"Director: Ken Russell"

• The Devils (Special Edition) | DVD | (19/03/2012) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In seventeenth-century France, a promiscuous and divisive local priest, Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed), uses his powers to protect the city of Loudon from destruction at the hands of the establishment. Soon, he stands accused of the demonic possession of Sister Jeanne (Vanessa Redgrave), whose erotic obsession with him fuels the hysterical fervour that sweeps through the convent. With its bold and brilliant direction by Ken Russell, magnificent performances by Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, exquisite Derek Jarman sets and sublimely dissonant score by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, The Devils stands as a profound and sincere commentary on religious hysteria, political persecution and the corrupt marriage of church and state.

• The Ken Russell Collection: The Great Composers (Dual Format Edition) | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £20.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (42.88%)   |  RRP £29.99

  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' Monitor and Omnibus were critically-acclaimed and often seen as a high point in his filmmaking. The first of the three films, Elgar (1962), portrays in vigorous style the life of the English composer Sir Edward Elgar, with Huw Wheldon narrating his life story over beautiful mountain scenery. The Debussy Film (1965), Russell's penultimate film for Monitor, was an ambitious work about the composer's life, written by Melvyn Bragg and starring Oliver Reed as Claude Debussy. Delius: Song of Summer (1968) is generally regarded (not least by its director) as Russell's best television film with many critics citing it as his finest work in any medium. The story traces Eric Fenby and is based on his memoirs of trying to help the blind and paralysed composer Frederick Delius. The films in this collection have been remastered to High Definition, and are presented on Blu-ray for the very first time.

• Lady Chatterley | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £13.35   |  Saving you £-3.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Adapted by Ken Russell from D.H. Laurence's classic novels Lady Chatterley is a passionate love story which portrays the tempestuous and scandalous affair between an aristocratic young woman and her husband's gamekeeper. Joely Richardson plays one of fiction's most famous and passionate characters Lady Chatterley and Sean Bean' is Mellors the moody and intense gamekeeper with whom she falls in love. The adaptation of a book that was banned for 30 years made some of the most controversial and talked-about scenes in television history. It is also a moving love story filmed in glorious settings with sumptuous costumes and a brilliant British cast including James Wilby Ken Russell Shirley Anne Field and Hetty Baynes.

• Lair of the White Worm (Vestron) | Blu Ray | (26/02/2018) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Lair of the White Worm: Feature run time: 94 mins approx. Audio Commentary with Director Ken Russell Audio Commentary with Lisi Russell, in conversation with Film Historian Matthew Melia Worm Food - interviews with Special Effects Artists Geoffrey Portass, Neil Gorton and Paul Jones Cutting for Ken - an interview with Editor Peter Davies Trailers From Hell featuring Producer Dan Ireland Mary, Mary an interview with Actress Sammi Davis Theatrical Trailer Still Gallery

• Valentino | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Premier ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev makes his acting debut in this lavish story of the life of the famous silent screen actor Rudolph Valentino who caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets upon his death. Controversial director Ken Russell lavishly recreates the glitzy and decadent atmosphere of the roaring 20's and the presence of Nureyev as Valentino imbues the film with passion rarely found in Hollywood.

• Tommy - The Movie (The Who) | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £16.05   |  Saving you £-10.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Ken Russell's flamboyant treatment of The Who's rock opera about a deaf dumb and blind boy who develops an extraordinary ability at pinball. Under his sinister stepfather's influence he achieves fame and a cult following but his almost messianic status also spells the beginning of his destruction... Featuring musical contributions from a host of rock stars including Elton John Eric Clapton and Tina Turner.

• Mahler | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From its stunning opening sequence, featuring Georgina Hale (who plays the wife of Gustav Mahler in this Ken Russell film) isolated in full mummy wrap and writhing with erotic yearning to the lush strains of her husband's music, Mahler distinguishes itself as the most poetic and archetypal of Russell's great-composer works. A kind of cinematic response to Luchino Visconti's 1971 adaptation of Death in Venice, in which Dirk Bogarde plays a Mahler-esque composer in search of beauty in the plague-filled city, Mahler stars Robert Powell as the great Jewish romantic from 19th-century Vienna, drafting enormous symphonic works in the midst of rising anti-Semitism. Converting to Christianity as a means of survival, Mahler carries on with his work but experiences an erosion of his health and sense of identity. Meanwhile, his self-effacing spouse represses her own creative drives to keep the resident genius afloat, plugging every leak and receding all but invisible into the woodwork. While the film is the least ostentatious of Russell's movies about music, it is hardly conventional--a mix of lyrical tableaux and comic fantasy that adds up to a stirring, dream-like experience. --Tom Keogh

• Altered States | DVD | (30/01/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Research scientist Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) believes other states of consciousness are as real as everyday reality. Using sensory deprivation then adding powerful hallucinogenic drugs he explores these altered states and endures experiences that make madness seem a blessing... Academy Award winner William Hurt (in his film debut) as Jessup heads a solid cast featuring Blair Brown Bob Balaban and Charles Haid. Working from Paddy Chayefsky's novel director Ken Russell guides u

• Valentino (Dual Format Edition) | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £17.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Controversial British director Ken Russell (Women in Love, The Devils) tells the story of one of the silver screen's greatest legends, Rudolf Valentino, in this flamboyant and sexually-charged film. Starring world-famous ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev as the adored silent screen actor of the early Hollywood age, Valentino explore the stars humble beginnings as an immigrant in the United States, where he worked for a minimal wage before becoming a New York City gigolo. We then follow him to California, where his good looks allow him to seduce respected actresses. Eventually, his famous lovers help him become a leading man, and he quickly ascends to stardom where he can't escape the media's questions about his past and sexuality. Previously unavailable on Blu-ray, Valentino is an enthralling biopic from one of Britain's most distinctive and celebrated filmmakers.

• Lady Chatterley | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Everyone knows her name - but few know her story. Fifty years ago the publication of D.H. Lawrence's scandalous novel led to one of the most celebrated obscenity trials of the 20th century. To mark that occasion we present acclaimed director Ken Russell's powerful film version which brings this vivid and extraordinary tale to life. Joely Richardson stars as Lady Chatterley wife to the emotionally and physically paralysed Sir Clifford in a post-war England which finds itself on the cusp of change. The old ways and class divisions have begun to crumble as the bulk of a nation's youth fell in the trenches leaving a downtrodden but emboldened few. As Lady Chatterley bereft of her husband's attention finds a re-awakening in the arms of a working man more is at stake than honour and more is at risk than marriage in this dramatic and passionate re-telling of Lawrence's now classic tale.

• Tommy | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £9.55   |  Saving you £3.44 (36.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  If you've ever wanted to hear Jack Nicholson sing or marvel at the sight of Ann-Margret drunkenly cavorting in a cascade of baked beans, Tommy is the movie you've been waiting for. The Who's brilliant rock opera is sublimely matched by director Ken Russell's penchant for cinematic excess during the peak of his filmmaking audacity. Tommy revolves around the 'deaf, dumb, and blind kid' (Roger Daltrey) who survives the childhood trauma that stole his senses to become a Pinball Wizard in Pete Townshend's grandiose attack on the hypocrisy of organised religion. Tommy's odyssey is rendered through wall-to-wall music, from the bloodstream shock of Tina Turner to Elton John's towering rendition of 'Pinball Wizard' and Daltrey's epiphanous rendition of 'I'm Free'. Other star performers include Eric Clapton and the Who's drummer Keith Moon in this classic of creative rock cinema.

• Tommy (Special Edition) | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £13.73   |  Saving you £-0.75 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Even by the standards of a genre not characterised by restraint, the 1974 rock opera Tommy is endearingly barmy, a bizarre combination of Pete Townshend's disturbed inspiration and director Ken Russell's wildly eccentric vision. Even if you gamely try and read allegorical meaning into it, the story is frankly odd: a child becomes psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind after witnessing the murder of his father by his stepdad and goes on to become rich and famous as the world pinball champion (since when was pinball a world-class competitor sport?), before setting himself up as a latter-day messiah. It's about the travails of the post-war generation, the disaffection of youth, the trauma of childhood abuse, the sham nature of new-age cults, and many other things besides. At least, that's what Townshend and Russell would have you believe. But what's really important is the many wonderful, utterly bonkers set-pieces--effectively a string of pop videos--that occur along the way, performed by great guest stars: Tina Turner as the Acid Queen, Eric Clapton as the Preacher, Keith Moon as Uncle Ernie, Elton John's mighty rendition of "Pinball Wizard", even Jack Nicholson doing a turn as a suave specialist. Roger Daltrey is iconic in his signature role, and Oliver Reed makes up for a complete inability to sing with a bravura performance as his sleazy stepdad, but best of all is Ann-Margret as Tommy's mother Nora: her charismatic presence holds the loose narrative together and she richly deserved her Academy Award nomination; the sight of her in a nylon cat suit being drenched in baked beans and chocolate from an exploding TV set is worth the price of admission alone. On the DVD: Tommy comes to DVD in a two-disc set, with the feature on disc one accompanied by three audio tracks: Dolby Stereo or 5.1 surround, as well as the original "Quintaphonic" surround mix--a unique experience with effectively two pairs of stereo tracks plus a centre track for the vocals. The anamorphic picture adequately recreates the original theatrical ratio. The second disc has a series of lengthy and illuminating new interviews with the main (surviving) players: Townshend, Russell, Daltrey and Ann-Margret, in which we learn among other things, that Daltrey wasn't Townshend's first choice for the role, that Stevie Wonder was the original preference for the Pinball Wizard, and that Ken Russell had never heard of any of these rock stars before agreeing to helm the movie. There's also a feature on the original sound mix and its restoration for DVD. All in all, a satisfying package for fans of one of the daftest chapters in the annals of rock music. --Mark Walker

• Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers | DVD | (12/04/2015) from £11.58   |  Saving you £3.41 (29.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Perhaps the most infamous title which was not only censored by the BBFC it had its title censored too removing the word “CHAINSAW” from its original video rental sleeve! Now available in the UK in a complete uncensored version very few films have achieved the cult status of Fred Olen Ray’s HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS. It played in festivals around the world it inspired numerous imitators and it made a bona-fide B-Movie Megastar of actress Michelle Bauer. Now 27 years later Nucleus Films presents a Special Anniversary Edition in celebration of the continuing mystique that is HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS. Join detective Jack Chandler as he tracks the runaway teen (played by Horror Queen Linnea Quigley) into the dark recesses of Los Angeles’s most stringent religious cult. Beware the chainsaw-worshipping madman played by THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE’S original Leatherface Gunnar Hansen! And above all else watch out for the saw-wielding vixen performing “The Virgin Danced of the Double Chainsaws”! Bonus Features: Theatrical Trailer Audio Commentary with Director Fred Olen Ray & TL Lankford Making Of Documentary Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers & the BBFC Double-Sided Sleeve

• Women In Love | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Before director Ken Russell's name became synonymous with cinematic extravagance and overkill, he actually directed what is one of the most passionate and involving adaptations of DH Lawrence in recent memory. Oliver Reed and Alan Bates star as friends who fall in love with a pair of sisters (Jennie Linden and Glenda Jackson, who won an Oscar for the role). But the relationships take markedly different directions, as Russell explores the nature of commitment and love. Bates and Linden learn to give themselves to each other; the more withdrawn Reed cannot, finally, connect with the demanding and challenging Jackson. Shot with great sensuality, Women in Love was surprisingly frank for its period (1970) and includes one of the most charged scenes in movie history: Bates and Reed as manly men, wrestling nude by firelight. --Marshall Fine

• Tommy | Blu Ray | (11/11/2013) from £13.65   |  Saving you £8.34 (61.10%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Finally on Blu-ray! Ken Russell's cinematic telling of The Who's psychedelic rock opera about a deaf dumb and blind kid. Roger Daltrey Oliver Reed Elton John Ann-Margaret Eric Clapton Keith Moon Jack Nicholson and Tina Turner star! Special Features: Audio Commentary with Ken Russell and Mark Kermode Ken Russell on Tommy Pete Townshend Interview Roger Daltrey Interview Ann-Margret Spills the Beans The Story of the Sound Theatrical Trailer

• 60s Spies Collection - Billion Dollar Brain/Our Man Flint/In Like Flint | DVD | (09/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Billion Dollar Brain (Dir. Ken Russell 1967): Ken Russell's big budget film is an adaptation of Len Deighton's novel a sequel to 'The Ipcress File' in which Michael Caine reprises his role as bespectacled British Intelligence officer Harry Palmer this time stumbling into a plot to overthrow the Soviet Communist regime using a supercomputer. But who is working for whom and will Harry live long enough to find out? Our Man Flint (Dir. Daniel Mann 1966): This comic send-up of James Bond films features Flint (Coburn) a secret agent who like Bond uses wacky contraptions to get himself out of sticky situations; and like Bond he's also habitually surrounded by beauteous babes. A deranged trio has devised a way to rule the world: by dictating the Earth's climate. Our man Flint is hired by ZOWIE (The Zonal Organization on World Intelligence Espionage) to suavely save the day. In Like Flint (Dir. Gordon Douglas 1967): A group of renegade women led by the lovely Helena. attempts to take over the world. When Flint's male ""allies"" try to double-cross Helena and seize power themselves only the amazing Flint can save the day.

• French Dressing | DVD | (08/07/2013) from £21.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Women in Love | Blu Ray | (22/08/2016) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Before director Ken Russell's name became synonymous with cinematic extravagance and overkill, he actually directed what is one of the most passionate and involving adaptations of DH Lawrence in recent memory. Oliver Reed and Alan Bates star as friends who fall in love with a pair of sisters (Jennie Linden and Glenda Jackson, who won an Oscar for the role). But the relationships take markedly different directions, as Russell explores the nature of commitment and love. Bates and Linden learn to give themselves to each other; the more withdrawn Reed cannot, finally, connect with the demanding and challenging Jackson. Shot with great sensuality, Women in Love was surprisingly frank for its period (1970) and includes one of the most charged scenes in movie history: Bates and Reed as manly men, wrestling nude by firelight. --Marshall Fine

• Tommy | DVD | (30/07/2001) from £19.23   |  Saving you £1.75 (10.78%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Ken Russell's flamboyant treatment of The Who's rock opera about a deaf dumb and blind boy who develops an extraordinary ability at pinball. Under his sinister stepfather's influence he achieves fame and a cult following but his almost messianic status also spells the beginning of his destruction... Featuring musical contributions from a host of rock stars including Elton John Eric Clapton and Tina Turner.

• The Rainbow | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £7.14   |  Saving you £8.85 (123.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Defying the moral constraints of Victorian England and her parents a young woman engages in unbridled promiscuity with two partners before setting out to capture the full sensuality of life itself. Based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence.