FRANKENSTEIN INVERTED
Eight interesting FRANKENSTEIN films that I say are worth your time
DROWNING BY NUMBERS
Three women, all named Cissy, drown their husbands in one of the most inscrutable (and bizarrely entertaining) films made by the UK’s Peter Greenaway
ALTERED STATES
From Paddy Chayefsky and Ken Russell, a weird and wonderful sci fi freak-out with something for everybody
WHORE vs. SHOWGIRLS
Here’s a pairing that hasn’t been made too often, but it’s a valid one: WHORE, a low budgeter from 1991, and SHOWGIRLS, an expensive tentpole release from 1995
Werner Herzog, Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Nobuhiko Obayashi and MOMENTOUS EVENTS
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, 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