70’s Cinema | The Bedlam Files

CHASING THE LIGHT

Speaking as one who quite literally grew up watching his films, I couldn’t help but gravitate toward this, Oliver Stone’s long-in-coming memoir

This hefty study of David Cronenberg’s THE BROOD is, quite simply, the most thorough and wide-ranging textual analysis of a horror movie ever written

A rape-revenge drama from Bulgaria, and a most unlikely Great Film inductee

For fans of ERASERHEAD, and the output of Mr. Lynch, I feel confident in proclaiming this book an absolute must-read

Playful is the word for this Soviet era quasi-documentary from the late Elem Klimov (1933-2003)

Here we pay homage to one of screen’s pre-eminent visual stylists and most irrepressible troublemakers

It’s an interesting thing about Woody Allen: not too long ago he was considered the epitome of class and sophistication, but now he’s a pariah

With the advent of 2020 the disease movie has taken on an entirely new resonance

A movie book that’s as gossipy, informative and entertaining as anyone could possibly want

A book about the prolific British filmmaker Ridley Scott that isn’t what I’d call revelatory