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  • Actors: Oliver Reed, Vladek Sheybal, Annette Robertson, Iza Teller, Penny Service
  • Directors: Ken Russell
  • Writers: Ken Russell, Eric Fenby, Huw Wheldon, Melvyn Bragg, Sewell Stokes
  • Producers: Ken Russell, Humphrey Burton
  • Format: Box set, Colour, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 3
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: BBC Warner
  • DVD Release Date: 23 Sep 2008
  • Run Time: 409 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B0019MFY40
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 28,449 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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5.0 out of 5 stars 'Forget the Immortal's, Go Out Into the Fields and Hear the Music of Nature', 1 Nov 2008
By Paul Ess. (Holywell, N.Wales,UK.) - See all my reviews
'Ken Russell at the BBC' is an extra-ordinary dvd box-set. In it are some of the great mans greatest works, scandalously only released in the US on R1 (in one fell swoop, the obscene amount I paid for a multi-region dvd player has been rendered money superbly spent).

'Song of Summer' is possibly the finest most inspiring film ever made about a composer, 'Dante's Inferno' and 'the Debussy Film' both have a simmer/bellow/simmer/bellow performance from Oliver Reed, 'Isadora' is better than the Vanessa Redgrave film version, 'Always on a Sunday' has a real-life French realist painter being played by a real-life Yorkshire realist painter(!) and 'Elgar' was the first music bio to feature actors, compromised sadly by them only being seen in long-shot.
30 seconds to read and 477 minutes to look, listen and be immersed.

Possibly the most essential collection of BBC films ever assembled in one place (outside of their vaults of course). Imaginative, unique, mystical, lyrical, anti-cliché, anti-intellectual, funny, sad, moving, haunting and not one frame could've been shot by any-one else.
Not one blistering, believable, fevered performance could've been prised out of the superb casts by any-one else.
Not one film-maker in the history of tv OR film has been SO on the side of his audience.
No other 80 year old man could sit on a park bench and be so mesmerising and deliriously enthusiastic about films he made over 40 years ago, and if I was to type 'til I was 80, I would not come close to properly assessing his work on this dvd set.

There are other's involved; Melvyn Bragg writes a couple of creditable scripts, Huw Wheldon writes and narrates the excellent commentary for 'Elgar' and there's some fine work from Dick Bush - the greatest ever British lighting cameraman - but it's Russell's genius.
Emblazoned and embellished on every edit, every rising symphonious dawn, every artistic tantrum, every slightly alien look at a European city from an English South Coast perspective, every beautiful girl fighting a futile battle against art AND temperament, every achievement, gain and much, much pain - the eye on the lens and the ear at the stylus is Russell's.

'Ken Russell at the BBC' is the ultimate review. A legacy that will last and grow in appreciation, even when we've all been as long dead and gone as the subjects of Russell's mini-masterpieces.
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