Some people seem to think he's most famous for the naked wrestling scene in Women in Love or, worse yet, for The Who's rock "opera" Tommy. They are wrong. He will always be remembered for his mad genius master-work The Devils:
Ludicrously disowned by lemon-sucking Warner Bros, who appear to be terrified of offending evil Catholics, The Devils will -- at bloody last -- be released on DVD early in the new year. I'm glad Ken knew about that before he died.
The DVD is being produced by those nice people at the BFI. The stupid and evil fuckers at Warner Bros. still won't let them release the fully uncensored version (some of the most salacious material was miraculously rediscovered a few years back), and nor will they permit a high definition Blu-ray release (how dare these Americans refuse to let us see this iconic part of British culture?!), but at least, at last, it will be readily accessible for us to appreciate the bonkers and wonderful vision of Ken Russell.
He died, still ripe and fruity, at the age of 84. He was some kind of a man.
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Ken Russell was one of those "evil catholics".
Yeah, me too.
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