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7.6
The Debussy Film
The Debussy Film
An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.
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6
Bartók
Bartók
A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in his country's folklore.
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0
The Diary of a Nobody
The Diary of a Nobody
Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - George and Weedon. Starring Bryan Pringle, Avril Elgar and Murray Melvin. Adapted by Ken ...
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5.5
French Dressing
French Dressing
A deck-chair attendant at a British resort promotes a film festival featuring a French sexpot.
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Monitor: Pop Goes the Easel
Monitor: Pop Goes the Easel
Peter Blake explores his passion for pop icons, Peter Phillips is featured with his cool companions, Derek Boshier voices his concerns with the American influence on British life and ...
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The Preservation Man
The Preservation Man
The Preservation Man is about useless objects but here they're part of the artist Bruce Lacey's collection of random junk that is incorporated into his art with their original function ...
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The Lonely Shore
The Lonely Shore
One of the most conceptually original of all the films that Ken Russell made for Monitor, this imagines an expedition of alien archaeologists (represented only by the soundtrack ...
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Mr Chesher’s Traction Engines
Mr Chesher’s Traction Engines
Explores the worldview of A.W. Chesher, who has a special interest in painting steam traction engines.
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7
Elgar: Portrait of a Composer
Elgar: Portrait of a Composer
A partly dramatised account of the life of classical composer Sir Edward Elgar. An episode of the BBC arts series Monitor.
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4
Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
Ken Russell directed a short document of German actress (and widow) of famed composer Kurt Weill performing many of his best known compositions for BBC TV series "Monitor"
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6
London Moods
London Moods
Ken Russell is often cited as one of the fathers of the music video, with Tommy (1975) widely recognised as one of the pivotal works in the development of the form. However, as the far ...
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6
Prokofiev
Prokofiev
Prokofiev (BBC, tx. 18/6/1961), subtitled 'Portrait of a Soviet Composer', was the second of Ken Russell's composer biopics, though it takes a rather different approach from his first, ...
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0
The Miners’ Picnic
The Miners’ Picnic
In 1960, Ken Russell visited Bedlington Colliery, Northumberland to make one of his first documentary films, following life in the mining community.
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5.5
Shelagh Delaney’s Salford
Shelagh Delaney’s Salford
Short documentary about Shelagh Delaney and her hometown Salford.
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6
A House in Bayswater
A House in Bayswater
A personal and nostalgic film about an apartment building in Bayswater, where Russell once lived, and about the residents who inhabited it. The building is demolished to make way for an ...
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3
The Light Fantastic
The Light Fantastic
While most of Ken Russell's documentaries for the BBC's Monitor arts strand focused on a single creative figure, he would also occasionally make more wide-ranging surveys of the state ...
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6
Variations on a Mechanical Theme
Variations on a Mechanical Theme
Ken Russell directed short documentary for the BBC TV program me "Monitor"
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0
John Betjeman: A Poet in London
John Betjeman: A Poet in London
The film was Ken Russell's first for television and was commissioned by Huw Wheldon, the head of the BBC's Monitor arts programme. Betjeman is shown visiting locations including ...
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0
Portrait of a Goon
Portrait of a Goon
Portrait of Spike Milligan, then part of The Goon Show examining his views on comedy,
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Scottish Painters
Scottish Painters
A double portrait of the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, seen at work in their Suffolk studio while discussing their paintings.
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6.2
Amelia and the Angel
Amelia and the Angel
A young girl (Amelia) is distressed and feeling guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. Then she notices an angel and follows the angel into a dark building. ...