Tag Archives: Ken Russell

FLIX PIX (1151): “Ken Russell’s LISZTOMANIA is In-Fucking-Sane… As Usual”

Posted on November 20, 2023 by KPKeelan

LISZTOMANIA (directed by Ken Russell, 1975) ** (out of 5) . > British lunatic Ken Russell was a music-man. . Most of his lifetime’s output involved his obsession with classical music and celebrated composers. Russell has made documentaries about Elgar, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, celebrity, cinema, composers, criticism, entertainment, fame, films, Flix Pix, Franz Liszt, humor, ideas, Ken Russell, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lisztomania, movies, musicals, musicians, opinion, reviews, Richard Wagner, Ringo Starr, Roger Daltry, stardom, surrealism, symbolism | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (858): “Ken Russell’s Typically Feverish MAHLER”

Posted on October 22, 2022 by KPKeelan

MAHLER (directed by Ken Russell, 1974) *** (out of 5) . > Despite the big successes of ALTERED STATES and TOMMY, British cinematic madman Ken Russell was more known for directing TV and opera than film. . Russell was mad about … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged anti-Semitism, arts, biography, cinema, classical music, composers, criticism, drama, entertainment, fantasy, films, genius, Georgina Hale, Gustav Mahler, ideas, impressionism, Ken Russell, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Mahler, marriage, movies, musicians, opinion, relationships, reviews, Robert Powell | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (112): The Films of June 2021

Posted on August 5, 2021 by KPKeelan

. No 5-star classics this month, but everything else is represented, from one-and-a-half miserable lumps to four-and-a-half dazzling stars. Enjoy ruminating with me! (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be over a decade old to be … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 007, action, addiction, afterlife, aging, alcoholism, ambition, Andrew Scott, Angela Lansbury, Anne Hathaway, anti-Semitism, Arabian Nights, Arabic literature, art, Ben Kingsley, Ben Wheatley, Better Days, Between Two Worlds, biography, British cinema, Broadway, bullying, camp, China, Chinese cinema, Chris Evans, Christian Petzold, cinema, Colossal, comedy, competition, composers, conflict, corruption, crime, criticism, Crock of Gold, cults, Cyd Charisse, Dean Martin, death, Derek Flint, dialogue, Dinah Shore, disasters, drama, Edmund Gwenn, Eleanor Parker, enemies, entertainment, escape, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Jews, Eugene O'Neill, fame, families, fantasy, films, Frank Sinatra, Franz Liszt, Gaoko exams, genius, George Tobias, Gerard Butler, German cinema, ghosts, Gower Champion, Greenland, Greg Kinnear, Haley Bennett, Heaven, hell, higher education, history, horror, House, ideas, identity, Irish music, Israel, Italian cinema, James Bond, Jason Sudeikis, Jerome Kern, Jews, John Garfield, judgement, Judy Garland, June Allyson, justice, Ken Russell, Kevin Keelan, Kill List, Korean cinema, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lena Horne, Lisztomania, live theatre, love, loyalty, Massad, Matt Helm, migration, monsters, movies, murder, musicals, musicians, negotiation, Operation Joshua, Operation Moses, opinion, Oslo, Oslo Peace Accords, P.L.O., Palestine, Palestinian Liberation Organization, parables, patriarchy, Paul Henried, Paul Robeson, Peace Accords, performers, persecution, Pier Paolo Pasolini, postwar Italy, power, race, realism, Red Sea Diving Resort, redemption, refugees, rescue, responsibility, reviews, Richard Wagner, Ringo Starr, Roger Daltry, romance, Ruth Wilson, satire, sci-fi, science fiction, sexism, sexuality, Shane MacGowan, showtunes, spoof, spy spoofs, stardom, Stella Stevens, success, Sudan, supernatural, surrealism, Sydney Greenstreet, The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, The Emperor Jones, The Pogues, The Popes, The Silencers, thrillers, Till the Clouds Roll By, tragedy, Transit, true stories, Umberto D., Van Heflin, Van Johnson, Victor Buono, violence, Vittorio de Sica, World War II | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (100): The Films of JUNE 2020

Posted on July 24, 2021 by KPKeelan

. JUNE 2020 was a busy film month! Not much else to do, if you have no sex partner and you can hardly heave the house! In this bunch, we get comedies, romances, dramas, animation, film noir, sci-fi, horror, caper … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 10cc, 8½, A Boy and His Dog, A Ship to India, Abbas Kiarostami, abuse, addiction, Adventures in Psychedelics, Akira Kurosawa, Alan King, And Life Goes On, Andy Richter, Andy Williams, animals, animation, Anthony Bourdain, ants, art, assistants, bank robbers, Barbara Bel Geddes, battle of the sexes, belief, belonging, Ben Stiller, betrayal, Bill Kreutzmann, biography, Birger Malmsten, Blake Edwards, Book of Exodus, brotherhood, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, Bunny Lake is Missing, Burt Lancaster, Canadian films, capers, Carrie Fisher, celebrity, censorship, Cesar Romero, Chadwick Boseman, Charles Bronson, childhood, Christopher Walken, cinema, class, classics, Cold Turkey, comedies, coming of age, Communism, composers, crime, criticism, Czech cinema, Czechoslovakia, Da 5 Bloods, dada, Dan Duryea, Danny Kaye, Dash Shaw, David Cross, Deepak Chopra, Delmer Daves, Delroy Lindo, destruction, Dianne Foster, Diary of a Chambermaid, Dick Van Dyke, disaster films, documentaries, Don Johnson, Donald O’Connor, Donovon, drama, Drive a Crooked Road, drugs, Dyan Cannon, dystopia, earthquakes, Emilio D'Alessandro, emotion, environment, Ernest Borgnine, Experiment in Terror, faith, families, family secrets, fantasy, farce, fascism, fathers and sons, Federico Fellini, feminism, film history, film noir, filmmakers, filmmaking, films, folktales, Frankenstein, Fred MacMurray, Fred Willard, French cinema, friendship, Fritz Lang, Gary Cooper, Gaza, Gene Kelly, General Francisco Franco, George C. Scott, Georgina Hale, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, God, God Went Surfing With the Devil, Guns N' Roses, Harlan Ellison, Have a Good Trip, Helen Gurley Brown, Henry Fonda, Herb Alpert, historical drama, Holger Löwenadler, hope, horror, humor, hunger, hypocrisy, ideas, identity, illness, Ingmar Bergman, injustice, insecurity, Iran, Iranian cinema, Israeli cinema, Italian cinema, Jack Elam, Jacques Tati, Jane Mansfield, Japanese cinema, jazz, jealousy, Jean Reno, Jeanne Moreau, Jesus, Jews, John Lennon, Jour de Fête, journalism, Judaism, Karl Malden, Ken Russell, Kevin Keelan, Kevin McCarthy, kidnapping, Kier Dullea, Kim Novak, Koker, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lacey Schwartz, Land Without Bread, Las Hurdes, Lauren Bacall, Laurence Olivier, L’Age D’Or, Led Zeppelin, Lee Marvin, Lee Remick, legends, Lewis Black, lies, life, Life and Nothing More, Little White Lie, Louis Armstrong, LSD, Luis Buñuel, Mahler, Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Martin Balsom, Mélanie Thierry, metaphor, Michael Murphy, Mickey Rooney, Miloš Forman, monsters, Moses, movies, murder, musicals, musicians, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, Natalie Wood, Natasha, Natasha Lyonne, Natural disasters, Netflix, Nick Kroll, Nigel Davenport, Nina Paley, Noel Coward, Norman Lear, Oingo Boingo, opinion, oppression, Otto Preminger, Palestinians, parenting, peace, people, Phase IV, poverty, psychoactive substances, psychological drama, PTSD, Pushover, Quincy Jones, race, racism, Ramón Acín, Red Nichols, relationships, religion, resilience, reviews, Richard Quine, Rob Corddry, Robert Powell, romance, Rosie Perez, Ross Martin, S is For Stanley, sacrifice, Salvador Dalí, Sarah Silverman, Satchmo, satire, Saul Bass, scandals, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Connery, Seder-Masochism, self doubt, Sex and the Single Girl, sexism, sexual politics, Sidney Lumet, sight gags, sisters, slapstick, smoking, social criticism, social justice, soldiers, Spain, Spanish cinema, Spike Lee, Stanley Kubrick, Stefanie Powers, Sting, stories, suffering, surfing, surrealism, surrealists, surveillance, suspense, Swedish cinema, symbolism, tabloids, teenage sexuality, teenagers, terrorism, The Age of Gold, The Anderson Tapes, the Bible, The Big Heat, The Burglar, the Church, The Firemen’s Ball, The Five Pennies, The Four Tops, The Hanging Tree, The Holy Land, The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail, The Pointer Sisters, The Spirit of the Beehive, the state, thriller, tobacco companies, Tony Curtis, tradition, tragedy, Tuesday Weld, Vera Cruz, Victor Erice, Vietnam War, violence, westerns, Will Forte, writer’s block, Zach Leary | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (95): The Films of January 2020

Posted on July 19, 2021 by KPKeelan

. January 2020! A new decade that will no doubt be filled by great movies… If the world can survive tRumpism… (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 1917, A Hidden Life, Above Suspicion, abuse, action, Adam Roarke, Alfred Molina, Ari Aster, art, August Diehl, Austria, B-movies, Basil Rathbone, Bell Book and Candle, belonging, bigotry, Billion Dollar Brain, biography, Bong Joon-ho, Bruno Ganz, bullying, California, car chases, Cary Grant, cinema, cinematography, class, classics, Clifford Irving, cold war, comedies, comic books, conscience, credit, crime, criticism, Dean-Charles Chapman, deceit, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, drama, duty, economics, Ed Begley, Edward Everett Horton, Elsa Lanchester, epics, Ernie Kovacs, exploitation films, family, fantasy, films, Florence Pugh, Fort Apache, Fred MacMurray, friendship, gentrification, George Cukor, George MacKay, Ginger Rogers, Gotham City, greed, Gregory Peck, Harry Palmer, Henry Fonda, Henry King, Hermione Gingold, Holiday, horror, House of Wax, Howard Hughes, identity, identity theft, impostors, income inequality, Indians, injustice, Intruder in the Dust, Jack Lemmon, Joan Crawford, Joaquin Phoenix, John Ford, John van Druten, John Wayne, Joker, justice, Karl Malden, Katherine Hepburn, Ken Russell, Kevin Keelan, Kim Novak, Korean cinema, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, life, Linda Ronstadt, love, lynching, magic, Man With a Million, Mark Twain, metaphor, Michael Caine, Midsommar, money, movies, murder, music, musicians, mysteries, native Americans, Nazis, neighborhoods, origin stories, Parasite, Parkinson's disease, Peter Fonda, Phillip Barry, pop music, poverty, prejudice, racism, Ray Milland, Red Skelton, relationships, reviews, Richard Gere, Richard Thorpe, rituals, Robert De Niro, rock 'n' Roll, romance, Sam Mendes, sex, Shirley Temple, singers, spies, success, Susan George, Sweden, Terrence Malick, The Gunfighter, The Hoax, The King of Comedy, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, The Major and the Minor, The Million Pound Note, the seventies, The Sound of My Voice, thrillers, Todd Phillips, Valerie Pachner, villains, Vincent Price, violence, Wally Benton, warlocks, wealth, westerns, Whistling in the Dark, William Faulkner, witchcraft, witches, World War I, World War II, zealotry | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Ken Russell

FLIX PIX (1151): “Ken Russell’s LISZTOMANIA is In-Fucking-Sane… As Usual”

FLIX PIX (858): “Ken Russell’s Typically Feverish MAHLER”

KPK on the CINEMA (112): The Films of June 2021

KPK on the CINEMA (95): The Films of January 2020

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