Comments on: R.I.P. ‘Women In Love’ & ‘Tommy’ Director Ken Russell (1927-2011)

By: Connor

Connor — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:27:21 +0000

R.I.P Ken Russell.
A Cinema great.

By: Jon Williams

Jon Williams — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:27:21 +0000

Ken Russell was never going to be a long-term success in the Hollywood film factory. But he returned to a UK film landscape that had been decimated by Margaret Thatcher who had axed the 40% UK quota and the modest taxes which had allowed everyone from Michale Powell to Ken Russell to, and have exhibited on general release, great works of the imagination. And it was this, and not his eccentricities, which reduced him to having no option other than to dabble with cheap video in his garage.
So let's not have any regrets at his passing, let's have some real anger – anger at Hollywood and at Britain's supine political philistines.

By: Michael Hawley

Michael Hawley — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:27:21 +0000

I saw his "Women in Love" in 1970 when I was 16 and it singularly kickstarted my life-long passion/obsession for cinema.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:27:21 +0000

I found his work to be frustrating and fascinating all at once. His was a very unique voice.

By: Jerry Lentz

Jerry Lentz — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:27:21 +0000

This makes me so very sad. Ken Russell really opened my eyes to the possibilities in film. I believe I was a different person walking out of the theatre than I was going in, seeing his films. âKen Russell was one of my favorite filmmakers, he wasn't at all afraid for you to hate him, or love him. His images could clang together like noisy pots and pans on a clothesline but he would leave it to you to wonder why the dishes were hanging with the laundry.

By: Dan Ireland

Dan Ireland — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:27:21 +0000

He was a true original, and love (and I do love most of them) or hate his films, you cannot deny his genius. He was also a friend, and a lovely one at that. I miss him already.

By: Betsy McLane

Betsy McLane — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:27:21 +0000

Sad news indeed. I personally feel that MAHLER is a wonder…I actually think of it often.

By: rotch

rotch — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:27:21 +0000

Truly sad. Russell was a personal favorite. One of cinema's last true madmen.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:27:21 +0000

Zero comments? Bummer. Just attests to how underrated he was. A sad day for cinema.

RIP.