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
MONSIEUR DE PHOCAS
A key text of the Decadent Movement of the late 19th Century
1984: The Year in Bedlam
Continuing with my Year in Bedlam year-end overviews, we arrive at 1984
THE NUMBER 23
This 2007 thriller was the last major release by the late journeyman director Joel Schumacher (1939-2020)