July 4, 2010

Fireworks | Kenneth Anger (1947)

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  1. Rick Neece on July 4th, 2010 at 8:45 pm

    Holy shit, Sheila Ryan! I don’t know what to make of it.

  2. Sheila Ryan on July 5th, 2010 at 12:01 pm

    Of [Fireworks], Anger would later state in 1966 that “This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, American Christmas and the fourth of July.”

    If you’re interested, Anger talks about Fireworks early on in a fifteen-minute clip of a 2004 French TV interview that you can download here.

    Speaking of Kenneth Anger and of France, in 1980 I was returning to the States from Paris, where I’d been visiting my film scholar friend Ed Lowry, and among the few purchases I’d brought back was a French edition of Anger’s Hollywood Babylon. An unaccountably hostile female customs agent questioned me about it, asking (I kid you not), “So — you think you’re some kind of intellectual, do you?”

    I forget my reply, but I was tempted to say, “No, I am just using the book to practice my French. Où est la tête de Jayne Mansfield?“

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