duck&cover - 2019-12-28
Also starring Amanda Donohoe, Catherine Oxenberg, and Peter Capaldi.
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Old_Zircon - 2019-12-29 Ran out of space in the tags for them, but this is always the movie I associate Amanda Donohoe with the most.
And Hugh Grant, for that matter.
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Binro the Heretic - 2019-12-29
I still love this weird fucking movie.
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Old_Zircon - 2019-12-29 I was trying to estimate how many times I'd seen this movie last night and I couldn't. The first time I saw it was in maybe 9th grade, which was back in the early 90s because I'm an old man, and I'd say I average at least once every two years - it'd be more but I went for a few years in a row without watching it once in the late 00s/early 10s. I've watched it at least twice this year alone.
I can't believe this wasn't already on here but I couldn't find a hint of it.
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love - 2019-12-29 and like O.Z. don't really know how many times I've seen it but it's a family favorite at christmas time
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Old_Zircon - 2019-12-30 I've got a soft spot for Liszt-O-Mania but this one is probably the most fun and The Devils might be the most objectively "good" in the traditional sense (it reminds me a bit of what Pasolini was doing around the same time actually, but Russellized). I feel like LotWW is kind of the perfection of what he started with Gothic, too. I like Gothic a lot but it's nowhere near as satisfying.
This is the only Ken Russel movie I can think of that feels like it's unambiguously a genre movie, too, in a good way. It's definitely his take on horror-comedy like Beta said.
There really isn't a Ken Russell movie I don't like, though. Even that one shot on S-VHS around his house in the early 2000s that we watched a couple months back turned out to be good in its way. It was like his weird take on Dogme95 or something.
Anyhow, if there's an afterlife I hope Ken is getting to spend it listening to romantic era composers while dominatrixes in Nazi fetish gear step on him, because I have a feeling that's how he'd want to spend eternity.
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cognitivedissonance - 2019-12-30
Russell won’t get respect until he’s dead.
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