Lisztomania (1975 Box Office Flop)
The third episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1975 features the year’s biggest flop, Ken Russell’s Lisztomania. Written and directed by Ken Russell and starring Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, Fiona Lewis and Veronica Quilligan, Lisztomania was intended as part of a never-completed series of biopics about composers directed by Russell.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/lisztomania-1975), Richard Eder in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1975/10/11/archives/screen-lisztomaniaits-ken-russells-spangled-postbeatles-rococo-and.html), and Janet Maslin in The Boston Phoenix.
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