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That is a beautifull photo. I love the colors. Actually, I think it is the first time I have seen a photo from this session in color. Is it in Cannes? I can't remember...
 
There is a tiny one posted on the Yahoo group. I love the colors too. This was taken in June in Rome.
 
^wonderful photographs girls, thanks a lot. :flower:

just found this one by chance, it's definitely one of my favourites.


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anita & brian at cannes, '67:

(polfoto)

anita in performance:

(absolutely anita)

anita & robert fraser, '68:


anita,keith,gram parsons & friends at joshua tree,'68:


keith & anita with marlon (I think this special shot from that day hasn't been posted yet)

(minimadmod60s)

anita & mick in performance:

(hulton archive)
 
I thought this was different

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http://www.haussite.net/haus.0/cottingham/INDEX.HTML


The Anita Pallenberg Story exists as a final entity of 77 minutes on a DVD disc. :blink:

Is seems like some kind of artsy film. If there is a dvd where could it be found? Eh, wonder if it would be compatible with American DVD players. Probably not

....And I just saw this written there, so I'm sure this film has to be some pretentious bullsh*t :angry: What a insult :censored: She seems rather ignorant herself to make such a statement. People with racist ideologies such as this usually are NOT intelligent or open-minded.

Americans neither understand nor appreciate art: it is French to them. Of course, in a society such as the United States where no one can read a book, where the education level is so low that most people cannot speak proper English, where people in the supermarket do not even know the names of the fruits and vegetables they are selling (they know Coca Cola!), what can you expect? Ours is a wealthy barbarian society.

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Couldn't they have gotten a more attractive Anita? I guessed they liked her, maybe you can't judge by that photo :lol: I am assuming she would be the person on the far right.

In the casting for Anita Pallenberg, a many of the chosen actors have direct and extensive experience with narcotics and alcohol. But Cosima is the only one who is still in the fire. In addition to her artistic involvement with music (she has produced a few albums of her own, along with the rave-like exhibitions she has made); her pseudo-lesbian posturing (this appealed to us too; in fact we consider it a taunt); her seductive German voice; and her physical beauty and aristocratic demeanor, her active alcoholism is a very real reason why we chose her for the part.

Marianne Faithfull doesn't appear to be in the cast :ermm: at least I can't find her.

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

In five written texts accompanied by related images and printed matter, annotations, and bibliographic information, I will try to outline the conceptual and material process within which Leslie Singer and I have conceived, developed, filmed and edited The Anita Pallenberg Story.

The Anita Pallenberg Story is conceived as a satire on the contemporary international fine art scene of the 1990s, as told through backstage with the Rolling Stones circa 1968.

The texts for this project for Künstlerhaus Stuttgart will all be written before the video is finished. At the moment of this initial installment, in July 1999, we have completed most but not all of the filming and have edited a rough cut.

The structure for the Stuttgart project - five texts, written one per month, and posted with related documents and images on the Web-was conceived by and offered to me by Fareed Armaly, Artistic Director of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. This was Fareed's idea. It is interesting to me, and I am thankful to him for both the idea and the invitation.

In considering the form and structure of these five proposed texts, I have been thinking of The Andy Warhol Diaries, which includes too many references to the exact cost of cab fare and Jean Cocteau's Diary on Beauty and the Beast, which concentrates too much on sickness and the weather.

If one considers telling a story, it is always a question of how to determine the difference between what is meaningful and what is trivial. Sometimes, after all, what at first appears to us as meaningful we later assign to the trivial. At other times the assignation of value goes in the opposite direction, with the at-first trivial later becoming apparently profound.

This sense of a notion of 'shifting emphasis' is one of the conceptual principles that informs The Anita Pallenberg Story:what happened in the past never changes, but our understanding of it does - more often than not. Our approach to the Rolling Stones of circa 1968 - their lives, their legend, their music, their art - is comprised of a reading as dependent on the personal narratives of Leslie Singer and myself as it is on the interpretive models made available to us through post-1960s models of cultural production offered by Performance Art, Identity Politics, Women's Liberation, Gay Rights, and Black Power.

Rock and Roll is one of the most vital art forms that emerged during 1960s. During its energetic development in the 1960s, the primary producers of this new medium, of which the great band called the Rolling Stones was one, were often struggling to assimilate their new genre into the high aims and tradition of Art - and they most often fell down. The irony for us is that it appears, in the 1990s, that the contemporary fine art arena of the moment is overwhelmed by people who want to call themselves artists but who are attempting to model their practice on rock stars, mimicking the very people who once wanted to be them - who aspired to be Artists and make Art. This is a debased misunderstanding. This is a silly mistake. This is a funny twist of fate. This is the basis of The Anita Pallenberg Story.
 
more of this anti-American crap. Why the hell did she write this? What does this have to do with Anita Pallenberg??? I suppose i'm too stupid to figure it out :lol:

It is perhaps also widely acknowledged, but still worth mentioning, that The United States of America is not currently, nor has it ever been, a society or a government that believes in or supports art. While other wealthy societies and peoples have been and are known to economically and otherwise appreciate and support the development of the arts, the one I live in is not one of them.

The citizenship of the USA believes in the appropriation of their earnings, in the form of taxes, to support what they consider valuable: most notably, The Military. Americans love guns and killing people. They are really quite passionate about this.

In addition to War, Americans love other forms of violent entertainment: most notably Hollywood Movies.

Americans neither understand nor appreciate art: it is French to them. Of course, in a society such as the United States where no one can read a book, where the education level is so low that most people cannot speak proper English, where people in the supermarket do not even know the names of the fruits and vegetables they are selling (they know Coca Cola!), what can you expect? Ours is a wealthy barbarian society.

Few organized societies, if any, have ever truly supported or understood art.


Art, after all, is really just for Artists.

Those of us involved in any form of cultural production in the USA including dance, music, literature, poetry and all other mediums of artistic expression - are necessarily dependent on Private Patronage, on the noblesse oblige of wealthy Americans.

And - we receive funding from the European Nations. (This text you are reading is thanks to the benefactions of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, thank you.)
 
IcePrincess said:
IAmericans neither understand nor appreciate art: it is French to them. Of course, in a society such as the United States where no one can read a book, where the education level is so low that most people cannot speak proper English, where people in the supermarket do not even know the names of the fruits and vegetables they are selling (they know Coca Cola!), what can you expect? Ours is a wealthy barbarian society.
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Did she really say this? How pretentious and, I agree, an ignorant thing to say.
 
Here is some more about Laura Cottingham and Leslie Singer and they live in the United States of all places :shock:

They seem like they are pretentious people who have inflated egos. I hate artsy people that think they posess a superior intelligence; being an artist myself I have met more of these people than i'd like.

I find it annoying that these women used Anita Pallenberg's name to promote this. Sounds like it would be boring.

This happened years ago so obviously it wasn't very sucessful.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_10_88/ai_66306848

Ambitiously, art critic Laura Cottingham played both Mick Jagger and Brian Jones in The Anita Pallenberg Story, the 77-minute video she made in conjunction with filmmaker Leslie Singer. Their show by the same name at Postmasters included a display of production stills shown in addition to the video, which was screened regularly in the back gallery. For their project, Cottingham and Singer enlisted a bevy of late-'90s art stars to reenact a late-'60s Rolling Stones tour, pointing up a relationship between mainstream pop culture (in particular, its phenomenon of rock-and-roll misbehavior) and the world of high art, which has been known to embrace individuals whose renegade personalities are as well known as their work. The dramatization consists mostly of people sitting around on a couch in front of a table littered with liquor bottles, packs of cigarettes and heart-shaped chocolate boxes, engaging in conspicuous consumption of same.

Appreciation of the wit behind the casting of characters depends on one's familiarity with art-world personae. Peter Norton, for instance, makes a cameo appearance as a pizza-delivery guy wearing a T-shirt bearing the words "Yeah sure I'm a Marxist" beneath an image of the Marx brothers. This is comical only if Norton is known to be the software magnate and wealthy benefactor of cutting-edge contemporary art that he is. The German photographer Cosima von Bonin, who, in addition to her art, is known in real life for her raucous exhibition openings, languorously plays Anita Pallenberg; meanwhile, the iconoclastic artist Nicole Eisenman makes a superb, leather-pants-wearing, strung-out Keith Richards. Art Club 2000's Patterson Beckwith dons pink sequined briefs and has a glittering lightning bolt painted across his right eye to play David Bowie.

While ignoring the actual musical genius of the Stones, Cottingham and Singer take the peculiar vapidity of those who are famous for being famous, and have their characters inhabit it, making for a garishly campy and torturously slow-paced video. As Jagger, a heavily made-up Cottingham emotionlessly (ironically states, more than once, for the camera, "I am an avatar of energy." Pallenberg, the supposed subject of our "story," is mute, except when she occasionally pipes up about wanting to meet Warhol so she can get herself into one of his films. Images from subculture-attuned artists Rainer Werner Fassbinder Robert Frank and Jean Luc Godard are appropriated. All of this is intended as a deconstruction of the Stones, in part propelled by the artists' bitter fascination with what press materials refer to as "the construction of British masculinity." While not especially about this, the video did communicate an often obscured truth regarding the nature of cultural commodities, betraying a difference between the creative product and the aura of charisma that is sold.
 
60swildchild said:
Did she really say this? How pretentious and, I agree, an ignorant thing to say.
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Laura Cottingham reminds me a lot of Valerie Solanas . I "get" what she is trying to say but who really wants to listen to her tripe, it's so hateful and hypocritical.

She even claims to be pro-lesbian but then writes stuff like this: Cottingham contests the lesbian significance of the mainstream media's "lesbian chic" phenomenon, which, she argues, is less a manifestation of lesbian cultural power than a commodification—of lesbianism—whose primary purpose is to disempower and marginalize lesbians, and all women, who threaten the existing political structure. The author suggests that the threat actual lesbians (as opposed to their mass media simulacra) pose to the social and sexual economy of contemporary society should be refocused into a radical new definition of feminist politics.

:huh:

She seems to be bashing Anita too. When you first glance at the title of this you might assume it wouldn't. I think the only way people would even listen to her is by her using the names of all these famous people, perhaps she is bitter about that.

This lady has serious issues and she makes a very ugly Mick Jagger :p

Kind of scary to think she is a teacher

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^ sorry about the nonsense I posted before, I was searching for info about Anita's fashion designs. I haven't really found anything yet :(

http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/module-subjects-printpage-pageid-55-scope-all.phtml

here is an Article that mentions Anita, all the articles I keep finding are kind of mean. He's scary :evil:

Look back at Anger

He's been a child star, cult film director and bestselling peddler of Hollywood scandal. Now in his seventies, Kenneth Anger is back with three new films, an exhibition presented by that 'b*tch' Anita Pallenberg and plans to publish the last in his Hollywood Babylon trilogy, a book that threatens to unleash an avalanche of litigation. Sanjiv Bhattacharya coaxes him out from behind his chicken-wire fence

Sunday August 22, 2004
The Observer

Auteur, occultist and Hollywood scandal-spreader Kenneth Anger is a famously irascible old man. Within minutes of our first meeting, I can sense a storm simmering. We're having lunch in the quiet corner booth of a bistro in Los Feliz, LA, and he's telling a particularly juicy Hollywood story about an A-list actor who began his career as a rent boy.

'He was nothing but a 17-year-old hustler, and a stupid one at that,' he scoffs, Jackson Pollocking my face with egg salad. 'He contracted gonorrhoea and he must have given it to dozens of people because he didn't have it seen to for weeks. It got so bad ... 'On an adjacent table, a bubbly young woman begins guffawing noisily with her boyfriend. Anger seethes and leans closer into my tape recorder. 'It got so bad,' he repeats, shooting her a vicious glare, 'that he literally had pus dripping through his pants. Oh for God's sake...'

Now she's laughing her head off. Her face is red and shuddering, she's hooting and banging the table. And with her every burst, Anger's fury mounts - he winces, his jaw clenches ever tighter, until finally he snaps. 'Right, I'm going to tell that f*cking b*tch to shut up!' And he squeezes out of the booth, this tall and fuming 75-year-old, half-dragging the tablecloth with him. He stomps over to her table and barks: 'Do you think you could possibly keep it down?' The glee drains swiftly from the poor girl's face. 'I'm trying to do an interview over there and I can barely hear myself think! You really are very loud, you know, you have a very shrill voice. In fact,' he jabs his finger at her, 'you have the ugliest voice I've ever heard in a woman!'

He returns to his salad, his breath shaking, and tucks himself back in. 'That told her. The b*tch. Now, she's made me forget what we were talking about. Oh yes, gonorrhoea. So, anyway, by the time he had it treated his tubes were terribly scarred...' And that is legally where his anecdote must end. To name the star in question would invite a ruinous libel suit.

Though he gives the appearance at times of just an ill-tempered peddler of unsubstantiated gossip, Kenneth Anger is in fact an artist whose influence on modern culture has been immense. As the author of the iconic Hollywood Babylon books (volumes I and II), Anger not only swung open the gates to a world of gossip in which our media now wallows, he coined a title so classic that, like Catch 22, you needn't have read it to understand what it means. The venereal A-list rent boy has all the hallmarks of a vintage Babylon tale - a huge star with a sleazy secret, lashings of Schadenfreude and the graphic relish of 'dripping pus', a typical Anger flourish. But Anger is firstly a filmmaker, one of the most important of the 20th century - gossip was only ever a sideline. Throughout his career he broke momentous ground with his short art films, pioneering both gay cinema and MTV in turn, a 'trashy channel' he can now hardly bear to watch. A leading light in the American underground, alongside Stan Brakhage and Bruce Conner, Anger was the first to use pop songs instead of a traditional score for his films. His use of jump cuts and sound were a huge influence on music videos and commercials. Martin Scorsese described him as 'a unique filmmaker, an artist of exceptional imagination'. And yet his life's work of nine short films amounts to little more than three hours of celluloid. After almost two decades of near obscurity, however, this year is shaping up to be something of a resurgence for Anger. He has at least three films in the pipeline - about cricket; the recent suicide of the musician Elliott Smith; and Aleister Crowley's The Gnostic Mass, in turn. Anger is an accomplished occultist; his films are laden with myth and symbol. He is such an authority on Crowley that he recently completed a documentary about him for Italian television. And on 2 September, Modern Art, a gallery in Shoreditch, east London, will show an exhibition of stills from his 1969 film, Invocation of My Demon Brother.


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'Anger has been a huge inspiration,' says the London-based film installation artist, Isaac Julien. 'His films are meditative in the poetical, aesthetic sense. They really developed the vocabulary for the new queer cinema in the early Nineties.' Louise Wilson, of the sibling collaborators Jane and Louise Wilson, is simply 'in awe' of Anger's work: 'It's always a shock to look at the dates of his work - he was always so far ahead of his time.' Doug Aitken, who exhibited at Victoria Miro gallery last November, is similarly dazzled: 'It's ironic that you have an individual coming out of the left and yet his influence becomes this mainstream language of popular media,' he says. 'Without Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner and Anger, you wouldn't have the popular media of today - the colourisation, the jump cuts, the fetishisation of objects.'

Anger's films are short, imagistic 'pieces of art', a far cry from traditional three-act dramas. Rich in occult symbols and devoid of dialogue, they hark back to the silent era while using techniques that herald the future. 'They're like sketches on a piece of paper,' he says. 'I wanted to show that you can make films of merit without huge amounts of money.' He made his first film at the age of 17, over a weekend, using a borrowed camera. The 15-minute Fireworks shows a dream about the r*pe of a teenage boy (played by Anger) by a group of American sailors. It's shocking by any standard, but for 1947, when gay cinema had scarcely been conceived, and American sailors had just returned home as war heroes, it was revolutionary. Jean Cocteau declared that Fireworks came from 'that beautiful night from which emerge all true works' and he promptly invited Anger to France. And for much of his twenties, the young Anger was literally the darling of the European avant-garde - hobnobbing with the likes of John Paul Getty II and Federico Fellini.

But the money ran out. So he wrote a book of scandal, and fittingly, his first publisher was Jean-Jacques Pauvert, the publisher of the Marquis de Sade. Weaving in the juiciest stories from pre-talkie Hollywood up to the Manson murders, Hollywood Babylon describes a Gomorrah where stars plummet as well as rise on the back of idol worship. With a wicked wit, Anger recalls Valentino's taste for submissive sex, Chaplin's misdemeanours with underage girls and a handful of starlet suicides, each one offset by a wickedly ironic choice of photographs. The New York Times called it 'a delicious box of poisoned bonbons'.

Typically, Anger was years ahead of his time. The first version of Babylon came out in 1959, in France, although disputes with his publisher meant that it took until 1975 for the English version to come out and become an international sensation. 'The timing was interesting,' says Jeannette Walls, a gossip columnist for Msnbc.com, a news and entertainment website. 'Post-Watergate there was a fascination with tearing down American icons, and the breakdown of the studio system made Hollywood figures fair game. The fascination with Hollywood had gone into a coma, and Hollywood Babylon helped revive it. Kenneth Anger opened a Pandora's box.'

At first, Anger was dogged by copyright problems. When he returned to California in the Sixties, he struggled to prevent bootleggers from cashing in on Babylon. But he continued to break new ground in film. Scorpio Rising (1964) not only introduced the gay-biker archetype (unbeknown to the apparently heterosexual Bruce Byron, who played Scorpio), it also led to a landmark victory in the State Supreme Court over 'permissible nudity' in film. 'For me, Scorpio is his most important film,' says Doug Aitken. 'It has such a peculiar feeling to it, these fetishised shots of bikes. It's the film that Ballard would have made 10 years before he wrote Crash.'

Most significantly, however, Scorpio was the first film to substitute a pop music soundtrack for a score, a decade before George Lucas's American Graffiti. David Lynch was evidently moved by Anger's juxtaposition of dandy bikers and Bobby Vinton's 'Blue Velvet'. Scorsese, again, credits Anger's musical innovation for the soundtrack of Mean Streets. 'Well, at least he credits me,' Anger says, with a shrug. 'I've seen my shot sequences copied time and again on MTV. I wish they would hire me for something instead of just stealing my ideas. I mean, I could do with the work.' The film that inspires the exhibition at Modern Art, Invocation of My Demon Brother, seems designed to create anxiety. It teems with occult symbols and features a grinding one-note dirge for a soundtrack, performed by Mick Jagger on a Moog synthesiser. The Rolling Stones were close associates of Anger. He claims his influence gave rise to the song 'Sympathy For The Devil'.

Louise Wilson senses in the film 'an incredible menace, it's physically unsettling to watch. You can tell this is a time of LSD, that there's a war going on, that bad things are happening. I see it as a brilliant protest against Vietnam.'

'Invocation is his most intimidating film,' says Walter Cassidy, the curator of the exhibition. 'All of his films stand up to closer inspection, but Invocation was made like a spell. Kenneth crafts his films like an artisan, frame by frame, and there are so many flash images that appear for only two frames - when you think that film works at 24 frames per second, that's almost subliminal.' Cassidy has blown up a selection of these images for the exhibition, some of which recall the sombre Rolling Stones concert in Hyde Park in July 1969, two days after Brian Jones died. When I mention this concert to Anger, he rolls his eyes: 'Yes, that was a disastrous concert. Thousands of white butterflies died for no reason. They were going to release them but they all died from the heat. I said to Mick Jagger, "They're not just a cheap prop, you know." He said, "I know, they cost $1,000."'

Invocation grew out of footage originally intended for Anger's occult tour de force, Lucifer Rising, a film he began in 1969 but took until 1981 to complete. It features Marianne Faithfull as Lilith, the kabbalistic goddess of destruction, in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, and Donald Cammell, the director of Performance (1970), as Osiris, the Lord of Death. Anger had persuaded an 18-year-old musician, Bobby BeauSoleil, to create the film's soundtrack, but then 1,500ft of shot film and camera equipment went missing, and Anger accused BeauSoleil of robbing him. BeauSoleil, who had connections to the Manson family, was then caught up in a murder and sentenced to life in prison. Anger claims to have persuaded Jimmy Page, a fellow Crowley enthusiast, to perform the soundtrack in BeauSoleil's place, but Page didn't deliver, so years later Anger arranged for BeauSoleil to record the soundtrack with a band he had formed in prison. Lucifer Rising is still the only film soundtrack ever to have been recorded in jail.

Ever since 1981, however, Anger has been remarkably quiet. He made a brief anti-smoking short in 2000 called simply Don't Smoke That Cigarette (Anger loathes cigarettes) and in 2002 a documentary about Aleister Crowley, called The Man We Want To Hang. It's hardly a prolific turnover in 23 years, which explains his excitement over his next film, which he hopes to begin in September when he next visits 'that cancerous area known as Greater London. The air there is unbreathable.' Over the last few months, he has been preparing for a film about cricket - a 59-minute 'ballet' entitled an Arrangement of White on Green, in tribute to the paintings of James Whistler. He has planned it meticulously. The soundtrack is secured, the poster designed, but then his patron, the late Sir John Paul Getty II, passed away last year, and now Anger is unsure whether the film is a 'go' or not. It's odd that, for so long, Kenneth Anger should have struggled to get a gig: after all, the likes of Dennis Hopper, Anaïs Nin and the Stones were close friends, though he now describes the latter as 'a ragtag band of senior citizens'. only Keith Richards comes away without a savaging - Anger concedes he was 'nice'. As for Anita Pallenberg, however, Anger told me that 'she thought she was a witch, but she was just a b*tch, if you ask me'. Yet Pallenberg is scheduled to host the reception for Anger's exhibition in September.

In an effort to lighten him up, I suggest we take a walk through the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. It's one of his favourite haunts, full of the tombs of celebrities past - much of the cast, in fact, of Hollywood Babylon - and as we wander about the palm trees and the springy lawns, Anger dispenses canape scandalettes about who was murdered or raped, who took an overdose and so on. 'You know Paramount,' he says, pointing to the studio that abuts the graveyard. 'They built the studio right over the tombs of the first pioneers. They didn't remove the bodies.'

We pause reverently at the tombs of Douglas Fairbanks and Valentino, with whom he's particularly smitten, and discuss acid, Armenians and how to invoke the storm demon, alighting inevitably on the war in Iraq, erstwhile seat of the Kingdom of Babylon but now, 'a hideous little country, like a Pekinese nipping at America's heels. We're in the new Dark Ages with all these beheadings,' he muses. 'Pretty soon, beheadings will become rather ho-hum and some new horror will emerge. Like eye gouging.' Anger abhors the 'cry-baby liberals' of Hollywood, particularly one A-list actress who, he says, threatened to burn her American passport and declare herself a citizen of Iraq backstage at the 2003 Oscars. 'Perhaps I'll include that story in Hollywood Babylon III.'

With the former rent-boy actor and the closet-Iraqi actress, Hollywood Babylon III is sure to cause an enormous fuss when it comes out. Sadly, that day may never come. For over a year, the manuscript has been gathering dust on the desk of Anger's publisher, since in its present form it would unleash a blizzard of litigation. 'I no longer conceal my contempt for Hollywood,' he says, 'and I'm no longer amused by it. I was genuinely fond of some of the stars in the first two [books]. I'm no longer fond of anybody in Hollywood. So I indulge in the luxury of hating them.'

True to his word, in one diatribe he expresses a loathing for Julianne Moore ('she's an airhead'), Meryl Streep ('an old sourpuss'), Johnny Depp ('an actor I hate') and John Travolta ('box-office poison') - not to mention Jack Nicholson, Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Tom Cruise and the late Marlon Brando, all of whom are slandered mercilessly. Most worrying for the publisher is Anger's assault on Scientology. 'Getting sued by Scientologists is like getting pecked to death by ducks,' he says. But he wades in regardless. Anger was good friends with a now-deceased Crowleyite scientist whom he feels was viciously betrayed by Scientology's founder, L Ron Hubbard, so Babylon III is Anger's revenge. Ominously, however, the editors at EP Dutton claim to know nothing of such a manuscript.


re more lenient. Failing that, I'll self-publish. I just don't know.'

In some ways, Anger is like a caricature codger who is sent misty by the pictures he grew up with, but left cold by this modern nonsense. He doesn't go to the cinema any more, 'because I object to being deafened'. He doesn't watch television - 'I call it the vampire of time.' Yet for all his bluster and eccentricity, he is also a tragic figure - an artist whose influence on the mainstream has been huge, and yet he is isolated, vulnerable and struggling for money now in his old age. Though he claims that he still receives publishing royalties, he has precious few belongings beyond his books and photographs. He puts a brave face on his penury, but last year he became effectively homeless and now rents a tiny place in Echo Park, behind a chicken wire gate, surrounded by gang violence.

No filmmaker of Anger's edge and attitude would ever be found riding around a Florida golf course in a buggy, but he seems hardly at peace with his lot. He won't allow me to see his home. He took a bus to the restaurant, today, rather than let me pick him up. For all the exposés he has written about others, he remains acutely sensitive about his own secrets. He lives alone - 'I've always been a loner' - and is a chronic insomniac: 'I tune my radio to the BBC World Service,' he says. 'I can't dream, but at least I can listen to the nightmares of the real world.'

Perhaps if Anger lived in Europe, where he once prospered, life would be easier. 'Hollywood is the wrong place for him,' says Louise Wilson. 'It's legendary for people stealing your ideas. And just mention the occult and they'll pull your funding.' But his situation is not helped by financial irresponsibility. Last year, the San Francisco Film Arts Foundation awarded him a cheque for $7,000, which would have covered his year's rent. Instead, he threw a lavish party and blew the lot in a night, even tipping the taxi driver $100.

What would a young Anger have made of the man before me? His story seems to amply qualify for Hollywood Babylon III. He was a brilliant young filmmaker, a pioneer and visionary who suffered nevertheless 'a cemetery of abortions'. Naturally, Anger denies any resonance between his story and those of his books - 'I never made a Hollywood movie and I never had enough money to live the life.' But what of the occultist who decried Hollywood amorality while his own courtroom victories kicked open the door for pornographers, ushering Babylon in? Or the artist who earnt his keep from books of scandal? And most of all, a man who, as a teen, changed his name from Anglemyer to Anger, only to find that his temper may have been his undoing? Why did he change his name all those years ago? Does he think it has worked like a spell?

'You're being impertinent,' he says, irritated.

'It says Anger on my passport, that's all you need to know.' Anger's eyes thin and he peers suspiciously at me. 'I would stay away from that subject if I was you.'
 
I have seen the web pages of The Anita Pallenbeg Story a few years ago. I thought then that it was a very badly made student movie, which I still think it is.
Now, thank you for the Kenneth Anger story; I always find him very intriguing. I have boughts these 2 books of him back in the 80s: Hollywood Babylon I & II. Very good.
 
I would love to see what Anita looks like as the Queen of England :king:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2078292,00.html

Sexy at 60 - Cannes is still the greatest show on earth


It's an all-American glamour-fest this year, with Clooney, Brad and Angelina lined up for honours

Jason Solomons
Sunday May 13, 2007
The Observer

America's showbiz bible Variety got very excited when the Cannes Film Festival announced the competition line-up for its 60th anniversary edition. 'The Stars and Stripes will be flying high over the Croisette,' trumpeted the daily magazine. 'High-profile US helmers and stars are so prevalent, it would almost be easier to list those that won't be there.'
As ever, such pre-festival US triumphalism should be treated with a British pinch of salt (and some French sang-froid) but, as the UK's presence at the annual jamboree - which starts on Wednesday - is restricted to a single title in the consolatory Director's Fortnight sidebar, it's hard not to feel a pang of jealousy towards Hollywood.

Among the 21 titles competing for the Palme d'Or are five American films: Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country For Old Men; David Fincher's Zodiac; James Gray's We Own the Night; Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof; and Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park. Added to those, the festival opener is My Blueberry Nights which, though an English-language debut from Hong Kong's Wong Kar Wai, is an American road trip movie starring singer Norah Jones; and one of France's entries, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, is directed by American artist Julian Schnabel.

Five more to see

The Coen Brothers are back in Cannes with what is rumoured to be their best film in years. No Country For Old Men centres around the scramble for a suitcase full of cash and heroin, and stars Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones and Woody Harrelson.

Harmony Korine's Mr Lonely promises to be one of the oddest films. It stars Samantha Morton as a Marilyn Monroe impersonator who falls for Diego Luna's Michael Jackson lookalike on the streets of Paris. Anita Pallenberg plays the Queen of England.

Emir Kusturica is going for an unprecedented third Palme d'Or with further reflection on modern Balkan life Promise Me This.

Mexico's Carlos Reygadas contributed one of the strangest, sexiest films in recent competition with his Mexican epic Battle in Heaven. He's back with the bizarre sounding Dutch-language Mennonite love story Silent Light.

Julian Schnabel's adaptation of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, about French Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby's life after suffering 'locked-in' syndrome, sounds like a Best Actor chance for Mathieu Amalric, who beat Johnny Depp to the role.
 
oh i love that pic of Anita and Brian in Cannes, her outfit is just beautiful!
 
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