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, July 19, 2009

END OF THE WORLD (1977)

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I can't hope to match the terse assessment of John Hayes's doomsday scenario that comes from the critic T. S. Eliot This is the way...

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On the Big Screen: HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (2008-9)

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T he story needs no introduction to most people, so I'll content myself with saying that David Yates's second round with the series ...

Friday, July 17, 2009

THE FURIES (1950)

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O ver at Goodfella's Movie Blog there's an inexorable march in progress through the talkie era as Dave names his favorites for each...

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

THE REBEL (2007)

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A Google search for "Vietnamese martial arts" reveals a long history that I should have taken for granted, given the nation's...

Monday, July 13, 2009

CRAZY JOE (1974)

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A few months ago I listed Carlo Lizzani's biopic about wiseguy revolutionary Joe Gallo among the films I remembered dimly from my child...

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Sunday, July 12, 2009

ECOUTE LE TEMPS (Fissures, 2007)

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T he French title basically means "listen to time," and while that makes sense the international title is just as valid while doin...

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Saturday, July 11, 2009

VENGEANCE IS MINE (1979)

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W ho's the worse person: Giulio Sacchi, the kidnapper and murder in Umberto Lenzi's Almost Human, or Iwao Enokizu, a habitual con m...

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