Delius - Song Of Summer
This wonderful film, Ken Russell’s pioneering docu-dramas early is exceptional. It has everything, Great acting (Max Adrian as Delius torn, very irritable and unpleasant, but inspired and Chris Gable suffered as Eric Fenby tells the whole story.
The film describes the relationship between a young Fenby and the great composer, now blind and crippled with venereal disease. This association did not gave us all more time no masterpieces have been written.
Located in Yorkshire, France and Norway, the spectacular scenery and the music of Delius merge together and leave you delighted and deeply moved. This is a great movie and it will remain a benchmark. If you like a wonderful story, great music and exceptional acting make this one a try, you will not regret.
Tags: BFI VIDEO, Christopher Gable, David Collings, Drama, Ken Russell, Max Adrian
June 16th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Ken Russell’s surreal telling of a visit paid to Lord Byron. Must see for horror fans. Great cast!
June 17th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
oh well, you can’t please everyone on every count.
I regret if the connection between Greenaway and Duran Duran wasn’t clear. The point we tried to make was that there was a preponderance of interest in heritage culture in conservative Thatcher 80s Britain, as evidenced by the New Romantic Pop movement, the Falklands War and The Draughtsman’s Contract. That the BFI would finance their first film upon a period picture saturated in arcane cultural signifiers falls in line with this overall trend of heritage nostalgia in British culture at the time. Furthermore the argument is that the film does more to exploit than to interrogate or subvert this nostalgia for Britain’s storied colonial heritage, which is no better or worse than what the New Wave bands did with their videos or what Thatcher did with the Falklands.
Sorry again if the video failed to elucidate this argument, which I think is an intriguing one. The idea is Karina’s, the execution of it in video essay format is mine, so only one of us is to blame if the results are found lacking.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:49 am
However Endy was off to the hottest start of his career and will probably never do that again.
Now instead of having Ichiro getting on base at the start of the inning you have him getting on with2 outs probably. You move Ichiro to the 3 spot for RBI opportunities but he’s one of your best OBP guys and your best AVG guy as well so he’s leadoff for a while. Beltre has looked bad but hte results where there… Now he’s just unlucky this year on the balls put into play.
Also changing the order of the players isn’t gonna change their performances at all so Ichiro to the 3 hole should just die…
If you’re building a line up by the book by Tom Tango here’s a look thanks to Decatur:
L (35) 1. RF Ichiro ~.340 wOBA (D +10)
R (25) 6. 2B Jose Lopez ~.320 wOBA (D +0)
L (39) 3. DH Ken Griffey Jr. ~.336 wOBA
R (30) 4. 3B Adrian Beltre ~.338 wOBA (D +10)
L (33) 5. 1B Russell Branyan ~.345 wOBA (D + 0)
R (26) 2. CF Franklin Gutierrez ~.320 wOBA (D + 15)?
R (33) 7. Kenji Johjima C ~.306 wOBA (D ?)
L (31) 8. LF Endy Chavez ~.305 wOBA (D +15)
R (26) 9. SS Ronny Cedeno ~.305 wOBA (SS D + 0; 2B D +10)
I kinda wish Clement was here though…
June 18th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
She looks prettier with shorter hair but I guess in the 70’s everyone had to have a big feathery hairdo . . .
June 19th, 2009 at 1:07 am
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June 23rd, 2009 at 5:07 pm
My favorite version. Thanks for posting!!! I like life!!!
June 24th, 2009 at 12:47 am
They're stuck up their own arse, thats for sure
June 25th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
The sound track has nothing to do with Ken Russell it is the music from the original stage musical written by Sandy Wilson, if you want to hear it sung properly listen to Julie Andrews sing the songs from the original Broadway play, on DVD.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:46 am
Gold seems to be catching a bid as London opens. It feels a tad soon for another launch at $US1000. The drama will really start when it holds above.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:51 am
meant “Ken Reynolds” – Ken Russell’s movies must have left a lasting impression. Sorry about that.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:17 am
I suppose it’s a bit of well hey, if I had this all in my own head completely, I’d go mad. I’m living a fucked up life, in a fucked up relationship, while trying to stay a bit of a normal person myself.
I never wanted to be 27 and emailing my Mom for money. I’ve wanted away from her since I was 5 years old. But I was also lectured so much by my asian family how much they never had anything that I kinda said, alright, I’m never gonna do that to my kids, I’m not gonna blag on about that whole rags to riches drama so that we can be smug with our Goldman Sachs job(miserable).
I’ve been her whipping boy the entire length of my expensive education, and bound to her for the price of it. Tied to a fucking cunt, you become a bit of well… a cunt. I’m looking for a raft off this island but it hasn’t worked out getting off to serve coffee or investment banking. It’s for a long time felt like music was the ticket, but hey I just gotta keep going, it takes a while. And that’s what I’m gonna do is keep going. Fuck all y’all, and thanks for reading my shit (literally.)
I’ve done a lot of loser shit in the sagas above. But I’ll rise above it and become who I wanna be
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:44 am
Hey that’s what I was wondering too
July 11th, 2009 at 1:28 am
Aww… Ken Russell left Sun :/