1988: The Year in Bedlam
I really hate to keep repeating myself in my year-end summations, but I just have to say it: 1988 was an abysmal year for movies
ULVETID
A most interesting and unorthodox “horror” movie from Denmark
WINTER BROTHERS
A visual wonder from Denmark, although, as is often the case with visually evocative European films, the storytelling leaves something to be desired
DESPAIR
This 1978 film was apparently an attempt at “commercial filmmaking” by Germany’s late Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982)
1996: The Year in Bedlam
From a cinematic standpoint 1996 can be viewed as the beginning of the end on two counts
2000: The Year in Bedlam
The following marks the inaugural entry in a new and ambitious project: an overview of my favorite films from each year, starting with 2000 and working my way backward
TWENTYNINE PALMS
The third feature by France’s Bruno Dumont was this ludicrous quasi-horror movie from 2003
2017: The Year in Bedlam
What follows is the latest installment of the Year in Bedlam overview of the previous year’s best and worst movies, according to yours-truly
25 FIREMAN’S STREET
An ambitious piece of avant-garde filmmaking from early-1970s Hungary that’s both an impassioned political statement and a hallucinatory spectacle
ABELARD — THE CASTRATION
From Germany, a failed attempt at artsploitation that was completed in 1975 but not released until two years later—and then promptly forgotten!