Women in Love (1969)

Thursday, October 18, 2018 @ 6:45 PM
Plaza Theatre - 1133 Kensington Rd NW, Calgary, AB
$12 General | $10 Members/Seniors/Students | $40 5-Pack Punch Pass | $99 Season Pass

Saturday, December 02, 2018 @ 2:00 PM
Central Library - 802 3rd St SE Calgary, AB
FREE Admission (as part of our Library Series, which presents a free screening of the film along with a short lecture/guided discussion of its cultural and artistic significance.)

Directed by Ken Russell | UK | 131 mins.

Ken Russell burst onto the international film stage with his audacious screen adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s scandalous 1920 novel Women In Love. Coming off the great success of his BBC Monitor composer documentaries, Russell, with the help of screenwriter Larry Kramer, and the multi-dimensional talents of a courageous cast (including Alan Bates, and future frequent Russell collaborators Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed) fashions a brazen and provocative cinematic fable of romantic love.

Utilizing the lush and sensuous camerawork of ace cinematographer Billy Williams, Russell investigates the ecstasies and great tragedies that lie in store for anyone daring to risk their sexual freedom. Nominated for 4 Oscars, including Best Director for Ken Russell, and winner of the Best Actress Oscar for the brash and blazing talents of its star, Glenda Jackson, Women in Love shows Russell finally beginning to fully emerge as the enfant terrible of 1970s British Cinema.

- Written by Scott Lang

MASTERS: KEN RUSSELL

A true iconoclast among British filmmakers, Ken Russell began his career in television, making films for the BBC that combined elements of the documentary and the biopic to radical effect. Many of Russell’s television films focus on composers, a trend he would continue throughout his career, resulting in baroque theatrical features about the likes of Tchaikovsky, Mahler, and Liszt. Whether making biopics like Mahler, adaptations of canonized literary classics such as Women in Love, or wild phantasmagorias such as Altered States, Russell’s approach was always flamboyant and brash, the resultant films luxuriating in the tawdry or sensational. Often controversial, Russell always maintained the courage of his convictions and a defiant consistency of vision. Never beholden to decorum or conventional standards of good taste, Russell’s films continue to maintain their ability to shock, awe, and delight. His is a decadent cinema suggesting that civilization may not be so civilized after all.

LIBRARY SCREENING SERIES @ NEW CENTRAL LIBRARY

In partnership with the Calgary Public Library, these free Sunday afternoon screenings are paired with a lecture and guided conversation about each film’s artistic and cultural impact. One film from each of our programming series will be featured, as well as a special Remembrance Day screening. 

About Calgary Cinematheque

We are a non-profit film society dedicated to presenting significant, challenging, and essential works of cinema art in Calgary. During our season, which runs from October to April, we screen films weekly, in curated programs which situate each film in a thematic and historical context. We do this because we believe cinema is an essential form of artistic, social, and political expression. Audiences should be able to engage with a wide range of cinematic expression, not only with what is commercially viable. We believe in the power of sharing these experiences with other people in a theatrical setting and we strive to cultivate a community around that experience.  

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