"Director: Ken Russell"

• Crimes Of Passion Dual Format Blu-ray + DVD | Blu Ray | (11/07/2016) from £11.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  SHE IS WATCHED. SHE IS WORSHIPPED. AND SHE MUST REMAIN A MYSTERY. In the early eighties British enfant terrible Ken Russell travelled to America and placed his unorthodox imprint on a pair of US movies. The first was the Altered States, so out-there its screenwriter disowned it. The second was the equally crazy Crimes of Passion, starring Kathleen Turner (Body Heat, Serial Mom) at the height of her powers. Fashion designer Joanna Crane (Turner) leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who s attracted the unwanted attention of two men. One is a sexually frustrated private detective hired by her employees. The other is psychopathic priest (played by Norman Bates himself, Anthony Perkins) in possession of a murderous sex toy. With its outré screenplay by Barry Sandler and over the top score by Rick Wakeman, Crimes of Passion may just be the most outrageous Ken Russell film ever made and that s quite some feat! SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS Brand new 2K restoration of the film from original film materials High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations of the 112-minute director s cut and 107-minute unrated versions of the film Optional subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary with director Ken Russell and producer-screenwriter Barry Sandler Seven deleted/extended scenes with optional commentary by Sandler Brand-new interview with Sandler recorded especially for this release Brand-new interview with composer Rick Wakeman recorded especially for this release It s a Lovely Life music video Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Twins of Evil First pressing only: illustrated collector's booklet containing new writing from Paul Sutton, an archive interview with Ken Russell and correspondence between Russell and Kathleen Turner.

• Delius - Song Of Summer | DVD | (10/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Perhaps the finest of the series of biographical films that Ken Russell made for the BBC in the sixties 'Song of Summer' is an immensely moving story of sacrifice idealism and musical genius. Based on Eric Fenby's 1936 memoir 'Delius As I Knew Him' it traces the last years of Frederick Delius and Fenby's dedication in giving up five years of his life to helping the blind paralysed composer set down the unfinished scores he could hear in his head. There are terrific performa

• The Ken Russell Collection: The Great Passions (Dual Format Edition) | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £18.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (76.52%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The second of the BFI's Ken Russell releases is another two disc collection bringing together four films from 1965-7. The collection opens with Always on Sunday (1965) a dramatized examination of the painter Henri Rousseau. The combination of Russell reuniting with Melvyn Bragg and Oliver Reed and Russell's infectious love of the film's subject results in a film which is illuminating in every frame. Isadora: The Biggest Dancer in the World (1966), a study of the outrageous American dancer, Isadora Duncan, starring Vivian Pickles as the dancer whose obsession with the importance of art and complete disdain for decorum chimes perfectly with Russell's own sensibility. Last of the TV dramas is Dante's Inferno (1967) which tells of the complex relationship between the 19th-century artist and poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his model Elizabeth Siddal. The films in this collection have been remastered to High Definition, and are presented on Blu-ray for the very first time.

• Billion Dollar Brain | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ken Russell's big budget film is an adaptation of Len Deighton's novel a sequel to 'The Ipcress File' in which Michael Caine reprises his role as bespectacled British Intelligence officer Harry Palmer this time stumbling into a plot to overthrow the Soviet Communist regime using a supercomputer. But who is working for whom and will Harry live long enough to find out?

• The Harry Palmer Collection, The | DVD | (15/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Celebrate Britain's best-loved spy in this classic collection. Michael Paine is Harry Palmer, the irrepressible secret agent turned private investigator. Follow his exploits over the globe, from taking on the Russian Mafia in 'Midnight in St Petersburg' to combating chemical warfare in 'Bullet to Beijing'. Also featuring 'Ipcress File', 'Funeral In Berlin' and 'Billion Dollar Brain', this five film set will have you hooked.

• Gothic | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A richly detailed delightfully chilling horror tale centering around the romanticism's poetic elite. When Lord Byron Percy and Mary Shelley and other assorted artistic guests gather at a secluded mansion they enjoy a frightfully scary drug-induced evening that ultimately inspires the writing of both Mary Shelley's ""Frankenstein"" and Polidori's ""The Vampyre.""

• French Dressing | DVD | (13/04/2015) from £6.91   |  Saving you £3.08 (44.57%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Cinema's enfant terrible Ken Russell's debut feature is an exuberant farce that has become a cult classic since its theatrical release fifty years ago. Featuring early lead roles for James Booth and Roy Kinnear and with script input from Johnny Speight this much sought-after comedy gem is made available here for the first time in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements. Gormleigh-on-Sea is the sort of typical boring English seaside resort where the landladies lock away the jam at 5 o'clock and there's little do except carve your initials on the bus shelters. Then deck-chair attendant Jim has a brain-wave – persuading the Mayor to host a film festival and import a French movie siren. It's not long before the mayors of Gormleigh's rival towns look on with jealous eyes and scheming minds… Special Features: Original theatrical trailer Image gallery Promotional material PDFs

• Mahler | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £39.95   |  Saving you £-26.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Available for the first time on DVD. Ken Russell's unusual film biography of the Austrian composer whose unique compositional style altered the evolutionary course of western music. Jealousy over his attractive wife the insanity of a fellow music student his conversion from the Jewish to the Catholic faith the tragic death of his young daughter his own ill health - these are just some of the elements chosen for this symbolic visualisation of Mahler and his music. The flow of t

• The Music Lovers 1970 DVD | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Composer Peter Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain) abandons his intimate friend , Count Chiluvsky (Christopher Gable), when Madame Von Meck (Izabella Telezynsky) sponsors him after hearing him perform his First Piano Concerto.A tortured man , unhappy except in his music, Tchaikovsky marries Nina Milukova (Glenda Jackson), a passionate, neurotic woman. When he is unable to fulfill the demands of matrimony, his tensions become so great that he attempts suicide and has a nervous breakdown. Nina’s world also falls apart and she deteriorates into madness and is commited to an asylum.Tchaikovsky recuperates at a country mansion of Madame Von Meck. The two correspond but never meet. At a great party which she holds in his honour, Count Chiluvsky appears, and when Tchaikovsky rebuffs him he tells Madame Von Meck the truth about her protg. She immediately severs all connections with the composer.Tchaikovsky is hurt but continues to compose and conduct throughout the world. World fame does nothing to ameliorate his unhappy state. At the age of 53, after composing his “requiem” his Pathetique Symphony, he deliberately drinks water contaminated with cholera germs.A few days later he is dead. Decades later his music still lives!

• Lady Chatterley | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £8.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (11.25%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Adapted from the novels by DH Lawrence Lady Chatterley is a passionate love story which portrays the tempestuous and scandalous affair between an aristocratic young woman and her husband's gamekeeper. Joey Richardson plays one of fiction's most famous and passionate characters Lady Chatterley and Sean Bean is Mellors the moody and intense gamekeeper with whom she falls in love.

• Visions of Change Volume One: THE BBC (3-DVD set) | DVD | (14/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This three-disc collection brings together a carefully curated selection of rarely-seen BBC TV productions by the leading documentary filmmakers of their day to create an essential survey of early British TV documentaries. Collecting together nearly 10 hours' worth of material, this long-overdue collection brings together works by such influential directors as Philip Donnellan, Ken Russell and Dennis Potter, and provides a fascinating insight into the cultural and social historical landscape of two of the most formative decades in post-war Britain.

• The South Bank Show: Volume 1 (Ken Russell) | DVD | (31/12/2013) from £28.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Gounod: Faust | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £31.37   |  Saving you £-16.38 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Erich Binder conducts the Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper in Ken Russell's unconventional production of Faust. Filmed in Wiener Staatsoper 1985. Set and costume design by Carl Toms.

• Lisztomania | DVD | (04/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This flamboyant extravaganza tells the scandalous tale of superstar composer Franz Liszt''s (Roger Daltry) hedonistic life of groupies sex and music as well as his rivalry with the scheming Richard Wagner (Paul Nicholas). After enjoying the fruits of his celebrity Liszt tries to find true love with one of his mistresses Princess Caroline. The Pope (Ringo Starr) forbids their marriage and Liszt attempts to adopt a monastic lifestyle. The vampiric Wagner marries Liszt''s daughter Cosima and then battles for world domination by unleashing the Viking God Thor (Rick Wakeman) and his troupe of robot Nazis. The only way to save the world is through Liszt and all of his mistresses in a rocket ship to destroy the resurrected Wagner who has now become the Nazi Antichrist. A freewheeling outrageous and over-the-top look at the life of the world''s first pop superstar.

• Valentino | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Rudolf Nureyev plays the role of Rudolph Valentino - the much-loved silent screen actor who caused mass hysteria rioting in the streets and even suicides after his untimely death.

• Tommy | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Your senses will never be the same! This classic rock opera is brought energetically to life by an outstanding cast including many stars of the rock music industry. Told through the remarkable music of The Who this is the story of Tommy who when just a boy of six witnessed the murder of his father by his mother (Ann-Margaret) and her lover (Oliver Reed). They command him ""You didn't hear it you didn't see it and you won't say anything to anyone.."" As a result the traumatised boy retreats into the shadows of his mind and becomes deaf dumb and blind. Growing into manhood Tommy (Roger Daltrey) is subjected to several bizarre cure attempts by the Acid Queen (Tina Turner) the preacher (Eric Clapton) and the Specialist (Jack Nicholson). In spite of his handicap Tommy defeats the Pinball Wizard (Elton John) and becomes the champ attaining a devoted following. When he is finally cured he is hailed by his fans as a ""Messiah"".

• The Rainbow | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A respectable and picturesque realisation of DH Lawrence's novel, 1989's The Rainbow is director Ken Russell's prequel to his 1969 version of Women in Love. By Russell's standards, this is a remarkably restrained treatment of Lawrence's novel, set in the Midlands in the 19th century: with its lush, rural setting and quaint bucolic soundtrack there are moments when you might imagine you're watching The Railway Children--until the sex scenes kick in, that is. Her soul infused with infinite longing by the sight of a rainbow as a child, Ursula Brangwen grows up restless at the prescribed roles set out for women in Victorian England, which are stoically endured by her mother (Glenda Jackson, who played Ursula's sister Gudrun in Women in Love). She idealises her swimming instructor--the older, more experienced Winifred (Amanda Donohoe) with whom she enjoys a passionate, borderline lesbian relationship. She becomes a schoolteacher against her parents' wishes, and takes up with Paul McGann, who is somewhat tepid as a Boer War officer. Ultimately, however, she finds all of these limitations too constraining and finally strikes out on her own in search of true spiritual and sexual freedom. On the DVD: This is a full-screen version of the film, ratio 4:3. The sound quality is fine as is the colour and sharpness, though like the film itself, not quite as ravishing as you might hope. Special features consist of a routine trailer ("She played by her passion, not by their rules") and disappointingly perfunctory "filmographies" of the director and cast: merely lists of their previous movies. --David Stubbs

• Crimes Of Passion | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in the midst of a steamy red light district this compelling drama focuses on China Blue a stunningly beautiful fashion designer by day and a prostitute keenly adept at playing erotic power games by night.

• The Fall of Louse of Usher DVD | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  From the master of excess, this extraordinary film is the most outrageous take on the Edgar Allen Poe classic.After being found guilty of murdering his wife Roderick Usher is labelled insane and taken to the local asylum.Locked in a padded cell he is under the care of Dr Calahari (Ken Russell) and Nurse Smith. Their special treatments result in a series of bizarre and terrifying adventures. Digging deep with their mind bending therapies Dr Calahari and Nurse Smith reveal the terrible truth behind the Louse of Usher!

• Trapped Ashes | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Seven strangers on a Hollywood movie studio tour are trapped inside an infamous House of Horror and forced to tell their most terrifying stories to get out alive.