The results of your voting so far, on best and worst films, are:

Perhaps typical of Ken Russell, every film has been voted best film by someone, and only one film has not been voted worst film. Lisztomania is often in the top five of both the best and worst. The Devils has double the votes of the next best film.  The results page is updated every two weeks.

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The best scene

• Wrestling from Women in Love (two nominations)
• Marilyn Monroes from Tommy
• Tchaikovsky seeing all the "music lovers" while dying in The Music Lovers
• the extraordinary tracking shot in the studio during the "Rivera" number in The Boyfriend
• stone and god in Aria
• Daltry and the giant penis in Lisztomania
• Alma Mahler quieting the countryside
• the entire second half of The Devils
• the public exorcism of Vanessa Redgrave in The Devils
• the dream sequence in The Devils in which Oliver Reed appears as Christ

• Liszt and his friends dive-bombing Wagner in Lisztomania
• the dream in The Devils
• the dance of the seven veils in Salome's Last Dance
• China Blue, a policeman and a night-stick in Crimes of Passion
• Gaudier's artwork revealed at the end of Savage Messiah
• Hermione's Russian ballet in Women in Love
• Mahler's funeral and cremation in a dream sequence from Mahler
• Rambova's séance in Valentino
• the Charlie Chaplin fantasy in Lisztomania
• the 1812 Overture fantasy in The Music Lovers

• "It's So Much Nicer in Nice" the musical number in The Boyfriend
• King Louis XIII visiting the nuns in The Devils
• Mary Shelley's five doors to the future in Gothic
• the Gypsy Queen sequence by Tina Turner in Tommy
• Shaw's dinner party in Savage Messiah
• the opening sequence in The Music Lovers
• Kevin's demise in Lair of the White Worm
• asylum scenes in The Music Lovers
• "Bye bye, Blackbird", Louis XIII shooting protestant blackbirds in The Devils
• the seduction in Lair of the White Worm

• the mass-crucifixion sequences in Altered States. Creepy.
• the Nuns in The Devils
• the first hallucination in Altered States
• the 1812 Overture fantasy from The Music Lovers
• the final shot in The Devils
• Mahler - Alma burying musical creativity in a small coffin like box. Beautifully shot and acted by Georgina Hale
• the death of Gaudier-Breszka from Savage Messiah
• the Hugo Wolf waltz in Mahler
• letters XYZ in ABC of British Music
• the airplane sequence in Lair of the White Worm

• the last quarter of Savage Messiah
• Palmer finding the body in the ice house in Billion $ Brain, or the love scene with giant hypo needle in same film
• anything in Devils or Women in Love
• the incubus on top of the sleeping girl enacting Fuseli's painting in Gothic
• the airplane sequence in Lair
• the dream Sequence in The Devils
• in Lisztomania when Wagner bites into Liszt's neck while the two composers are seated at the piano
• the al fresco lunch where Rupert quotes the fig poem
• the Piano Concerto performance in The Music Lovers
• The Debussy Film: Arrows in St Sebastian women

• Today it rained Champagne, the bean bath of Ann-Margret in Tommy
• Glenda Jackson's delirious dance with the bulls, Oliver Reed catching her and their fatal bonding by the tree
• can't help it . . . I'm fond of soap suds and baked beans in Tommy . . .
• anything from The Devils
• Bates & Reed wrestling in Women in Love
• the "Room in Bloomsbury" number in The Boyfriend
• all three scenes with Kevin the Scout in Lair of the White Worm
• anything involving Amanda Donohoe - of course!
• the Orpheus scene in Lisztomania (except the dumb piano lid ending). Particularly Liszt being sucked through the huge vagina of Princess Carolyne as an inflatable love doll
• 1812 Overture sequence in The Music Lovers

• the "awakening to nature" night horseback ride in Mahler
• most every scene in The Devils
• Polly dreaming about dancing with Tony in the forest in The Boyfriend
• The Book of Revelations hallucination in Altered States
• Alan Bates discussing the proper manner to consume a fig in Women in Love
• it changes - depends on the last film I watched. Currently - Salome and John the Baptist 'I was a virgin, and you raped me'
• Hmmm...So many choices! Well, my favorite KR film is undoubtedly Lair of the White Worm, but I'm going to have to go with Salome's dance spectacular in Salome's Last Dance
• the conversion scene in Mahler
• the opening of Mahler where the hut bursts into flame
• Women in Love where Gerald Critch walks to Gudrun's house and gets into her bed covered in mud

• the naked wrestling scene from Women in Love
• I'm Free from Tommy
• the Chaplin scene from Lisztomania
• The Devils compleat
• The motorcycle fight in Tommy. Ken Russell is the best director EVER!!!!! I like his strange movies a lot!!!!
• Savage Messiah- Dorothy Tutin chopping rotting veggies while remembering rotten past
• the dream in The Devils
• The Music Lovers- honeymoon in the train, the asylum sequences, the 1812 overture
• Ann-Margret in all-white fur & jewels in all-white room singing & then being lambasted by a baked bean storm in Tommy
• ending scenes and credits in The Boy Friend

• when the soap suds, chocolate and beans are coming out of Ann-Margret's TV in Tommy
• when Father Barre is in the middle of a crowd of crazed, grateful nuns who he as just reprieved in The Devils
• Ken Russell is the best. Double feature The Devils and The Boyfriend and you will see ALL of films; the two epitomize every possible extreme - never a moment not PACKED with information
• Pinball Wizard in Tommy
• Ollie Reed's trial in The Devils
• the nude wrestling scene in Women in Love
• the overnight sculpture in Savage Messiah, with the "little bird" fable that at least two other films have cribbed
• all of Women in Love and all of Tommy
• I would like to suggest another best image for Lair of the White Worm. You feature a picture of Amanda Donohoe hissing on the crucifix. When she draws back there is a shadow on the wall from a spider plant. It forms a man's head with a starburst for an eye. It's a neat image. And quite low budget
• the whole 2nd half of The Devils

• Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed and the relatives in the Christmas sequence from Tommy
• sur la plage from The Boyfriend and the scene right before it's nicer in nice
• the dance in Salome or general nun frenzy in The Devils
• the last scene of Altered States
• Just about every scene in Crimes of Passion involving China Blue and/ or Reverend Peter Shayne, particularly the reaction shot of Shayne when China Blue pulls the large metal vibrator ("superman") out of the bag and reveals it for the first time. Another wonderful scene is the silhouetted sex scene between China Blue and the leading man. The film just gets creepier and more disturbing each time I watch it. I Love it! (Love the musical score, too). Most underrated Russell film is also his BEST
• the scene where the doctor is being interrogated for his fears in Gothic
• Mahler meeting Hugo Wolf
• Ann-Margret rolling around with baked beans, pudding and champagne in Tommy
• the plane scene in Lair of the White Worm
• the newlyweds drowning in Women in Love

• hallucinations from Altered States
• Anthony Perkin´s psycho character on Crimes of Passion
• the dressing room anecdotes in The Boy Friend
• the transformation from the "Ceremonial" to the operating theatre in Aria
• the fantasy scene in The Devils where Vanessa Redgrave sees Father Grandier as Jesus healing her kyphotic back
• Gaudier's "bird in shit" soliloquy in Savage Messiah. A close second: Gaudier "delivering" the sculpture
• the boat sequence in French Dressing with James Booth and Alita Naughton
• the final scene of Women in Love
• the final sequences of The Devils and The Music Lovers but there are dozens more that are the best!
• the whole sequence in The Music Lovers where Chamberlain is playing the piano at his concert and each character has his or her different fantasy. Excellent!

• The Lair - the drowning of the boy scout
• hallucinations in The Devils and Altered States
• the boat scene under Herne Bay ("Gormleigh") pier in French Dressing, with James Booth and Alita Naughton. Other great scenes in the same film: Alita roller-skating in the pier pavilion as the balloons fall; the brawling men entering and emerging from Marisa Mell's gigantic projected mouth in the film-within-a-film, "Pavements of Boulogne"; the exhilarating opening credits, with James Booth cycling furiously along the pier
• Glenda Jackson dancing in Women in Love in front of the bull
• when Percy Shelley (Julian Sands) looks into the 'eyes' of Claire and finds them peering at him from her nipples (Gothic)
• Vanessa Redgrave screaming "take away my hump!" in The Devils
• the opening scene in Elgar showing the composer as a boy riding his pony over the glorious Malvern Hills
• when they dance in Salome's Last Dance
• Anything from Song of Summer
• Tchaikovsky and the Piano Concerto sequence (The Music Lovers)

• Mahler - 1) Exploding hut sequence 2) "We are going to live for ever"
• Women in Love - the scene beginning with Oliver Reed lying down to die in the snow
• the scene in Tommy where Ann-Margret gets covered in soap bubbles beans and chocolate. I love that scene
• the acid queen sequence of Tommy
• it would be the rape of Christ sequence from The Devils (if it were actually included in a print I could access)... I personally like the conversion of Gustav by Cosima Wagner in Mahler, although the mushroom hallucination in Altered States is quite nice, as is the end sequence in the gallery in Savage Messiah
• so many, it is difficult to choose. Forced, however, I would say the scene (Song of Summer) when Delius is taken up the mountain, accompanied by Song of the High Hills. Also, the final scene (the exhibition) in Savage Messiah. But SO MANY others
• I can remember so many beautiful scenes! 1) Aria 2) the 1812 overture from The Music Lovers 3) the C. Chaplin-like scene from Lisztomania 4) the ending from Song of Summer
• the "Charlie Chaplin" scene from Lisztomania
• Chamberlain playing Tchaikovsky (The Music Lovers) and the psychedelic pictures from Altered States
• in Aria, when the viewer realizes that the bejewelled princess is really a car crash victim

• Fenby trying to take down music from Delius, in Song of Summer
• the "Rape of Christ" sequence in The Devils
• the last ten minutes of The Devils (Grandier's death, aftermath)
• Alan Bates and Oliver Reed wrestling (Women in Love)
• there are so many it's not easy to pick one. Maybe Redgrave's rosary scene in The Devils
• in Tommy when Ann-Margret's TV starts gushing out soap bubbles all over her
• 1812 overture in The Music Lovers
• the short movie in Crimes of Passion
• I agree with you, the Hugo Wolf scene in Mahler is great! beautiful! but the BEST OF THE BEST is the conversion scene in Mahler!!!
• the nude fight between to men in Women in Love: Oliver Reed and Alan Bates

• wrestling from Women in Love
• Gaudier Brzeska's sculpting of his mistress with a jack hammer (Savage Messiah)
• the end of The Music Lovers
• the end scene of The Devils
• Helen Mirren walking naked down the stairs in Savage Messiah
• Richard Chamberlain performing Piano Concerto No. 1, with Russell intercutting reactions and daydreams of the audience members, from The Music Lovers.  This is the best site devoted to a filmmaker
• Ann-Margret writhing on the floor covered in soap suds and beans and chocolate in Tommy
• Ann-Margret rolling in Baked Beans
• the Heinz Baked Beans part of Tommy
• in Salome´s Last Dance - 'my fan'
• Ann-Margret basking in beans/suds/chocolate.  Awesome site
• Franz Liszt's hallucination where he's gassed then led to the guillotine in Lisztomania. That's tied with the Richard Wagner and Cosima's duet which involves nude women, a bald Aryan, and kids in supermen uniforms. Tuff choice!
• Percy Grainger throwing a ball over the roof in Delius (Song of Summer)
• Gaudier - sculpting: furiously chipping away . . . coaxing a beautiful female torso to emerge from a stolen marble tombstone - while he eloquently describes the importance of art . . . of creating art (Savage Messiah)
• 1812 overture - The Music Lovers, Oliver Reed's final scenes in The Devils
• Valentino's funeral.  I have profound memories of almost all of Ken's films. If I succumb to alzheimers, Ken's cinematic visuals would be the last to leave my addled brain
• baked beans, soap suds, and chocolate bath with Ann-Margret in Tommy
• Gosh-Boyle walking down the stairs (Savage Messiah)
• When Bill Hurt says "I love you" at the end of Altered States.  It should be absurd. Actually, it IS absurd! But it is emotionally satisfying. It works
• the firelight wrestling scene (Women in Love).  He is vastly superior because he SEES his films, before he commits one frame to action. The man is his own, best, storyboard
• Ann-Margret getting covered and rolling around in baked beans in Tommy
• Glenda Jackson in the mad house (The Music Lovers)
• Bates walking nude, being romantic et al. (Women in Love)
• either the Wrestling scene or the Glenda Jackson in the market scene in Women in Love
• airplane fantasy in Lair of the White Worm
• redemption scene in Tommy (the last image)
• Dogboys is the worst film. Mindbender's not as bad.  Best scene – Nude wrestling (Women in Love). And Gaudier sculpting all night (Savage Messiah)
• the rape of Christ in The Devils - it was cut by Trevellian but was his best summary with the roadside communion out takes
• the ending of The Devils when she walks up the road
• ending scenes of The Boy Friend
• the best scene is when Gaudier-Brzeska does the improv song and dance number with Helen Mirren's character at the Vortex in Savage Messiah, to the complete utter disgust of the crowd, ending with a nice FU gesture and both of them getting thrown out on their bums
• it's been said before but nothing beats the nude wrestling scene in Women in Love
• the scene in Women in Love where Reed and Bates wrestle in the nude
• the whole movie Tommy!!!!  He's really talented, he gets hands to help the mood and tone of his films
• yeah, the wrestling, naked O.R and A. B. (Women in Love)
• Imogen Millais Scott as Salome tempting John the Baptist (Salome´s Last Dance)
• Glenda Jackson dancing seductively in front of the bulls in Women in Love and then proceeding to go into a neurotic fit in front of Oliver Reed while the camera moves and cuts insanely. CLASSIC RUSSELL
• "It's Nicer in Nice" from The Boyfriend
• Ann-Margret "beans and chocolate" scene in Tommy
• any scene in Women in Love
• the spaghetti-worm scene in Gothic
• Anthony Perkins in Crimes of Passion
• the one we aren't allowed to see, of course-- "The Rape of Christ" from The Devils
• nude males on a roof in Gothic-also liked bulls and Glenda (Women in Love), Isadora Duncan with Singer and kids (Isadora)
• Gothic's optical nipples
• Rick Wakeman as the god Thor (Lisztomania)
• the nude wrestling scene in Women in Love
• the trippy cave scene in Altered States
• Poor Little Pierette from The Boyfriend, or anything from Women in Love
• The scene between Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in Women in Love
• Grainger throwing the cricket ball over the house in Song Of Summer
• Most scenes that have a visual balanced and "composed" painting quality.  Anything that not a talking heads close up usually- far too many to list individually
• all and any from The Music Lovers and The Devils.   These are two of the finest cinematic rides one will ever experience
• there are way too many!
• the surrealistic scenes in Altered States
• Gaudier sculpting in Savage Messiah when he says something like "They don't know what working hard means" and the waltz in Mahler.  Savage Messiah is one of my favourite films ever, I remember the first time I watched it on tv when I was fifteen, it seemed a masterpiece to me, full of poetry, beauty, sense of absurd and the very original view of a visionary film maker, I never saw something similar. Except from Russell himself
• Glenda in the madhouse in The Music Lovers
• Where is the restored The Devils DVD?
  Where is the DVD of The Music Lovers? Savage Messiah?
  MGM, Warner's- if you don't want to put them out, license them to Criterion or something! Jesus, before I die!
• Grandier (Oliver Reed) addressing the crowd at the beginning of The Devils
• the end credits of The Boy Friend
• even though I didn't care for Fall of the Louse of Usher because of the excessive goriness, I still consider him the best film director of the twentieth century. I hope to find the earlier BBC short films available on DVD, as I have never had the chance to see them. Also, I'd very much like a DVD of The Boy Friend with as much extra material as humanly possible- my VCR version is wearing out, and my laserdisc player is not currently connected
• the bit where Ann Margret rolls around in soap, beans and chocolate in Tommy
• the giant penis castration in Lisztomania. From the moment Roger Daltry enters the ante chamber and is gassed to the moment the keyboard slams down on his.... finger. This is a great site!~ I am so glad it is here, not enough Ken Russell sites out on the internet. I think there should be a collection to help fund Ken's movies by his die hard fans. But the word has to get out and his movies have to be released on DVD!!!
• the scene where there are all these nuns impaled on spikes and the worm lady is licking the spikes. that is good (Lair of the White Worm)
• the church orgy sequence in The Devils
• the nude wrestling scene between OLiver Reed and Alan Bates in Women in Love
• Oliver Reed being burnt at the stake in The Devils
• the 1812 Overture sequence of The Music Lovers
• Elton John as The Pinball Wizard in Tommy
• TV throwing up soap, baked beans and liquid chocolate at Tommy's mother in Tommy and the creativity scenes of Mahler
• in Savage Messiah where Gaudier-Brzeska creates his first sculpture, and the closing appreciation of his work at the end of the film
• Mahler- the crucifixion
• the second half of The Devils
• the asylum sequence in The Music Lovers
• Harry Palmer's arrival in Finland (Billion Dollar Brain)
• when Blair Brown meets William Hurt (Altered States) for the first time. He's standing in the doorway with the bright light behind him. The Doors is on the soundtrack. It's short, but it's the  perfect meld of sound and image. That's why I love Russell

2005-2006

• hard to have just one... Helen Mirren's gloriously naked scene in Savage Messiah comes instantly to mind.  I probably liked his films too much in my 20's back in the 1970's when his films would come back again and again to art theaters in San Diego, and I'd go every time they did. I just wish all of his pictures could have been in stereo, though many have been. Ken represents the cinema as "trip" more than anyone, except Kubrick. I have kept his Savage Messiah on my personal 10 best list all these years. I'm as much a film fanatic as one can be and still live a somewhat normal life. sincerely="arch", a true russell fan
• the final Scene of The Devils; also Oliver Reed's 'Frozen Death' scene in Women In Love
• Ann-Margret rolling around in baked beans (Tommy).  No contest
• the monologue of John the Baptist at the end of Salome
• Roger Daltrey's shirtless scenes in Tommy. I'm Free & Sensation! And Listening To You!
• Oliver Reed on the cross in The Devils
• the closing moments of Women in Love (Rupert and Ursula beside the fire - after Gerald's death) remain (for me) the most powerful stuff ever produced by *any* director on *any* film
• pinball wizard scene from Tommy.  Re-release Tommy in the theatres fir a new audience.  Ken Russell is a genius, Tommy is the greatest rock film of the 20th century
• when Grandier comes down from the cross The Devils
• dream sequence in The Devils
• the unspeakably grim final shot of The Music Lovers when Glenda Jackson has stopped repeating: 'He hated me!' and simply stares out of her prison at the camera. With the closing shot of The Devils, surely about the bleakest in Film history
• Fenby and Delius composing a song in Song of Summer, with Delius giving Fenby a hard time
• Peach in Music Lovers
• Savage Messiah last scene
• Ann-Margret throwing Roger Daltry inside the mirror, in Tommy
• Glenda Jackson dancing to the bulls in Women in Love
• Bates and Reed wrestling scene in Women in Love
• most of The Boyfriend musical scenes
• probably the train scene in Music Lovers.  Keep standing, Ken. You're one of the greatest directors in all cinema history!
• the pixies in the Room in Bloomsbury number in The Boyfriend
• the King shooting the protestant 'blackbirds' in The Devils
• the "possessed" nuns in The Devils
• cop scene Crimes of Passion
• Mary searching for the others in Gothic
• I have enjoyed, been embarressed, scared, stimulated, and beside myself by Ken's films. There's always an illustration of the imperfection of human beauty that smacks of potency, that I love
• Probably Theresa Russell's monologues to camera in Whore. I know that's more than one scene, and doesn't have the usual Ken Russell flair, but they're very affecting.  This is a very well-research and maintained site. Good on you for spreading the word!
• Jennie Linden and Alan Bates naked, running towards each other in the field while the camera is turned sideways
• the Acid Queen (Tommy)
• the BEAN BATH, baby! REX BEANS!!! Fit for a king! (Tommy)
• at the top is the scene in Woman in Love where Gerald encounters Gudrun after the stampede
• the nun exorcism in The Devils
• The Acid Queen sequence from Tommy
• Tommy falling through the mirror into the pool.  Thanks for site
• final scene in The Devils
• I love the dream sequence in Mahler where Cosima Wagner is goose-stepping before a crucifix. Also love all of The Devils, esp. the nuns' orgy and the "doctors." And who can forget Ann-Margaret swimming in baked beans (Tommy)?  How about reissuing restored versions of all the films on DVD?
• Jessup's hallucinations in Altered States
• so many.....how about.....how about the procession along the beach on The Debussy Film?  With the beautiful Vladek Sheybal as the film director and Oliver Reed as Debussy???  Well ????????.  I have written to KR 3 times over the past few years about 1. The Debussy Film (of which eventually Melvin Bragg got me a copy)2. The Devils and 3. The Music Lovers...... each time he replied with a beautiful postcard..... i reckon not only are his FILMS f***** brilliant...he is such a good man .....thats what i think
• the train scene in The Music Lovers
• the onirical sequence in Mahler about Cosima Wagner
• the first hallucination in Altered States
• the Ciajkovskij music-sequence in Women in Love
• in Lisztomania... I loved the scene where Wagner is performing the superman theme and Franz infiltration into the castle
• any scene in which Glenda Jackson and/or Oliver Reed appear
• the wrestling scene from Women in Love
• many -- But the naked boxing match between Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in Women in Love is hard to beat. I think Ken Russell is one of the most, if not the most, influential modern director since the Fil Noir group. I would put him up on the top of the list which includes few peers -- perhaps, Kubrick, David Lean, and the director of Midnight Cowboy- his name slips my mind (John Schlesinger)
• the best scene in The Devils was when Oliver Reed was burnt. The effects were great
• Acid Queen in Tommy
• when sophie starts singing 'two fleas' at the dinner party... (Savage Messiah)
• the finale to Lair Of The White Worm
• Tchaikowsky death (The Music Lovers)

2007

• with my Jesuit boarding school backgroud it HAS TO BE the PROCESSION along the beach in The Debussy Film (with Vladek Sheybal playing the director). I saw it on TV when I was 17 and it changed my view of the arts, education, religion and life.  THANK YOU KEN
• the "Dante" sequence from Altered States.  Although Ken nixed topical footage from an older Harry Lachman film, the blending of it with natural phenomena (volcanoes, tropical cyclones, eclipses) is terrifying in a beautiful way
• the dream sequence in The Devils where Vanessa Redgrave ravishes Grandier as the crowd watches.  I would love to see the uncut version of The Devils.  I saw a version shown in London in the summer of 1971
• Dorothy Tutin as Mme Brzeska telling her life story to Henri Gaudier while she chops cabbage. For some reason, this manages to be sexier than Helen Mirren strolling around totally naked and looking glorious
• The moment in The Devils when hunchbacked Sister Jeanne (Vanessa Redgrave) first appears in the doorway of the stark, whitebrick monastery.  Thanks for liberating British cinema with your musical imagination - and for the eye-popping visuals of your movies: camerawork, production design and costumes (or lack of them, in some cases!)
   

Best subject for a new Ken Russell film

• Camino Real, the experimental play by Tennessee Williams
• Gershwin (two nominations)
• Aleister Crowley. "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law". He named himself the wickedest man in the world
• a Shakespeare or Webster play
• George Butterworth. An English composer who died in battle in the first world war
• Captain Webb, the first English Channel swimmer
• Erik Satie
• Beethoven Fantasy
• Doris Lessing´s The Marriage Between Zones Three, Four, and Five
• anything that is not firmly based in reality

• Son of Man
• any of the Narnia stories by C.S. Lewis
• a film on the life of Friedrich Nietzsche the brilliant philosopher whose life was as tragic as his writing great. Nietzsche went insane in the last ten years of his life (1890-1900) so Ken could use a vast amount of his near legendary OTT imagery
• a film on the life of David Bowie
• a sequel to The Devils since the middle of the Huxley book is where the story in the movie ends
• the novel Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
• Ned Kelly
• Donald Cammell the film director who has been compared to Russell. His only totally successful film was Performance co-directed with Roeg. White of the Eye shows his flawed genius. Cammell committed suicide
• Joan of Arc
• Judas Iscariot

• Screamin´ Jay Hawkins
• Tom Baker, the best "Dr Who". He also appeared in a Pasolini film (without his scarf)
• the Laurence Olivier and Vivian Leigh story
• anything that would not sacrifice creativity for restraint
• Kathryn Kramer's Lost Things and No Fun
• Elton John's musical Aida
• an expose of the British royal family
• what the hell. Let him direct the next Star Wars movie. When's he gonna do another rock opera? the time is right!
• the life of Timothy Leary
• The Story of O

• Aleister Crowley ... We know someone who could and would write it !
• lots of crappy films to get enough money to produce some truly original work. And then his space opera he wrote with Jarman
• I would love to see him adapt the play "The Dream Engine." It would be a rock opera that ONLY Ken could direct. It is little known. It was written by rock-opera man Jim Steinman, the man who created Meat Loaf. It takes place in the post-apocalyptic future, and concerns a tribe of Lost Boys (Steinman is obsessed with Peter Pan) that want to lead an anarchist rebellion of violence and sex against the war-mongers of Wall Street, which, in this world, has joined forces with the Catholic church!
• anything he's always wanted to do. Please point out somewhere ... the way Ken Russell directed back in the 70s is how most directors direct today -- with none of his taste (I maintain he shows more taste and discrimination than all but the best directors in Hollywood today). Coppola consciously imitated his style on Apocalypse Now! I'm sure others would admit his influence. This should be said now, not after he dies.
• Dracula. Ken Russell is the most under-rated film director/ designer/ visionary of our time
• I would like to see him tackle another horror pic. Or maybe its about time he showed how brave he is and do a biopic on HIMSELF!
• he should have done Velvet Goldmine. With a better script, of course
• anything he damn pleases - carte blanche
• the novel Lanark by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray
• a bio of Enrico Caruso

• a restoration of The Devils !!!! let's hear it people!
• a remake of Billion Dollar Brain with Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland in their original roles
• on artists like Jawlensky, Nolde, Schiele
• Alice Cooper bio-pic. Alice's boa constrictors, dead babies and guillotines would be pretty cool.  Especially in light of the fact that Alice is pretty religious
• T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and his last years in hiding as Ross
• I agree with another person who suggested a biography of A. Crowley . . . though it might upset a few people
• anything!!!!! Mr. Russell is one of the most underrated directors of all time
• another vote for Elton John's Aida. It is not as if Ken Russell and Elton John have not worked together before, as both were in Tommy
• that one with Fergie playing Queen Boadicaea
• a film about the Russian mystic composer Alexander Scriabin who thought he could bring about the end of the world with his unfinished "Mysterium." Seems ripe Ken Russell material!

• another film like The Boyfriend which plays in the 1920s
• the next James Bond film. Tomorrow Never Dies was directed as if it was to be taken seriously, not the tongue-in-cheek romp it should have been, and I skipped the latest film. Ken could bring some life back into the ageing franchise. (I also once dreamed that he HAD directed a James Bond film...and it was the worst received of the series. Sigh.)
• the Charles Ives film bio he mentioned somewhere: I live in Danbury, Connecticut, USA, Ives' hometown. Ives' house still exists, is open to visitors at certain times, and if he filmed here it would give me a chance to actually meet Russell! (I missed being in areas of Boston and Cambridge where he filmed Altered States by a week)
• something original, important, sensual and dazzling -- to catch the attention of the world once again as he did with Women In Love and Altered States
• anything where he has creative control, and the cash to realise it - how about a biography of Oliver Reed?
• an adaptation of notorious New York recluse/nutcase Henry Darger's epic novel, The Adventures of the Vivian Girls In What Is Known As The Realms Of Unreal, Of The Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused By The Child Slave Rebellion. This book has never been published, except in excerpts, because the bloody thing is fifteen thousand pages long and, if you can believe it, even more insane than its title. Difficult material to which the term "bizarre" doesn't even begin to apply, written by a reclusive lunatic? Sign Ken up, is what I say!
• anything that would definitely NOT get Hollywood funding
• I considered a film about Thomas a Beckett, and coincidentally thought that only Oliver Reed could play the part, in which case Ken would have to direct, as he's the only director that could ever get a worthy performance out of the man. Unfortunately someone already had that idea, and Reed is now dead
• Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera
• Timothy Leary

• the Who's story
• a film about Barbarians fighting Vikings
• Aleister Crowley (again)
• a film version of the novel Perfume by Patrick Suskind
• A hallucinogenic, fabulous look into the life of Warhol Superstar Edie Sedgwick (or even better, Nico!)
• the rumored Exorcist prequel
• the story of ABBA
• anything in collaboration with composer Peter Maxwell Davies
• Sybil Leek's A Shop in the High Street
• the musical High Spirits from Coward's Blithe Spirit

• I agree with the Camino Real, Butterworth, and Crowley ideas
• stuff he did like in the movies Tommy and Lisztomania. Ken Russell is the BEST DIRECTOR!! I love the Bizareness in his movies because I love weird movies a lot!
• Helter Skelter
• Shakespeare's The Tempest
• The Bible
• Cesare Borgia
• a new Rock Opera
• Morven Caller is being done by Lynn RATCATCHER Ramsay. Ken should do Nikolai Gogol's life, or something in ancient Egypt. Or Boadicea
• Aleister Crowley. I, er, have a script... (and worst subject is Aleister Crowley, using anyone else's script)
• a film on the life of Paul Robeson

• the life of Jean Paul II
• another musical with Twiggy and Barbara Windsor and Antonia Ellis! Ken Russell is the best advocate for movie musicals. They are a dying form, that have gone unused
• doesn't matter - as long as he keeps on doing them
• Tim Powers Last Call, with James Woods in the role of Scott Crane
• something to do with a man's near death experience including a journey into HELL (imagine the possibilities...)
• I think he should team up with David Lynch on a new project, based on Peter Straub's novel, Houses Without Doors
• Anton Bruckner
• a musical with music from 70`s
• Dracula - love to see his version get off the ground
• horror movies

• a film about Corporate UK (or world) and the darker side of the "ordinary" people found there!
• Patrick Suskind's Perfume. That would be perfect
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold
• Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
• Borges' short story Labyrinths
• Gulliver's Travels
• Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark
• John Ruskin's The King of the Golden River
• Mozart's Die Zauberflote
• a remake of Women in Love

• does Ken know the music of neglected genius Franz Schmidt (1874-1939)?
• Proust´s Remembrance of Things Past
• more on composers/classical music. I learned all I know about classical music from him
• I thought he should have done the film Dangerous Beauty which had the worst hollywood ending I've seen in years. They made the life of a prostitute seem glorious? I would have seen this film at the theater instead of video if Ken had directed it. They never seem to give the really talented directors any jobs, while directors like Michael Bay get millions of dollars to make Pearl Harbor
• Dracula - film his '78 script on digital
• as many as possible. He's against the Hollywood grain
• China Blue II
• I'd be interested in seeing him, in theme with his passion for biographies, do a film on William Blake
• The Phantom of the Opera
• something about the internet and virtual reality

• a film on the artist Percy Wyndham-Lewis and the Vorticist art movement
• a story about the roman catholic persecution of the Gnostics (Kathars)...or a film about the ancient Greek mystery cult of Demeter...or (and this is my biggest wish) a story of King Ludwig of Bavaria. And I want to play Ludwig!!. Ken Russell makes it easier for a tired, jaded artist like myself to keep on breathing. (Poets are for each other)
• Scriabin
• an up to date version of Tommy with different rock stars like Ozzy Osbourne as Uncle Ernie
• I heard he was about to do a film on Aleister Crowley. I hope he does the film, it would be interesting
• his Dracula could be cool, and I wouldn't mind another composer bio-pic. There was some interesting material at the end of Huxley's "Devils of Loudun" about Sister Jeanne that could make an interesting sequel...
• more on composers- I'd be happy to suggest some
• I want to see films like The Music Lovers
• ANY!!!!!!! Hopefully another biopic
• an adaptation of Huysman's Against the Grain, or a film version of Wagner's Lohengrin

• Madonna the Rock Opera!
• one about D.H. Lawrence. Ken Russell is god
• Dracula (authentic but Ken's way)
• Bram Stoker's The Jewel of the Seven Stars and Bram Stoker's The Lady of the Shroud
• Batman and Batgirl
• Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
• Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Sondheim opera)
• Anything he wants. Russell will always be a giant. THE DEVILS still has the power to shock; CRIMES OF PASSION says more about modern marriage and relationships than most movies that are considered in "good taste." ALTERED STATES is a romantic movie. I mean I could go on. I will always go see a movie directed by Ken Russell. How do we get him to come to New Orleans?
• another one with Robert Powell!
• a film about Carl Orff. I love Ken Russell's films

• Dracula, Moon of Ice (Brad Linaweaver about what would have happened if the Nazis had won the war), Fountains of Paradise (Arthur C. Clarke's sci fi novel about a bridge from Earth to space)
• a D. H. Lawrence biopic
• Marilyn Manson
• a film on the early years of Delius
• he should film his Dracula script
• Phantom of the Opera
• a new OZ movie based on one of the many Frank L. Baum books
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Sunset Blvd
• something about American TV evangelists. Maybe the Jim Bakker story

• the one I haven't written yet... but will.  Send Guy Ritchie back to film & media studies and let Ken make a funded movie ...also I want Billion Dollar Brain on DVD
• GB Shaw.  Good luck with all new ventures
• life of composer, Astor Piazzolla
• Bring Gregory McGuire's book Wicked: The Life and Times of The Wicked Witch of the West to the screen. The wicked witch is portrayed as an abused misunderstood hero of the dark oppressed world of Oz. Randy munchkins, Glenda as social climbing  snob, politics, murder ,and Dorothy as executioner
• a Vampire Opera movie (and never film = Non-vampire opera movies).  You ever see Mario Bava's Blaf Friday? Well, the last episode, The Vuderlak (sp?) It's from a grand novella by a lesser Chekhov and if you read it , it will make a Ken Russell movie in your head
• his "take" on The Jeffrey Dahmar Story
• just give him money!!! Film of the book Life of the Virgin Mary by Stephen Marley
• any opera
• Edgar Allan Poe biography
• something sci-fi, perhaps an adaptation of Larry Niven's Ringworld.  Amazing site overall
• anything
• Ken should tackle the modern sexual phobias and anachronisms. We still insist on sex being treated as dirty and something which we have to tolerate like having a tooth out
• Robert Graves and the White Goddess
• a biography of Beatrice Lillie
• the 1926 General Strike
• Paul Bowles re: his music
• Lucy Boston and Green Knowe
• Handel's difficulties in England
• Night's Daughter by Marion Zimmr Bradley
• somebody mentioned Franz Schmidt (1874-1939). How about a movie of his apocalyptic oratorio, The Book With Seven  Seals (Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln)? I'd love to see the War In Heaven between St Michael and the Dragon, as directed by Ken!
• Sweeny Todd.  He could cast Ann-Margret as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeny Todd
• how about a movie of Richard Stern's 1960 novel, Golk, with Edward Asner in the title role?
• an adaptation of Thomas Middleton's play The Changeling. Perhaps a biopic of Byron? Henry James' Turn of the Screw. Stuff by M R James...
• that version of Dracula that he's always wanted to do
• he should have done Evita! But really, anything. We miss you, Ken
• something to match his extraordinary visual style
• Arabian Nights (an adults only version - but much different from Pasolini's version)
• Whore II AKA "If you didn't like the first one, don't see it"
• thriller & horror movies
• more artist's bio-pics, those are always fun
• he defines Britain as a magical island in his autobiography-Why?: A film on the English-speaking community in Florence
• hardcore sci-fi porn and global religious films
• aristocratic sex lives of the 1800s
• anything with a budget and on a subject he is passionate about.  Yes his early films are sensational, and we need more DVD, especially the full version of The Boyfriend, with Twiggy and Antonia Ellis and Georgina Hale doing a voice over
• the story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner combined with Kanga Creek by Havelock Ellis
• Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera or Aspects of Love
• Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm! That's a bloody hard question, it may take some time to come up with an answer. Like never
• Revenge of the White Worm
• a biography of Malcolm Arnold
• film version of Phantom of the Opera
• the next Harry Potter
• film version of Huxley's Brave New World.   Great website for Britain's greatest living film director. Much appreciated - keep up the good work!
• The Prodigy by Amy Wallace.  Biography of American William Sidis an outstanding child prodigy who was ridiculed for his strong views on celibacy so much he dropped out and died a street bum
• biography of Charlie McMahon- Australian one armed didgeridoo player currently performing solo with a seismic microphone in his mouth and a slide didgeridoo (click for link here).   His life has had many strange cycles including a post accident stint as a university lecturer in town planning followed by eight years driving a three ton water truck in the corner of the five deserts in central Australia for the dot painting aboriginal tribe.  Lots of opportunities for great territory visuals and his composer off-sider Peter Carolan [ex Coventry UK] writes very melodic sight as sound music- listen to back catalogue albums under name Gondwanaland (click for link here)
• life of Dostoevsky
• a bio on the pitiful life of M. Monroe. This would allow for Ken's assault on Hollywood, his preoccupation with drugs and cocks not to mention her B movie skills. Lets face it, she was a terrible actress. Right up Ken's alley
• he should not do any more, period
• a bio on the tempestuous and tragic life of the late French singer Dalida!
• I'd love to see an adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's The Man Who Died
• Boris Vian, the French genius, writer, musician, inventor, singer, actor, engineer, translator, journalist, painter and more
• Sweeney Todd! The only guy that could do justice to this Sondheim musical
• Peter Maxwell Davies' Resurrection, and possibly The Lighthouse.  Anthony Burgess' End of the World News. Consisting of three (or more?) storylines entailing different meanings of the concept 'end of the world': a musical about Trotsky in New York (political revolution), a brief biography of Freud (psychological revolution), and your standard sci-fi cosmic apocalypse. When I read the Freud segments I became convinced that Burgess *must* have seen some of Ken's films, particularly Mahler, because the writing, the style, and the humor (and Nazis!) seemed so very Russellesque
• Robert Graves and Laura Riding
• Life of Aleister Crowley
• Sybil Leek: A Shop in the High Street
• documentary on St. Tiggywinkle's
• Midsummer Night's Dream, as choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, with Koichi Kubo
• Giselle
• leFanu's Carmilla
• I think he should do Jesus Christ Superstar -- a new big screen version is being planned and it seems right up Mr. Russell's alley
• a tell all biography of Cole Porter, or just film Truman Capote's diary
• Passion of the Christ
• a biopic about Hieronymus Bosch
• biopic of Hans Rott
• a biography of the surrealist painter Max Ernst
• a film about Elton John's life
• I like him continuing his own artistic evolution, whether I like it or not. Of course, I personally would like to see more films like Mahler or The Devils, because of its emotional intensity and expressionism.  I live in Belgium and most Ken Russell films are so hard to find. I'm still looking forward to seeing The Music Lovers or The Boy Friend for instance. I would like to see all his films edited on DVD
• I think he should do a serious film about a FEMALE composer and this would be his "come back" film!  Also a biopic on the SINGING NUN is right up his alley!!;)
• dunno- maybe something like The Davinci Code
• Tesla!!
• a biopic of surrealist painter Victor Brauner
• the Life of the Cellini (16th century artist) -based on his diary - I feel Ken Russell is one of the few filmmakers who could do justice to Cellini's desciptions of casting large bronze statues and who would take risks in depicting Cellini
• he should do everything- he´s my favorite film director
• his autobiography would be great. Sweeny Todd, the musical. (Wrestle it away from Sam Mendes and give it some blood.)
• I'm pleased to hear he's doing Tesla. Such a film is long overdue and he's the one to do it
• anything. We are in desperation
• a sequel to Tommy!

2005-2006

• the Life of Christ, or John Lennon!
• more more more D.H.Lawrence! And more yet again.  Though Ken interprets Lawrence in some areas (necessary as a director on a budget) he always does a terrific job of it
• any Thomas Hardy novel
• it would be interesting to see his take on the inner lives of either H.P. Lovecraft or Robert E. Howard
• composer biopics
• Salvador Dalí meets Frank Zappa
• Napoleon's biography
• he should do another project with Theresa Russell and do a period piece about the 1970s drug culture
• Dracula, The Monk (from the M. Lewis book), Lolita vs. Bathory and the films he really wants to do
• anything. Should have done Phantom of the Opera
• Angela Carter's Wise Children or Nights At The Circus
• Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
• Violin, by Anne Rice. And he must work on Antonin Artaud
• a biopic of Christopher Marlowe would be perfect.  After all, if we're to believe the rumours about him (homosexuality, murderous rage, blasphemy, double life as a spy, etc) he's almost too ideally suited to Ken's subject matter!
• it'd never happen, I'm sure, but a Dennis Potter biopic would be interesting... Just think: sex, disease, religion, reality/fantasy, class, music. Sounds very apt to me
• although the titular story has been made into the film Kissed, Ken should adapt the remaining short stories from Barbara Gowdy's book 'We So Seldom Look On Love'. A perfect match of director and subject material
• something non-narrative and more experimental, like Stan Brakhage... With the lack of budget he should have done it years ago
• given his incredible ability to use available light and colour, he should do a biography of one of the Impressionists
• definitely a Biblical interpretation
• Thundarr the Barbarian
• anything... and soon
• something new. Something original. Anything except a biography of a composer or artists. He's done too many films like that. Although it would be interesting to see him do a Harry Potter movie
• Satanic verses!  Ken Russell was my boyhood hero. I wanted to write books just like he made films
• more horror with more shocking scenes like The Devils, he has very sinister mind and honest, I love his ideals, great talent
• just about anything mr russell touches comes out interesting/fascinating
• Eaten By Image - The Ken Russell Story with lots of excerpts from all the films and shorts. Could be done as a home DVD and sold as such
• I wish he could contiue with artists -- maybe an Expressionist like Munch or Kadinsky or someone from the Dada movement
• the truth about the way archbishop Laud persecuted the puritans
• please finally do Moll Flanders
• Proust
• I'll happily watch anything that Ken Russell does.  It would be wonderful to see affordable video/dvd releases of projects like Clouds of Glory and many of the early British TV programs not already released by the BFI

2007
 

• a film treatment of Trevor Ravenscroft's novel "The Spear of Destiny" may be right up Ken's alley. (If only I had the $$ to front such a project!)
• remakes of The Wizard of Oz and Valley of the Dolls

Worst subject for a new Ken Russell film

• the Joni Mitchell Story
• Mindbender II
• the Mother Theresa Story (two nominations)
• De Gaulle the musical
• films based in a real environment/ reality based films, for example Whore
• one of the Star Wars movies
• any Andrew Lloyd Webber musical adaptation
• sci-fi
• the modern film critics story
• anything Spielberg-esque

• battlestar galactica
• anything with Tom Hanks
• Fred West The Movie
• mediocre films
• he should never, ever, ever do a film where he and Terry Gilliam co-direct. The result would make people's heads explode
• what the studios want him to do
• no more bland TV movies please! I don't care if his new features suck - at least they always give you something to think about.
• anything American
• any film for HBO or Showtime
• anything starring Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock

• on political leaders and politically correct subjects
• He should stick with the decadent bombastic aesthetic he's worked so hard to perfect rather than toning down his work to satisfy his blushing critics . . . and no more movies-of-the-week like Whore . . .
• Disney biopic
• action films
• no more D. H. BLOODY LAWRENCE
• much of what he's done over the last decade
• any film where he can't get his budget, script approval, and final cut
• anything half-baked and poorly conceived...
• Whore 2: the Boredom continues
• action films

• anything that American film critics would be tempted to describe as "heart-warming" or "inspirational". That, or anything even approaching the sheer crapulence of Dogboys
• anything that definitely WOULD get Hollywood funding (although I enjoyed Altered States)
• British gangster films. Anything that requires depth of thought. He remains one of the best British directors, and though he has made a number of fairly crappy films, and has too much respect for a dismal writer (D.H. Lawrence) his inventiveness shows that he has big big bollocks
• the life of General Pinochet
• films like Star Wars (two votes)
• anything that he writes the script for. He should do what he is brilliant at...an direct! And direct, and direct in that order!
• nothing in Hollywood. I think it's a shame that no one gives this genius a reasonable budget and free hand to do what he wants, the result would be as always, mind-blowing
• any thing with Theresa Russell
• he can do ANYTHING as long as he's given full control of the flick. Please Ken, Hollywood is putting out more CRAP than ever before, we need your talent & your guts back!
• whatever he does would be good

• Bambi
• The Life of Frank Lloyd Wright
• realistic films
• anything about Jack the Ripper - it would bring out his worst side
• he should never work with Britney Spears
• a fantastic or SF film
• nothing conventional...
• he should not make any more sappy love stories. Ken Russell is perhaps one of the greatest visionaries of our time
• the life and times of Lady Di
• any "Hollywood" action movie!

• anything Russell does is great. I look forward to his next film. (Soon, I hope.)
• Death Wish 6. And please no more naked nuns
• stuff he has written himself. Let someone else write with his additions and have someone to pull in the reins when necessary
• anything that deprives him of his creative freedom. He should never do a film like Dogboys again, in my opinion. I'm a film student and have to say that Mr. Russell has been one of the most influential and original filmmakers I've seen
• the sort of films I don't think Ken WOULD do: Hollywood sell-outs
• the bio of Ricky Martin
• I think he has a distinct vision that can play its hand at most things. I think Ken should receive more financial backing than he has been getting of late ie none- I was moved by his never-ending passion for film-making in his recently published book on directing. More power to the man I say!
• Wagner
• I don't care as long its not a straight to video film. I hope he'll still make more imaginative outrageous films like The Devils
• no more American made-for-cable movies. They never really let him be him.... With "Velvet Goldmine" and "Moulin Rouge" seemingly inspired by Russell's distinctive style, the time is right for a big-scale Ken Russell come-back! If Ridley Scott can do it after pushing "G.I. Jane" on the world, why not Ken Russell?

• don't make them in States
• action films
• Tom of Finland's life in pictures. Ken's only crime was to tell the establishment what they didn't want to hear in visual terms they didn't want to see... in front of other people!
• Die Hard 4 or Independence Day 2
• anything hollywood. Ken Russell is the most under appreciated artist in movies. One day The Devils will be recognized as one of the greatest films ever made
• everything he does he can make it different even if the idea sounds ridiculous. Great site, very complete. Although I'm not a real Ken Russell fan, I appreciate his art, he's different and that's great. Once I've seen Altered States and I loved it and I didn't know it was a Ken Russell film. As I'm a big Robert Powell film I saw Mahler, which is great! but I think I'm the only one who didn't like Tommy...
• Pearl Harbor
• Jurassic Park 4
• Matrix 2
• Sequels to other director's films, American sexploitation films
• another prostitute movie
• Moulin Rouge
• the sequel to Primary Colors.   I want to see the new underground movies!
• ones with Tom Cruise in or Russell Crow
• gratuitous violence
• another film featuring nuns!
• anything in b/w
• after seeing his latest Louse of Usher, the man whose work I defended since the 70's should never be allowed to make another film, there is not an inkling of the earlier works
• anything to do with Glasgow Rangers.  Ken is a legend. As a Derby chap, I often find myself  at Elvaston Castle, wandering around in my off-white suit and Panama hat, supping G&T's and being...alive. Cheers
• any films that require psychological insights.  It's hard to like Russell after Valentino in which he insulted both the film's subject and its star. It's no wonder Nureyev didn't trust him as a director. He was completely right not to give in
• straight romantic comedy
• a re-make of Truly Madly Deeply, starring Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham-Carter
• avoid American style cop stuff.  Russell is a one off. He should be celebrated as an English Romantic genius alongside Shelley et al.
• PLEASE, no musicals like Moulin Rouge, it would be an insult to his talent.  Great Site, lots of interesting info
• Anything out of current Hollywood
•   "Victory In Iraq", starring Piers Brosnan as Tony Blair, Mel Gibson as George W. Bush and Gordon Kaye as Saddam Hussein
• no more biographies
• rock-operas, anything involving The Who.  Fantastic page!
• short movies
• get off American cable and back on the movie screens! I miss having a new Ken Russell film to shock and offend my friends and family with. His recent DVD commentaries are quite entertaining
• D.H. Lawrence.   Nice site-thank you
• Gothic 2
• a remake of Evita
• anything involving outsized sex organs.  I know it pays to advertise Ken - I saw the "Appalling Talent" book cover photo- but the shock value is wearing off [a lot] and the "Erotic Tales" dancing on the chalk giant with a stiffy image can't be topped anyhow [although Ken will doubtless try]
• historical documentaries
• none. Except for the fact that Usher is sooooooooooooooo bad it would be a crime for that to be his final curtain
• he should stay away from direct-to-video projects... He's much better than that
• he is free to do anything
• a quiet, tasteful little film
• he should never remake films, but I don't think he'd have the banality to even consider it
• any remake of an old horror flick

2005-2006

• I can't think of a movie that wouldn't be improved by Mr Russell's fine imagery
• The Devils take Manhatten
• anything normal. Ken Russell is a brilliant and underrated director
• do not understand the question
• biographies of literary figures (Gothic)
• I think Ken and Hollywood generally don't mix.  Vestron (in retrospect) excepted
• never say never
• give the man the money and let him do as he wishes with it.  Just that I've loved his work for over thirty years and there is no sign of that ever diminishing
• low budget horrors
• the Story of Sir Harry Webb
• Ken should never approach any serious, sensitive subjects or attempt anything "gritty".  Love the man's style. Genius
• I think Ken should continue to explore
• Don Quixote is a curse for filmmakers, so Ken - don't try it!  I really enjoy the Lawrence films, but I think he should leave well alone now. How do you top Women in Love or The Rainbow?
• anything that isn't "A Ken Russell Film" (Mindbender, Dogboys)
• anything with Roger Daltrey...HAVE MERCY!
• I would say Paris Hilton's next sex tape, but he would probably make it interesting and cool
• a commercial film
• Spider Man 3, Harry Potter
• like Whore for example, he have for me more talent in horror session, no in drama
• never say never, Ken.  Nice site. don't know how many american fans mr russell has, but i've always like his iconoclastic approach to his films and the subjects therein
• contemporary Horror/Sexcapades -- it has been done to death
• any Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson flick

2007
 

• any serious attempt on the already worn-paper-thin comedy romance trip. In fact, there should be a moratorium on such vapid cow-drivel!  Its quite a shame that the American way of doing business almost ensures that creative cinematic geniuses like Ken will eventually be put out of business

• Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

• please, no more. He has left a great legacy filled with greatness and disaster.  Watched Savage Messiah recently on TCM and it is still wonderful. Wish Faber or somebody would publish Chris Logue's screenplay

• a life of the Moors Murderers Myra Hindley & Ian Brady.....but it would HAVE to be handled very delicately! Perhaps, on second thoughts, Ken might do well to avoid this one!
   

  Films and directors influenced by Ken Russell
 

• Wicker Man
• Derek Jarman
• Apocalypse Now!
• Tarsem, David Lynch, Jarman to name a few
• Terry Gilliam
• David Lynch
• Moulin Rouge is a bad Russell film with hip actors
• Alien Blood
• The Cell
• Herbert Ross - Seven per cent Solution.  Ken Russell is a genius
• Quills
• A Hard Days Night influenced by French Dressing
• Velvet Goldmine
• I think he is inimitable
•   Julie Taymor
• The Relic with the "native" sequences is a copy of Altered States
• far too few
• Mary Lambert and Julie Taymor´s Titus
• Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge)
• definitely "Velvet Goldmine"! Julie Taymor seems to be on a Russell kick, especially "Titus". Maybe "Shadow of the Vampire" is a little Ken Russell-ish
• Peter Greenaway
• he has influenced many young Australian filmmakers - he is one of my favourites and always will be. His images still stick all these years later. Savage Messiah in particular
• anything by Derek Jarman
•   most videos by singer composer Kate Bush
• none have ever mentioned his name in public so having said that all or most have stolen from him
• Terry Gilliam, Derek Jarman, Peter Greenaway, Julie Taymor
• I see a bit of Ken Russell in Kenneth Branagh's films...
• Terry Gillian I think, but Russell is unique
• Friedkin, Jackson, Roth, anyone from the 70's
• not enough
• judging by The Passion of The Christ, Mel Gibson
• Quentin Tarantino
• many. Too many to name
• Moulin Rouge and Velvet Goldmine
• David Fincher (Panic Room, Se7en)
• Terry Gilliam
• Baz Luhrman (Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet)
• Who knows how many directors have been influenced by Russell

2005-2006

• Oliver Stone tries hard, so does Baz Lurhman. They  have no taste compared to Ken. Alan Parker's Evita is a pale imitation Russell. Hedwig, and Todd Haines' Velvet Goldmine are  puny stabs at recreating the party. I saw positive echoes of Ken in Yentl by the use of music occupying head space, the natural settings (David Watkin) and the way music travelled through time and plot. Streisand would have been a great subject for Ken. He would have cut through the gauze that surrounds the icon and they may have found a radical popular success together. He gets the most from talented people
• Tim Burton
• Jim Sharman
• David Lynch for sure
• Tim Burton
• too numerous to go through; anyway, most would never admit to it
• Moulin Rouge
• Baz Luhrmann
• Pedro Almodovar
• Alan Parker
• david cronenberg-naked lunch, david lynch-lost highway, roman polanski-ninth gate, tony richardson-hotel new hampshire, coppola-dracula
• Stanley Kubrick, Brian De Palma, Dario Argento and many more...
• no other directors are that nuts.  Tell the BBC to give Ken some money. He's a wasted talent
• Baz Leuhrmann, Alan Parker
• I Heart Huckabees
• John Waters?
• hard to say, really. They're pretty unique. Jonathan Miller's early television pieces (Alice in Wonderland, Whistle and I'll Come to You) remind me slightly of Russell
• Ken's movies to date show a distinct "u" curve pattern which pivots around Listzomanina after which he revists his themes in reverse but chronological order: eg: French Dressing Mindbender (havent seen either so hard to speculate beach setting scene mentioned as a highlight of each movie in previous writeups)  ;   Billion Dollar Brain / Whore ?   ;   Women in Love /The Rainbow [19th century relationships]   ;   The Music Lovers/Salome's Last Dance  [gay artists]   ;   The Devils/The Lair of the White Worm [occult overkill]   ;   The Boy Friend/Aria (short) [fantasy during a disaster]   ;   Savage Messiah/Gothic [creative impulse]
  Mahler/Crimes of Passion [sexual difficulties]   ;   Tommy /Altered States [conceptual breakthrough]   ;   Lisztomania/Valentino [problems of fame]   ;   This pattern suggests the next films in the sequence will be a series of quality short films counterpointing the monitor series and themes [Goosewood? NO!No! No!]
• John Milius mentioned Ken in an interview about Apocolypse Now
• all of em in some way or another. They just don't realize it
• no one comes close
• Pink Floyd The Wall definitely inspired by Tommy.  It's also safe to say a certain extent David Lynch was inspired by Ken
• watched the wonderful Johnny Depp film, "The Libertine", last night.  Are you SURE Ken Russell didn't do at least the last segment of it?
• horror movies: "Inferno" by Argento, "Halloween" by Carpenter etc
• George Lucas, Tim Burton
• Alucarda, some influence from the movie The Devils
• David Lynch
• Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
• Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine
• Lynch, Cronenberg, Argento, Baz Luhrmann
   

2007

• Ridley Scott, Quentin Tarintino, Sean Penn