Ken Russell

Guided throughout by the swells and dips of Tchaikovsky's music, Ken Russell's The Music Lovers examines the tragedies of Tchaikovsky's life through opulent and fantastic musical sequences running alongside a narrative of the composer's life between 1875 and 1881. Touching on his disastrous marriage with Antonia Miliukova, his relationship with his patroness Nadezhda von Neck, and his repressed homosexuality, The Music Lovers is anchored by magnetic central performances from Glenda Jackson following her Academy Award for Women in Love, coupled with Richard Chamberlain as a neurotic Tchaikovsky.

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Bobby Grady (John Laughlin), trapped in a stale marriage, seeks solace with China Blue (Kathleen Turner), a master of sexual power games, who is in fact the alter ego of a beautiful woman terrified of intimacy. A tormented Reverend (Anthony Perkins) joins the couple in a bizarre menage-a-trois, which inexorably slides out of control. Ken Russell directs.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / with DVD - Double Play (Restored)</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Ken Russell writes and directs this British horror adapted from Bram Stoker's novel. The film follows Angus Flint (Peter Capaldi), a Scottish archaeologist who discovers a strange skull on the site of an old convent. Believing the skull belongs to the d'Ampton Worm, a legendary snakelike creature thought to be slain by the ancestor of local landowner James d'Ampton (Hugh Grant), Angus soon finds himself in danger as a spate of disappearances leads him to think that the evil creature may have returned from the dead to terrorise the locals once more.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands and Natasha Richardson star in this psychological horror directed by Ken Russell. In 1816, Lord Byron (Byrne) invites Claire Clairmont (Myriam Cyr), Mary Godwin (Richardson) and Percy Shelley (Sands) to join him and his friend and physician John Polidori (Timothy Spall) at his Swiss villa. As a storm rages outside, the group conduct a séance and experience a night of horror unlike anything they have ever known before, the legacy of which is Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and Polidori's 'The Vampyre'.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Ken Russell directs this espionage thriller based on the novel by Len Deighton, starring Michael Caine as anti-hero Harry Palmer. Having left the Secret Service, Palmer is now working as a private eye and he is sucked into a web of conspiracy involving a far-right American billionaire, General Midwinter (Ed Begley), who plans to wipe out the communist threat in Latvia using his highly sophisticated computer system.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Triple bill of documentary-style BBC dramas from film-maker Ken Russell. Made for the arts programme 'Monitor', 'Elgar' (1962) dramatises the life of English composer Sir Edward Elgar (George McGrath) and tells the story of his music in a series of visualisations. 'The Debussy Film' (1965), which was also made for the 'Monitor' programme, chronicles the life of French composer Claude Debussy (Oliver Reed). Meanwhile, a director (Vladek Sheybal) struggles to make his own film about Debussy's life. Made for the 'Omnibus' arts series, 'Song of Summer' (1968) depicts the last five years of Frederick Delius (Max Adrian)'s life as the devoted, young composer Eric Fenby (Christopher Gable) aids him in completing his final, unfinished scores.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / with DVD - Double Play</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Ken Russell directs this biographical drama starring Rudolf Nureyev as Italian-American actor Rudolph Valentino. The film begins at the 31-year-old actor's funeral in 1926 in New York and, using flashbacks, backtracks to his glory days when the former ballroom dancer used his good looks and charm to mould a successful silent movie career and become one of the first male screen idols in Hollywood.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / with DVD - Double Play</i>