1986: The Year in Bedlam
Fact: anyone who says the eighties were a “golden age” for film is wrong, wrong, wrong, as the year 1986 proves quite amply
What’s in My Halloween Bag…
What follows is a more-or-less random selection of Halloween-themed ephemera
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
TV Flashback: AN AMERICAN FAMILY
AN AMERICAN FAMILY, a 12 episode docu-series that aired on PBS in 1973, is very likely the most famous yet least seen TV program in history
TV Flashback: LES DOCUMENTS INTERDITS
2019 marked the 20th anniversary of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, but I say it’s time for a look back even further, to that film’s true progenitor: the French TV program LES DOCUMENTS INTERDITS
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
Remembering that which is Better Forgotten: NOT A LOVE STORY and THE MASCULINE MYSTIQUE
Here I’m going look at 1981’s NOT A LOVE STORY: A FILM ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY, one of the most infamous documentaries of its time, and 1984’s THE MASCULINE MYSTIQUE, which is considerably less well known
1994: The Year in Bedlam
1994 was the year of PULP FICTION and HOOP DREAMS; here I’ll be concentrating here on thirty lesser-known films, which provide a plethora of genre-spanning quality cinema!
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