LOLA
A “lost” film in the filmography of Spain’s late Bigas Luna (1946–2013), LOLA is a 1986 erotic thriller that received very little attention and has largely vanished from sight
NIGHT ON THE TOWN
A twelve minute animated amazement from 1981 that remains shockingly little known
PURANA MANDIR
By Bollywood standards this 1984 film is quite good, packed with chills and boasting a tight storyline that nearly manages to sustain itself over a fast moving 145 minutes
2019: Bedlam in Print
Concluding my 2019 overviews is this, the latest edition of Bedlam in Print, exploring the noteworthy publications of the previous twelve months
2019: The Year in Bedlam
What is there to say about 2019? A lot, albeit not on the movie screens
1987: The Year in Bedlam
In the 1980s movie-verse 1987 was something of an anomaly, being an authentically good year for film
GRAND GUIGNOL
This not-very-funny comedy from France pays tribute to Paris’s fabled Grand Guignol Theatre
JOHN McTIERNAN: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN ACTION MOVIE ICON
Few directors have had a more dramatic career trajectory than John McTiernan
NOMADS
Another movie with a hyperbolic tagline–“If you’ve never been frightened by anything, you’ll be frightened by this!”–that wasn’t justified by the film it adorns
AIR CREW
Often described as the first Soviet disaster film, AIR CREW (EKIPAZH; 1980) borrows heavily from EARTHQUAKE, AIRPORT, WHEN TIME RAN OUT and just about every other disaster movie released in the 1970s