture sequence in The
Music Lovers
- the "awakening to
nature" night horseback ride in Mahler
- most every scene in The
Devils
- Polly dreaming about
dancing with Tony in the forest in The
Boyfriend
- The Book of Revelations
hallucination in Altered States
- Alan Bates discussing the
proper manner to consume a fig in Women
in Love
- it changes - depends on the
last film I watched. Currently - Salome
and John the Baptist 'I was a virgin, and you raped me'
- Hmmm...So many choices! Well, my
favorite KR film is undoubtedly Lair
of the White Worm, but I'm going to
have to go with Salome's dance spectacular in Salome's
Last Dance
- the conversion scene in Mahler
- the opening of Mahler
where the hut bursts into flame
- Women in Love
where Gerald Critch walks to Gudrun's house and gets into
her bed covered in mud
- the naked wrestling scene
from Women in Love
- I'm Free from Tommy
- the Chaplin scene from Lisztomania
- The Devils
compleat
- The motorcycle fight in Tommy.
Ken Russell is the best director
EVER!!!!! I like his strange movies a lot!!!!
- Savage Messiah-
Dorothy Tutin chopping rotting veggies while remembering
rotten past
- the dream in The
Devils
- The Music Lovers-
honeymoon in the train, the asylum sequences, the 1812
overture
-
Ann-Margret in all-white fur
& jewels in all-white room singing & then being
lambasted by a baked bean storm in Tommy
- ending scenes and credits
in The Boy Friend
- when the soap suds,
chocolate and beans are coming out of Ann-Margret's TV in
Tommy
- when Father Barre is in the
middle of a crowd of crazed, grateful nuns who he as just
reprieved in The Devils
- Ken Russell is the best.
Double feature The Devils
and The Boyfriend
and you will see ALL of films; the two epitomize every
possible extreme - never a moment not PACKED with
information
- Pinball Wizard in Tommy
- Ollie Reed's trial in The
Devils
- the nude wrestling scene in
Women in Love
- the overnight sculpture in Savage
Messiah, with the "little
bird" fable that at least two other films have
cribbed
- all of Women
in Love and all of Tommy
- I would like to suggest another
best image for Lair of the White
Worm. You feature a picture of
Amanda Donohoe hissing on the crucifix. When she draws
back there is a shadow on the wall from a spider plant.
It forms a man's head with a starburst for an eye. It's a
neat image. And quite low budget
- the whole 2nd half of The
Devils
- Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed
and the relatives in the Christmas sequence from Tommy
- sur la plage from The
Boyfriend and the scene right
before it's nicer in nice
- the dance in Salome
or general nun frenzy in The Devils
- the last scene of Altered
States
- Just about every scene in Crimes
of Passion involving China Blue
and/ or Reverend Peter Shayne, particularly the reaction
shot of Shayne when China Blue pulls the large metal
vibrator ("superman") out of the bag and
reveals it for the first time. Another wonderful scene is
the silhouetted sex scene between China Blue and the
leading man. The film just gets creepier and more
disturbing each time I watch it. I Love it! (Love the
musical score, too). Most underrated Russell film is also
his BEST
- the scene where the doctor
is being interrogated for his fears in Gothic
- Mahler meeting Hugo Wolf
- Ann-Margret rolling around
with baked beans, pudding and champagne in Tommy
-
the plane scene in Lair
of the White Worm
- the newlyweds drowning in Women
in Love
- hallucinations from Altered
States
-
Anthony Perkin´s psycho character on Crimes
of Passion
- the dressing room anecdotes
in The Boy Friend
- the transformation from the
"Ceremonial" to the operating theatre in Aria
- the fantasy scene in The
Devils where Vanessa Redgrave sees
Father Grandier as Jesus healing her kyphotic back
- Gaudier's "bird in
shit" soliloquy in Savage
Messiah. A close second: Gaudier
"delivering" the sculpture
- the boat sequence in French
Dressing with James Booth and Alita
Naughton
- the final scene of Women
in Love
- the final sequences of The
Devils and The
Music Lovers but there are dozens
more that are the best!
- the whole sequence in The
Music Lovers where Chamberlain is
playing the piano at his concert and each character has
his or her different fantasy. Excellent!
- The Lair
- the drowning of the boy scout
- hallucinations in The
Devils and Altered
States
- the boat scene under Herne
Bay ("Gormleigh") pier in French
Dressing, with James Booth and
Alita Naughton. Other great scenes in the same film:
Alita roller-skating in the pier pavilion as the balloons
fall; the brawling men entering and emerging from Marisa
Mell's gigantic projected mouth in the
film-within-a-film, "Pavements of Boulogne";
the exhilarating opening credits, with James Booth
cycling furiously along the pier
- Glenda Jackson dancing in Women
in Love in front of the bull
- when Percy Shelley (Julian
Sands) looks into the 'eyes' of Claire and finds them
peering at him from her nipples (Gothic)
- Vanessa Redgrave screaming
"take away my hump!" in The
Devils
- the opening scene in Elgar
showing the composer as a boy riding his pony over the
glorious Malvern Hills
- when they dance in Salome's
Last Dance
- Anything from Song
of Summer
- Tchaikovsky and the Piano
Concerto sequence (The Music Lovers)
- Mahler
- 1) Exploding hut sequence 2) "We are going to live
for ever"
- Women in Love
- the scene beginning with Oliver Reed lying down to die
in the snow
- the scene in Tommy
where Ann-Margret gets covered in soap bubbles beans and
chocolate. I love that scene
- the acid queen sequence of Tommy
- it would be the rape of
Christ sequence from The Devils
(if it were actually included in a print I could
access)... I personally like the conversion of Gustav by
Cosima Wagner in Mahler,
although the mushroom hallucination in Altered
States is quite nice, as is the end
sequence in the gallery in Savage
Messiah
- so many, it is difficult to
choose. Forced, however, I would say the scene (Song
of Summer) when Delius is taken up
the mountain, accompanied by Song of the High Hills.
Also, the final scene (the exhibition) in Savage
Messiah. But SO MANY others
- I can remember so many
beautiful scenes! 1) Aria
2) the 1812 overture from The Music
Lovers 3) the C. Chaplin-like scene
from Lisztomania
4) the ending from Song of Summer
- the "Charlie
Chaplin" scene from Lisztomania
- Chamberlain playing
Tchaikovsky (The Music Lovers)
and the psychedelic pictures from Altered
States
- in Aria,
when the viewer realizes that the bejewelled princess is
really a car crash victim
- Fenby trying to take down
music from Delius, in Song of Summer
- the "Rape of
Christ" sequence in The Devils
- the last ten minutes of The
Devils (Grandier's death,
aftermath)
- Alan Bates and Oliver Reed
wrestling (Women in Love)
- there are so many it's not
easy to pick one. Maybe Redgrave's rosary scene in The
Devils
- in Tommy
when Ann-Margret's TV starts gushing out soap bubbles all
over her
- 1812 overture in The
Music Lovers
- the short movie in Crimes
of Passion
- I agree with you, the Hugo
Wolf scene in Mahler
is great! beautiful! but the BEST OF THE BEST is the
conversion scene in Mahler!!!
- the nude fight between to
men in Women in Love:
Oliver Reed and Alan Bates
- wrestling from Women
in Love
- Gaudier Brzeska's sculpting
of his mistress with a jack hammer (Savage
Messiah)
- the end of The
Music Lovers
- the end scene of The
Devils
- Helen Mirren walking naked down the stairs in Savage
Messiah
- Richard Chamberlain
performing Piano Concerto No. 1, with Russell intercutting reactions and
daydreams of the audience members, from The Music Lovers.
This is the best site devoted to a filmmaker
- Ann-Margret writhing on
the floor covered in soap suds and beans and chocolate in Tommy
- Ann-Margret rolling in
Baked Beans
- the Heinz Baked Beans
part of Tommy
- in Salome´s Last Dance
- 'my fan'
- Ann-Margret basking in
beans/suds/chocolate. Awesome site
- Franz Liszt's
hallucination where he's gassed then led to the guillotine in Lisztomania.
That's tied with the Richard Wagner and Cosima's duet which involves nude
women, a bald Aryan, and kids in supermen uniforms. Tuff choice!
- Percy Grainger throwing
a ball over the roof in Delius (Song of Summer)
- Gaudier
- sculpting: furiously chipping away . . . coaxing a beautiful female
torso to emerge from a stolen marble tombstone - while he eloquently
describes the importance of art . . . of creating art (Savage Messiah)
- 1812 overture - The
Music Lovers, Oliver Reed's final scenes in The Devils
- Valentino's funeral.
I have profound memories of almost all of Ken's films. If I succumb to
alzheimers, Ken's cinematic visuals would be the last to leave my addled
brain
- baked beans, soap suds,
and chocolate bath with Ann-Margret in Tommy
- Gosh-Boyle walking down
the stairs (Savage Messiah)
- When Bill Hurt says
"I love you" at the end of Altered States. It
should be absurd. Actually, it IS absurd! But it is emotionally
satisfying. It works
- the firelight wrestling
scene (Women in Love). He is vastly superior because he SEES his
films, before he commits one frame to action. The man is his own, best,
storyboard
- Ann-Margret
getting covered and rolling around in baked beans in Tommy
- Glenda
Jackson in the mad house (The Music Lovers)
- Bates walking nude, being romantic et al. (Women in Love)
- either the Wrestling scene or the Glenda Jackson in the market scene
in Women in Love
- airplane fantasy in Lair of the White Worm
- redemption scene in Tommy (the last image)
- Dogboys is the worst film. Mindbender's not as bad.
Best scene – Nude wrestling (Women in Love). And Gaudier sculpting
all night (Savage Messiah)
- the rape of Christ in The Devils - it was cut by Trevellian
but was his best summary with the roadside communion out takes
- the ending of The Devils when she walks up the road
- ending scenes of The Boy Friend
- the best scene is when Gaudier-Brzeska does the improv song and dance
number with Helen Mirren's character at the Vortex in Savage Messiah,
to the complete utter disgust of the crowd, ending with a nice FU gesture
and both of them getting thrown out on their bums
- it's been said before but nothing beats the nude wrestling scene in
Women in Love
- the scene in Women in Love where Reed and Bates wrestle in the
nude
- the whole movie Tommy!!!! He's really talented, he gets hands
to help the mood and tone of his films
- yeah, the wrestling, naked O.R and A. B. (Women in Love)
- Imogen Millais Scott as Salome tempting John the Baptist (Salome´s
Last Dance)
- Glenda Jackson dancing seductively in front of the bulls in Women
in Love and then proceeding to go into a neurotic fit in front of Oliver
Reed while the camera moves and cuts insanely. CLASSIC RUSSELL
- "It's Nicer in Nice" from The Boyfriend
- Ann-Margret "beans and chocolate" scene in Tommy
- any scene in Women in Love
- the spaghetti-worm scene in Gothic
- Anthony Perkins in Crimes of
Passion
- the one we aren't allowed to see, of course-- "The Rape of Christ"
from The Devils
- nude males on a roof in Gothic-also liked bulls and Glenda (Women
in Love), Isadora Duncan with Singer and kids (Isadora)
- Gothic's
optical nipples
- Rick Wakeman as the god Thor (Lisztomania)
- the nude wrestling scene in Women in Love
- the trippy cave scene in Altered States
- Poor Little Pierette from The Boyfriend, or anything from
Women in Love
- The scene between Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in Women in Love
- Grainger throwing the cricket ball over the house in Song Of
Summer
- Most scenes that have a visual balanced and "composed" painting
quality. Anything that not a talking heads close up usually- far too
many to list individually
- all and any from The Music Lovers and The Devils.
These are two of the finest cinematic rides one will ever experience
- there are way too many!
- the surrealistic scenes in Altered States
- Gaudier sculpting in Savage Messiah when he says something
like "They don't know what working hard means" and the waltz in Mahler.
Savage Messiah is one of my favourite films ever, I remember the
first time I watched it on tv when I was fifteen, it seemed a masterpiece to
me, full of poetry, beauty, sense of absurd and the very original view of a
visionary film maker, I never saw something similar. Except from Russell
himself
- Glenda in the madhouse in The Music Lovers
- Where is the restored The Devils DVD?
Where is the DVD of The Music Lovers? Savage Messiah?
MGM, Warner's- if you don't want to put them out, license them to Criterion
or something! Jesus, before I die!
- Grandier (Oliver Reed) addressing the crowd at the beginning of
The Devils
- the end credits of The Boy Friend
- even though I didn't care for Fall of the Louse of Usher
because of the excessive goriness, I still consider him the best film
director of the twentieth century. I hope to find the earlier BBC short
films available on DVD, as I have never had the chance to see them. Also,
I'd very much like a DVD of The Boy Friend with as much extra
material as humanly possible- my VCR version is wearing out, and my
laserdisc player is not currently connected
- the bit where Ann Margret rolls around in soap, beans and chocolate
in Tommy
- the giant penis castration in Lisztomania. From the moment
Roger Daltry enters the ante chamber and is gassed to the moment the
keyboard slams down on his.... finger. This is a great site!~ I am so glad
it is here, not enough Ken Russell sites out on the internet. I think there
should be a collection to help fund Ken's movies by his die hard fans. But
the word has to get out and his movies have to be released on DVD!!!
- the scene where there are all these nuns impaled on spikes and the
worm lady is licking the spikes. that is good (Lair of the White Worm)
- the church orgy sequence in The Devils
- the nude wrestling scene between OLiver Reed and Alan Bates in
Women in Love
- Oliver Reed being burnt at the stake in The Devils
- the 1812 Overture sequence of The Music Lovers
- Elton John as The Pinball Wizard in Tommy
- TV throwing up soap, baked beans and liquid chocolate at Tommy's
mother in Tommy and the creativity scenes of Mahler
- in Savage Messiah where Gaudier-Brzeska creates his first
sculpture, and the closing appreciation of his work at the end of the film
- Mahler- the crucifixion
- the second half of The Devils
- the asylum sequence in The Music Lovers
- Harry Palmer's arrival in Finland (Billion Dollar Brain)
- when Blair Brown meets William Hurt (Altered States) for the
first time. He's standing in the doorway with the bright light behind him.
The Doors is on the soundtrack. It's short, but it's the perfect meld
of sound and image. That's why I love Russell
- hard to have just one... Helen Mirren's gloriously naked scene in
Savage Messiah comes instantly to mind. I probably liked his films
too much in my 20's back in the 1970's when his films would come back again
and again to art theaters in San Diego, and I'd go every time they did. I
just wish all of his pictures could have been in stereo, though many have
been. Ken represents the cinema as "trip" more than anyone, except Kubrick.
I have kept his Savage Messiah on my personal 10 best list all these
years. I'm as much a film fanatic as one can be and still live a somewhat
normal life. sincerely="arch", a true russell fan
- the final Scene of The Devils; also Oliver Reed's 'Frozen
Death' scene in Women In Love
- Ann-Margret rolling around in baked beans (Tommy). No
contest
- the monologue of John the Baptist at the end of Salome
- Roger Daltrey's shirtless scenes in Tommy. I'm Free &
Sensation! And Listening To You!
- Oliver Reed on the cross in The Devils
- the closing moments of Women in Love (Rupert and Ursula beside
the fire - after Gerald's death) remain (for me) the most powerful stuff
ever produced by *any* director on *any* film
- pinball wizard scene from Tommy. Re-release Tommy
in the theatres fir a new audience. Ken Russell is a genius, Tommy
is the greatest rock film of the 20th century
- when Grandier comes down from the cross The Devils
- dream sequence in The Devils
- the unspeakably grim final shot of The Music Lovers when
Glenda Jackson has stopped repeating: 'He hated me!' and simply stares out
of her prison at the camera. With the closing shot of The Devils,
surely about the bleakest in Film history
- Fenby and Delius composing a song in Song of Summer, with
Delius giving Fenby a hard time
- Peach in Music Lovers
- Savage Messiah last scene
- Ann-Margret throwing Roger Daltry inside the mirror, in Tommy
- Glenda Jackson dancing to the bulls in Women in Love
- Bates and Reed wrestling scene in Women in Love
- most of The Boyfriend musical scenes
- probably the train scene in Music Lovers. Keep standing,
Ken. You're one of the greatest directors in all cinema history!
- the pixies in the Room in Bloomsbury number in The Boyfriend
- the King shooting the protestant 'blackbirds' in The Devils
- the "possessed" nuns in The Devils
- cop scene Crimes of Passion
- Mary searching for the others in Gothic
- I have enjoyed, been embarressed, scared, stimulated, and beside
myself by Ken's films. There's always an illustration of the imperfection of
human beauty that smacks of potency, that I love
- Probably Theresa Russell's monologues to camera in Whore. I
know that's more than one scene, and doesn't have the usual Ken Russell
flair, but they're very affecting. This is a very well-research and
maintained site. Good on you for spreading the word!
- Jennie Linden and Alan Bates naked, running towards each other in the
field while the camera is turned sideways
- the Acid Queen (Tommy)
- the BEAN BATH, baby! REX BEANS!!! Fit for a king! (Tommy)
- at the top is the scene in Woman in Love where Gerald
encounters Gudrun after the stampede
- the nun exorcism in The Devils
- The Acid Queen sequence from Tommy
- Tommy falling through the mirror into the pool. Thanks for site
- final scene in The Devils
- I love the dream sequence in Mahler where Cosima Wagner is
goose-stepping before a crucifix. Also love all of The Devils, esp.
the nuns' orgy and the "doctors." And who can forget Ann-Margaret swimming
in baked beans (Tommy)? How about reissuing restored versions
of all the films on DVD?
- Jessup's hallucinations in Altered States
- so many.....how about.....how about the procession along the beach on
The Debussy Film? With the beautiful Vladek Sheybal as the film
director and Oliver Reed as Debussy??? Well ????????. I have
written to KR 3 times over the past few years about 1. The Debussy Film
(of which eventually Melvin Bragg got me a copy)2. The Devils and 3.
The Music Lovers...... each time he replied with a beautiful
postcard..... i reckon not only are his FILMS f***** brilliant...he is such
a good man .....thats what i think
- the train scene in The Music Lovers
- the onirical sequence in Mahler about Cosima Wagner
- the first hallucination in Altered States
- the Ciajkovskij music-sequence in Women in Love
- in Lisztomania... I loved the scene where Wagner is performing
the superman theme and Franz infiltration into the castle
- any scene in which Glenda Jackson and/or Oliver Reed appear
- the wrestling scene from Women in Love
- many -- But the naked boxing match between Oliver Reed and Alan Bates
in Women in Love is hard to beat. I think Ken Russell is one of the
most, if not the most, influential modern director since the Fil Noir group.
I would put him up on the top of the list which includes few peers --
perhaps, Kubrick, David Lean, and the director of Midnight Cowboy- his name
slips my mind (John Schlesinger)
- the best scene in The Devils was when Oliver Reed was burnt.
The effects were great
- Acid Queen in Tommy
- when sophie starts singing 'two fleas' at the dinner party... (Savage
Messiah)
- the finale to Lair Of The White Worm
- Tchaikowsky death (The Music Lovers)
- with my Jesuit boarding school backgroud it HAS TO BE the PROCESSION
along the beach in The Debussy Film (with Vladek Sheybal playing the
director). I saw it on TV when I was 17 and it changed my view of the arts,
education, religion and life. THANK YOU KEN
- the "Dante" sequence from Altered States. Although Ken
nixed topical footage from an older Harry Lachman film, the blending of it
with natural phenomena (volcanoes, tropical cyclones, eclipses) is
terrifying in a beautiful way
- the dream sequence in The Devils where Vanessa Redgrave
ravishes Grandier as the crowd watches. I would love to see the uncut
version of The Devils. I saw a version shown in London in the
summer of 1971
- Dorothy Tutin as Mme Brzeska telling her life story to Henri Gaudier
while she chops cabbage. For some reason, this manages to be sexier than
Helen Mirren strolling around totally naked and looking glorious
- the moment in The Devils when hunchbacked Sister Jeanne
(Vanessa Redgrave) first appears in the doorway of the stark, whitebrick
monastery. Thanks for liberating British cinema with your musical
imagination - and for the eye-popping visuals of your movies: camerawork,
production design and costumes (or lack of them, in some cases!)
- Roger Daltrey's growing of a giant penis in
Lisztomania while the horny Czarina sings a creepy song.
- the resurrected Hitler-Wagner-Frankenstein's
Monster mowing down greedy crook-nosed top hatted
- Jews with an electric guitar machine gun while
his army of master-racy blond and cute supergirls and -boys in
Superman-costumes march on, from Lisztomania
- the arrival of the message of Captain Walker's
death in the opening sequence of Tommy, with Ann-Margret collapsing
into the silver ammunition
- the return of Tommy's father up to his murder
followed by the song "Amazing Journey"
- any and all of Millais-Scott's Salomé scenes,
but the best film scene is the hallucinatory dance Salomé does as
hermaphroditic body-doubling
- in Lisztomania, when the holy water
doesn't exorcize Wagner, because religion is only a play.
Lisztomania changed my life at the age of 19. I got free of religious
manipulation. As I tried to understand which facts were historical an which
artistical interpretation I learnd a lot about music. Nowadays I am opera
fan! An I didn't committed suicide until now!
- Oliver Reed hate-fucking Glenda Jackson in Women in Love
- Twiggy singing The Boyfriend while swinging
- Listening To You from Tommy
- The gold rush scène in Lisztomania
- when will the later films of Russell be more widely available?
- We're Not Gonna Take It from Tommy. Though in recent years I've had a falling out with Russell and his films, there's no escaping how influential his work has been on my own. His way of mixing crowd-pleasing spectacle with intellectually challenging themes is unmatched and unique - Never too sensory, never too esoteric. I certainly hope more people are exposed to his films as time presses on.
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