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Used, but not abused (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
“Ken Russell’s films for the BBC Monitor series during the 1960’s are regarded by many as some of his finest and most inspired creations. Whatever your feelings are regarding Russell’s later work for cinema it would be hard to deny the extraordinary vision and passion that he brought to his groundbreaking work during this period. [...]
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The First Post (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Hetty Baynes, the former wife of film director Ken Russell (pictured), has lost a High Court battle over the estate of her mother’s lesbian lover. As reported by The First…
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Mr Justice Lewison had heard that £2 million of the "substantial" estate was made up of Miss Spencer Watson's family home, Dunshay Manor in Purbeck, Dorset, with 15 acres of land and two cottages, which was left to the building preservation charity, the Landmark Trust.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
The former wife of film director Ken Russell has lost a High Court battle over the estate of her mother's lesbian lover.
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The First Post (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Ken Russell (pictured), the 80-year-old film director, writes in today's Times about the difficulties he experienced while a pupil at Pangbourne Naval College during the Second World War, where public…
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
The case of the sculptress, her £2.3m estate, an elderly lesbian with Alzheimer's disease and her severely indebted actress daughter reached London's High Court yesterday.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
The former wife of film director Ken Russell has begun a High Court battle for a share of the £2.3 million estate of her mother's lesbian lover.
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Ken Russell's wife is at the centre of a High Court battle over the £2.3 million estate of a woman who had a lesbian relationship with her mother.
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Daily Mail on Sunday (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Ken Russell's wife is at the centre of a High Court battle over the £2.3 million estate of a woman who had a lesbian relationship with her mother.
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Ken Russell was born into a lower middle-class family in Southampton in 1927. When he was little he went to see Pinocchio and was fondled by the man in the seat next to him. Ken marched out and complained to...
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Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
Though Warner's been slacking on Ken Russell's theatrical films of the 1970s, BBC/Warner will release Ken Russell at the BBC with six early television films by the iconic director: The Debussy Film , Dante's Inferno , Always on Sunday , Isadora Duncan the Biggest Dancer in the World , Song of Summer and Dance of the Seven Veils . Oliver Reed stars in the first two. The box is out 23 September. Synkronized...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
We’ve all had unsolicited phone calls – they are a condition of modern life – ranging from heavy breathers to heavenly offers and tedious time-wasters. One of the most memorable for me started: “Hello, Ken Russell? Stanley Kubrick here, how are you? Now, tell me. Where do you find those spectacular locations? How did you find that wonderful mansion you used in your film on Tchaikovsky, for instance?”...
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Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | 30/03/2008
Oddest dream I had last night. Ken Russell is up a ladder painting various full-length portraits on a huge, long billboard. My attention turns to Martin Amis and his late dad Kingsley standing together not far away in the street. They both take out their dicks and masturbate over a drain (separately but in sync). Martin then pulls away from the drain but morphs into a small alligator. His father fondly...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 31/01/2008
Recently I've seen Beowulf, The Golden Compass, Stardust, Enchanted and Bridge to Terabithia, crossing the magic bridge with a couple of kids and sharing their adventures in a mythic land of enchantment, which I guessed sprang as much from the production designer's mind as the director's.
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DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 28/01/2008
Rent It The Movie: Color me naive, but when I looked at the specs of this 1997 British television special, I, well, naively assumed it would be a scholarly treatise on the origins and development of the English folksong. What I failed to realize was the import of the first two words of the title: Ken Russell. The legendary British director, known for his visual excesses and borderline surrealism,...
