A young girl (Amelia) is distressed and feeling guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. Then she notices an angel and follows the angel into a dark building. Upstairs in the attic, bathed in heavenly light, is an artist's model - the ANGEL. The painter ascends a ladder until he is out of shot - supposedly to heaven-and reappears to restore Amelia's joy...
Deck-chair attendant Jim, who lives in the boring fictional small town of Gormleigh-on-Sea, has a brain-wave–he persuades the Mayor to host a film festival and imports a French movie siren so that the Gormleigh Holiday Resort can gain some much needed tourist interest.
Ken Russell, an iconoclast of British cinema, concocted this satirical look at celebrity culture amidst a seas...
A journey through the career of the British writer/director best known for his film Withnail and I. Robinson reveals how he writes, reads from his screenplays and revisits the town of his birth where his first novel The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman is set. Interviews include Andy Garcia, Richard E Grant, Ken Russell and David Puttnam.
- Written by Adrian Sibley
本剧根据DH·劳伦斯的小说《查泰来夫人的情人》改编而成。
一战之后,查泰来先生(詹姆斯·维尔拜 James Wilby 饰)下身瘫痪,妻子康妮(朱莉·理查德森 Joely Richardson 饰)虽对他不离不弃,却受不了他的固执等级观念。康妮的妹妹希尔达(海蒂贝·恩斯Hetty Baynes 饰)劝她找个情人,就连查泰来先生也希望康妮能与某个身份地位相当的男子诞下一儿半女。本不情愿的康妮在遇到狩猎人梅勒斯(肖恩·宾 Sean Bean 饰)后竟迅速坠入爱网,在找来护士伯顿太太(莎莉·安妮·菲尔德 Shirley Anne Field 饰)照顾查泰来先生起居后更是频频与梅勒斯约会。但这样阶级身法相差悬殊的恋爱却是危机四伏,妹妹希尔达劝说无效,查泰来先生得知后大发雷霆。面对贵族身份与真爱之间的尖锐矛盾,查泰来夫人究竟会如何选择呢?
After the death of his wife, former civil servant Henri Rousseau takes up painting full time. Coming across as a rarified boob, Russell's version of Rousseau could best be described as an accidental master. Most of his canvases are crackpot versions of reality as seen through the eyes of a nave painter, and his loneliness and lack of worldly perspective really amplifies his ap...
1963年,肯·拉塞尔(《恋爱中的女人》《马勒传》)执导音乐电视纪录片,荣获当年全英剧作家协会最佳纪录片剧本奖。导演以此片打破了BBC纪录片的惯有模式,首次尝试了在非虚构类影片中采用演员表演的方式。前提是这些演员仅仅是模特,而不能出声。此片预示了肯·拉塞尔之后一系列音乐家纪录片的风格脉络。导演在02年重新翻拍了埃尔加纪录片《Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle》,足见他对此题材的钟爱。
BBC出品.记录英国最著名作曲家爱德华·威廉(Elgar, Edward William 1857-1934)生平。父为伍斯特的音乐书商及管风琴师。埃尔加未受正规音乐教育,但学习过管风琴、小提琴和大管.他有志成为专业小提琴独奏家,在伦敦从阿道夫·波利策上过几次课,但后来放弃了这一想法。他作为浪漫派作曲家终身不渝,虽然成熟时期茂盛的风华凝...
Ken Russell's Most Unusual Film
It is hard to believe that Ken Russell was able to get this one "green-lighted" for release by a major American distributer as it is quite simply one of the strangest films to ever grace a screen! Russell, ever the visionary, takes the not so off-target view that Franz Liszt the pop star of his day and then offers viewers a comic book version of ...