Ken Russell

Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell (born July 3 1927) is a controversial British film director, particularly known for his films about famous composers.

1990s

By the 1990s, Russell's notoriety and persona had attracted so much media attention that he was widely regarded as unemployable in the cinema, and is now largely reliant on his own finances to continue making films. Much of his work since 1990 has been commissioned for television and he has contributed regularly to The South Bank Show. Prisoner of Honor marked Russell's final feature with Oliver Reed, Mindbender was dismissed as propaganda for mentalist Uri Geller, and Tracked (aka Dogboys) unrecognizable as a Russell film. Efforts such as The Lion's Mouth and Fall of the Louse of Usher suffer from low production values (shot on video on Russell's estate, often featuring Russell himself) and limited distribution.

Related Topics:
1990s - The South Bank Show - Prisoner of Honor - Oliver Reed - Mindbender - Uri Geller - Tracked - Dogboys - The Lion's Mouth - Fall of the Louse of Usher

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Russell has written several books on filmmaking, the British film industry, an autobiography "A British Picture" (published in the U.S., confusingly, as "Altered States"), and books for young readers.

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