1995: The Year in Bedlam
Some great films premiered in 1995, including Michael Mann’s HEAT, Todd Haynes’s SAFE and Mike Figgis’s LEAVING LAS VEGAS
1996: The Year in Bedlam
From a cinematic standpoint 1996 can be viewed as the beginning of the end on two counts
1997: The Year in Bedlam
Continuing with my time-reversed year-end film listings, we come to 1997
1998: The Year in Bedlam
Movie-wise 1998 will go down in memory as a year of misunderstood classics
CANIBA
You simply will not find a more disturbing documentary than CANIBA, which takes an up-close and very personal look at the infamous Japanese cannibal-murderer Issei Sagawa
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
ASYLUM
This 1972 documentary looks in on a most unique method of psychological treatment
Eighties Nuke Movies
Nuclear war, as we all well know, has been the subject of many a movie
Real Life Horror
The documentary WELCOME TO LEITH, directed by Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker, may well be the finest “horror” movie of 2015
SATANIS, THE DEVIL’S MASS
A raggedy and unfocused 1970 documentary on the late Anton Szandor LaVey (1930-97) and his San Francisco based Church of Satan