Ken Russell
Nov. 28th, 2011 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynnegaRIP Ken Russell
He was one of the directors who meant most to me, though I have little patience for his post-Tommy output. (I do have a soft spot for Salome's Last Dance.) I have watched Mahler and Savage Messiah and The Devils countless times--and I certainly know Mahler by heart (starring the glorious Robert Powell). Russell could be ridiculously excessive, but no one had quite his combination of gusto and humor, intellect and swooning romanticism.
He was one of the directors who meant most to me, though I have little patience for his post-Tommy output. (I do have a soft spot for Salome's Last Dance.) I have watched Mahler and Savage Messiah and The Devils countless times--and I certainly know Mahler by heart (starring the glorious Robert Powell). Russell could be ridiculously excessive, but no one had quite his combination of gusto and humor, intellect and swooning romanticism.
