------ Forwarded Message > From: "dasg...@aol.com" <dasg...@aol.com> > Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:49:09 EST > To: Robert Millegan <ramille...@aol.com> > Cc: <ema...@aol.com>, <j...@aol.com>, <jim6...@cwnet.com>, > <garyn2...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Kenneth Anger Will Film Crowley's Gnostic Mass (after Doing a Hitler > Youth Film) >
> Anger readies film of Crowley's Gnostic Mass > > http <http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2002/mar/21/news> > //www.guardian.co.uk/film/2002/mar/21/news > <http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2002/mar/21/news> > > 19 March 2002 -- Cult film-maker, actor and author Kenneth Anger, honoured > last week by the Mar del Plata Film Festival in Argentina, is readying a > 40-minute film version of The Gnostic Mass, an occult ceremony set out by > Aleister Crowley in 1910. Anger, who hopes to cast Chloe Sevigny as the > priestess and Vincent Gallo as the priest <<best known for their "Brown Bunny" > ritual, LXVIIIº >> and Dennis Hopper** as the deacon, says Sir John Paul Getty > is to back the film. > > http > <http://thequietus.com/articles/01753-experimental-filmmaker-kenneth-anger> > //thequietus.com/articles/01753-experimental-filmmaker-kenneth-anger > <http://thequietus.com/articles/01753-experimental-filmmaker-kenneth-anger> > > June 2, 2009 -- Last I heard you were working on Gnostic Mass, a documentary > about an occult ritual. > Anger: I filmed it in a rough form but I have to completely reshoot it. I did > a study of the last 40 minutes of the actual ceremony and I have to find the > money to do it again. I'm an independent artist, not working in commercial > cinema, and the problem is finding the money to fund my longer projects. I can > manage the short ones on my own, but when it gets to be nearly an hour it's a > problem for me. > > Can you tell us what you are working on right now? > > Anger: I'm consistently making films, I have been since I was a teenager. I > recently finished a 35mm film using archive material, which I love working > with, on the Hitler youth called Ich Will! which means "I want" in German. > That was an interesting project. I showed a film at the Imperial War Museum > last year which was a work in progress, I'm still working on it -- Uniform > Attraction, about the power of uniforms to transform ... basically men, though > women wear uniforms, too ... A thing about how uniforms transform people. > > ------------ > > **Anger's Thelemite pal Curtis Harrington had given Dennis Hopper (who'd > played supporting roles since 1955, alongside members of gay director Nicholas > Ray's private harem such as James Dean, Sal Mineo and Nick Adams) his first > starring role: >> NIGHT TIDE (1961) Written & Directed by Curtis Harrington; Produced by Aram >> Katarian >> Starring Dennis Hopper ... and [in a cameo] Parsons' widow Marjorie Cameron >> as "Water Witch" >> Music by David Raksin, Cinematography Vilis Lapenieks, Editing by Jodie >> Copelan >> American International Pictures, Running time 84 min. > http <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hopper> > //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hopper > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hopper> > Hopper was born in Dodge City, Kansas, the son of Marjorie Mae (née Davis) and > Jay Millard Hopper. After the end of World War II, the family moved to Kansas > City, Mo., and then, when Hopper was 13 <in 1948-9>, to San Diego, where his > father was a "post office manager." Hopper has since acknowledged that his > father was in the OSS, the precursor to the CIA. [http > <http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1510435/posts> > //www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1510435/posts > <http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1510435/posts> ] Hopper was > [privately] educated at Wooster School, Danbury, Connecticut. Later he was > voted most likely to succeed by his high school class (at Helix High School, > La Mesa, California, a suburb of San Diego). It was there he developed an > interest in acting, studying at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and the > Actors Studio in New York City. Hopper struck up a friendship with actor > Vincent Price, whose influenced Hopper's interest in art. > > Hopper debuted in an episode of the Richard Boone television series Medic in > 1955 and was then cast in two roles with James Dean (whom he admired > immensely) in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). Dean's death in a > 1955 car accident affected the young Hopper deeply -- it was shortly > afterwards that he [first began getting into conflicts with directors]. In his > book "Last Train to Memphis," pop music historian Peter Guralnick says that in > 1956, when Elvis Presley was making his first film in Hollywood, Dennis Hopper > was the roommate of fellow actor Nick Adams and the three became friends and > socialized together. > > http <http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr93.html> > //www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr93.html > <http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr93.html> > > ... Another shining star on the Laurel Canyon scene [was] singer-songwriter > Jackson Browne, whose father was assigned to post-war 'reconstruction' work in > Germany, which very likely means that he was in the employ of the OSS, > precursor to the CIA. Post-war reconstruction in Germany largely consisted of > maintaining as much of the Nazi infrastructure as possible while shielding war > criminals from capture and prosecution. Against that backdrop, Jackson Browne > was born in a military hospital in Heidelberg, Germany. Some two decades > later, he emerged as oh, never mind. > > [Dennis] Hopper proudly proclaims that his father "was one of the 100 guys who > liberated General Wainright out of prison in Korea." Actually the Red Army > freed Wainright and other prisoners, and the US intelligence team just came to > pick them up, debrief them and transport them home <<for "de-programming," a > work in progress>>. The modern version of Dennis Hopper, by the way, is wildly > at odds with the "hippie" image that he at one time tried very hard to > cultivate. Today's Dennis Hopper is an unapologetic cheerleader for Team Bush > who proudly boasts of having voted a straight Republican ticket for nearly > thirty years. > > [Peter Fonda's father Henry Fonda] served as a decorated US Naval Intelligence > officer during World War II, thus sparing Peter the stigma of being the ONLY > member of the Laurel Canyon in-crowd to have NOT been spawned by a member of > the military/intelligence community ... In 1957, Hank married Italian Countess > Afdera Franchetti, who followed up with a rumored affair with John F. Kennedy. > Franchetti, as it turns out, is the daughter of Baron Raimondo Franchetti, who > had been a "consultant" to fascist dictator Benito Mussolini [and was > assassinated on orders from British intelligence]. > > To recap, we have thus far met three of these 'Young Turks' and found that one > of them is the nephew of a Bonesman, another is the son of a Naval > Intelligence officer who married [the daughter of a high-ranking Fascist], and > the third is the slightly deranged son of an OSS officer. > > That covers most of the 'Turkettes' as well, since Jane Fonda came from the > same family background as her brother Peter, and Sharon Tate was the daughter > of Lt. Col. Paul Tate, a career US Army intelligence officer. > > Since "Easy Rider" had remarkably deep roots in the early Laurel Canyon scene, > we need to briefly focus our attention here on one other individual involved > in the film: art director Jeremy Kay, aka Jerry Kay. Before "Easy Rider," Kay > had worked on "Angels from Hell," "Hells Angels on Wheels" (with Jack > Nicholson), and "Scorpio Rising" (Kenneth Anger's occult-tinged homage to gay > bikers). > > In the mid-1970s, Jerry Kay would write, direct and produce a charming little > film entitled "Satan's Children." <<Synopsis: "Troubled teenager Bobby has a > lousy time at home with a jerk of a stepfather and a sexually teasing > stepsister making life unbearable. He storms out of the house one night only > to be beaten up and gang-raped by gay bikers. The bikers dump Bobby near a > compound of Satanists who take him in and, on the orders of <lesbian coven > leader> Sherry, nurse him back to health. ..." "'Satan's Children' is > passionate in its Lucifer leanings. The prayers and paganism have a real > bohemian Beelzebub quality and the filmmaker is not afraid to use gory, > twisted violence to underscore the wicked nature of the satanic dogma. When it > comes to a realistic portrayal of Devil worship, 'Satan's Children' delivers > the demonic goods." http <http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/asylumsatan.php> > //www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/asylumsatan.php > <http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/asylumsatan.php> >> > > <<In 1976 Kay wrote and directed "The Waxing Moon": "Elderly botanist Dr. > Praetorius <named after the campy villain in "Bride of Frankenstein," directed > by Curtis Harrington's mentor James Whale?> has developed a cross-bred flower > of strange beauty which blooms only during a full moon. Its juice has > remarkable properties, instantly healing wounds, granting immediate > exhilaration plus the ability to read minds. Praetorius uses the plant's > miraculous powers to rejuvenate his aged, crippled body.">> > > Of more interest than his film credits is [Jerry Kay's] membership in the > 1960s in a group known as the Solar Lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis (or > OTO), which found itself in the news, and not in a good way ... Two weeks > after Easy Rider premiered on July 14, 1969, police acting on a phone tip > raided the Solar Lodge's compound near Blythe, California and found a > six-year-old boy locked outdoors in a wooden crate in the sweltering desert > heat. The young boy had been chained to a steel plate for nearly two months in > temperatures reaching as high as 117° F. The leader of the cult, Georgina > Brayton, reportedly told cult members that "when it was convenient, she was > going to give [the boy] LSD and set fire to the structure ..." Killing the > child had been discussed and was apparently condoned by the boy's mother. > ------ End of Forwarded Message
