70’s Cinema | The Bedlam Files

THE BLACK GESTAPO

If not for some misguided elements this would be a classic of the blaxploitaiton genre. Maybe it is anyway.

This is, quite simply, THE Soviet time travel comedy

One of the finest action films of ithe seventies, offering up naturalistic drama and brutal action in equal doses

About the late blaxploitaiton auteur Jamaa Fanaka, who combined urban grit and sheer weirdness

Arthouse vampire thrills from the late Bill Gunn

One of the most famous “lost” films of the late Twentieth Century was this never-released counterculture drama from the late Bill Gunn

A fairy tale adaptation from 1970 that despite a creepy incest angle emerges as a justified classic

A unique movie novelization from one of the top novelizers of the 1970s and 80s

The most notorious “lost” film of our—if not all—time, reviewed in screenplay form

The long-in-coming memoir by the German filmmaker and sometime actor Werner Herzog