AMIGO
A two-hander featuring a real-life Spanish comic team going slowly bonkers
BUCKET OF BLOOD
This 49 minute British shocker is nearly ninety years old, yet remains an astonishing example of expressionistic filmmaking
1980: The Year in Bedlam
In this Year in Bedlam overview, highlighting 30 lesser-known and/or underappreciated film releases, I’ll be exploring 1980
1981: The Year in Bedlam
Just what the title says.
THE MEDIUM
A partially successful 1951 release that gives filmed opera a good name
THE DOLL
A most confounding 1962 masterwork about a man’s doomed love for a mannequin
2020: The Year in Bedlam
2020 was a hell of a year
THE COFFIN THINGS
Michael Avallone (1924-99) was one of the most prolific hacks of the latter half of the Twentieth Century, and this is one of his better novels.
THE ENCHANTMENT
This altogether odd 1989 thriller hails from Shunichi Nagasaki, Japan’s onetime cinematic sultan of noir
L’ENFER and the Fascination for the Unfinished
The fascination exerted by aborted film projects has reached a fever pitch in recent years, and a large part of the reason, I believe, was the partial reconstruction of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s L’ENFER