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, March 10, 2013

VERONIKA VOSS (Die Sehnsucht von..., 1982)

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R ainer Werner Fassbinder aspired to be a cinematic Balzac for the Federal Republic of Germany -- better known in America as West Germany an...

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Pre-Code Parade: PANAMA FLO (1932)

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C harles Bickford's star was already slipping by the time this RKO Pathe picture directed by Ralph Murphy appeared early in 1932. Alth...

Friday, March 8, 2013

Pre-Code Parade: THE SEA BAT (1930)

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N ow that Turner Classic Movies' annual "31 Days of Oscar" programming is done, the station can get back to the good stuff. Th...

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

DVR Diary: POSSE FROM HELL (1961)

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A s a rule I avoid watching films made after 1953 on Encore Western, since the premium cable channel, catering to a demographic presumed not...

Monday, March 4, 2013

DIVA (1981)

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I t's hard now, after more than thirty years, to see exactly what was new about Jean-Jacques Beineix's feature-film debut. It was tr...

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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Now Playing: MARCH 2-4, 1933

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F ranklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated into the Presidency on March 4, 1933. His campaign had promised a New Deal for the American people. T...

Thursday, February 28, 2013

MAN OF MARBLE (1976) and MAN OF IRON (1981)

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I n two films director Andrzej Wajda runs the cinematic gamut from arthouse classicism to guerilla filmmaking in a race with accelerating hi...

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