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Ken Russell is considered by many to be the most controversial and original director to emerge from the British film industry in half a century. “Women in Love,” “The Music Lovers,” and especially “The Devils,” broke box-office records, earned world-wide critical acclaim and yet scarred the sensibilities of millions, notably those lured by the romanticism of his television films on Elgar and Isadora Duncan into seeing him as the hope of British documentary.

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Press, 25 November 1982, Page 18

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Ken Russell is considered by many to be the most controversial and original director to emerge from the British film industry in half a century. “Women in Love,” “The Music Lovers,” and especially “The Devils,” broke box-office records, earned world-wide critical acclaim and yet scarred the sensibilities of millions, notably those lured by the romanticism of his television films on Elgar and Isadora Duncan into seeing him as the hope of British documentary. Press, 25 November 1982, Page 18

Ken Russell is considered by many to be the most controversial and original director to emerge from the British film industry in half a century. “Women in Love,” “The Music Lovers,” and especially “The Devils,” broke box-office records, earned world-wide critical acclaim and yet scarred the sensibilities of millions, notably those lured by the romanticism of his television films on Elgar and Isadora Duncan into seeing him as the hope of British documentary. Press, 25 November 1982, Page 18