Elgar (1962)
- Directed by
- Ken Russell
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 56 min
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This is a biography about the life of English composer Edward Elgar. It uses dramatic scenes and visuals to show his story. The film helped make his music more popular again.
energeticatmosphericreverentinformativevisually inventivenostalgicdramatichistorical
What happens
Elgar is a British drama documentary made in 1962 by the British director Ken Russell for BBC Television's Monitor series. It dramatised in vigorous style the life of the English composer Sir Edward Elgar. The film established Russell as a directorial talent, and spawned a series of dramatised biographies of composers by Russell, both for television and theatrical release. Elgar helped to revive the reputation of the composer's work. In the words of one writer, the film "marks the debut of both a great and original visual stylist (Russell) and the first use of techniques that have since become almost commonplace in the realm of documentary filmmaking." The film was narrated by Huw Wheldon. The British Film Institute selected it as one of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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