80’s Cinema | The Bedlam Files

1980: The Year in Bedlam

In this Year in Bedlam overview, highlighting 30 lesser-known and/or underappreciated film releases, I’ll be exploring 1980

A book about movie novelizations–I can’t see how it could possibly NOT be a must-read

A halfway worthwhile film, meaning its first half is provocative and compelling, and its second not so much

This National Film Board of Canada produced documentary is in the grand tradition of quirky Canadian nonfiction cinema

The first and only biography of the late Richard Donner

A middling product of the gross-out teen movie explosion of the early 1980s

Worthy of attention due to its subject matter: the “Video Nasties” craze that gripped Britain in the 1980s

Yet another movie that tends to be vastly overhyped, largely (I’m guessing) because of its scarcity

As a child of the eighties who happened to be a prolific moviegoer, I couldn’t help but notice the presence of Larry B. Scott

John Waters is a filmmaker I’ve always found more entertaining than the films he makes