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.
Ken Russell Has Died
The visionary and prolific British filmmaker Ken Russell, who left us on November 27, 2011, remains an enigma.
2011: A Look Back In Horror
2011? It was a crappy year for horror movies and a so-so one for horror novels.
10 Films That Should Be Cult Classics
The phrase “cult film” has taken on a very definite meaning, referring to movies too offbeat and/or audacious for mainstream audiences.
GOTHIC
I’m one of the very few people who’ll admit to liking this movie, an ostensible historical rendering of the conception of FRANKENSTEIN, filtered through the mad vision of the one and only Ken Russell
2014: Bedlam in Print
2014 was an above-average year for books in my view. Quite a few terrific titles turned up from both established and debuting authors, with a few, I’m certain, that will go on to become classics