Lucifer Rising: a heartfelt expression of Aleister Crowley’s Thelema philosophy
Kenneth Anger, “Lucifer Rising” (1981) Begun some time in the 1960s but not fully completed
Category: North American Films
Reviews of films made in Canada and United States including all films made by Hollywood.
Starship Troopers: a hilarious send-up of US-style fascism and conduct of war
Paul Verhoeven, “Starship Troopers” (1997) Loosely adapted from the Robert Heinlein novel of the same
Din of Celestial Birds: exploration of evolution and development of consciousness in short film
Edmund Elias Merhige, “Din of Celestial Birds” (2006) Astonishing little film – it’s just 10
Begotten: film explores Christian and pagan myths of fertility in cycle of birth, death and rebirth
Edmund Elias Merhige, “Begotten” (1989) A remarkable student film that explores Christian and pre-Christian creation
Finding the Telepathic Cinema of Manchuria: an ingenious look at how a country’s history is made, remade and reinterpreted
David Blair, “Finding the Telepathic Cinema of Manchuria” (2010) After finishing “WAX or the Discovery
Zoetrope: Kafka short story inspires a film about how science, industry, bureaucracy and politics oppress a victim
Charlie Deaux, “Zoetrope” (1999) Based on my favourite Franz Kafka short story “In the Penal
Zoo: film teeters gingerly around its subject and suffers for that
Robinson Devor, “Zoo” (2007) Based on the case of a Boeing employee who died from
A portrait of cultural fascism through one individual’s exploitation in “Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story”
Todd Haynes, “Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story” (1987) Using Barbie and Ken dolls to play
The American Dream (by The Provocateur Network): informative if biased documentary on money and American banking
Tad Lumpkin and Harold Uhl / The Provocateur Network “The American Dream” (2010?) This is a
Tabloid: entertaining portrait of an eccentric obsessive doesn’t delve deeply into media culture and social values
Errol Morris, “Tabloid” (2010) Errol Morris’s documentaries fall into two camps: a serious one (“Fog