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Ken Russell: The Great Composers - Dual Format (Includes DVD)
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A Dual Format Edition collection bringing together the career defining work of Ken Russell at the BBC. Russell's work during the sixties for award-winning arts documentary series' Monitor and Omnibus were critically-acclaimed and often seen as a high point in his filmmaking.
The first of the three films, Elgar (1962), portrays in vigorous style the life of the English composer Sir Edward Elgar, with Huw Wheldon narrating his life story over beautiful mountain scenery. The Debussy Film (1965), Russell's penultimate film for Monitor, was an ambitious work about the composer's life, written by Melvyn Bragg and starring Oliver Reed as Claude Debussy. Delius: Song of Summer (1968) is generally regarded (not least by its director) as Russell's best television film - with many critics citing it as his finest work in any medium. The story traces Eric Fenby and is based on his memoirs of trying to help the blind and paralysed composer Frederick Delius.
The films in this collection have been remastered to High Definition, and are presented on Blu-ray for the very first time.
- BFI
- 210 mins approx.
- Ken Russell
- PG
- Oliver Reed
- Huw Wheldon
- English
- 3
- B
- BFI
Ken Russell: The Great Composers - Dual Format (Includes DVD)
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RRP: A$56.99
A$49.99
Save: A$7.00
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A Dual Format Edition collection bringing together the career defining work of Ken Russell at the BBC. Russell's work during the sixties for award-winning arts documentary series' Monitor and Omnibus were critically-acclaimed and often seen as a high point in his filmmaking.
The first of the three films, Elgar (1962), portrays in vigorous style the life of the English composer Sir Edward Elgar, with Huw Wheldon narrating his life story over beautiful mountain scenery. The Debussy Film (1965), Russell's penultimate film for Monitor, was an ambitious work about the composer's life, written by Melvyn Bragg and starring Oliver Reed as Claude Debussy. Delius: Song of Summer (1968) is generally regarded (not least by its director) as Russell's best television film - with many critics citing it as his finest work in any medium. The story traces Eric Fenby and is based on his memoirs of trying to help the blind and paralysed composer Frederick Delius.
The films in this collection have been remastered to High Definition, and are presented on Blu-ray for the very first time.
- BFI
- 210 mins approx.
- Ken Russell
- PG
- Oliver Reed
- Huw Wheldon
- English
- 3
- B
- BFI
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Ken Russell enfant terrible of UK cinema and TV
Both this and the companion set of movies made for TV were labours of love for Ken Russell. On a less lavish scale than his movies like The Music Singers and Mahler where he had much bigger budgets and lavish locations, these films are of a much more intimate flavour. Wonderful blu ray transfers and as a bonus you gets dvd for each work.
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