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Critical Essay by Allen Eyles
[French Dressing has a] flimsy story—and indeed a tired old script—but it has been made with spirit and gusto into an enjoyable spree that's running,...
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Critical Essay by Peter Mezan
Russell's movies present something of an enigma, since nobody is too sure who likes them. While art-theatre habitués say that Russell is commercial, the stu...
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Critical Essay by Robert Phillip Kolker
["Excess"] and an unrelentingly ironic point of view have probably been the qualities most responsible for the critical hatred of Russell's...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Farber
[Even] Russell's bitterest enemies would not deny that he has his own distinctive vision. His baroque visual effects are easily identifiable…. Characters...
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Critical Essay by Joseph A. Gomez
Ken Russell's methods of adaptation and his extravagant style of filmmaking have been grossly misunderstood, but the usual naive pronouncements of film critics...
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Critical Essay by Penelope Gilliatt
In these days, Russell bangs our noses against the conventional cinematic notion of genius as if it were a manic affliction that landed on someone because his wife ...
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Critical Essay by Anwer Bati
Good news. Valentino … is Ken Russell's best film in years….
I must say that I find it amazing that critics still treat Russell's "biogr...
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Critical Essay by Gene D. Phillips
To say that Rudolph Valentino best embodies Russell's idea of a hero is not to imply that Valentino was genuinely heroic in every aspect of his life and chara...
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Critical Essay by Allen Eyles
