Lisztomania (1975)
Directed by Ken Russell
In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow composer Richard Wagner.
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The icing on the cake, though, came when Coppola claimed that Ken Russell's Lisztomania (1975) was a major influence on the film.
Wedged between composer epics such as Ken Russell's lascivious Lisztomania (1975) and Bernard Rose's surly Beethoven biopic Immortal Beloved (1994), Amadeus fits perfectly, depicting the outrageous opulence of both its period and time of production, revealed for a new generation's illumination.
Perhaps Sophia Coppola should have studied this in addition to Ken Russell’s Lisztomania (1975), before she made her Marie Antoinette (2006).
This is, at last, the movie that Ken Russell was born to direct the same Ken Russell whose wretched excesses in the past include “ The Music Lovers ,” “ The Devils ,” and “ Lisztomania .”
This Ken Russell film (1980) is just as much a camp joke as Lisztomania or Mahler, but this time nobody's laughing, perhaps because Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay provided the first recognizably realistic context for Russell's obsessions since Women in Love.