The Magick Lantern Cycle (DVD)

Description: Genre: Drama / Suitable for 18 years and over / Director: Kenneth Anger / DVD released 2009-05-25 at Bfi Video / ... more

The Magick Lantern Cycle (DVD) ... Features of the DVD: Box set, Black & White, Colour, PAL

Newest Review: ... made in a weekend when 17-year-old Anger's parents were away from home. Anger plays a young man who dreams of being beaten by ... more

... a gang of sailors. It's only 15 minutes long. Languid, black and white, and often out of focus, it's a parade of striking images, many of them of involving male torsos. It's surprisingly strong stuff for its time, with some unpleasant gory moments, but it's mostly surreal, with highlights including a guy with a firework for a penis, and a man with a Christmas tree for a head. There's one fantastic visual gag involving a small sculpture, but this is quite sombre - the classical music soundtrack gives it a ritual...more

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The Magick Lantern Cycle [DVD] [1967]
Release Date: 2009 - 05 - 25, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,

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The Magick Lantern Cycle (DVD): That's magick! (1265 words)
by - written on 10/07/09 (Very useful, 50 readings)
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This is a two-disk DVD from the BFI, compiling Kenneth Anger's classic short films. It costs £18 on amazon (BFI disks are always expensive). Kenneth Anger is a legendary underground film-maker. His camp, occult-inflected films are unlike anything else I've seen. Anger's probably most notorious for the book Hollywood Babylon, a catalogue of unpleasant movie star gossip. He's also a long-standing follower of Aleister Crowley. Many of his short films are lost forever, frustratingly including a ten-minute film made in 1955 at Crowley's Abbey of Thelema. Anger also had an affair with Bobby Beausoleil, one of the Manson Family, who features in one of the films. ... Read the complete review

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