{"id":16282,"date":"2015-01-21T02:56:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T01:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16282"},"modified":"2015-01-21T03:08:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T02:08:14","slug":"the-invasion-of-thunderbolt-pagoda-a-film-by-ira-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/01\/21\/the-invasion-of-thunderbolt-pagoda-a-film-by-ira-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda, a film by Ira Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An inevitable follow-up to yesterday’s film, Ira Cohen’s fantasia from 1968 is one of the classics of psychedelic cinema, a Kenneth Anger-like delirium that makes great use of Cohen’s obsession with Mylar distortions. Anger’s Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome<\/em> is the model here, with a cast of revellers adopting various guises; Cohen himself appears as The Majoon Traveler and Death. The long version of the film at YouTube<\/a> is the expanded edition that Arthur<\/em> magazine released in 2006. Unfortunately the original score by Angus MacLise has been replaced by something that’s even more annoying that the jokey music for NY, NY<\/em>. I’d recommend finding a suitably trippy substitute.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Ira Cohen, 1935\u20132011<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dreamweapon: The Art and Life of Angus MacLise, 1938\u20131979<\/a>
\n\u2022 William Burroughs by Ira Cohen, 1967<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An inevitable follow-up to yesterday’s film, Ira Cohen’s fantasia from 1968 is one of the classics of psychedelic cinema, a Kenneth Anger-like delirium that makes great use of Cohen’s obsession with Mylar distortions. Anger’s Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome is the model here, with a cast of revellers adopting various guises; Cohen himself appears as … Continue reading “The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda, a film by Ira Cohen”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[2473,1164,2491,401,1190],"class_list":["post-16282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-psychedelia","tag-angus-maclise","tag-arthur-magazine","tag-ira-cohen","tag-kenneth-anger","tag-william-burroughs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4eC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}