THE DEMOLISHED MAN (late 1970s) / Brian De Palma
This undated late 1970s screenplay is one of several never-filmed takes on Alfred Bester’s 1951 science fiction masterpiece THE DEMOLISHED
1984: The Year in Bedlam
Continuing with my Year in Bedlam year-end overviews, we arrive at 1984
CUBE: INSIDE THE MAKING OF A CULT FILM CLASSIC
An excellent idea for a book if you ask me: a behind-the-scenes look at Vincenzo Natali’s 1997 science fiction-horror classic CUBE, one of the most interesting low-budgeters to emerge from the nineties
SILENT RESIDENT
From Austria, an interesting 2007 film that pairs a trippy psycho-thriller plot with a dystopian setting
POSSESSOR
The second feature by Brandon Cronenberg, who as in his first (2012’s ANTIVIRAL), created a film that’s heavily informed by the work of his father David
BLOOD MACHINES
A truly eye-popping viewing experience, this 50 minute French-made film was the “feature” debut of director/screenwriter/editor/production designer/visual effects supervisor Raphaël Hernandez, a.k.a. Seth Ickerman, and composer Carpenter Brut
The Films of Richard Stanley
Richard Stanley is one of the most interesting genre filmmakers on the scene, and also one of the least prolific
DUNE, THE DAVID LYNCH FILES: VOLUME 2
This, the second of Kenneth George Godwin’s DAVID LYNCH FILES, focuses on Lynch’s 1984 filming of Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic DUNE
THE PLATFORM
This Spanish language science fiction mindbender is very much in the tradition of Vincenzo Natali’s CUBE
RIDLEY SCOTT: A BIOGRAPHY
A book about the prolific British filmmaker Ridley Scott that isn’t what I’d call revelatory