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, June 29, 2014

DVR Diary: COLLEGE HOLIDAY (1936)

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L ooking at Pre-Code musicals over the years, I developed the notion that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers saved the genre from evolving into ...

Friday, June 27, 2014

DVR Diary: DILLINGER (1945)

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I t's hard to believe that the King Bros's poverty-row biopic, a prestige picture for lowly Monogram, was once controversial. Comp...

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Real Pulp Fiction: ARGOSY, JUNE 24, 1939

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W riters to the "Argonotes" letter column were always asking when their old favorite authors would be showing up again in Argosy...

Eli Wallach (1915-2014)

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W allach got a late start in movies but stayed late; his debut came at age 40 in Elia Kazan's Baby Doll . He had already made a name o...

Sunday, June 22, 2014

THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE (1968)

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J ack Cardiff was the cinematographer for The Archers -- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger -- for three of their greatest films: A Matte...

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Friday, June 20, 2014

Real Pulp Fiction: ARGOSY, JUNE 17, 1939

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T his week's cover story is Arthur Leo Zagat's sequel to "Tomorrow," from the May 27 issue. The cover even uses the prev...

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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

DVR Diary: WOMAN ON PIER 13 (I Married a Communist, 1949)

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I t's hard to imagine many Hollywood movies more reflexively reviled than this Howard Hughes agit-noir from his recently-acquired RKO st...

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