80’s Cinema | The Bedlam Files

PAUL BARTEL: THE LIFE AND FILMS

A solid, if not entirely satisfying, overview of the life and output of the late Paul Bartel

One of the world’s major science fiction films, regardless of whether the world knows about it or not

The cinema of spoofery had one of its highpoints in this 1981 dismantling of SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE

Yogi Berra, film critic?

The long-in-coming memoir of filmmaker Stuart Gordon (1947-2020), a book he spent a great deal of his final years writing

A history of “horror’s most misunderstood film,” written by that film’s own writer-director

Tim Burton’s second feature was this 1988 triumph, his first collaboration with novelist Michael McDowell

Featuring a stand-out non-NIGHT COURT performance by the recenlty deceased Richard Moll

Not a good movie, although it is a fun one

Two books and four docs about the one and only Terry Gilliam