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,”
LISZTOMANIA is not a widely admired film, but I say it deserves a reappraisal
After CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST this is the most extreme film ever made by Italy’s Ruggero Deodato
The director-novelist: it’s a rare combination, but it does exist
Continuing with my Year in Bedlam year-end overviews, we arrive at 1984
Fact: anyone who says the eighties were a “golden age” for film is wrong, wrong, wrong, as the year 1986 proves quite amply
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
A short book but also a valuable one, representing as it does a meeting of two most interesting minds: author Colin Wilson and filmmaker Ken Russell
Here, in the latest edition of my Year in Bedlam film listings, we leave the nineties behind and enter the eighties, which many claim was the worst decade in cinema history
1991 wasn’t an especially auspicious year for movies, but it was a formative one for this (once) young cineaste