The Music Lovers is another good Ken Russell film. Very VERY conservative by Russel standards(there's a few of the trademark break away interpretive sequences, but they're quite tame in comparison to his later works). Covers the life of Tchaikovsky, mostly focusing on his struggles with repressed homosexuality, and theorizing he had a fear of womanhood due to seeing his mother die a gruesome death due to cholera. Good film, a bit soap operay, but well acted, directed, and written.
Weidest film I've probably ever seen. Even weirder than Holy Mountain, and El Topo. ****ing fantastic film in it's vanguard defiance. Jodoworsky's first film, and definitely not stingy on the disturbing. Plus, in 1968 this had to be amazingly ahead of it's time.