70’s Cinema | The Bedlam Files

THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED

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

A solid, if not entirely satisfying, overview of the life and output of the late Paul Bartel

The one and only XXX take-off of A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Among women in prison movies THE BIG DOLL HOUSE is one of the biggies

Much weirder-than-average pornographic lunacy from the 1970s

Pink Lady was the 1970s Japanese forerunner to the Spice Girls, and this was their unimpressive film debut

Belgian trash about a guy who thinks he’s a vampire. Don’t expect much.

An unabashed puff piece that nonetheless emerges as the definitive resource on all things BILLY JACK

The first feature by Argentina’s Miguel Bejo, a figure who deserves to be ranked with cinematic provocateurs like Jodorowsky and Arrabal