Mahler
Screened in April 2012
Director: Ken Russell. Cast: Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Peter Eyre, Richard Morant, Gary Rich, Lee Montague, Rosalie Crutchley, Antonia Ellis, Miriam Karlin, Arnold Yarrow, Dana Gillespie, Ronald Pickup, David Collings, Andrew Faulds, George Coulouris, David Trevena, Otto Diamant. Screenplay: Ken Russell.
Twitter Capsule: Ken Russell offering more flim-flammy semi-period psychedelica. At least half nonsense, but with odd, hurt, wild conviction.

Photo © 1974 Goodtimes Enterprises/Visual Programme Systems;
© 1976 Mayfair Films
Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B

Awards:
Cannes Film Festival: Technical Grand Prize (Russell)
British Academy Awards (BAFTAs): Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles (Hale)
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