TOPOR AND ME
The only film ever directed by the Dutch actress/artist Sylvia Kristel, and a skilled enough piece of work to make one regret that she didn’t helm anything else
MAGIC MIRROR
A worthy, if frustratingly little known, addition to the underground comics scene
A PRAYER FOR HETMAN MAZEPA
With the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine exploding, I say it’s an opportune time to revisit this 2002 feature, which offers a most unorthodox treatment of the skirmish
KILL IT AND LEAVE THIS TOWN
Animated madness from 2020 Poland that may or may not have something to say about that country’s political situation
TV Flashback: MANUEL ON THE ISLAND OF WONDERS
A “children’s film” that’s less-than-childish in its orientation
RED GRASS
A novel as puzzling and bizarre as nearly any I’ve read, filled with enigmas I’m told will come clear on subsequent readings
9/11 and The Media
9/11 in the media: the (amost) good, the (mostly) bad and (extremely) ugly
PARIS CHAMPAGNE
Undoubtedly the most inventive and unorthodox film to emerge from the 1960s Mondo movie cycle
THE NEO-DECADENT COOKBOOK
As the back cover inquires, “Have you ever sautéed geometrical sex or eaten fate from the breasts of Minerva?”
2020: Bedlam in Print
Here, in the early days of 2021, is the latest edition of my annual Bedlam in Print overview