Kenneth Anger Lives On

The American Cinemagician wove a great spell, and then some

Kenneth Anger, Hollywood 2006. Photo by Carl Abrahamsson.

Undoubtedly, Kenneth Anger (1927-2023) was the grand old man of juicy Hollywood gossip, of the ”new American cinema” of the 1950s and 60s, and of keeping up a sinister but glamorous façade by dropping occult tidbits here and there along the way. All of this he did since the mid-1940s, and certainl…