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title: "The Complete Magick Lantern Cycle"
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# The Complete Magick Lantern Cycle

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Product Description          Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous HOLLYWOOD BABYLONbooks and creator of some of the most striking and beautiful works in the history of film, KennethAnger is a singular figure in post-war American culture.A major influence on everything from the films of Martin Scorsese, Rainer Werner Fassbinder andDavid Lynch to the pop art of Andy Warhol to MTV, Anger s work serves as a talisman of universalsymbols and personal obsessions, combining myth, artifice and ritual to render cinema with thepower of a spell or incantation.This 2-DVD set contains Anger s complete Magick Lantern Cycle, from his landmark debutFIREWORKS in 1947 to his breathtaking phantasmagoria LUCIFER RISING in 1981. Fantoma is veryproud to present the films of this revolutionary and groundbreaking maverick, painstakinglyrestored and presented on DVD for the first time in one collection.Contains the films:Fireworks (1947)Puce Moment (1949)Rabbit s Moon (1950, the rarely seenoriginal 16 minute version)Eaux d Artifice (1953)Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)Scorpio Rising (1964)Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965)Invocation Of My Demon Brother (1969)Rabbit s Moon (1979 version)Lucifer Rising (1981)             Review          A miracle of modern-day restorationtechniques, these two discs present Mr.Anger s seminal avant-garde films withvisual qualities long obscured in fadedfilm prints. --New York Times

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## Customer Reviews

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    Excellent surreal imagery
  

*by L***) on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 28, 2016*

I bought this DVD because I’m interested in experimental films that contain fantastic/surreal imagery, and I’d read that Anger’s films fit that category. Most of the ones on this disc certainly do.Anger is perhaps best known for his homoerotic films, which I gather he was one of the first to make or at least to get into relatively wide circulation. Three of the films in this collection, two very short ones (Fireworks and Kustom Kar Kommandos) and one longer one (Scorpio Rising), fit that description (I don’t recall any actual sex, but there is male nudity). Two of the three feature hunky young guys and their hunky cars and motorcycles, with which they have a clear quasi-sexual relationship (Anger carefully explains in his commentary for Scorpio Rising that the men did have girlfriends, they just didn’t want them on camera; true, maybe, but it’s obvious where their real affection lies). Overall, this aspect of Anger’s work is not my cup of tea, so I can’t really judge it. I will say, though, that I think his idea of having the man in Kustom Kar Kommandos caress his beautiful car with a giant powder puff was brilliant.I was more interested in the other main theme of these films, occultism based on the doctrines of Alastair Crowley, which lies on the borderline between standard paganism and Satanism (Anton LaVey makes a brief appearance in one film). I don’t know Crowley’s ideas in detail, but I’m interested in this kind of mythology and imagery and was curious to see what Anger did with it. I’m still not really sure what he was trying to do with it, but he certainly produced some arresting images in the process. They mix characters from ancient Greek (in Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome) and ancient Egyptian (in Lucifer Rising) mythologies with Christian ones in a thought-provoking, if often puzzling, blend.If anything, I think Anger’s eye for imagery and mood shows best in two films that don’t fit either of the above categories, Eaux d’artifice and Rabbit’s Moon. Both are tinted completely in blue to suggest night scenes. The woman in Marie-Antoinette-style costume running through the gardens and fountains of the Villa d’Este in Tivoli (a midget, Anger explains, chosen to make the fountains look taller) is quite haunting, though I wish there had been more of a story with her. For Rabbit’s Moon, a tale with commedia dell’arte characters (Pierrot, Columbine, Harlequin) with a little Japanese mythology (the rabbit in the moon) rather incongruously thrown in, focus on the 1979 version, in which Anger has removed the excess repetition that (to my eye) marred his original 1950 version and also improved the moon images. (The later film is clearly an altered version of the earlier one, featuring the same actors and set.) It’s really beautiful.In my first pass through the disc, I played the films with Anger’s commentary turned on. The commentary does give some interesting information about events during the filming, the background of some of the actors, etc. However, I plan to watch at least my favorites again with the commentary off. (I’ve so far done that only for Lucifer Rising.) That allows the music and imagery to come to the fore and play around in the mind without distractions, which they richly deserve to do.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Films by Anger
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 22, 2022*

I’d heard about these influential short films for years, so finally getting to see them was a revelation. They were better and more entertaining than I anticipated. A few are enjoyable on their own, and others have deep occult symbolism to decode. All have commentaries by Anger which are very informative and enlightening.I think these films really depict some of the forces, malevolent or otherwise, that are shaping the current world we live in. Anger obviously has a sensitivity to such forces.The version I bought was the two disc Fantoma dvd set, I have no problems with it and think it’s a quality edition.I’d recommend these films to film students, occult students, and people interested in the Manson family, given the contributions of Bobby Beausoleil. Weird but enjoyable.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great but for underground filmmaking fans
  

*by P***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 30, 2022*

It worksa nd it looks amazing. Superb works from Anger.

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