HOLLYWOOD ANIMAL
This 700-plus page memoir by a Hollywood insider was to the aughts what Julia Phillips’ notorious YOU’LL NEVER EAT LUNCH IN THIS TOWN AGAIN (1991) was to the previous decade
BACKTRACK
A 1989 directorial effort by the late Dennis Hopper that isn’t bad
VICE SQUAD
A 1982 film that remains a standout in the trashy thriller category
THE TRAP DOOR
Arguably the most interesting of the late 1970s-early 80s no wave films of Beth B and Scott B
DIVA IN THE NETHERWORLD
From Japan, an enormously self-aware, quasi-comedic low budget swirl of monsters and mayhem
SILENT RAGE
Chuck Norris, karate and zombies—a film that should be much better than it is
BRAZIL
An unmatched, albeit dated, display of unruly genius from 1985
On THE STATE OF THINGS, STRANGER THAN PARADISE and THE TERRITORY
In answer to the query “What do Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Roger Corman, Raul Ruiz, Jon Jost, the district of Sintra and the city of Lisbon have in common?”
SPACE RAIDERS
A TREASURE ISLAND inspired account of a young boy stowing away on a spaceship, this Roger Corman production was poorly received because, quite simply, it’s a bad movie
DROWNING BY NUMBERS
Three women, all named Cissy, drown their husbands in one of the most inscrutable (and bizarrely entertaining) films made by the UK’s Peter Greenaway