Today's Throwback Thursday takes us to a GOAT of gay cinema, arthouse movies, and Hollywood gossip. Literally, his salacious book is considered the Bible on old Hollywood gossip. Can you guess who we're talking about? It's Kenneth Anger, the director of the short and dark film, Lucifer Rising, which showed us dick.
Kenneth Anger directed this fantastical drama. Does that name sound familiar to you? Kenneth Anger is THE author of the notoriously salacious Hollywood Babylon. He is known for mixing occult and homoeroticism in his artsy films. Those two things probably best describe Anger who was very inspired by early Hollywood stories he was told like bits of gossip and Aleister Crawley. Anger has been described as "one of America's first openly gay filmmakers" which is also an incredibly exciting and honorable feat. That also means his work is unabashedly celebratory of the male body! Ah, that's why we love this guy.
Lucifer Rising is more than just a 30-minute-long film loosely based on Egyptian mythology and the idea that humanity entered a new period known as the Aeon of Horus. We're in the Aeon of Horniness after we meet our lead actor Haydn Couts! The concept took years to make and originally was supposed to include music from Jimmy Page (of Led Zeppelin fame). The surrealist, the psychedelic film features several different characters and Egyptian and ancient myths mixed together. What's the plot? Does it really matter when Haydn Couts goes full-frontal? Yeah, I didn't think so.
It's very hard to find Kenneth's films, but we do have a shirtless scene of Kenneth himself from his 1947 film Fireworks. It's surreal and violent, like his other works, but it does show a young Kenneth's chest and some muscular and shirtless sailors:
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