Tommy (1975)
Film::'Tommy,' The Who's Rock Saga
By VINCENT CANBY
Published: March 20, 1975

Ken Russell makes phim chiếu rạp the way another man might thiết kế a ride through a funhouse. He deals in headlong but harmless plunges from giddy heights, abrupt changes of pace, joke turns, anachronistic visual effects, ghouls that pop out of the dark, all accompanied bởi sound of a force to loosen one's most firmly rooted back teeth.

The method is spectacular but it has seemed wickedly foolish in phim chiếu rạp like "The âm nhạc Lovers" (about Tchaikovsky), "The Savage Messiah" (about Gaudier-Brzeska) and "The Devils" (an...