LISZTOMANIA, Ken Russell, Genius and Madness
LISZTOMANIA is not a widely admired film, but I say it deserves a reappraisal
HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK
After CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST this is the most extreme film ever made by Italy’s Ruggero Deodato
Horror Novels by Horror Moviemakers
The director-novelist: it’s a rare combination, but it does exist
1984: The Year in Bedlam
Continuing with my Year in Bedlam year-end overviews, we arrive at 1984
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
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
KEN RUSSELL: A DIRECTOR IN SEARCH OF A HERO
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
1989: The Year in Bedlam
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: The Year in Bedlam
1991 wasn’t an especially auspicious year for movies, but it was a formative one for this (once) young cineaste
KEN RUSSELL’S DRACULA
As an admitted Ken Russell fanatic I’d like very much to say this screenplay is an unqualified triumph, and to be sure, it does contain some impressive things.