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 st...
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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'...
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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…. Character...
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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 critic...
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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 "b...
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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 char...
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Today is Tuesday, July 3, the 184th day of 2007. There are 181 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 3, 1863, the three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., ended in a majo...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 1-7:July 1: Actress Olivia de Havilland is 91. Movie director Sydney Pollack is 73. Actor Jamie Farr is 73. Actress Jean Marsh ("Upstairs, Downstairs") is 7...
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London (dpa) - Shilpa Shetty is hot news on British TV - but for
all the wrong reasons.
"Why does everyone hate me?" sobbed the Bollywood star, breaking
down ...
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Unable to obtain a video screener of the documentary Inside Deep Throat, and unwilling to return to my old soft-core and hard-core haunts around Times Square, I resolved a few weeks back not to rep...
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Critical Essay by Allen Eyles
Today in history - July 3
