So cool, dangerous and stylish.

I entered into Anger's world very enthused, and little by little, the interest has been lost. I don't know what this is.

I don't know what to write. Or even how to probably score this.

#413

A really dark american graffiti

disgusting fascists

"It is beyond me why this movie is given such high praise. Bikers are shown taking care of their bikes, reading comics and dressing in their near-fetishistic gear and clothes, then gay bikers go wild in a party, riding, a frenzy of pleasure and pain, building to a chaotic orgy, while intercut with Nazi imagery and scenes from a movie of Jesus, all supposedly saying something ironic about idols and pop-culture. Infantile and boring so-called shock cinema."

# 497

I'm not gay, nazi, satan worshipper or anything like that. But this is great, edited in such a stylish way! It stands somewhere between Godard and John Waters, with a cool rock'n'roll soundtrack. I guess that's why some people call Kenneth Anger the father of video clip.

one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. Sorry.

Sadism, bikers, and leather: I'm a fan already.

An odd quasi documentary about a group of bikers. The sound track is entirely pop songs, so everything the movie says is through visuals which intercut between the bikers and images of James Dean Marlon Brando and Jesus. I'm not sure what the point of this was and I wouldn't say I liked it, but it was interesting to watch.

366

An interesting watch, but I don't really know what to make of it, and it wears on you after a while. The influence of the editing and soundtrack on film history is particularly interesting, so it does have some merit.

392

Dark, moody lights, nazi symbols, bikers, several gay acts(albeit very, very quickly done), sweet rock music, quick editing. If you can't stand any of that, this is not for you.

At first I thought it was quite genius, evoking an unfamiliar mood of sensuality and danger and death and innocence. But around halfway through, here comes the Nazi stuff and the clips from the Jesus movie and I got annoyed. I know this kind of thing was pretty daring for 1964, but now it just seems silly. Still, I was mostly engaged and the use of pop songs was clever (and obviously influential). I was surprised to learn how little of this was staged, it's mostly things exactly as they were.