KenRussell Tagged Articles at Cinematical
Free Flick of the Day: Salome's Last Dance
Filed under: Independent », Fandom », Home Entertainment »
Amazon sellers are selling copies of Ken Russell's Salome's Last Dance on DVD for a minimum of $214.89. It's not on Netflix. However, if you're in the mood for the kind of bizarrely decadent films that only writer/director Ken Russell (Gothic, The Lair of the White Worm) can serve up, it's high time you headed over to this hard-to-find Oscar Wilde adaptation for free over at SlashControl. In Salome's Last Dance, Russell plays around with Oscar Wilde's banned play Salome, adding a bit of meta-goodness to the whole shebang by making the film about Oscar Wilde (Nickolas Grace) and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (Douglas Hodge) watching a performance of the famous play in a brothel. The actors are all employees or patrons. And it's no accident that this is also Guy Fawkes Day.
Alfred Taylor, the brothel-owner played by Stratford Johns, announces, "Guy Fawkes wanted to strike a spark for freedom and blow up a Parliament he considered oppressive; you have done the same with your play, Salome... In defiance of the law and in honor of our greatest playwright, the premiere of Salome will take place here tonight, the 5th of November, 1892."
Fun Out of the Sun: A Look at the 2009 Florida Film Festival
Filed under: Action », Animation », Comedy », Documentary », Drama », Horror », Independent », Romance », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Thrillers », Mystery & Suspense », Lionsgate Films », Magnolia », Festival Reports », Family Films », Samuel Goldwyn Films »
The 18th annual Florida Film Festival ended a week ago last night, and do you want to know why our coverage of the fest is going up just now? Because I'm selfish and wanted to catch up with as many of the forty or so features as possible, even after the awards had been announced and everyone had gone home (for the record, I managed to miss each and every winning film -- Prince of Broadway, The Garden, Prodigal Sons, Neil Young: Don't Be Denied, and the exceedingly popular Poundcake -- and am kicking myself still).
However, between the appearances by Ken Russell, Glenn Close, and Jon Voight (oh, my!), I did manage to catch my fair share of world, regional, and local premieres at this celebration of Original Cinema, and you can see what we saw after the jump.
RvB's After Images: Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe...(1969)
Filed under: Music & Musicals », After Image »
Uh-oh.
Submitted for your approval: a berk named Merk in bed with his bird. The fuzzy photo cannot really sum up what's going on here. The still I would have preferred is this film's money-shot: a red-cloaked Milton Berle conducting a Satanic mass in convincing Latin. Somehow this is not available on the Internet. Here, instead: a relatively chaste shot of quintuple threat Anthony Newley (actor/director/co-writer/singer/composer) grappling his real-life wife (the beeyoutiful and talented Joan Collins).
The still is a relic of what I've sometimes thought was the worst film ever made by a human being in world history.
Ken Russell Signs On To Direct Kings X
Filed under: Action », Thrillers », Deals », New Releases », Newsstand »
British director Ken Russell has always had a pretty strange reputation -- I mean, this is the guy who made Tommy and Altered States. Russell was known for his bizarre use of religious and sexual imagery in his films -- anyone who has seen Crimes of Passion can attest to that. In spite of his status as a pioneer of the 'X' rating, Russell is considered one of England's great directors.Production Weekly announced that Russell has been attached to direct Kings X, starring Ray Winstone and Kevin Spacey. The director also must be feeling sentimental, as he has also cast 60's icon Twiggy, who he worked with on his first American film (The Boy Friend). Kings X is currently in pre-production in the UK.
The Chris Cleverly script sounds like your typical crime fare with low-level thugs, drugs and hookers -- oh, and don't forget a pretty girl in danger. Although, it does have the added kitsch of a protagonist who has a thing for recording his life on a cell phone camera, so I would expect some fancy camera tricks on Russell's part.
[via ComingSoon.net]
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