Tag: ken russell

• October 10, 2023

  Hooptober 10.0 – Gothic (1986)

  Being Film #23 for Hooptober 2023 Having finally felt like I caught on to Ken Russell’s particular and peculiar wavelength, I called an audible and went back to a film I saw as a teenager and never revisited. Gothic purports to dramatize the night that Lord Byron, Dr. John Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley and, of…
• October 7, 2023

  Hooptober 10.0 – The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

  Being Film #22 for Hooptober 2023 Man, Ken Russell is naughty, huh? I mean, yeah…I knew this in theory have seen The Devils, but maybe his predilection for the excesses of every appetite was maybe limited to the type of story being told? Uh, no, and that’s a good thing. The Lair of the White…