Carmelo Bene | The Bedlam Files

2021: Bedlam in Print

The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s Bedlam Files-friendly publications

This is a big deal: the premiere English translation of the only novel by Italy’s late Carmelo Bene

Here, in the early days of 2021, is the latest edition of my annual Bedlam in Print overview

Bedlam was indeed the word for 2020 and (as of January 10) 2021 as well

Contra Mundum Press deserves credit for publishing this, a book whose potential readership is not what anyone would call broad

One of the more pleasantly surprising developments of 2020 was the inrush of attention paid to the work of Italy’s late Carmelo Bene

An unrestrained phantasmagoria from Italy’s Carmelo Bene, one of the world’s most defiantly idiosyncratic filmmakers

This 1972 Italian obscurity is easily the wildest production of Oscar Wilde’s SALOME you’ll ever see

On March 16, 2002, the Italian writer/actor/filmmaker Carmelo Bene passed away