Russell, Ken 1927-2011

Overview

Works:	297 works in 1,358 publications in 8 languages and 13,935 library holdings
Genres:	Drama Film adaptations Musical films Horror films Biography Documentary films Biographical films Made-for-TV movies Science fiction films Rock films
Roles:	Director, Author of screenplay, Producer, Author, Actor, Scenarist, Performer, Production personnel, fmd, Restager , Film editor, Editor, fmp, Interviewee, Other, fmk, Videographer , Dedicatee, Contributor
Classifications:	PN1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Ken Russell

Ken Russell by Gene D Phillips( Book )
Ken Russell's films by Ken Hanke( Book )
Ken Russell : a guide to references and resources by Diane Rosenfeldt( Book )
Altered states : the autobiography of Ken Russell by Ken Russell( Book )
Ken Russell : the adaptor as creator by Joseph A Gomez( Book )

A British picture : an autobiography by Ken Russell( Book )
Ken Russell( Book )
An appalling talent : Ken Russell by John Baxter( Book )
Ken Russell : re-viewing England's last mannerist( Book )
Phallic frenzy : Ken Russell and his films by Joseph Lanza( Book )
Raising hell : Ken Russell and the unmaking of The devils by Richard Crouse( Book )
Directing film : from pitch to première by Ken Russell( Book )
Die jüngere englische Romantik im Prisma des englischen Gegenwartstheaters : dargestellt an: Howard Brenton, Bloody poetry ; Liz Lochhead, Blood and ice ; Ken Russel, Gothic by Ines Knaack( Book )
Ken Russell by Rino Mele( Book )
Ken Russell, a director in search of a hero by Colin Wilson( Book )
The sources and films of Ken Russell : the adapter as creator by Joseph A Gomez( )
The authorised biography of Ken Russell by Paul Sutton( Book )
The boy friend : the return of entertainment( Book )
Ken Russell( Book )

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Most widely held works by Ken Russell

Tommy by Ken Russell( Visual )

124 editions published between 1970 and 2015 in 7 languages and held by 1,106 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A rock opera about a boy who is traumatized by the murder of his father. He is "cured" several years later, only to be hailed as a "Messiah."

Women in love by D. H Lawrence( Visual )

70 editions published between 1969 and 2012 in 7 languages and held by 925 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A sensual investigation of the relationships of two couples, exploring the thin line between love and lust

Altered states by Ken Russell( Visual )

49 editions published between 1980 and 2015 in 7 languages and held by 912 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Research scientist Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) believes other states of consciousness are as real as everyday reality. Using sensory deprivation, then adding powerful hallucinogenic drugs, he explores these altered states ... and endures experiences that make madness seem a blessing

Agatha Christie Marple( Visual )

1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 450 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Sleeping murder: Gwenda arrives in England, looking forward to her impending marriage and new life in a lovely old coastal estate. But she begins to experience visions and Miss Marple concludes that the bride-to-be witnessed a murder in that very house as a child. By the pricking of my thumbs: Miss Marple teams up with two detectives, Tommy and Tuppence, to investigate the suspicious death of Tommy's Aunt Ada and sudden disappearance of Ada's friend, Mrs. Lancaster. The moving finger: When Jerry Burton moves to Lymstock to convalesce after a motorcycle crash, he meets villagers who traffic in gossip and double-entendres. But the accusations in several anonymous poison-pen letters go beyond the usual prattle and result in two citizens to commit suicide. Or were they murdered? The Sittaford Mystery: Among the guests at a Dartmoor hotel, a séance starts out as an amusing diversion to apss the time on a snowy evening but then takes a sinister turn

Antonio Gaudí by Hiroshi Teshigahara( Visual )

4 editions published in 2008 in Japanese and held by 448 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Everything comes from the great book of Nature; human attainments are an already printed book."--Gaudi, end title screen. The Catalan architect, ceramist, and sculptor united Neo-Gothic mysticism and grandeur with Art Nouveau lines, combined with a surreal apprehension of the power of nature. Less of a documentary than a tribute, Teshigahara's film becomes a place to get lost, a radically hypnotic travelogue that's completely symbiotic with its subject. Almost wordless, this visual rhapsody is accompanied by music from composer Toru Takemitsu, whose free-floating East-meets-West impressionism and organic flow mimics the sprouting curvilinear shapes of Gaudi's buildings

Lady Chatterley by Pascale Ferran( Visual )

42 editions published between 1992 and 2014 in 6 languages and held by 405 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

When her paralyzed husband urges the repressed Lady Chatterley to find fulfillment and an heir for his fortune in the arms of another man, she embarks on a journey that changes her forever

Gothic by Julian Sands( Visual )

60 editions published between 1986 and 2018 in 8 languages and held by 381 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In 1816, a sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of horror and madness. Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, her stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears and share the terrifying fantasies that chase them through the castle that night

Aria by Ken Russell( Visual )

29 editions published between 1986 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 345 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ten of the world's best-known film makers were given a free hand to make real any vision

The devils by Oliver Reed( Visual )

46 editions published between 1971 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 270 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This film centers on the staggering true-life dementia of events in the 17th-century French city of Loudun. After Father Urbain Grandier, a priest who submitted to his own passions is accused of lewdness and sorcery by a sexually repressed nun, a mass exorcism is ordered for him and for an allegedly demon-possessed convent

The boy friend( Visual )

18 editions published between 1971 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 263 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The story of an assistant manager/gofer who is given a big chance after the leading actress hurts her ankle

Mahler by Ken Russell( Visual )

62 editions published between 1974 and 2014 in 6 languages and held by 252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ken Russell's "Mahler" is a dazzling depiction of the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler's turbulent marriage, passionate affairs, and rejection of Judaism

The lair of the white worm( Visual )

14 editions published between 1988 and 2017 in English and held by 248 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Lair of the White Worm tells the story of a woman who worships a pagan god, the White Worm. When a party of unsuspecting people visit her castle, she works her unique charms on one of the guests to use her as a sacrifice to the snake!

The lion roars : Ken Russell on film by Ken Russell( Book )

4 editions published between 1993 and 1994 in English and held by 243 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The music lovers( Visual )

24 editions published between 1970 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 241 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Not exactly a fact-based story of the Tchaikovsky's marriage, this is a lavishly produced picture with music played by the London Symphony Orchestra

Prisoner of honor( Visual )

13 editions published between 1991 and 2004 in English and held by 193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Based on the true story of the Dreyfus Affair, one of the most notorious cases of criminal injustice in history

Ken Russell : at the BBC( Visual )

7 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and held by 166 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Elgar: A partly dramatized account of the life of classical composer Sir Edward Elgar

Billion dollar brain by Ken Russell( Visual )

11 editions published between 1967 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 160 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Harry Palmer has left the British Secret Service and become a private detective. One of his first assignments is to deliver an apparently innocent thermos flask to an old friend in Helsinki. Palmer is suspicious of the flask and his friend's motives

Mary Higgins Clark's A crime of passion by Ken Russell( Visual )

31 editions published between 1984 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 149 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Intense drama about a beautiful prostitute and an obsessed, street-corner preacher

Valentino by Ken Russell( Visual )

34 editions published between 1976 and 2016 in 6 languages and held by 134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The story opens with the super-star actor Rudolph Valentino in his coffin, dead at the age of thirty-one. As one by one the women in his life come to pay homage to "The Sheik," Valentino's rise from tea dance gigolo to screen idol unfolds in a series of extravagant flashbacks - highlighted by beautifully rendered sepia-toned recreations of his silent films. Freely mixing fact and fiction, director Russell, a man of ideas as well as baroque images, uses Valentino's life to comment on the destrucitve nature of the early Hollywood system and American code of machismo

Lisztomania( Visual )

14 editions published between 1975 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 130 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Outrageously hedonistic 'rockopera' casts contemporary rock god Roger Daltrey as the world's first music superstar, Franz Liszt. Loosely based on the life of the composer, the film takes a fantastical voyage through rock'n'roll excess and adventure, peppered with cameos from such pop icons as Ringo Starr (as the Pope) and Rick Wakeman (as Thor)

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