KEN RUSSELL, 1927-2011
November 28, 2011 
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Ken Russell with his Lifetime Achievement Award (designed by Rick Trembles) at Fantasia
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Ken Russell, who graced us in Montreal last summer as recipient of Fantasia’s Lifetime Achievement Award and whose imagination, passion, levitra schweiz bravery and brilliance was an inspiration to us all. There has never mexican viagra been another filmmaker remotely like him and he will be deeply missed. We extend condolences and hugs to his beloved Lisi, his children and all who adored him.
Read the BBC Obituary internet pharmacy propecia HERE.
Visit the pre-Spectacular Optical Fantasia blog from 2010 to see an article we posted on Russell’s The Devils to coincide with its screening at the festival: HERE
Mitch Davis (l) and Ken Russell
About the author:
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
