Ken Russell on PHALLIC FRENZY
by Andre Soares
In The [London] Times Ken Russell, 80, discusses Joseph Lanza’s "critical biography" Phallic Frenzy: Ken Russell and His Films. The article is called "Can it really be me who lived that life?"
"I must say, Lanza has done his homework. He knows more about my life than I do. It’s a little unsettling to read such intimate details about yourself by someone you’ve never met.
"Phallic Frenzy reads like an overblown, outrageous biographical film script by Ken Russell, full of myth masquerading as fact. And as usual the finished product is bright, irreverent, camp and cacophonous. Lanza has managed to disguise his masterful research as a near-neo-novel with gothic and surreal overtones. I have to applaud the man, having done the same with my own biographies on composers. It makes for a thrilling read — it vibrates, shimmies, pounds down the pavement of every page. And it’s full of admirable detail, insightful conclusions and what, for me, are painful remonstrances — a celebration and something of a telling-off at the same time."
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