![]() ![]() Their tones - alternately catty and coddling - reverberate as influences on young Anger. In a sequence adapted from a chapter on the arch-rivalry between Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, Finch supplements Anger’s prose with a montage of audio clips of both women reciting tabloid news every bit as tawdry as Babylon’s tales. Finch cherry picks Babylon chapters and juxtaposes them with straight-to-camera interviews with Anger - surprisingly, as polite as a folded napkin in his 60s - to spin several origin stories. Most of the film is composed of reenactments, presided over by passages from the books spoken by a narrator fancifully established as D.W. ![]() ![]() But in its appetite for flourish and it’s lackadaisical pre–(and pre–post) internet eschewal of facts, Nigel Finch’s Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon captures something ineffable about the eponymous books and their author.Īs a way of getting to know the Crowleyite and his dual career, Finch’s focus on Hollywood Babylon kills two birds with one stone. ![]() As a documentary in the traditional sense, BBC Arena’s 1991 profile of Kenneth Anger fails from the first frame, when it becomes clear that footage of a tuxedoed Anger riding around Los Angeles in a hearse will be used as B-roll. ![]()
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