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, July 8, 2013

Now Playing: JULY 8, 1933.

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T his is getting monotonous! By now the Gold Diggers phenomenon is news of a sort. The Warner clearly hit the mother lode. Repe...

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Saturday, July 6, 2013

HELL'S HINGES (1916)

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W estern movies have been with us since 1903's The Great Train Robbery , if not before. Edwin S. Porter's short subject is probably ...

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Thursday, July 4, 2013

On the Big Screen: COPPERHEAD (2013)

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T he facial hair is more plausible than ever in Ron Maxwell's latest cinematic portrait of the Civil War era, and this time, focusing on...

Happy Independence Day, 1933!

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Pre-Code Parade: SADIE MCKEE (1934)

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V ina Delmar is forgotten today except by classic movie buffs who may recognize her as the screenwriter for The Awful Truth and Make Way...

Sunday, June 30, 2013

SOLDIER BLUE (1970)

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W hen HBO came to our neighborhood my parents, who had sprung for cable, chose not to pick up the new movie channel. I had friends whose f...

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Saturday, June 29, 2013

The Curtain Falls: JUNE 29, 1933

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S ometimes the shape of a story is decided not by how it ends, but when. Did Arbuckle die of happiness? A follow-up story in the Ju...

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