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, January 13, 2012

Elvis vs. Frankenstein: NOW PLAYING, Jan. 13, 1962

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J anuary 13 was a Saturday, not a Friday, 50 years ago, so the date doesn't explain the explosion of exploitation events in movie theate...

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Now Playing: JAN. 12, 1962

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A movie and a 45 rpm single? How can you go wrong? The people who've actually seen this movie or heard Jimmy Clanton sing will have to ...

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Now Playing: JAN. 11, 1962

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C harleston, SC: A local arthouse welcomes a comic fantasy by Ingmar Bergman . And here's a "message from hell," courtes...

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

BELLE STARR THE BANDIT QUEEN (1941)

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"The usual conception of Belle is all wrong. She was a beautiful southern girl whose recklessness ran away with her." - Irving ...

Now Playing: 10 JAN. 1962

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A promising triple-bill in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Not a bad choice at the Oriental, either. Meanwhile, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky...

Sunday, January 8, 2012

VENGEANCE IS A GOLDEN BLADE (1969)

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N o, vengeance is not a golden blade -- or so you might be forgiven for concluding after sitting through most of Ho Meng-hua's scenic sw...

Saturday, January 7, 2012

1934: The courtship of Myrna Loy and William Powell

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T here are two film couples who set the tone for the era of Code Enforcement -- the years when Hollywood adhered more strictly to the morali...

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