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Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)
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A Slavonic Mass by Leos Janácek plays as historical figures, biblical characters, and mythical creatures gather in the pleasure dome...
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A hallucinogenic adventure, a trippy dive into Crowley Land, an otherworldly playground of dreams and a dome-full of sensuality and pleasure. There has never been anything like it in the history of the cine
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(Complete credited cast)| Sampson De Brier | ... | Lord Shiva, Osiris, Nero, The Great Beast | |
| Marjorie Cameron | ... | The Scarlet Woman, Kali | |
| Joan Whitney | ... | Aphrodite | |
| Katy Kadell | ... | Isis | |
| Renate Druks | ... | Lilith (as Renata Loom) | |
| Anaïs Nin | ... | Astarte | |
| Paul Mathison | ... | Pan | |
| Curtis Harrington | ... | Cesare / Slave / Sleep-walker | |
| Kenneth Anger | ... | Hecate | |
| Peter Loome | ... | Ganymede |
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References Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. (1920)
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Swallowing jewelry? Drinking potions? A birdcage as head-dress? Kenneth Anger's IOTPD is the trippiest, most gorgeously haunting and sensual of film experiences I have ever seen; trust me, it will leave your mouth gaping in sheer awe. Hallucinogenic, weirdly stagnant and moving at the same time, a head-first dive into Crowley Land, an otherworldly playground of dreams deluged with sensuality and, as the title suggests, pleasure. You can watch it again and again and still never bore of it. Mesmerizing and beautifully filmed. Easily Anger's masterpiece (more so than SCORPIO RISING or LUCIFER RISING), and better than any other dives into "psychedelic psinema" (THE TRIP and the acid montage from EASY RIDER come to mind). There has never EVER been anything like this trippy tour de force of style in the history of the cinema.