Lisztomania (widescreen) [1975] Ken Russell

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Lisztomania (1975)



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073298/
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This is a widescreen rip from the laserdisc release of the film, downloaded from Cinemageddon.org



FROM THE UPLOADER:



This rip was made from the letterboxed LD (that would replace a heavily cropped VHS rip already on the tracker) that was upped as a DVD-r on Cinematik. Thanks to Cineleech for uploading it there. Lisztomania is not on DVD and with its bizarre, explicit content and small following isn't likely to be released any time soon. The laserdisc was framed at 2.55, but there was windowboxing, so I autocropped that as well as the non-anamorphic source, which is how autogk came up with 2.44, which looks about right. The quality of the LD was also a bit rough, so consider that when looking at the screenshots. Also, ignore the fact that the opening Warner Brothers logo looks off, it is because it was full frame and I had to crop that too. The rest of the movie looks normal. This rip is larger and cleaner than the one I put up on Karagarga, I also encoded the 5 minutes of credits at 20% and deleted the opening FBI warning and logo, so the limited source became less of a factor.





Very bad, over the top, one can't help but wonder what they were thinking while they made it. Indeed a bad movie, but legendarily, almost mythically bad.









Lisztomania is a 1975 film by Ken Russell, drawn from a biography of Franz Liszt.



Depicting the flamboyant Liszt as the first classical pop star, Lisztomania features then-contemporary rock star Roger Daltrey in the leading role. The film was released the same year as Tommy, also starring Daltrey and directed by Russell. The film is derived in part from an actual "kiss-and-tell" book, Nélida, by Marie d'Agoult, about her affair with Liszt.



The term "Lisztomania" was coined by the German romantic literary figure Heinrich Heine to describe the massive public response to Liszt's virtuosic piano performances. There were screaming women and concerts were often standing room only.



Rick Wakeman, from the progressive rock band Yes, composed the Lisztomania album soundtrack for the movie, making synthesizer arrangements of Liszt and Wagner. He also appears in the movie as the nordic god of thunder Thor. Daltrey and Russell wrote the lyrics for the songs, and Daltrey sang on the soundtrack.



Other rock celebrities appear in the movie such as The Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr, who appears as the Pope.



This movie was first to use the relatively new Dolby Stereo noise reduction sound system.



As of yet, Lisztomania has still not been released on DVD format, in any region (there was a 1990's laserdisc release in letterbox format and Dolby Surround sound).



Directed by Ken Russell

Produced by Roy Baird David Puttnam

Written by Ken Russell

Music by Rick Wakeman Franz Liszt Richard Wagner

Cinematography Peter Suschitzky

Editing by Stuart Baird

Distributed by Warner Bros.

Release date 10 October 1975

Running time 103 min.

Country U.K.

Language English





Roger Daltrey ... Franz Liszt

Sara Kestelman ... Princess Carolyn

Paul Nicholas ... Richard Wagner

Ringo Starr ... The Pope

Rick Wakeman ... Thor

John Justin ... Count d'Agoult

Fiona Lewis ... Marie d'Agoult

Veronica Quilligan ... Cosima

Nell Campbell ... Olga Janina

Andrew Reilly ... Hans Von Buelow

David English ... Captain

Imogen Claire ... George Sand

Rikki Howard ... Countess

David Corti ... Daniel

Anulka Dziubinska ... Lola Montez

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