Re: Lucifer Rising?

From: Jack Sargeant (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Apr 23 2009 - 19:30:41 PDT


Did the BFI have the Jimmy Page version? or is that just in my
imagination?
Bobby B's soundtrack (the final version) is the better I think.
Jack
On 24 Apr 2009, at 06:38, Alex Lake wrote:

> I know the School of the Art Institute of Chicago has multiple
> versions of Lucifer in it's collection, including Anger's workprint.
>
> They are listed as follows:
> Lucifer rising. Chapter one: Magical surprise package from London.
> 1970.
> Lucifer rising. War Department version. 1973.
> Lucifer rising. Hand-tinted version. 1973.
> Lucifer rising. Jimmy Page soundtrack version. 1973.
> Lucifer rising. Work print. 1981.
> Lucifer rising. Final definitive version. 1981.
>
> The listings for the Hand-tinted and the War Department versions note
> that the music is Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother.
>
> I have only seen the prints of Magical Surprise Package, which I
> cannot remember the sound for, and the Final version with the
> Beausoleil soundtrack.
>
> Hope this is helpful...
>
> -Alex
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Ben Barton <email suppressed>
> wrote:
>> Hi Freya -
>>
>> You are confusing the two productions - yes the first 'Lucifer'
>> did become 'Invocation' - apparently using the outtakes (if you
>> believe that particular Anger yarn!)
>>
>> But a version of the second film, with the Jimmy Page soundtrack
>> did indeed exist. Anger screened it a few times, i seem to
>> remember. It was incomplete and he screened it to raise more
>> funding.... In fact the bootleg album of Jimmy's soundtrack was
>> ripped from an early print...
>>
>> Don't know if it is still available though - it's not one of my
>> favourite Anger films, so I have never really tracked that one down.
>>
>> Ben Barton
>>
>>
>> p.s. While we're on the Anger subject - does anyone know of one
>> of Anger's early (teenage) films - called 'Escape Episode' or
>> 'Demigods'. Some people say it's lost forever - others that Anger
>> indeed has copies - but won't share. Any one know any more?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Freya <email suppressed>
>>> To: email suppressed
>>> Subject: Re: Lucifer Rising?
>>> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:37:49 -0700
>>>
>>>
>>> I thought there were never actually prints made because that
>>> version of Lucifer Rising was destroyed apparently and supposedly
>>> was buried in a hole in the desert according to one of those Anger
>>> stories. :)
>>>
>>> After that Invocation of my demon brother was thrown together from
>>> the out-takes and the new Lucifer Rising was a remake! ;)
>>>
>>> love
>>>
>>> Freya
>>>
>>> --- On Thu, 4/23/09, Raymond Salvatore Harmon
>>> <email suppressed> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Raymond Salvatore Harmon <email suppressed>
>>>> Subject: Lucifer Rising?
>>>> To: email suppressed
>>>> Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 1:56 PM
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know of existing prints available of Kenneth
>>>> Anger's original version of Lucifer Rising, with the Jimmy
>>>> Page soundtrack? The 1973 version, not the second version
>>>> from the 80s.
>>>>
>>>> Any help is appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Yours
>>>>
>>>> Raymond Salvatore Harmon
>>>> raymondharmon.com
>>>>
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