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.

Monday, June 11, 2012

DVR Diary: HEMINGWAY'S ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN (1962)

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A. E. Hotchner's efforts to film Ernest Hemingway's short stories about Nick Adams were cursed from the start. His initial effo...

Sunday, June 10, 2012

On the Big Screen: PROMETHEUS (2012)

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A fellow pedestrian recognized me as a fellow moviegoer by the soda I was slurping on the way back from the theater. "Did you just see...

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Friday, June 8, 2012

Now Playing: JUNE 8, 1962

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M iami introduces movie fans to neophyte film director Francis Ford Coppola. The second feature, Affair in Kamakura. is also known as J...

Thursday, June 7, 2012

DVR Diary: INSIDE THE MAFIA (1959)

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A dramatic sequence of events in the fall of 1957 made the existence of a national Mafia more difficult for public officials to deny. Repor...

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Now Showing: JUNE 6, 1962

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I f I've seen one thing so far in my survey of 1962 that I didn't expect to see, it's the phenomenon I call Cleosploitation -- ...

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

DVR Diary: LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT (1933)

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L adies: proper prison etiquette dictates that you not slap Barbara Stanwyck in the course of your petty disputes, because she will punch...

CHRONICLE (2012)

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T o the extent that Josh Trank's tale of teenagers with superpowers is part of the currently fashionable "found footage" ge...

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