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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. Covering the second half of Anger’s career including Scorpio Rising, Kustom Kar Kommandos, Invocation of My Demon […] |
CULT FILMS
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The first film from writer-director Wisit Sansantaieng is a flamboyant genre-masher that makes Kill Bill seem downright classical in comparison. Tears of the Black Tiger combines conventions of the Western and the ‘tude of Hong Kong actioners with a digitally-saturated primary color scheme and acting so melodramatic that it passes cult and goes straight to […] |
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A young boy, Hikari, is transported into the future by a time machine, where a group of Shinsegumi vampires is threatening to take light away from the world forever thanks to the construction of a bomb fomented by a young woman’s life. An elderly teacher, Momo Sariba, helps him to fight the monsters and fulfill […] |
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One of the most influential films of the ’60s American Underground, directed by the godfathers of campy, bargain basement cinema, the Kuchar Brothers. Set in the future, after “The Great War” has scourged the planet and mankind has forsaken science for self-indulgence in all the carnal pleasures. Work is left to a race of enslaved […] |
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The 1957 short La Cravate (Alejandro Jodorowsky’s first film) re-imagines Georges Méliès for a post-Marcel Marceau world, reproducing the former’s cinematic trickery in pantomime, for a goofily allegorical story about people who get fitted for new heads. |
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The rarely screened feature film debut of the eccentric visionary Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre). In an outrageous, sometimes supremely absurd manner, Jodorowsky tells the story (based on a play by Fernando Arrabal) of impotent Fando and paralyzed Lis as they travel in search of the enchanted city of Tar. On […] |
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Alejandro Jodorowsky’s big budget follow-up to El Topo is even more esoteric and carnivalesque than its predecessor. The sprawling narrative begins with a Christ-like thief trying to steal the secret of enlightenment from an alchemist (Jodorowsky), and then devolves into a succession of psychedelic vignettes, shocking iconography, alchemical set pieces, fascistic mass movements, and Brechtian […] |
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The original midnight movie. Alejandro Jodorowsky brought his avant-garde theater aesthetics to the table with this ultraviolent western about a lone gunman, El Topo , who banishes his son and sets off on a spiritual quest to defeat four quick-draw masters, only to be struck down by his own son after years of solitude. Countercultural […] |