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Article: The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One
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- The Village Voice
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- January 24, 2007
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The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One
Fantoma Films
Released January 23
Kenneth Anger Comes Home
Five shorts, one mind-blowing DVD, and your couch
BY NATHAN LEE
Nothing suffers more on home video than avant-garde film, by its nature inclined to explore the outer limits, innate qualities, and subtlest effects of its medium. Yet nothing is more exciting, from the perspective of the living-room cinematheque (a/k/a the future of cinephilia) than the recent boon in experimental DVDs. Sure, they suffer on the small screen-and Flaubert is better in the original French-but that doesn't prevent translations of Sentimental Education from blowing minds.
The latest blast from the avant-garde cannon, ...