Movie Recommendations
From Sekhet-Maat Lodge
The following are movies of general interest to Thelemites and other occultists. Please send your recommendations to: webmaster@sekhetmaat.com
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Kenneth Anger
- Fireworks (1947)
- Puce Moment (1949)
- Rabbit's Moon (1950)
- The rarely seen original 16 minute version
- Eaux d'Artifice (1953)
- Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)
- Scorpio Rising (1964)
- Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)
- Lucifer Rising (1972)
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Ingmar Bergman
- Through a Glass Darkly
- Winter Light
- Silence
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Luis Bunuel
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- The Phantom of Liberty
- That Obscure Object of Desire
- Un Chien Andalou
- Viridiana
- Belle Du Jour
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Jean Cocteau
- Orpheus
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Federico Fellini
- 8½
- La Strada
- Amarcord
- La Dolce Vita
- The Nights of Cabiria
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Jean-Luc Godard
- Band of Outsiders
- Alphaville
- Breathless
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Derek Jarman
- Jubilee
- in which John Dee travels through time w/ Queen Elizabeth to future England
- The Tempest
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Caro & Jeunet
- The City of Lost Children
- Delicatessen
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
- La Cravate
- Fando y Lis
- The Holy Mountain
- El Topo
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Stanley Kubrick
- Dr. Strangelove
- Eyes Wide Shut
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Akira Kurosawa
- Dreams
- Ikiru
- Ran
- Rashômon
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Fritz Lang
- Metropolis
- M
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David Lynch
- Twin Peaks (TV series)
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
- Wild at Heart
- Blue Velvet
- Lost Highway
- Eraserhead
- Mulholland Drive
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Hayao Miyazaki
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Kiki's Delivery Service
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Princess Mononoke
- Spirited Away
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Juan Lopez Montezuma
- Alucarda
- The Mansion of Madness
- "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" is stated in this film. Based on an Edgar Allen Poe story, J. L. Montezuma worked with Jodorowsky early on & the film has been described, "Like a Monty Python film directed by Fellini ... on acid!"
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F.W. Murnau
- Faust
- Nosferatu
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Monty Python & Related
- Brazil
- Life of Brian
- Monty Python & The Holy Grail
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Jan Svankmajer
- Faust
- Neco z Alenky / Alice
- Otesánek / Little Otik / Greedy Guts
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Orson Welles
- Black Magic
- Orson Welles as Cagliostro
- F For Fake
- Macbeth
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Miscellaneous
- The Affair of the Necklace
- Christopher Walken as Calgiostro
- Bandit Queen
- Bliss (1985)
- Bliss (1997)
- Cemetery Man
- Chimes At Midnight
- Closely Watched Trains
- Curse of the Demon
- Dead Man
- Johnny Depp plays William Blake in a surreal symbolist western.
- Detour
- The Devils
- A Double Life
- great tale of theatre and psychological obsession
- Excalibur
- Thee Films
- Collection of short films of Wm. S. Burroughs and Bryon Gysin
- Fight Club
- The Fountain
- Ghoulies
- The Golem (1920)
- Gothic
- Gummo
- Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
- The Illusionist
- Incubus
- Occult B thriller starring a very young William Shatner, this is also perhaps the only film done entirely in Esperanto.
- Intacto
- In the Company of Wolves
- Kundun
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- The Last Wave
- Life is Beautiful
- Lord of Illusions
- The Magic Flute
- Magnolia
- Maltese Falcon
- Marat/Sade
- Midsummer Nights Dream
- the Max Reinhardt version w/ little Kenneth Anger as the changeling child
- Mon Oncle
- The Mummy (1932)
- Egyptian occult reincarnation theme (nothing like the '90s indiana jones version with brendon frasier)
- My Dinner with André
- A metaphysical discussion over dinner, includes talk about Findhorn community and resurrection-based rituals.
- The Ninth Gate
- No Such Thing
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Parsifal
- Performance
- Pi
- The Pillow Book
- Raise the Red Lantern
- The Red Violin
- The Saragossa Manuscript
- Shadow of the Vampire
- The Shout
- Suspiria
- Titus
- Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis & Doomed Megalopolis
- Ugetsu
- Waking Life
- The Wicker Man
