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, February 28, 2017

INTERROGATION (Visaranai, 2015)

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T he poor are always in the wrong place at the wrong time. That's the message of the mononymous Tamil filmmaker Vetrimaaran, who adapt...

Saturday, February 25, 2017

On the Big Screen: THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (2017)

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L ots of comic book fans hate Batman. I'm not just talking about Marvel Comics partisans -- though Lego Batman apparently hates them i...

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE (Kraftidioten, 2014)

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A merican movie fans nowadays will most likely recognize Stellan Skarsgaard as dear, dotty old Dr. Selvig from the Thor and Avengers movie...

Monday, February 20, 2017

DVR Diary: THE NEW LAND (Nybyggarna, 1972)

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J an Troell's two-part naturalist epic about Swedish immigrants in the U.S. was some kind of weird, only-in-the-Seventies phenomenon. ...

Saturday, February 18, 2017

Too Much TV: THE YOUNG POPE (2016 - ?)

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HBO calls The Young Pope a limited series, implying that the "The End" we see at the close of the tenth episode is pretty defini...

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

THE INNOCENTS (Los Inocentes, 2015)

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N ot to be confused with the Hollywood ghost story adapted from Henry James, Mauricio Brunetti's film puts a supernatural spin on the ...

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Sunday, February 12, 2017

FRANCOFONIA (2015)

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A lexander Sokurov has become quite the cosmopolitan since his 2002 one-take epic Russian Ark made him an art-house star. Since then his ...

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