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Pete’s Peek | Ken Russell’s film of The Devils rises again in a 40th anniversary DVD release

Posted on 14 March 2012 by peter

Probably the most talked about DVD release of 2012 must be Ken Russell’s Film of The Devils, which is finally becoming available in the UK some 40-years after it first caused shock, outrage and a censorship controversy which has lasted … Continue reading →

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Who won Ken Russell’s Tommy on DVD?

Posted on 4 March 2012 by peter

With film fans eagerly awaiting the BFI’s UK release of Ken Russell’s most controversial film The Devils on DVD on 19 March, and the recent re-releases of the maverick director’s stylised biopic Mahler and Oscar-nominated rock opera Tommy, we had … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | Tommy and Mahler – Ken Russell’s wild excursions into the minds of musical genius

Posted on 21 February 2012 by peter

Love him or loathe him, British director Ken Russell, who died last November at the age of 84, was a true maverick. His canon of films – the most well-known being 1969′s Women in Love, 1971′s The Devils and The … Continue reading →

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Remembering Ken Russell – Cinema’s oldest enfant terrible

Posted on 29 November 2011 by Jason Best

Ken Russell was 62 when I interviewed him some 20-odd years ago but people were still calling him an ‘enfant terrible’, a label the director took as a compliment. ‘I quite like being called an enfant terrible,’ he told me. … Continue reading →

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