Johnstone and Anger

 The film world lost two significant writer/directors last month. Iain Johnstone died on 4th May, followed a week later by Kenneth Anger. Johnstone received - rightly - an extensive obituary on Radio 4's Last Word.  There was no way any Establishment outlet would memorialise Anger, who made his name with homoerotic short films before revealing the feet (and other body parts) of clay of such movie idols as James Dean in his book Hollywood Babylon. 

That in turn inspired Matthew Sweet to write Shepperton Babylon - thankfully not quite as racy as the Anger and very readable.

Updated 2023-06-07