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.

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Too Much TV: LUKE CAGE (2016 - ?)

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T he Marvel shows on Netflix are meant to bring superheroes to the small screen without the "cheesiness" of the DC shows on The CW...

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Saturday, January 28, 2017

PHANTOM OF THE THEATRE (2016)

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I n the Chinese original, the title of Raymond Yip's picture is something like "Fascination of the Devil." At least that...

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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

UNDER THE SHADOW (2016)

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I f two films make a category, here's a new one: the Iranian diaspora horror film. At first, there was Ana Lily Amirpour's dystopi...

Monday, January 23, 2017

DVR Diary: PRIVATE PROPERTY (1960)

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A hit in Europe but condemned at home for its frankness about sexual need, Leslie Stevens' film was widely thought lost until a resto...

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Thursday, January 19, 2017

AFERIM! (2015)

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R adu Jude is one of a generation of filmmakers who have put Romania on the map of the wild world of cinema in the 21st century. He was ...

Monday, January 16, 2017

DVR Diary: NO BLADE OF GRASS (1970)

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A ctors turned directors fall roughly into two types. Some are committed to directing as a craft, e.g. Ida Lupino, Clint Eastwood, Robert ...

Saturday, January 14, 2017

On the Big Screen: SILENCE (2016)

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M artin Scorsese has made films about Jesus Christ and the Dalai Lama. Silence , adapted from a novel by the Japanese Catholic Shusaku End...

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