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. While many consider the late great director Ken Russell to be excessive, a better definition would

Oliver Reed and Alan Bates, Women in Love (1969): The amount of press afforded Michael Fassbender’s unclothed dong in Shame underlines an irksome inequality: Even today, it’s rare for actors, not actresses, to unveil their naughty bits. For men, nudity i

"People say, 'Oh, he's got bad taste,' or whatever," said composer Peter Maxwell Davies of helmer Ken Russell. "Well, of course he has -- thank God for that!" Indeed, a robust, unabashed vulgarity was essential to the charm of Russell's films. A Romantic

Ken Russell, the often controversial British director known for his flamboyant visual style in films such as The Devils," Altered States" and the Who's rock opera Tommy," has died. He was 84. Russell, who lived in Lymington in southern England, died Sund

Russell movies. I don't think he got the attention he deserved." Larry Kramer, as well as winning Jackson an Oscar. It included one of the decade's most famous scenes - a nude wrestling bout between Bates and Reed. FILE- British film director K

Frazer Harrison / Getty Images Ken Russell's first big success was 1969's "Women in Love." London -- Director Ken Russell got Oliver Reed and Alan Bates to wrestle naked, turned Vanessa Redgrave into a demonic nun and cast Ringo Starr as the pope. Critic

Director Ken Russell, who has died at the age of 84. Picture: Getty Images. Source: Getty Images OBITUARY: Ken Russell. Film and opera director. Born Southampton, July 3, 1927. Died November 27, aged 84. KEN Russell was a

LONDON — Ken Russell got Oliver Reed and Alan Bates to wrestle naked, turned Vanessa Redgrave into a demonic nun and cast Ringo Starr as the pope. Critics and mainstream audiences often hated his films. Actors and admirers loved him. The iconoclastic Br

Ken Russell, the British director of Women in Love and The Devils, has died at the age of 84. His widow Elize said the famously provocative film maker died in his sleep on Sunday afternoon. "It was completely unexpected," she said in a statement issued b

In this 1975 publicity photograph released to Reuters November 28, 2011, director Ken Russell poses with actress Ann-Margret during production of their film ''Tommy''. Russell, the British director of ''Women in Love'' and ''The Devils'', has died at the

Back in July, I had the rare privilege of seeing Ken Russell's grandly insane 1971 ecclesiastical drama "The Devils" in all its pristinely restored, newly uncut glory on the generous screen of London's BFI Southbank -- and left feeling rather as if I'd p

According to AP, it reported, Director Ken Russell got Oliver Reed and Alan Bates to wrestle naked, turned Vanessa Redgrave into a demonic nun and cast Ringo Starr as the pope. Critics and mainstream audiences often hated his films but actors and admirer

Ken Russell, the often controversial British director known for his flamboyant visual style in films such as "The Devils," "Altered States" and the Who's rock opera "Tommy," has died. He was 84. Russell, who lived in Lymington in southern England, died S

British filmmaker Ken Russell, who died Sunday at the age of 84 , had a knack for creating images that were unforgettable for both their pop-art beauty and their boundary pushing eroticism: Alan Bates and Oliver Reed wrestling naked in Women in Love (196

LONDON — Director Ken Russell got Oliver Reed and Alan Bates to wrestle naked, turned Vanessa Redgrave into a demonic nun and cast Ringo Starr as the pope. Critics and mainstream audiences often hated his films. Actors and admirers loved him. The iconocl

He did not appear to mind making enemies during his career. But there was no shortage of tributes yesterday for Ken Russell, the enigmatic, eccentric film director who died on Sunday at the age of 84. Glenda Jackson MP, who won an Oscar for her role in

HE was best known for bringing D H Lawrence's Women In Love to the big screen. But Ken Russell, who died on Sunday aged 84, wasn't aware of the Notts writer before making the film in 1969. Classic: Alan Bates, left, and Oliver Reed in Women

He did not appear to mind making enemies during his career. But there was no shortage of tributes yesterday for Ken Russell, the enigmatic, eccentric film director who died on Sunday at the age of 84. Glenda Jackson MP, who won an Oscar for her role in

LONDON - Ken Russell, the British director of "Women in Love" and "The Devils", has died at the age of 84. His widow Elize said the famously provocative film maker passed away peacefully in his sleep on Sunday afternoon. "It was completely unexpected," s