70’s Cinema | The Bedlam Files

THE AMUSEMENT PARK

Yes, this is the now-famous “lost” 1973 film by the late George A. Romero

There’s something about a multi-part crime movie, particularly a Shaw Brothers crime movie, that compels

This is far from the ideal account of the life of the late Jan-Michael Vincent, but it is (as of 2021) the only one

One of the quirkiest of all seventies-sploitation films was MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH

This is one actor you simply will not mistake for anyone else

The WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART of the Blaxploitation film cycle, a thinly fictionalized expose of the filming of THE MACK (1973)

Here, in the early days of 2021, is the latest edition of my annual Bedlam in Print overview

The director-novelist: it’s a rare combination, but it does exist

Contra Mundum Press deserves credit for publishing this, a book whose potential readership is not what anyone would call broad

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