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.

Thursday, July 30, 2015

DVR Diary: RED LIGHT (1949)

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W e often hear about "fate" or "doom" in discussions of film noir, but we hardly ever hear about "providence,"...

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

HORSES OF GOD (2012)

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A fter the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. people were quick to argue that the attackers in no way represented the downtrodden,...

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Too Much TV: JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL (2015)

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S usanna Clarke published her epic fantasy Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in 2004. Her first and only novel to date, it is epic in size (...

Friday, July 24, 2015

DVR Diary: ZANDY'S BRIDE (1974)

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J an Troell made two Swedish westerns, sagas of the Swedish immigrant experience in America, that won critical if not popular acclaim in the...

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

DVR Diary: A LADY WITHOUT PASSPORT (1950)

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W e see the action through the window of a car as the vehicle pulls up to nab an illegal immigrant. We remain in the car as the suspect ...

Sunday, July 19, 2015

DVR Diary: KANAL (1957)

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A ndrzej Wajda's epic of the Warsaw uprising -- the gentile one, as opposed to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising -- immediately struck me as...

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Pre-Code Parade: NOW AND FOREVER (1934)

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H enry Hathaway's film for Paramount opened across the country over the late summer and early fall of 1934. It was the end of the Pre-Co...

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