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Fantoma DVD Production Update
The Films of Kenneth Anger 2-DVD set is nearly complete. This title has been the subject of many delays in the past, due to our quest to recover and restore the original elements and to present all of the films in the best possible condition. Currently we are concentrating on clearing the complicated music rights issues before we can give a firm street date for the release. We think that this special edition will be well worth the wait.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? is near completion and should be released this summer.
Samuel Fuller's Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street is also almost ready to go. We're in the process of gathering all of the special features together to make this a very special release.
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Speaking of the music--this has been bothering me for a while. The version of Rabbit in the Moon I have seen had a silly pop song titles 'Things that go bump in the night' or something---played twice in a row. I think I read somewhere though that this film was originally scored with classical music, which I think would suit the film much better. Anyone know anything about this?? Also, once Fantomafinally gets this thing together, what music will it use? Thanks!
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You are correct about the original scoring. It was also not projected at Keystone Kops speed originally either. No one knows why Anger re-edited it into the thing that it became, but that's what he did.rwaits wrote:Speaking of the music--this has been bothering me for a while. The version of Rabbit in the Moon I have seen had a silly pop song titles 'Things that go bump in the night' or something---played twice in a row. I think I read somewhere though that this film was originally scored with classical music, which I think would suit the film much better.
One word of caution, though. There are really no definitive versions of an Anger film. Each print he made (if he made more than one) was usually personalized or individualized in some way. The versions on the forthcoming DVD could be slightly or even radically different from the ones we've become accustomed to on the Mystic Fire videocassettes.
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I heard something a long time ago about them being bankrupt and in too big of a financial bind to release anything. Which isn't all that surprising, really. I've always found their releases a bit too universally transgressive to mainstream American taste. I mean, even Criterion has releases like The Life Aquatic... and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to pump money out from the mainstream consumer's pockets so they can fund their more esoteric projects. With Fantoma, they didn't even give us a token attempt at appeasing middle America. Forbidden Zone came close, but not close enough, I think.
Regardless, it's a shame they've hit this point -- especially with Kenneth Anger still lingering somewhere in the darkness.
Regardless, it's a shame they've hit this point -- especially with Kenneth Anger still lingering somewhere in the darkness.
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Yeah, I really liked Fantoma too, if the worse thing happens and they really are out of business for good, they could sell or work with someone else to release the Kenneth Anger set, and whatever else they where working on...right?Gordon McMurphy wrote:It would be heartbreaking to me, if the Kenneth Anger collection was near completion, but goes down with the ship.
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...what about ONE FROM THE HEART, then?postmodern-chuck wrote: I've always found their releases a bit too universally transgressive to mainstream American taste. I mean, even Criterion has releases like The Life Aquatic... and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to pump money out from the mainstream consumer's pockets so they can fund their more esoteric projects. With Fantoma, they didn't even give us a token attempt at appeasing middle America. Forbidden Zone came close, but not close enough, I think.
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From what I can gather, Anger is very unstable these days. He recently strangled (not to death, of course) a transvestite and has been in and out of mental hospitals this year. He is a volatile, spontaneous person - very hard to deal with, to say the least. He has a website somewhere that sold his films on DVD, but he only made 93 copies (93 is a very important Thelemic Magick number) so they cannot be purchased anymore. He appeared on a BBC TV documentary on the history of the Hollywood underbelly this year: he still looks fit and healthy, well, physically, at least. I suspect that Fantoma's dealings with him have been difficult and coupled with Fantoma's financial problems, the production of the DVD(s) hass been frustrating for them. The original negatives for his films are apparently in excellent condition, considering their vintage.
We may see Anger on DVD soon... but I doubt it.
We may see Anger on DVD soon... but I doubt it.