Lisztomania (film) a wholehearted, comic-strip craziness, but for all his lashing himself into a slapstick fury, the director Ken Russell can't seem to pull the elements of film making together." The German reviewer , reviewing the film for "Die Zeit" summed up the film as follows: Another German reviewer, Hans J. Wulff devoted a six-page article to the film, and commented: Leonard Maltin's home video guide gave the film one and a half stars out of four, while the "Golden Movie Retriever" said WOOF!". "Lisztomania" currently holds a 43% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on seven reviews. Lisztomania (film) Lisztomania is a
Ken Russell the No.1 spot and played to full houses for over a year. Two months before "Tommy" was released (in March 1975), Russell started work on "Lisztomania" (1975), another vehicle for Roger Daltrey, and for the film scoring of progressive rock keyboardist Rick Wakeman. In the film, the music of Franz Liszt is stolen by Richard Wagner. Wagner's operas then put forward the theme of the Superman."Tommy" and "Lisztomania" were important in the rise of improved motion picture sound in the 1970s, as they were among the first films to be released with Dolby-encoded soundtracks. "Lisztomania", tagged as "the film that