phileroach

I saw this so-called film by Elio Gelmini at the Viennale 2006 in presence of the director and the master Mr. Anger himself. The film contains no particularly new information on Kenneth Anger, and only covers up his films and art, but his private life (what could have been interesting) isn't covered at all. But the most disgraceful aspect was that Mr. Anger's face was put in front of a blue-screen, whereas on the blue-screen, clips from his films were shown and generic blue sky videos, which is below the quality of a TV documentary. There was a scene in the beginning where Jonas Mekas is interviewed, in the back was a copyrighted poster, so the director just blurred the parts of the screen so the poster couldn't be seen. The things Yes, Mr. Anger said were interesting, but you can find these informations in any book about him, the film is more of a 71 minute interview, and not a film, the title "Anger Me" doesn't have any meaning at all and makes no sense regarding the master of US avantgarde cinema. Overall a very unsatisfying picture offering nothing new in terms of Kenneth Anger and documentary film-making.

I heard and read much about it and so I, a horror fan, decided to buy and watch it. In the first five minutes I was still waiting for the "wow" moment. But after 20 minutes, 40, and then 81 I realized that there was nothing like the "masterpiece" they call it behind it. I had already seen Manhattan baby by Fulci then, which I found was excellent. But this film wasn't nearly as good as MB or say, a Dario Argento film. First of all, the story is uninteresting and nothing special (like basically nearly every Italian horror movie), the acting was average and the photography was only good at some small parts (the eye zoom, also used in MB). The special effects were very well done, and the end scene wasn't so bad either. The score was usual boring Synthesizer-horror-music, with the exception of "I Remember". If Fabio Frizzi would have done the music, the score would have been much better. Now there's another Lucio Fulci film I bought, Zombi 2, i hope it doesn't disappoint me like "Quella Villa....". Hearing all the praise and reading on the cover of the DVD "Lucio Fulci's masterpiece", I was very disappointed. All in all, it's a good horror film, but not more than that.