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May 23, 2019 6:37:10 GMT dirtypillows said:

May 23, 2019 6:04:55 GMT Toasted Cheese said:

You can see my fingers reflected in the spoon taking the shot...

Talking about pinballs, I have been watching Tommy - 75'. Haven't got through to the end yet as I had to stop half way through last night. Such a surreal and creative vision that Ken Russell bought to the screen, with a lot of subtexts. Haven't seen for ages. What got me thinking about watching it was Elton John and the new Rocketman film coming up. Are you keen on that one Mr. D?

That's kind of funny, because about a month ago, I went through this period where I watched the Ann-Margret baked beans scene.  I love it how she comes out all glamorous, decked out in white and guzzling champagne and AM is just overcome with certain urges.   I didn't catch the KR film itself, his movies were just a little too much one side or another for me to appreciate the movie.  Though I liked it when they did that scene in "!3 Men" for AM, it seemed appropriate.  I think it AM was always an exciting presence for me.  For Ken Russell, I just have never been to inside one of movies   And I wanted to like "Women in Love", and it was all because I wanted to see Oliver Reed nude,

I would mind seeing the biopic of Elton John, with the some kid of approach that the "Boheminan Rhasosdy", which I liked so  so

Tommy is perhaps the film he is most well known for and it was a smash hit. Of course the Who's music and it being based on a rock opera helped its success. It is very outlandish, but it is also the creation of a genuine auteur and visionary. I have always pretty much been fond of Russell's films and he wasn't afraid to defy convention, was original and daring and mocked and satirized the establishment in a bold and brazen manner. He also liked to put religious hypocrisy at the forefront of many of his themes. 

In Tommy, he uses celebrity idolization as Christlike figures—Marilyn Monroe is substituted for The Virgin Mary—and Tommy himself, in despite the trauma's he encounters and his psychosomatic afflictions of blindness, deafness and muteness make him purer than most and in turn the new messiah. It is quite a stunning 70's cinematic achievement Mr. Dirty and I think you really need to make an effort to see if you can. Ann Margaret and Oliver Reed—who wouldn't be able to sing a note for his supper—are a classy added bonus. Tina Turner is just one freaky deakey chick in her Acid Queen Cameo.  

I have never seen Listzomania—where are copies around?—and this is apparently even more outrageous with plenty of phallic imagery and homoeroticism, but just wasn't the success Tommy was.  

I like Women In Love and think The Music Lovers is even better, about Tchaikovsky.  

I am really looking forward to Rocketman. Allegedly, it isn't as sanitized as BR. Looking forward to Tarantino's new film, his ode to Hollywood and Sharon Tate, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.