ANNETTE
The most sublimely nutty movie musical in some time, featuring songs performed by non-singer actors and a puppet
THE MATILDA MURDER HUNTER
This was the tenth novel by Harry Stephen Keeler, and the second longest
Harry Stephen Keeler in the Ramble House
Ramble House is a most unique Washington, D.C. residence where three sets of characters get caught up in outrageous tales that involve insanity, séances and time travel
HAR HAR MAHADEV
Hindi Devotional movie madness doesn’t get much madder than this 1974 epic
SAMPOONA RAMAYANA
This Hindi language oddity from 1961 is what is known in its native India as a Devotional Film
1981: The Year in Bedlam
Just what the title says.
THE NEO-DECADENT COOKBOOK
As the back cover inquires, “Have you ever sautéed geometrical sex or eaten fate from the breasts of Minerva?”
TIERE
The logical successor to classic mindbenders like PROVIDENCE and MULHOLLAND DRIVE
2020: The Year in Bedlam
2020 was a hell of a year
1982: The Year in Bedlam
What follows are the type of little-known films that tend to comprise my “Look Back in Bedlam” listings, of which this is the 1982 entry