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
Lisztomania of emotion that accompanied Liszt and his performances. Heine wrote a series of musical feuilletons over several different music seasons discussing the music of the day. His review of the musical season of 1844, written in Paris on April 25, 1844, is the first place where he uses the term Lisztomania: Musicologist Dana Gooley argues that Heine's use of the term "Lisztomania" was not used in the same way that "Beatlemania" was used to describe the intense emotion generated towards The Beatles in the 20th century. Instead, Lisztomania had much more of a medical emphasis because the term "mania" was