The Magick Lantern Cycle

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BLOW YOUR MIND

A Customer from London, 4th December, 2009

This is dream cinema taken to its extremes. No dialogue but incredible visions with a bit of humour thrown in. When I first saw Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome in the 70s I thought it was from the mid sixties - actually it's from 1954 - because its nearest basic point of reference is an acid trip, complete with Anais Nin in a birdcage. Fireworks has been a film studies student influence since the 40s. Ironic in a way as there's a definite Eisenstein debt here. Dig that flaming phallus! You've got to see Lucifer Rising with Marianne Faithful with the bloody scarf and her pilgrimage to that spooky spot near Hannover - she's a natural. Eaux D'artifice in the Tivoli Gardens is amazingly erotic - you couldn't make it up. Then there's Rabbit's Moon, a brilliant mime affair and A Raincoat's 1979 soundtrack is spookily familiar. Then what? Kustom Kar Kommondos with mirror fetish hotrod, plus Scorpio Rising with an actual neck breaking death. This really asks you what do you watch film for? Boring reality or brilliant imagination?

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