Kenneth Anger - Mouse Heaven -Torrent
Mouse Heaven is a film that could be enjoyed by people who have never heard of Kenneth Anger. Shot on video, Anger assembled a large number of Mickey Mouse toys and artifacts. Save for an opening shot of rats which unintentionally reminded me of the forthcoming Disney-Pixar film, Mouse Heaven is the first Anger film that could be described as fun. Toys are animated, and multiple Mickeys sing and dance to music of Ian Whitcomb and James and Bobby Purify, among others. The special effects, including a background of glowing stars, are still low tech. The memorabilia reflects Anger’s longtime fascination with old Hollywood, while the music is a continuation of the use of kitschy pop songs as commentary on his characters. At this time, the Walt Disney Company is trying to bar Mouse Heaven. It’s not a totally reverential look at Mickey Mouse, but considering some of the pokes at Disney done by other filmmakers, the guardians of the Mouse may be overzealous. I never expected to see a family friendly film from Kenneth Anger. My personal rating for Mouse Heaven is “Gee”. (via)
Elio Gelmini - Anger Me - Torrent
Could there be any more pitiful irony than that cinematic godhead Kenneth Anger, visionary master of the dark arts, has been trapped within a slapdash blue-screen-and-talking-head documentary that could barely past muster as a DVD bonus feature? Anthology can’t be blamed for running Anger Me, since Anger is far too important to cinema (or American counterculture, for that matter) for their programmers to pass it up. But there’s little here that will inform the true avant-fan, and much sloppy filigree that will annoy. Aside from a brief introduction from Jonas Mekas (shot in Anthology’s office), Anger Me consists of a single extended monologue from Anger himself, chronicling his Hollywood childhood (when, he claims, he played the part of the Changeling Prince in Max Reinhardt’s Midsummer Night’s Dream), then passing through the making of each of his films, from the adolescent eroto-explosions of Fireworks to his final great work, the Bobby Beausoleil–scored Lucifer Rising, and ending with a coda on his recent document of Aleister Crowley’s paintings, The Man We Want to Hang. Though much of the material will be familiar to anyone who has read the various tomes covering Anger’s career—or seen the skillful raconteur himself in person—a few rarer tidbits do emerge: Anger’s re-hand-tinting of a print of Battleship Potemkin for Francis Ford Coppola, for example, in order to return a single flag to its original red hue. But the documentary’s persistent counterpointing of brilliant Anger films with wretched canned doodle-pop is an affront to everything holy. One of the most important artists of the last century deserves far better than this: Anger Me will anger you, too. (via)
Van Guylder - Hollywood Babylon- Torrent
Inspired by the notorious book by Kenneth Anger (who later sued the movie’s makers), this film depicts some of Hollywood’s wildest sex scandals and seediest situations. Among the personalities covered are “Fatty” Arbuckle, Erich von Stroheim and Rudolph Valentino. With Uschi Digart, Cindy Hopkins.
The “Anger Me” torrent is stuck at 25%. I’d really appreciate it if someone could seed this one.
Comment by Clint — put October 8, 2008 @ 12:53 am