Ken Russell

6.0

1964

Bela Bartók

A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his musi…

The Lonely Shore

One of the most conceptually original of all the films that Ken Russell made for Monitor, this imagi…

5.5

Pop Goes the Easel

Pop Goes the Easel was Ken Russell’s first full-length documentary for the BBC’s arts series Monitor…

The Preservation Man

The Preservation Man is about useless objects but here they're part of the artist Bruce Lacey's coll…

7.0

Elgar: Portrait of a Composer

A partly dramatised account of the life of classical composer Sir Edward Elgar. An episode of the BB…

6.5

Antonio Gaudí

A study of Antoni Gaudí's architecture (especially the Church of the Holy Trinity in Barcelona), his…

6.0

Prokofiev

Subtitled 'Portrait of a Soviet Composer', this is the second of Ken Russell's composer biopics.…

4.0

Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill

Ken Russell directed a short document of German actress (and widow of famed composer Kurt Weill) Lot…