Walker had a close relationship with Kubrick but was a fierce critic of the British director Ken Russell , referring to the director 's visceral masterpiece '' The Devils '' ( 1971 ) as " A garish glossary of sado-masochism … a taste for visual sensation that makes scene after scene look like the masturbatory fantasies of a Roman Catholic boyhood . " . Having previously been a defender of Russell 's early work for the BBC he was increasingly critical of Russell major films of the 1970s , reviewing the '' The Music Lovers '' ( 1970 ) he wrote " This man must be stopped : bring me an elephant gun . " In a television showdown between the two in response to Walker 's assessment of '' The Devils '' as " monstrously indecent " , Russell reached over and hit him around the head with a rolled up newspaper copy of his own review . In later life , when asked about incident and if he regretted it , Russell responded that he did regret it , " I wish it had been an iron bar . " He assembled a collection of more than 200 drawings and prints by modern artists , which were bequeathed to the British Museum upon his death in 2003 . In 1968 , he was a member of the jury at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival
18th Berlin International Film Festival
18th Berlin International Film Festival
Alexander Walker (critic)