2020: A Look Back in Bedlam
Bedlam was indeed the word for 2020 and (as of January 10) 2021 as well
Bedlam was indeed the word for 2020 and (as of January 10) 2021 as well
Exotic Dancers and the devil: a curiously appropriate pairing, especially in Europe
Continuing with my Year in Bedlam year-end overviews, we arrive at 1984
It makes sense that, in what is universally acknowledged as the worst-ever decade for film, the midpoint of that decade marks its low point
A surreal novella of a type that only England’s Eibonvale Press seems equipped to turn out
Here we pay homage to one of screen’s pre-eminent visual stylists and most irrepressible troublemakers
The idea of a man in love with a doll is hardly a novel one, but in this screenplay England’s Peter Greenaway creates a uniquely witty and perverse take on man-doll love
A “lost” film in the filmography of Spain’s late Bigas Luna (1946–2013), LOLA is a 1986 erotic thriller that received very little attention and has largely vanished from sight
Germany’s premiere example of “drug writing,” 1902’s HASHISH by Oscar A.H. Schmitz appears here in its first ever English translation
Yet another example of mislabeled literary horror