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Ken Russell presents 'L'Atalante'

The acclaimed director will present the film as part of Time Out and Curzon Soho's My Favourite Film series.

Nov 6 2006

As part of Time Out and Curzon Soho's 'My Favourite Film' series, Ken Russell will present a special screening of 'L'Atalante' on Sunday, November 26.

The uncompromising helmer, whose previous credits include 'Women in Love', 'The Devils' and 'Tommy', will introduce his favourite film, a 1934 classic that was Jean Vigo's first and only full-length feature before his untimely death.

Revolving around a pair of newlyweds whose relationship is sent into turmoil when they move onto a cramped barge, Time Out called it 'the loveliest, least maudlin study of human desire ever committed to film.'

Tickets are £6.50 and available from the Curzon Soho box office on 0870 756 4620 or from the cinema's official website here.

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Grubbanax Swinnasen said...

Unkle Ken is fwuckin great! Love all the crazed nuns with swastikas and gigantic penises and those wacky zooms and the general over indulgence and excessive pervert imagery! He's completely bonkers and I fwuckin love 'im!!!:P Oh and all that coupled with classical music or dance!! He's too high-brow for the mainstream and he's too and he's too vulgar and adolescent for the art-house audience, so people don't know what to think when they're watching his film. Come on Ken you gotta get back on the cinema screen with a big "Fuck-off" film. Also, love the attitude of stuff 'em I will make films in my backyard with my friends on a handy cam and release it on the net and now I've heard he's doing one for youtube! ha ha.. way to go! Posted on Dec 11 2006 01:33

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Sandra Shevey said...

Ken Russell if greater than Vigo. He is greater than Welles and possibly also greater than Hitchcock.
And it is precisely because of the enormity of his output, most of which is on an unparalleled level, which makes him so great.
Anyone can be great once. Some maybe twice. But to be great time after time after time after time....that takes absolute genius.
I wanted to introduce a Ken Russell festival and interview the grand master myself, as I was one of the first American journalists to recognize his genius when I commented in 1970 about `Women in Love`.
There is no doubt that Ken does not get the recognition and/or respect which he deserves, but that he is one of the 3 great British directors of the 20th century: the other two being David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock.
Geez, even when BAFTA had that tribute to his ex-wife, Shirley, Ken was not invited to speak and had to push himself onto the stage to say a few words.
Nuf said! Posted on Nov 25 2006 09:21

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