FEAR IS THE MASTER
An astounding hour long documentary chronicling the “Disco Sex Guru” Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931-1990), who together with a bevy of followers literally took over the town of Antelope, Oregon in 1981
Werner Herzog, Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Nobuhiko Obayashi and MOMENTOUS EVENTS
It certainly seemed like a good idea: a Russian American co-production in which six world class directors partook in “the gigantic cinematic canvas of historical change in Russia,”
DON’T LOOK AT ME: DAVID LYNCH
This 1989 French TV profile is one of the more fascinating documentaries on the late David Lynch
2024: The Year in Bedlam
Let’s face it: the movies of 2024 by and large sucked
FIFTY MILLION YEARS AGO
Or: 1925’s other dinosaur movie
Horror Novels About Making Movies: A Ranking
Ten standout moviemaking-themed horror novels
THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS
The “Most Amazing, Incredible, Remarkable True Story Ever Told”?
BANNED FROM BROADCAST: SAIKO! THE LARGE FAMILY
What this altogether fascinating found footage horror movie from Japan proves is that the land of the rising sun was and is the epicenter of the format
2023: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s noteworthy film releases
A DAY IN THE CITY
Dadist subversion in the form of a satirical quasi-documentary portrait of Stockholm, circa 1956