(Almost) everything directed by the directors in the TSPDT Top 250 Directors. Part II: #214-250 (Part I: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls525812614/)

213. Jonathan Demme 214. Georges Méliès 215. Guru Dutt 216. Francesco Rosi 217. Dario Argento 218. Claude Chabrol 219. Lindsay Anderson 220. René Clair 221. Sofia Coppola 222. Jean Rouch 223. Chen Kaige 224. Jacques Becker 225. Fred Zinnemann 226. Errol Morris 227. Julie Dash 228. Kathryn Bigelow 229. Don Siegel 230. Nuri Bilge Ceylan 231. Robert Hamer 232. Boris Barnet 233. Derek Jarman 234. Kelly Reichardt 235. John Schlesinger 236. David Hand 237. Oliver Stone 238. Michel Gondry 239. Miklós Jancsó 240. Robert Wiene 241. Aleksey German 242. Raúl Ruiz 243. Hong Sang-soo 244. Jerry Lewis 245. Roy Andersson 246. Alan J. Pakula 247. Peter Greenaway 248. Monte Hellman 249. John Waters 250. Ken Russell

TSPDT Top 250 Directors Filmographies Part II

Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell was born 3 July 1927 and sadly passed away 27 November 2011. He was a British film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. His films in the main were liberal adaptations of existing texts, or biographies, notably of composers of the Romantic era. Russell began directing for the BBC, where he made creative adaptations of composers' lives which were unusual for the time. He also directed many feature films independently and for studios.

He is best known for his Oscar-winning film Women in Love (1969), The Devils (1971), The Who's Tommy (1975), and the science fiction film Altered States (1980). Russell also directed several films based on the lives of classical music composers, such as Elgar, Delius, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, and Liszt.

Film critic Mark Kermode, speaking in 2006, and attempting to sum up the director's achievement, called Russell, "somebody who proved that British cinema didn't have to be about kitchen-sink realism—it could be every bit as flamboyant as Fellini. Later in his life he turned to making low-budget experimental films such as Lion's Mouth and Revenge of the Elephant Man, and they are as edgy and 'out there' as ever".

Critics have accused him of being obsessed with sexuality and the Catholic Church.

Taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Russell

JTB Ken Russel - 39 Classic Movies (Comedy/Drama/Documentary/Biography)

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