MONDO 70: A Wild World of Cinema

A randomly comprehensive survey of extraordinary movie experiences from the art house to the grindhouse, featuring the good, the bad, the ugly, but not the boring or the banal.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Library of Classics: RAIN OF FIRE (Holocaust 2000, 1977)

I t didn't take long for me to recognize what Lionsgate was peddling in their recent DVD of a Kirk Douglas film the title of which I had...

Friday, May 22, 2009

BLOOD AT SUNDOWN (1,000 Dollari Sul Neri, 1967)

J ohnny Liston has just done twelve years hard time for a crime he didn't commit, but freedom may prove harder still. He's hardly ou...

Thursday, May 21, 2009

MAN HUNT (1941)

F ritz Lang is one of my favorite directors, and the best of the silent era in my opinion. From M through The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse he cu...

EMPIRE OF PASSION (Ai no Borei, 1978)

T he second Franco-Japanese production by controversial director Nagisa Oshima threatens for most of its running time to become cinema's...

Monday, May 18, 2009

In Brief: FAST COMPANY (1979)

Y ou'll please forgive a lack of screen captures for this one. The Albany Public Library DVD behaved a little hinky on my living-room pl...

Sunday, May 17, 2009

PICKPOCKET (1959)

B ruce Li one day, Robert Bresson the next: that's the wild world of cinema for you. Bresson may seem to many cineastes like the furthes...

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