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The Films of Kenneth Anger: Vol. 2

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Synopsis

Here is the legendary gay underground Scorpio Rising finally on DVD with some of gay filmmaker Kenneth Anger's most homoerotic work. Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous "Hollywood Babylon" books and creator of some of the most striking and beautiful works in the history of film, Kenneth Anger is a singular figure in post-war American culture. A major influence on everything from the films of Martin Scorsese, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and David Lynch to the pop art of Andy Warhol to MTV, Anger's work serves as a talisman of universal symbols and personal obsessions, combining myth, artifice and ritual to render cinema with the power of a spell or incantation. Covering the second half of Anger's career, from his legendary Scorpio Rising to his breathtaking phantasmagoria Lucifer Rising, Fantoma is very proud to complete the cycle with this long-awaited final volume of films by this revolutionary and groundbreaking maverick, painstakingly restored and presented on DVD for the first time anywhere in the world.

Contains the films:
Scorpio Rising (1964)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965)
Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)
Rabbit's Moon (1979 version)
Lucifer Rising (1981)

Review

Scorpio Rising -- Kenneth Angers best-known work and arguably the quintessential underground short of the 1960s. A homoerotic ritual to that "masculine fascination with the Thing that Goes," Rising found its Greek chorus in Top 40 radio, using the music of everyone from Bobby Vinton to The Rondells (illegally, however, prompting countless lawsuits). Against its pop score, some rough trade gently polishes his hot rod car. The film was denounced by both the L.A.P.D. and the American Nazi Party!

-- Raymond Murray