If the label ‘cult writer’ wasn’t invented for him, it seems so. Kenneth Angel He died at the age of 96. His cinematographic works never came out of the strictest “underground”, but Its influence is present in different ways in directors such as John Waters and David Lynch.. two volumes Hollywood, Babylon‘, the holy book of the unspeakable secrets of the Mecca of cinema, surfaced after a few coincidences at a time when no one was snooping, and formed the basis of Damien Chazelle’s latest film ‘Babylon’.
Kenneth Anger (christened Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer) was born in 1927 in Santa Monica, California. His filmography consists of only short films, about 40 of them, with the first notable ‘Fireworks’ (1947). The movie cost him a trial for obscenity. “Being 17, that’s all I can say about the United States Navy, the American Christmas and the 4th of July,” Anger said.
Homoeroticism, fetishism, surrealism and occultism Go over her work (who was fascinated by Aleister Crowley). The most “popular” movie, “The Scorpion Rises” (1963), intensifies all these “isms” and makes them biker subculture.
The first volume of “Hollywood, Babylon” was published in France in 1959 and the United States in 1965, and was banned for nearly a decade. The book was accused of being sensational and a liar, but in any case left its mark on the popular imagination. Not to mention the ‘Mulholland drive’ David Lynch. heat james ellroy seems to agree with him exactly, if not in detail.