80’s Cinema | The Bedlam Files

Performer Profile: Jennifer Jason Leigh

One of the most talented and uninhibited actors of our age. That is all.

This is one actor you simply will not mistake for anyone else

One of the sickest surprises of December 2020 was the release of this graphic novel, which breaks new ground in splatterific excess

The director-novelist: it’s a rare combination, but it does exist

A little known American independent feature from 1982 that stands as one of the screen’s better depictions of the late 1960s

What follows are the type of little-known films that tend to comprise my “Look Back in Bedlam” listings, of which this is the 1982 entry

Here we’re going back to a very particular time and place: the Soviet Union, circa 1988

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

This altogether odd 1989 thriller hails from Shunichi Nagasaki, Japan’s onetime cinematic sultan of noir

W haunted house movie that woefully lacks the complexity and craftsmanship of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s later films