1995: The Year in Bedlam
Some great films premiered in 1995, including Michael Mann’s HEAT, Todd Haynes’s SAFE and Mike Figgis’s LEAVING LAS VEGAS
On THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES
There has never been another film quite like THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES
THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL
No, this isn’t a novelization of Luis Bunuel’s 1962 film EL ANGEL EXTERMINADOR, but, rather, the screenplay for it
DUTCH WIFE IN THE DESERT
This Japanese oddity was directed by Atsushi Yamatoya, who’s best known for the screenplay of Seijun Suzuki’s bonkers yakuza pastiche BRANDED TO KILL
1999: The Year in Bedlam
Here I’ll be continuing my backward-looking year-end movie rankings—following the last entry, for the year 2000, we arrive at 1999
POEM STRIP
Here we have what in my view is one of the most vital publications of the 00s: the first English translation of POEM STRIP, a graphic novel written and illustrated by Dino Buzzati
2000: The Year in Bedlam
The following marks the inaugural entry in a new and ambitious project: an overview of my favorite films from each year, starting with 2000 and working my way backward
MY LAST BREATH
This was the final testament of Luis Bunuel, one of the world’s great troublemakers
MIND GAME
An extremely well-regarded anime feature that premiered back in 2004 yet didn’t receive US distribution until fourteen years later
2017: Bedlam in Print
Assembling a best-books-of-the-year list is always a dicey proposition. Quite simply, nobody can be expected to track down and read every worthwhile book printed over the course of the previous year…