60s Cinema | The Bedlam Files

2021: Bedlam in Print

The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s Bedlam Files-friendly publications

There simply aren’t enough bad things to say about this holiday atrocity from 1965

This featurette from 1964 can lay claim to being the first-ever cinematic transposition of Jan Potocki’s THE MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN SARAGOSSA

Mexican made lunacy with a difference: it’s a sci fi-western-vampire movie!

Undoubtedly the most inventive and unorthodox film to emerge from the 1960s Mondo movie cycle

It’s taken 52 years, but we now have a thorough account of MIDNIGHT COWBOY’S making and reception

A most confounding 1962 masterwork about a man’s doomed love for a mannequin

In which a white DA gets his brain transplanted into the body of an African-American man. It shoulda been better!

One of the more pleasantly surprising developments of 2020 was the inrush of attention paid to the work of Italy’s late Carmelo Bene

A lively film-related biography structured entirely as a long conversation