BLOOD SIMPLE
A quintessential American independent film from the eighties, and still a one-of-a-kind masterpiece
SURVEILLANCE
A seriously twisted film, the second by Jennifer Lynch, who’s turned in a fine, stylish work that may finally dissipate the stench of her first, the vomitous BOXING HELENA
THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS
This Wes Craven freak-out, about a demented couple living in a tricked-out house, is definitely unique, but far from Craven’s best work
LOST HIGHWAY
Weird, creepy and uncompromisingly elliptic, it’s one of the most outright Lynchian films David Lynch has ever crafted
2014: Bedlam in Print
2014 was an above-average year for books in my view. Quite a few terrific titles turned up from both established and debuting authors, with a few, I’m certain, that will go on to become classics
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME
For those who find David Lynch’s films glib or shallow, take heed: with FIRE WALK WITH ME he wasn’t kidding
CUT! HORROR WRITERS ON HORROR FILM
Here we have a severely mixed bag of nonfiction pieces about horror film, all written by horror novelists
INLAND EMPIRE
A David Lynch movie that makes his previous puzzlers LOST HIGHWAY and MULHOLLAND DRIVE seem downright coherent
NADJA
The “masterpiece” of American indie film darling Michael Almereyda, a highly evocative and idiosyncratic (read: pretentious) black and white reverie set in mid-1990s NYC
THE HIDDEN
Irresistible horror/sci fi from 1987 that combines two eighties movie mainstays: alien invasion and police action