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.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Leonard Kastle (1929-2011)

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M ore than forty years ago, two careers seemed to be going in opposite directions. Erstwhile film editor Martin Scorsese had been fired from...

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Wendigo Meets BRIDES OF DRACULA (1960)

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I f ever a film should have been called "Van Helsing," It's Terrence Fisher's 1960 follow up to Hammer's breakthrough ...

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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

THE TOLL GATE (1920)

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I n 1919 William S. Hart received an offer that should have been hard to refuse. Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D. W....

Sunday, May 15, 2011

DUEL OF CHAMPIONS (Orazi e Curiazi, 1961)

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L ess than a decade after making Shane , Alan Ladd's career was on a stark downhill slide by the time he went to Italy to shoot this int...

Saturday, May 14, 2011

COUP DE GRACE (Der Fangschuss, 1976)

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H ere's a period piece in German, set in the 1910s, and shot in black and white. I couldn't help but be reminded of Michael Haneke...

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

EYE OF THE DEVIL (13, 1966)

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A nyone else look at this one on TCM last night? If not SolarCoasterX has uploaded a hint of what you missed. J. Lee Thompson's thriller...

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

THE WOLVES (1971)

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H ideo Gosha's 1971 film is the second yakuza film in a row that I've seen set during the early Showa period, i.e. the late 1920s, e...

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