On EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
There’s nothing else quite like EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
THE SPIRIT GALLERY
A 1995 feature that was apparently conceived as “THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY in reverse,” which fails to convey the sheer bizarrie of this sustained hallucination of a movie
A TOPIARY
Here we have what has fast become one of the most fabled unfilmed screenplays: a 245 page science fiction themed oddity from Shane Carruth, of PRIMER (2004) and UPSTREAM COLOR (2013)
THE STAR ROVER
This was the second-to-last novel published by Jack London in his lifetime, and unquestionably one of his most unique works
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
THE BOX FROM JAPAN
This is it: the magnum opus of the late Harry Stephen Keeler, the world’s most bizarre mystery novelist
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
1991: The Year in Bedlam
1991 wasn’t an especially auspicious year for movies, but it was a formative one for this (once) young cineaste
AMPUTEE LOVE
I’m not sure what to make of this, one of the absolute nuttiest underground comics in existence
A HISTORY OF UNDERGROUND COMICS
The first and very likely best history of underground “comix” in America