70’s Cinema | The Bedlam Files

INSIDE BLACK HOLLYWOOD

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

This British oddity represents yet another case of promising material given indifferent treatment

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

Perhaps the most infamous of the many revisionist westerns churned out by Hollywood in the early seventies

Vlad Tepes was the historical personage who inspired DRACULA, and this Romanian epic remains the only worthwhile Tepes film biopic

Another 1970s era dispatch from the Weird Porno category