YOUNG WITCHES BOOK TWO: LONDON BABYLON
This is a sequel to the adults-only comic saga YOUNG WITCHES by Francisco Solano and Barriero, but LONDON BABYLON deserves to be read as a standalone
1991: The Year in Bedlam
1991 wasn’t an especially auspicious year for movies, but it was a formative one for this (once) young cineaste
1992: The Year in Bedlam
For me the cinema of 1992 will always be shadowed by one all-encompassing real-life event: the rioting that took place on April 29 to May 4 in Los Angeles
TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE (1980)
A long neglected film that simply MUST be rediscovered, this is John Ford’s notorious Jacobean drama ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE, adapted for the BBC by director Roland Joffé
GROPIE
Yet another depraved dispatch from the late Essex House
LABYRINTH OF FLOWER GARDEN
This erotic noir from 1988 is a female-centered, visually rapturous thriller
VAMPIRE (1979)
Another of those terrific ABC TV movies—actually the pilot for a never-made series—that went largely unappreciated in its day
1996: The Year in Bedlam
From a cinematic standpoint 1996 can be viewed as the beginning of the end on two counts
Paul Schrader’s Films, Ranked
In celebration of the release of FIRST REFORMED, here is my ranking of Paul Schrader’s feature films up to 2018
2000: The Year in Bedlam
The following marks the inaugural entry in a new and ambitious project: an overview of my favorite films from each year, starting with 2000 and working my way backward