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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Ken Russell, the British director whose daring and sometimes outrageous films often tested the patience of audiences and critics, died Sunday at age 84 following a series of strokes. His films included Women in Love, Tommy and Altered States. "My father died peacefully," his son Alex Verney-Elliott said. "He died with a smile on his face."

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I was just talking about Altered States last Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

His irreverent and magical Salome's Last Dance is one of my favorite film.

Rest in peace.

Tommy is still one of my favorite films. I know it's cheesy, but i love it. I still have an image in my head of ann-margaret swimming in baked beans and chocolate.

The Devils! Inquisitor as rock star! Fuckin' awesome (silly, but awesome).

And I think he made Gothic, too. And some DH Lawrence sex romp. The Rainbow?

Who?

I always get Altered States confused with Scanners.

Salome's Last Dance and Gothic were two of my all time favorites. Sigh-another good one gone.

Maybe greedy WB will now release an official DVD of THE DEVILS director cut, not long ago SAVAGE MESSIAH and THE BOYFRIEND were released as burn to order.

5--Cronenberg. VERY different director (though also a bit odd).

Russell was a genius for much of his feature film career, at least until Hollywood ruined him with budgets and stars. Women in Love, made on a budget that wouldn't have put two episodes of Bonanza in the can here, is a nearly perfect film.

R.I.P.

Crimes Of Passion.. really made me think twice and back. The john looks down at Kathleen Turner on her knees finishing blowing him and ruggedly asks, "What's your name?" Not skipping a beat she replies, looking up and gurgling through semen, "China Blue." [ba-dum-bum] Her first casual conversations in the film, and it's so utterly skanky.

"A sportswear designer leads a double life as a hooker named China Blue. One of her clients, a divorced man, decides he loves her and figures out who she is. He then begins wooing her, which she fights against since he was a client. Meanwhile a street preacher works the red light district trying to save souls. He decides to save China's immortal soul and begins hounding her. Eventually he gets out of hand and the man in love with her must try to help her."

Russell's infamous The Lair of the White Worm - a Lovecraftian fiction is also rather tonguing a cheek..

It's his television work that are truly difficult to find such as Monitor (knowing the BBC they probably ceremonially burned the film in a trashbin) - he did a lot of documentaries on important composers.

Religion are social retardation, imo.

#81 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2011-11-30 02:04 AM
Rest in peace.

#1 | Posted by redlightrobot
I'm confused, in one blog religious people are retarded , and now it's some one you like and it's rest in peace. Why do you think he's resting ,and why would you wish him peace. He's just a dead piece of meat that the bugs will consume all part of evolution so who cares. Died with a smile on his face,I wonder, did he do like iratabletoichi and yell out Jesus suck my dick first? Now I'm far from a religious person, have not been to church in 40 years since the military But I always am baffled when people who bash or don't believe always resort back to these feelings at the end.

Religion are social retardation, imo.
#81 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2011-11-30 02:04 AM
Rest in peace.
#1 | Posted by redlightrobot
I'm confused, in one blog religious people are retarded , and now it's some one you like and it's rest in peace. Why do you think he's resting ,and why would you wish him peace. He's just a dead piece of meat that the bugs will consume all part of evolution so who cares. Died with a smile on his face,I wonder, did he do like iratabletoichi and yell out Jesus suck my dick first? Now I'm far from a religious person, have not been to church in 40 years since the military But I always am baffled when people who bash or don't believe always resort back to these feelings at the end.
#11 | Posted by zman at 2011-11-30 11:14 AM

Excellent question, if entirely misunderstood and a bit misplaced on an honored obituary thread. I'm going to be blunt.

You read like an asshole - why did you ignore my poem to Sean Quinn or what I've written about Thanksgiving?

I would never say such hurtful things about Jesus or other true ideals - and that's what makes me lack the conviction of a religious absurdist - I know the line. You obviously have a grudge against religion and have indeed been effected by it. Perhaps we both have.

And that is my point - social retardation is the stemming of societal growth. "Faith" that commit themselves to, say, elimination of homosexuals is obviously retarded and selectively persecuting a harmless minority, even codifying their sexuality as "in league with evil". Many minorities have been persecuted in this similar manner.

When religions control a societies education they are always misled, lied to and persecuted for even questioning what those shackles are for, let alone making scientific advancements that contradict their religious doctrine. Consider Texas Scholastic Board attempting to remove Thomas Jefferson and the Age of Enlightenment entirely. That is evil, and they will continue their agenda of re-writing history and falsifying science with religious dogma instead.

Anyhow, these ancient burial traditions predate all known beliefs and are mainly for us, the survivors, not just the deceased.

Consider how religion perverted the meaning of "Halloween" because of jealousy and fear over how people are revered even in death. It's a ceremony marking the beginning of the new year - a time to remember those who did not live to see it.

I purposefully go out of my way to avoid killing things - worms, ants, moths, "pests". They fascinate me, and their perfection is baffling. That isn't religion, it's respect for myself and for others. If you can't "get it", then I suppose the only manner you might is to change your perspective. You won't, so why ask me fruitcake bullshit about religions? They are all demoralizing to someone, they all have agendas against someone.

This thread is for giving praise to and remembrance of a fine director in the common human expression for the deceased.

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