Features
Friday, August 26 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 8: Jean Renoir to Douglas Sirk
From Jean Renior through Douglas Sirk, there may be some choices that raise an eyebrow. While each of the directors we look at today might not be on every cinephile's list of great directors, they absolutely merit inclusion for their distinct visions and dedication to their craft, some despite their questionable personal lives and politics.
Thursday, January 24 2008
Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List
A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away.
Columns
Thursday, January 22 2009
Ken Russell at the BBC
Everything here is in achingly beautiful and sharply restored black and white, everything is intelligent and witty, everything is deeply felt -- everything is Russell.
Reviews
Blogs
Friday, December 9 2011
Sound and Infuriating: 'The Music Lovers'
Ken Russell is an true visionary at times and when he meshes the sounds of symphonies with his various visual cues, he achieves a kind of critical nirvana.
Monday, November 28 2011
"That Crazy Old Bastard": Ken Russell (1927 - 2011)
Cinema has lost one of its greats. Before all the ballyhooed bandits who supposedly struck substantive blows against the artform’s stodgy empire, Ken Russell (who died on 27 November) was the original rebel.
Friday, May 6 2011
Art/Artists as Rebellion/Rebels: 'Savage Messiah'
Another chaotic Ken Russell masterwork hits home video.
Tuesday, September 7 2010
Go to the Mirror, Boy! - 'Tommy' : Blu-ray
Bursting with imagination and aided by the power in Pete Townshend's iconoclastic tunes, Tommy transcends the typical musical ideals to become a piece of pure pop art poetry.
Tuesday, August 24 2010
Like Touching the Dead: Ken Russell's 'The Devils' (1971)
The Devils is like a trip through Baroque Hell as envisioned by a high end mentor to Kubrick and Jodorowsky. It's all textures and tactile reinterpretations, modernistic designs delivered into the bowels of a beleaguered, belligerent age
News
Thursday, December 1 2011
Ken Russell just had to let the music out
LOS ANGELES — Some years ago in London, at the premiere of John Cage’s “Europeras 3&4,” I bumped into Ken Russell in the press queue.…
