Altered States (1980)
Directed by Ken Russell
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.
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There isn't a lucid moment in it (and much of the dialogue is rendered unintelligible by Russell's subversive direction), but it has dash, style, and good looks, as well as the funniest curtain line since Some Like It Hot.
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.
Disappointing fare by Ken Russell who once gave the world the world such movie classics as Women In Love and Mahler.
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.
Disappointing fare by Ken Russell who once gave the world the world such movie classics as Women In Love and Mahler.
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.
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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 .”