Science Fiction Unfilmed: RONNIE ROCKET, INTERFACE and THE TOURIST
I feel that had these scripts been filmed the face of cinema may well have been transformed irrevocably
MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD
The undoubted magnum opus of Italy’s Sergio Martino, and possibly the most ambitious entry in the Italian cannibal movie cycle
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
A film that was quite controversial upon its initial release in 1971 and remains a topic of enormous contention
ZARDOZ
A novelization as weird as just about any you’ll read, and no wonder: the film it novelizes, the 1974 science fiction oddity ZARDOZ, is one of the absolute nuttiest releases of its decade
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE
A surrealist prank of a movie from the incomparable Luis Buñuel
CIMINO: THE DEER HUNTER, HEAVEN’S GATE AND THE PRICE OF A VISION
A frustrating and inconclusive book, although that’s an inevitability give its subject: the notoriously hermetic Michael Cimino
MULTIPLE MANIACS
The second feature by John Waters, and in many respects his key film
THE FARMER
A revenge-themed grindhouse item from 1977 that appears to have had Important Cinema aspirations
THE YIN AND THE YANG OF MR. GO
“The beam really works. Who will it strike next time? Perhaps it could even be you!”
FANTASTIC PLANET
After THE YELLOW SUBMARINE this is the premiere example of feature-length psychedelic animation