As a tribute to Ken Russell, the flamboyant and provocative British filmmaker who died last year at age eighty-four, we screen Gothic, his extravagantly excessive 1986 tale of the birth of Frankenstein.
Ken Russell (U.K., 1986). With live pre-show music by Brale, the world's only Ken Russell tribute band. Extravagantly excessive, Gothic takes us inside the country estate where in 1816 Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne), Mary Shelley (Natasha Richardson), and Percy Bysshe Shelley (Julian Sands) agonizingly birth the monster to be called Frankenstein. Russell in all his untamed grandiosity. (87 mins)