Just re-watched Kenneth Anger's "Magick Lantern Cycle". "Rabbit's Moon" is quite simply one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen. I also enjoyed seeing Marianne Faithful wondering around the desert as my daughter's name sake "Lilith" in "Lucifer Rising" which also has film director Donald Cammell ("Performance", "White of the Eye") as Osiris. This was not Cammell's first encounter with Aleister Crowley's work as Cammell's father had written a biography of the Beast.
Special praise most also be given for the unrelenting fetishism that abounds of motorbikes, biker clothing and bikers in "Scorpio Rising". It all becomes very hypnotic and adds an extra rhythm underscoring all the early 60s girl band music.
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