"Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about."
"Art is alive. Enjoy it, laugh at it, love it or hate it but don't worship it!" Savage Messiah
Russell was one of British cinema's creative geniuses. Always pushing the limits, always provocative, much maligned, reviled and misunderstood, often brilliant, often excruciatingly bad and screamingly camp. He could be infuriating, shocking and disgusting but he was never ever boring; very much a saint and a sinner to British film and for that we weary cinephiles thank you.
And I won't dwell too much on what seeing Oliver Reed and Alan Bates wrestling naked in front of an open fire did to me as a sexually burgeoning young teenager. For that I thank you too.
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