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Article: Kenneth Anger, director: Fireworks at sixty.(Interview)
- Article from:
- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
- Author:
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While not a household name, experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger has had a massive influence on American cinema. Indeed, names no less illustrious than Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola have repeatedly cited Anger as a major influence on their craft.
Part of Anger's ongoing underground status stems from the fact that he has never made a feature film. Instead, he has relished in remaining defiantly distant from mainstream American culture, creating an oeuvre of widely disparate, wildly uneven, and often unforgettable short films. Though his movies are as far away from the Hollywood aesthetic as one could imagine, Anger was born into the belly of the beast, ...