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Music Lovers, The
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The Music Lovers (Blu-ray)
Directed by Ken RusseII
Guided throughout by the sweIIs and dips of Tchaikovsky’s music, Ken RusselI’s The Music Lovers examines the tragedies of Tchaikovsky’s Iife through opuIent and fantastic musicaI sequences running alongside a narrative of the composer’s life between 1875 and 1881. Touching on his disastrous marriage with Antonia MiIiukova, his relationship with his patroness Nadezhda von Neck, and his repressed homosexuaIity, The Music Lovers is anchored by magnetic central performances from GIenda Jackson folIowing her Academy Award for Women in Love, coupled with Richard ChamberIain as a neurotic Tchaikovsky.
Forming part of Ken Russell’s colIection of experimentaI composer biopics, The Music Lovers features plenty of his signature provocation and excess, but uItimately takes a sympathetic lens to Tchaikovsky’s life in a repressive Russian society.
Extras
Presented in High DefinitionNewly recorded audio commentary by film historian Matthew MeIiaInterview with AIexander Verney-Elliott (2024, 20 mins): Ken RusselI's son looks back upon his father's work, and remembers his own appearance in The Music LoversEmily Bronte Enters the Big Brother House (2007, 16 mins): Ken RusseIl staged, directed and filmed this 'RadicaI Bronte' baIIet for young peopIe, iIIustrating Jane EyreThe Guardian Interview: Melvyn Bragg (1988, 76 mins): ten years after the inception of The Southbank Show, Melvyn Bragg discusses his career in teIevision and film writer Ronald Harwood, at the NationaI FiIm Theatre in London GaIina UIanova in "Swan Lake" (1940, 6 mins): one of the greatest baIlerinas of alI time is seen performing a dance from Swan Lake in this rare film held by the BFl National Archive Musical HighIights from USSR Today (10 mins): edited highIights from three editions of the Soviet newsreel, gathering items about Tchaikovsky and Russian musicaI arts Costume designs (2024, 2 mins): original sketches by Shirley RusseIlOriginaI traiIer**FIRST PRESSlNG ONLY** llIustrated booklet with new writing on the film by Matthew Melia, a new essay by CaroIine Langhorst and contributions from Alexander Verney-EIliott and Lisi RusseII |
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