Sergei Paradjanov and Yuri Ilyenko: A Ukrainian Rhapsody
Sergei Paradjanov and Yuri Ilyenko, Ukraine cinema’s dynamic duo.
1988: The Year in Bedlam
I really hate to keep repeating myself in my year-end summations, but I just have to say it: 1988 was an abysmal year for movies
1989: The Year in Bedlam
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
1990: The year in Bedlam
Here, in the latest installment of my Look Back in Bedlam at the year’s more obscure and underappreciated films, we arrive at 1990
2018: The Year in Bedlam
Welcome to the 2018 edition of my annual Year in Bedlam THE BEST movie round-up
Andrei Tarkovsky: Horrormeister?
The following may be the most contentious piece I ever write.
The Apocalypse Quartet of Konstantin Lopushansky
Russia’s Konstantin Lopushansky is one of the greatest filmmakers you’ve never heard of
STALKER
I say this is the masterpiece of Russia’s late Andrei Tarkovsky, an unforgettable trip through one of the cinema’s most vivid and unsettling dreamscapes
LETTERS FROM A DEAD MAN
From pre-Glasnost Russia, a profoundly grim and depressing look at the aftermath of a nuclear war that’s also a supremely lyrical, poetic piece of filmmaking
2012: Bedlam in Print
Publishing-wise 2012 contained more than its share of good, and sometimes even great, books