The Atomic Cafe (1982)

I Saw a Film! This is a collage of film and audio clips all related to the development, testing and actual use of the Atomic Bomb. When I saw it, back in the day it staggered me, and I tried to see it again for years, to no avail. It wasn't available on VHS and…

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

I Saw A Film! This is an old favorite which was nothing like anything we'd seen before. Now it's normal to have the black hilarity in a horror film, but at the time it was ground-breaking, it was exciting, it was cheap. At the time dark, comic horror was something essentially punk rock. Going back…

Gog (1954)

I Saw A Film! A fear of all things automated and robotic pervades this fun little bit of kitsch with pre-Dr. Whovian special effects and everything in exaggerated pastels (I presume colorized in the rehandling of the old print). The red-headed ladies are extra-red, and the powder blue jump-suits are the color of tropical fish.…

River’s Edge (1987)

I Saw A Film! I forgot I'd seen this film. Somehow in my mind it was Randy Quaid rather than Hopper in the role of the blown-away, veteran, drug-dealer waving pistols at kids. But, then, it's a tricky film in which we're taken through a fictionalized story of an actual, and weird, murder scene that…