Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 77: Wed Mar 19

The Music Lovers (Russell, 1970): Prince Charles Cinema, 6.05pm


This 35mm screening is part of a mini Ken Russell season at the Prince Charles Cinema. Full details can be found here.

Chicago Reader review:
This Ken Russell fantasia—musical biography as wet dream—hangs together more successfully than his other similar efforts, thanks largely to a powerhouse performance by Glenda Jackson, one actress who can hold her own against Russell's excess. Richard Chamberlain stars as a befuddled, banal-minded Tchaikovsky, who imagines the cannon fire of the 1812 Overture aimed at the heads of his enemies.
Dave Kehr

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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