TV Flashback: MAX HEADROOM
If ever a show shouldn’t have worked it was this one, yet somehow MAX HEADROOM emerged as one of the great American TV programs of the decade
DIAMOND PYRAMID
One of the better made-for-TV movies directed by the visionary and prolific András Rajnai, a pioneer in the Hungarian TV field
1983: The Year in Bedlam
If this year proves anything it’s that the rosy view of the eighties that has taken hold is complete bullcrap
SWISSMADE
a 1968 science fiction themed three parter from Switzerland that’s known primarily for the fact that one of its segments was designed (not directed, as the imdb erroneously reports) by the late H.R. Giger
SPLIT
SPLIT is simply one of the world’s great unknown science fiction films
THE DEMOLISHED MAN (1980) / Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone’s reverence for THE DEMOLISHED MAN is evident in this, one of the most famous unfilmed screenplays in existence
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