Editing Ken Russell (section)

===''Women in Love''===
In 1969, Russell directed what is considered his "signature film", ''[[Women in Love (film)|Women In Love]]'', an adaptation of [[D. H. Lawrence]]'s [[Women in Love|novel of the same name]] about two artist sisters living in [[Interwar Britain|post-World War I Britain]]. The film starred [[Glenda Jackson]], [[Oliver Reed]], [[Jennie Linden]] and [[Alan Bates]]. The film is notable for its nude [[wrestling]] scene, which broke the convention at the time that a mainstream movie could not show [[Male genitalia of humans|male genitalia]].  ''Women in Love'' connected with the [[sexual revolution]] and bohemian politics of the late 1960s. It received four [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] nominations, including his only nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]].<ref name="Tel 1">{{cite news|last=Wardrop|first=Murray|title=Ken Russell dies aged 84|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/8919984/Ken-Russell-dies-aged-84.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/8919984/Ken-Russell-dies-aged-84.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=28 November 2011|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=28 November 2011|location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

The film was [[BAFTA]]-nominated for the costume designs of Russell's first wife, [[Shirley Ann Russell|Shirley]]; they collaborated throughout the 1970s. The colour schemes of [[Luciana Arrighi]]'s [[art direction]] (also BAFTA-nominated) and [[Billy Williams (cinematographer)|Billy William]]'s cinematography, which Russell used for metaphorical effect, are also often referred to by film textbooks.

Russell returned to television with ''[[Dance of the Seven Veils (film)|Dance of the Seven Veils]]'' (1970) which sought to portray [[Richard Strauss]] as a [[Nazism|Nazi]]: one scene in particular showed a Jewish man being tortured while a group of [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] men look on in delight, with Strauss's music as the score. The Strauss family was so outraged by the film that they withdrew all music rights.  The film was effectively banned from being screened until Strauss's copyright expired in 2019.<ref>Michael Brooke  [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/482892/ "''Dance of the Seven Veils'' (1970)"], BFI screenonline</ref> It was shown in February 2020 at the [[Keswick Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Blakely |first1=Rhys |title=Banned Ken Russell film Dance of the Seven Veils screened after 50 years |url=https://www.thetimes.com/edition/news/banned-ken-russell-film-dance-of-the-seven-veils-screened-after-50-years-qlz0d229g |access-date=1 March 2020 |work=[[The Times]] |date=1 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref>