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.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Now Playing: MARCH 13, 1962

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L ess than five months after its Swedish premiere, Ingmar Bergman's newest has its American premiere in New York City. This film w...

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Pre-Code Parade: MERRY WIVES OF RENO (1934)

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T he spring of 1934 was the climax of Pre-Code cinema. Every week seemed to bring new outrages to theaters across the country, answered by g...

Wendigo Meets FEMALE VAMPIRE (Les Avaleuses,1973)

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W endigo didn't know that Lina Romay had died until I told him, but he knew the name when I said it. He'd first seen her in the page...

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Friday, March 9, 2012

Now Playing: MARCH 9, 1962

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L eo McCarey's Satan Never Sleeps has been rolling out across the country since its New York opening back on February 23. 20th Century-...

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Now Playing: MARCH 8, 1962

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T he New York reviewers have lots of love for No Love for Johnnie . Will Palm Beach share the love? Basically, Finch as a British MP ha...

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Buster Keaton in THE HAUNTED HOUSE (1921)

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B uster Keaton had a theory of cinema and a theory of comedy -- defining theory broadly to encompass the views of an unacademic clown. The t...

Monday, March 5, 2012

THE MOMENT OF TRUTH (Il momento della verita, 1965)

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I talian cinema's pursuit of reality has always been ambiguous. The country invented the neorealist movement, but how realistic can fict...

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