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This is part of Russell Forever, a Ken Russell tribute season taking place from March 9th to the 19th across London to celebrate the BFI release of The Devils and organised by the guys who did Scala Forever, so it should be good...
Still Advance presents
A Ken Russell Double Bill
Crimes of Passion – Uncut
Whore
Sunday 11 March 2012
2.30pm
Shacklewell Arms
71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB
£5
“Ken Russell may well be the greatest and most original of all British film directors” – Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, Straight To Hell)
Crimes of Passion - Uncut
A delirious tale of obsession between a career woman leading a double life as a prostitute, a fanatical reverend and a private detective trapped in a stale marriage, Crimes of Passion takes on sexuality, religion, split personalities and the masks people wear to succeed. Nightmarish, satirical and outrageous, it was Russell’s second American production after Altered States. The version shown will be the full, uncensored film.
“A comedy so black it recaptures some of cinema's long-lost power to shock” – Time Out
“Tests the bounds of the psycho-thriller” – The Guardian
“Out of control” – The New York Times
Whore
Adapted from London cab driver David Hines’ play Bondage and relocated to the US, Whore is a virtual one woman show for Theresa Russell, a LA street walker tired of her work. Naturalistic and blackly comic, the film was Russell’s response to Pretty Woman, designed to shatter any illusions about the glamour of prostitution. The victim of several BBFC cuts, Whore showed he hadn’t lost his knack for baiting the censors.
“Bleakly uncompromising” – The Independent
“Told without adornment or sentimentalism or phony romantic myths… this is the real stuff” – Roger Ebert
“Hollywood’s happy hooker will never be the same again” – Los Angeles Times
http://www.shacklewellarms.com/list...en-russell-double-bill--the-shacklewell-arms/
Still Advance presents
A Ken Russell Double Bill
Crimes of Passion – Uncut
Whore
Sunday 11 March 2012
2.30pm
Shacklewell Arms
71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB
£5
“Ken Russell may well be the greatest and most original of all British film directors” – Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, Straight To Hell)
Crimes of Passion - Uncut
A delirious tale of obsession between a career woman leading a double life as a prostitute, a fanatical reverend and a private detective trapped in a stale marriage, Crimes of Passion takes on sexuality, religion, split personalities and the masks people wear to succeed. Nightmarish, satirical and outrageous, it was Russell’s second American production after Altered States. The version shown will be the full, uncensored film.
“A comedy so black it recaptures some of cinema's long-lost power to shock” – Time Out
“Tests the bounds of the psycho-thriller” – The Guardian
“Out of control” – The New York Times
Whore
Adapted from London cab driver David Hines’ play Bondage and relocated to the US, Whore is a virtual one woman show for Theresa Russell, a LA street walker tired of her work. Naturalistic and blackly comic, the film was Russell’s response to Pretty Woman, designed to shatter any illusions about the glamour of prostitution. The victim of several BBFC cuts, Whore showed he hadn’t lost his knack for baiting the censors.
“Bleakly uncompromising” – The Independent
“Told without adornment or sentimentalism or phony romantic myths… this is the real stuff” – Roger Ebert
“Hollywood’s happy hooker will never be the same again” – Los Angeles Times
http://www.shacklewellarms.com/list...en-russell-double-bill--the-shacklewell-arms/
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