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

Ken Russell makes films the way another man might design 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 par sound of a force to loosen one's most firmly rooted back teeth.

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