TOYS
An allegedly kid-friendly fantasia that works best as a grown-up spectacle viewed with appropriate chemical enhancement
EYES WITHOUT A FACE vs. THE HORROR CHAMBER OF DR. FAUSTUS
In which I make the heretical confession that I prefer the Americanized recut of EYES WITHOUT A FACE to the original version
COSMOS
“One of the strangest films that I’ve ever seen in my life…and incidentally, I made it.” –Andrzej Zulawski
ZARDOZ
A novelization as weird as just about any you’ll read, and no wonder: the film it novelizes, the 1974 science fiction oddity ZARDOZ, is one of the absolute nuttiest releases of its decade
HEARTSNATCHER
Boris Vian’s final novel, combining surreal fancy and disturbing child abuse
THE DIAMOND BOGO
Impossible to adequately categorize, this “African Idyll” tells the story of a hunt for a buffalo with a priceless diamond stuck to its head
UGLY MUG 5
An eye-popping volume that marks the return (after three decades) of UGLY MUG, an anthology series put out by the London based House of Harley
SWEETIE
Those who doubt the truth of Jean-Luc Godard’s claim that Jane Campion “was better when she had no money” need only check out her debut feature SWEETIE
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE
A surrealist prank of a movie from the incomparable Luis Buñuel
On THE SWIMMER
“DEATH OF A SALESMAN in swimming trunks” is how Burt Lancaster described his 1968 starring vehicle THE SWIMMER