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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Tommy, it turns rock music, camp theatricality and outsider spirituality into a wildly stylised midnight-movie ritual with an exuberant, deliberately artificial visual world.
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Why this pick
Ken Russell applies the same extravagant, abrasive pop-opera imagination to a composer’s celebrity myth, combining surreal spectacle, sexual satire and relentlessly theatrical imagery.
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Why this pick
This glam-rock horror musical shares Tommy’s heightened rock mythology, flamboyant design and darkly comic portrait of fame, fandom and performance.
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Why this pick
A rock album becomes a psychologically charged visual fantasia here too, using expressionistic imagery, alienation and grand musical set pieces rather than conventional realism.
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Why this pick
For Tommy’s feverish intensity and provocative baroque visual sensibility, Russell’s historical nightmare offers an even more confrontational fusion of religious ecstasy, spectacle and institutional satire.
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01 / THE STORY
A psychosomatically blind, deaf, and mute boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the figurehead of a cult.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Tommy Walker
Frank
Nora Walker Hobbs
Cousin Kevin
The Specialist
Local Lad
The Preacher
Captain Walker
