1986: The Year in Bedlam
Fact: anyone who says the eighties were a “golden age” for film is wrong, wrong, wrong, as the year 1986 proves quite amply
Fact: anyone who says the eighties were a “golden age” for film is wrong, wrong, wrong, as the year 1986 proves quite amply
What is there to say about 2019? A lot, albeit not on the movie screens
Here, in the latest edition of my Year in Bedlam film listings, we leave the nineties behind and enter the eighties, which many claim was the worst decade in cinema history
This 1986 Spanish shocker is one of the most repellant, upsetting and relentless movies of all time, but it’s also a superbly made, endlessly thought provoking dissertation on the persistence of evil
Spain’s Augustin Villaronga, writer/director of the nihilistic classic IN A GLASS CAGE, has a way with disturbing imagery, and puts that flair to good use
2004: it’s been quite a year