1985: The Year in Bedlam
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
1988: The Year in Bedlam
I really hate to keep repeating myself in my year-end summations, but I just have to say it: 1988 was an abysmal year for movies
1989: The Year in Bedlam
Here, in the latest edition of my Year in Bedlam film listings, we leave the nineties behind and enter the eighties, which many claim was the worst decade in cinema history
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
1993: The Year in Bedlam
Looking back over 1993, I’ve found it was quite an auspicious year for movies
MIDNIGHT MOVIE (1994)
A BBC telefilm from 1994, and one of the final such efforts by England’s late Dennis Potter
BRIMSTONE AND TREACLE (1976)
This is the Holy Grail for Dennis Potter fans, the original television version of BRIMSTONE AND TREACLE that was banned for years by the BBC
TRACK 29
I may be the only person in the world who likes this movie, certainly among the most maligned ever made by the great Nicolas Roeg
On Reality, Fiction and Madness: The Novels of Dennis Potter
Potter’s TV dramas and movie scripts are certainly deserving of careful study, and have for the most part received it. Far less attention has been granted his novels