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To celebrate the fair's new location, Art Miami LLC Executive Vice President and Director Nick Korniloff and his wife Pamela Cohen led a ceremonial ribbon cutting at the start of the VIP Preview alongside city dignitaries including Commissioner Ken Russell, City of Miami, Deputy Police Chief Ronald Papier, City of Miami, NFL Hall of Famer Joe Namath, Franklin Sirmans, Director of Pérez Art Museum Miami, and Patricia «Missy» Lawrence, President of Resorts World Bimini, to open the fair in its new location.

Part one focused on «UK Pop,» and included films by and about members of the London - based Independent Group, films by Jeff Keen and Derek Boshier, and Ken Russell's documentary Pop Goes the Easel.

Subject of Ken Russell's film Savage Messiah (1972)- Red Stone Dancer (1914, Tate Collection, London)

In 1962, further publicity was given to British Pop when the BBC screened «Pop Goes the Easel», a film by Ken Russell which explored the new movement in Britain.

Ken Russell will be attending a rare screening of Savage Messiah at the Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds, on 22 June 2011 as part of a one - day symposium that looks at the broader historiography of the work and life of Gaudier - Brzeska.

This survey of a rich and diverse artistic production is a celebration of both his vibrant life (which includes working with Spike Milligan, The Beatles and Ken Russell) and his art which reveals telling links with the visual culture of the last 60 years.

Sharing the spirit of Ken Russell» s documentary Pop Goes the Easel (1962), these films offer a fascinating snapshot of a decisive moment in art history.

Not that I worked that out by myself, there are interpretive panels to help, which also include suggestions we associate the work with the 90s dance craze voguing, 16th century notions of courtly behaviour and Ken Russell's 1971 schlock - buster The Devils.

He came to wider public attention when, along with Pauline Boty, Derek Boshier and Peter Phillips, he featured in Ken Russell's Monitor film on pop art, Pop Goes the Easel, broadcast on BBC television in 1962.

In 1962 she featured, along with Peter Blake, Derek Boshier and Peter Phillips, in Ken Russell's film, Pop Goes the Easel.

Francis Coppola, Brian DePalma, and Martin Scorsese's depictions of women, midsection of Sam Peckinpah, 1980 in review, Michael Powell, Mae West remembered, Ralph Bakshi, Abel Gance's Napoleon, Ken Russell's Altered States

But cinematically, that point must have gotten lost, because all I remember is Ken Russell - style baroque excess.

Love Actually: A Century of British Romance at the BBC First British Film Festival in Melbourne, especially for including a beautiful digital restoration of Women in Love (Ken Russell, 1969) and Stanley Donen's Two for the Road (1967), amidst a laudably queer selection overall.

Filmmaker John Boorman is an acquired taste, much like his fellow Brit Ken Russell.

All is done with typical Ken Russell flair and style and these scenes are truly well done - expensive and original special effects and some great music.

Ken Russell's «Dracula» What Was It: A version of the Bram Stoker tale only told by the always - controversial, shit - starting enfant terrible Ken Russell.

Ken Russell recalls a wealth of details about the location shooting and his directorial techniques with typically sardonic aplomb.

Disappointing fare by Ken Russell who once gave the world the world such movie classics as Women In Love and Mahler.

He patronizes Michael Powell and Humphrey Jennings (accorded one measly clip each); fails to mention Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield, or Richard Lester (presumably regarding all three as American interlopers); reduces Ken Russell and Mike Leigh to the worst single clips imaginable (and has nothing to say about the TV work of either); limits John Boorman, Bill Douglas, Terry Gilliam, Peter Greenaway, Isaac Julien, and Sally Potter to one fleeting movie poster apiece; and omits virtually the entire English documentary movement (though he includes a disparaging nod to Night Mail), along with the cycle of Hammer horror movies — while paying abject obeisance to the Academy Awards and every crumb they've offered British cinema (special points to Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, and Four Weddings and a Funeral).

Starring: Rhys Ifans as Howard Marks, Chloë Sevigny as Judy Marks, David Thewlis as Jim McCann, Elsa Pataky as Ilze, Olivia Grant as Alice, Luis Tosar as Craig Lovato, Crispin Glover as Ernie Combs, Omid Djalili as Saleem Malik, Christian McKay as Hamilton McMillan, Andrew Tiernan as Alan Marcuson, Jack Huston as Graham Plinston, Ken Russell as Russell Miegs

READINGS Talking About Ken Russell by Paul Sutton, reviewed by Violet Lucca; Stone Male: Requiem for the Living Picture by Joe Carducci, reviewed by Nick Pinkerton; Cult Cinema: An Arrow Video Companion edited by Anthony Nield, reviewed by Laura Kern; Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966 - 2016 by Peter Gidal, edited by Mark Webber and Peter Gidal, reviewed by Jordan Cronk

Other nominees that year were Ken Russell's The Boy Friend, Walter Matthau's Kotch, Elaine May's A New Leaf, and Neil Simon's Plaza Suite.

2004 Tribute to Dede Allen 2004 Tribute to Owen Roizman 2004 Salute to the Criterion Collection 2004 Tribute to Charles Durning 2004 Salute to Jeannie Epper 2003 Salute to Dina Merrill 2003 Tribute to Neil LaBute 2003 Tribute to Stephen Tobolowsky 2003 Tribute to Paul Wendkos 2003 Remembering Mario Bava 2002 Remembering Faith Hubley 2002 Tribute to Henry Bumstead 2002 Tribute to Ken Russell 2001 Tribute to Harry Shearer 2001 Tribute to Richard Sylbert 2001 Tribute to Merchant Ivory Productions James Ivory, Ismail Merchant & Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 2001 Tribute to Gregory Hines 2000 Tribute to Albert Maysles 2000 Tribute to Quincy Jones 2000 Tribute to Blake Edwards 2000 Tribute to Conrad Hall 2000 Tribute to Penny Marshall 1999 Tribute to Laszlo Kovacs 1999 Tribute to Elmer Bernstein 1999 Tribute to Dennis Quaid 1998 Tribute to Derek Jacobi 1998 Tribute to Joan Micklin Silver 1997 Tribute to Hume Cronyn 1997 Tribute to Buck Henry 1997 Tribute to Mia Farrow 1997 Tribute to Jack Palance 1997 Tribute to Peter Greenaway 1996 Tribute to Jackie Chan 1995 Preserving the Disney Heritage 1995 An Evening With Betty Comden & Cyd Charisse 1994 Remembering Derek Jarman 1994 Tribute to John Waters 1993 Tribute to Bill Duke 1993 Tribute to Frank Oz 1992 Tribute to Ray Harryhausen 1992 Tribute to Hal Roach 1991 Tribute to Charles Burnett 1991 Salute to Samuel Z. Arkoff 1990 Tribute to Glenn Ford 1990 Tribute to George Axelrod 1989 Tribute to Fay Wray 1988 Salute to Dorothy Malone

If there are genuine cinematic influences here, they're likely to be the»70s films of such flamboyant Brits (and honorary Brits) as Ken Russell (Tommy) and Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange).

LMD: But you were doing the sort of indie British actor roles around that time, working with people like Ken Russell and Roman Polanski and making films like Maurice, and then your career took a huge turn with Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Connery and Pfeiffer are both excellent, but much of the film's pleasure comes from watching the consummate pros filling out the roles of various bureaucrats, among them James Fox (as a perceptive MI6 head), Roy Scheider (as a wily CIA chief) and director Ken Russell (as an excitable British official — and amusingly looking like Bernie Sanders with bedhead).

For years, Ken Russell made a name for himself as a journeyman director on British television, but in an odd twist, James Bond co-producer Harry Saltzman signed him for his theatrical film directorial debut.

«With this film, the audacious Ken Russell vaulted onto the international stage, drawing on the psychosexual radicalism of D. H. Lawrence's classic novel to shatter taboos in his own time.»

Nails is the feature debut from Bartok, who produced and wrote the Lionsgate horror Trapped Ashes in 2006, with segments directed by Joe Dante, Ken Russell, and Monte Hellman.

What a success for Aronofsky, who steps into some very big shoes as he takes this on, following in the tradition of the other masters of the grotesque, David Lynch, David Cronenberg and Ken Russell.

Andrew Sarris on the auteur theory in 1970, Ken Russell interview, Milos Forman interview, David Bordwell on The Circus, Paul Jensen on Frankenstein, Richard Koszarski on Trouble In Paradise, Molly Haskell on Stage Fright, Stephen Farber on Lilith, William Pechter on The Wild Bunch, Bette Davis and William Wyler

John Huston considered and interviewed, Jack Lemmon interviewed, Jacques Tati interviewed, Ken Russell's biopics, voyeurism in film and literature, What Price Hollywood?

It begs for stylized, scenery - moving outrageousness — something along the lines of the late Ken Russell, or at least Darkest Hour's Joe Wright.

Tommy Where: Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., 415-621-6120 When: Sept. 6 Why: Ken Russell's gleefully campy adaptation of The Who's best - known rock opera celebrates its 35th anniversary with a digitally restored print guaranteed to flatter its cast of rock and Hollywood luminaries, including Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Jack Nicholson, Ann - Margaret and Tina Turner.

Tributes were paid this year to three unexpected recipients - veteran British director Ken Russell, Catherine Breillat, the controversial French director, and Om Puri, the Indian actor best remembered in Britain for his performance as the father in East Is East.

Consider Alan Parker's «Bugsy Malone,» which takes place in the 1920s and»30s, or Ken Russell's «Lisztomania,» which is set in the 1880s.

And Ken Russell, who's not the easiest person to produce, was directing everything else that was going on around them.

There is a howling, Ken Russell - type Stephen Hawking biopic pent up inside The Theory Of Everything and it bursts out, à la Alien, during one of the movie's final scenes, in which the now middle - aged Hawking (Eddie Redmayne), who has zoned out in the middle of one of his own computer - delivered speeches, sees an audience member drop a pen and rises out of his wheelchair to pick it up.

A number of other major restorations will have their World Premieres at the Festival: Carol Reed's atmospheric Graham Greene adaptation of OUR MAN IN HAVANA (1959), set in Cuba at the start of the Cold War, makes timely viewing as US / Cuba relations thaw; Ken Russell's reworking of D.H. Lawrence scandalous classic WOMEN IN LOVE (1970) stars Oliver Reed, Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson and shows two couple's contrasting searches for love, and was restored by the BFI National Archive working alongside cinematographer Billy Williams; A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966) is directed by Fred Zinnemann from a script by great British screenwriter, Robert Bolt from Bolt's play about Sir Thomas More, a perfect companion piece to Wolf Hall; Henry Fonda stars in the ripe - for - discovery WARLOCK (1959), a seething study of vengeance and repressed sexuality in a Utah mining outpost; and Bryan Forbes» THE RAGING MOON (1971) starring Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman in a tender story between two young people in wheelchairs which was ahead of its time in its attempts to change attitudes to disability.

Women in Love (1969) With this film, the audacious Ken Russell vaulted onto the international stage, drawing on the psychosexual radicalism of D. H. Lawrence's classic novel to shatter taboos in his own time.

Extras: Two audio commentaries from 2003, one featuring director Ken Russell and the other screenwriter and producer Larry Kramer; segments from a 2007 interview with Russell for the BAFTA Los Angeles Heritage Archive; «A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible,» Russell's 1989 biopic on his own life and career; interview from 1976 with actor Glenda Jackson; interviews with Kramer and actors Alan Bates and Jennie Linden from the set; new interviews with director of photography Billy Williams and editor Michael Bradsell; «Second Best,» a 1972 short film based on a D. H. Lawrence story, produced by and starring Bates; trailer; an essay by scholar Linda Ruth Williams.

Actors: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid Director: Ken Russell Format: NTSC, Widescreen Language: English Region: All Regions Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 Number of discs: 1 Rated: R (Restricted) Studio: Warner Home Video DVD Release Date: July 10, 2012 Run Time: 102 minutes

«They say Ken Russell has gone too far this time,» begins the narrator of this fascinating behind - the - scenes look into the director's most controversial film, The Devils.

Ken Russell's unrated theatrical cut, restored from heavily censored release versions, has received a 2K transfer courtesy of Arrow Video, yet the image quality is wildly inconsistent.

Despite an inconsistent video transfer, Ken Russell's lascivious neo-noir gets a fine Blu - ray from Arrow Video.

1 «Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story» (Todd Haynes, 1987) 2 «Don't Look Back» (DA Pennebaker, 1967)-- Bob Dylan 3 «Gim me Shelter» (David Maysles / Albert Maysles / Charlotte Zwerin, 1970)-- Rolling Stones 4 «24 Hour Party People» (Michael Winterbottom, 2002)-- Manchester scene 5 «Topsy - Turvy» (Mike Leigh, 1999)-- Gilbert and Sullivan 6 «Monterey Pop» (DA Pennebaker, 1968)-- concert 7 «Be Here to Love Me» (Margaret Brown, 2004)-- Townes Van Zandt 8 «Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould» (Francois Girard, 1993)-- Glenn Gould 9 «Cocksucker Blues» (Robert Frank, 1972)-- Rolling Stones 10 «Bird» (Clint Eastwood, 1988)-- Charlie Parker 11 «The Last Waltz» (Martin Scorsese, 1978)-- The Band & Friends farewell concert 12 «Rude Boy» (Jack Hazan, David Mingay, 1980)-- The Clash 13 «Scott Walker: 30 Century Man» (Stephen Kijak, 2006)-- Scott Walker 14 «Bound for Glory» (Hal Ashby, 1976)-- Woody Guthrie 15 «The Decline of Western Civilization Parts I & II» (Penelope Spheeris, 1981, 1988)-- LA punk;»80s metal & hair bands 16 «The Devil and Daniel Johnston» (Jeff Feuerzeig, 2005)-- Daniel Johnston 17 «Sweet Dreams» (Karel Reisz, 1982)-- Patsy Cline 18 «Art Pepper: Notes from a Jazz Survivor» (Don McGlynn, 1982)-- Art Pepper 19 «Elgar» (Ken Russell, 1962)-- Edward Elgar 20 «Rust Never Sleeps» (Neil Young, 1979)-- Neil Young 21 «The Future is Unwritten» (Julien Temple, 2006)-- Joe Strummer 22 «DiG!»

His hallucinatory experiences formed the basis of a novel — which in turn spawned this singular Eighties head trip from connoisseur of the weird Ken Russell.

PREVIOUSLY Last week we said our prayers and sent our souls off to the hell of Ken Russell's making, taking on The Devils - for a quick minute I thought (my beloved) Oliver Reed might win it but Vanessa Redgrave's masochistically mad nun ultimately raved her way to victory with 58 % of the your vote.

Ken Russell, one of David's favorite directors, was fond of reminding David «Every day in Tinsle town is Halloween.»

Connery is Bartholomew «Barley» Scott - Blair, a British publisher whose best friend is the bottle, that finds himself one day being questioned by a group of British Intelligence agents (including an eccentric agent played by — get this — Ken Russell.