Christmas TV Specials for the Irreparably Brain Damaged
Christmastime in America “means” several things, one in particular: a surfeit of TV specials
MASHA AND VITYA’S NEW YEAR’S ADVENTURES
Russian fairy tale kid movie weirdness in the grand tradition!
THE PREMISES OF OTTO GAST
An impressively wrought exercise in surreal delirium that has yet to receive its proper due
1987: The Year in Bedlam
In the 1980s movie-verse 1987 was something of an anomaly, being an authentically good year for film
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