80’s Cinema | The Bedlam Files

On CITY ZERO and VERNANDA

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

On December 19, 1978 the so-called “Blood Letter from Nanhai” made its bow in the Taiwanese Central Daily News

An engaging memoir, and certainly one of most interesting and underrated film books of the 2010s

If this year proves anything it’s that the rosy view of the eighties that has taken hold is complete bullcrap

I’m very sorry to bid farewell to Sir Alan Parker, who passed on July 31

Speaking as one who quite literally grew up watching his films, I couldn’t help but gravitate toward this, Oliver Stone’s long-in-coming memoir

Continuing with my Year in Bedlam year-end overviews, we arrive at 1984