On THE STATE OF THINGS, STRANGER THAN PARADISE and THE TERRITORY
In answer to the query “What do Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Roger Corman, Raul Ruiz, Jon Jost, the district of Sintra and the city of Lisbon have in common?”
2025: The Year in Bedlam
Looking back over the film releases of 2025
THE WILDS
So-so wilderness horror from the eighties
THE MEN IN THE JUNGLE
A nasty ‘Nam allegory by sci fi legend Norman Spinrad
BEHIND THE SHADOWS
A hugely enjoyable collection that offers up a full blast of media infused gen-X oriented horror
TALES OF THE DUMPSTER KID
The most ambitious product of the New German Cinema was this bawdy three-and-a-half-hour epic
THE COMMITTED MEN
The apocalypse-themed first novel by England’s enormously gifted M. John Harrison, who in more recent years has all-but disowned it
FAMINE ’33
A chronicle of the Holodomor, or Artificial Famine, that afflicted Ukraine in 1932-33, engineered by Stalin to (it’s been claimed) crush Ukrainian resistance to Soviet rule
2023: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s noteworthy film releases
SADNESS OF THE ANTHROPOPHAGI
A short film from 1966 that serves as an interesting precursor to SALO, OR 120 DAYS OF SODOM