Late Fall 2011 - Ken Russell, 1927-2011
"And now we have come to the time when the director reaches for his knuckle-duster, because invariably he is about to have a fight on his hands."
—Ken Russell, from Directing Film: The Director's Art from Script to Cutting Room
"You can go home, Doctor. We're going to live forever!"
—Robert Powell as Gustav Mahler, in Mahler (1974)
In This Issue...
Russell as I knew Him
Modest Proposal editor Kevin M. Flanagan remembers the great director.
Elsewhere
"Our Ken"
By Mark Kermode
KEN RUSSELL ADIOS
By Alex Cox
BRING ME THE HEAD OF KEN RUSSELL!
By Anne Billson
Remembering Ken Russell
By Dan Ireland
Ken Russell: The Rare Director Who Understood Musical Greatness
By Russell Platt
"Pity we aren't all madder"
Various
