Mike Leghorn: >While you're traversing Ken Russell's oeuvre, why not try his film >about Shostakovich, which I think surpasses the Mahler film in >absurdity. As I hadn't run across a Russell film on Shostakovich, I checked his information in the Internet Movie Database which told me he has "Pretty Boy Floyd" scheduled for release next year - not a prospect I look forward to - but nothing that was recognisably about Shostakovich. I wondered whether Mike meant Tony Palmer's very long and gloomy "Testimony", with Ben Kingsley as Shostakovich, which had its longueurs but which I found interesting nevertheless. Richard Pennycuick [log in to unmask]