Women in Love

The Music Lovers

Tommy

Savage Messiah

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.

Lisztomania

Mindbender

Gothic

Valentino

Wrestling from Women in Love

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

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Gershwin

Doris Lessing´s The Marriage Between Zones Three, Four and Five

Anything that is not firmly based in reality

A Confederacy of Dunces

 A remake of Bride of Frankenstein

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Mindbender II

The Mother Theresa Story

Films based in a real environment/ reality based films, for example Whore

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Apocalypse Now!

Moulin Rouge is a bad Russell film with hip actors

The Cell

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

Ken Russell could make the craziest idea seem normal and Lynch could make the most normal scene be weird and unsettling

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