Ken Russell: The Great Passions kolme elokuvaa BFI blu-ray

Brittiohjaaja Ken Russell (mm. Altered States, The Devils) ohjasi BBC:lle 1960-luvulla mestarillisia dokumentteja kuuluisista taiteilijoista. Tämä The Great Passions -kokoelma sisältää säveltäjistä kertovat elokuvat Always on Sunday (1965), Isadora: The Biggest Dancer in the World (1966) ja Dante's Inferno (1967).

Muuten uudenveroisessa kunnossa, mutta muovikotelo on kärsinyt postituksessa ja muutamasta kohdasta lohjennut.

BFI:n laadukas dual disc -julkaisu, eli tässä on elokuvat sekä blu-rayna että dvd:nä. Region 2 eli toimii suomalaisissa soittimissa. Englanninkieliset tekstitykset.

Kuvaus julkaisusta:

A Dual Format Edition collection bringing together the career defining work of Ken Russell at the BBC. Russell's work during the sixties for award-winning arts documentary series Monitorand Omnibus were critically-acclaimed and often seen as a high point in his filmmaking.

The collection opens with Always on Sunday (1965) a dramatized examination of the painter Henri Rousseau. The combination of Russell reuniting with Melvyn Bragg and Oliver Reed and Russell's infectious love of the film's subject results in a film which is illuminating in every frame. Isadora: The Biggest Dancer in the World (1966), a study of the outrageous American dancer, Isadora Duncan, starring Vivian Pickles as the dancer whose obsession with the importance of art and complete disdain for decorum chimes perfectly with Russell's own sensibility. Last of the TV dramas is Dante's Inferno (1967) which tells of the complex relationship between the 19th century artist and poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his model Elizabeth Siddal.

The films in this collection have been remastered to High Definition, and are presented on Blu-ray for the very first time.