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Why don’t people fund theatrical failures like this anymore
love how ken russell made a career out of making deranged fantasy biopics about romantic composers. making richard wagner a soulless nazi vampire? correct. casting ringo as a pope with an eyepatch? correct. letting roger daltrey sing along with liszt's music? hell yeah.…
so if I were to describe what happens in this movie you would think I'm just pulling random words out of a hat so I'm not gonna bother
Ken Russell's never been known for cinematic restraint, but in Lisztomania, he goes balls-to-the-walls (literally), and pulls out all the stops, producing a film so utterly loony, it practically defies description. Ostensibly based on the life of composer Franz Liszt,…
I don't know if the suffix "-mania" has ever been more appropriate
More music biopics should end with the title character teaming up with all his ex-wives in Heaven to form a Voltron-style mech and fight a Frankenstein Hitler monster
ken russell having a normal one
me: they showed this on tcm, it can't be as nuts as i heard it was me (~40 mins in): that sure is a 10 ft penis they're riding round on, all right this manages to make phantom of the paradise look like that thing you do comparatively...i leave it up to the reader to…
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt Show me the banana - Caroline Polachek, no doubt remembering the opening scene Mini-Collab w/ Ethan (Previous…
hey this is hideous ok. thanks mr wakeman for the good music anyway.
i sat with my mouth agape almost the entire film. this is the most batshit insane interpretation of franz liszt’s life ever concocted- nothing can top this. why is roger daltry franz though he’s horrible