Altered States (Russell, 1980): Prince Charles Cinema, 6.05pm
This film is part of the Ken Russell season at the Prince Charles Cinema and is also screened on May 28th. Full details here.Chicago Reader review:
This Ken Russell film (1980) is just as much a camp joke as Lisztomania or Mahler,
but this time nobody’s laughing, perhaps because Paddy Chayefsky’s
screenplay provided the first recognizably realistic context for
Russell’s obsessions since Women in Love. Chayefsky, who had his
name removed from the credits, may have thought it was about the agony
and ecstasy of scientific investigation, but in Russell’s hands it
becomes another nutball Neoplatonic allegory, riddled with Catholic
epiphanies. There isn’t a lucid moment in it (and much of the dialogue
is rendered unintelligible by Russell’s subversive direction), but it
has dash, style, and good looks, as well as the funniest curtain line
since Some Like It Hot.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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