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, August 29, 2017

NERUDA (2016)

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P ablo Larrain has picked up his pace lately. The Chilean director, who made his name globally with a trilogy of films set during the Pino...

Sunday, August 27, 2017

A note on Tobe Hooper (1943-2017)

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L ongtime readers will remember my friend Wendigo as a vampire movie fan, and a fan of horror movies in general. One Halloween back in the 1...

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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

DVR Diary: WHERE EAST IS EAST (1929)

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T his was the end of the line for Lon Chaney Sr. and director Tod Browning after a legendary run of films during the 1920s. Browning went ...

Sunday, August 20, 2017

Jerry Lewis (1926-2017)

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L ewis carried the torch of auteur comedy stardom between the time of Chaplin and Keaton and the age of Woody Allen, and was the most succes...

Friday, August 18, 2017

I, OLGA HEPNAROVA (2016)

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F rom Nice to London to Charlottesville to Barcelona, the wonder is that it took so long for vehicular homicide to become a popular form o...

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

DVR Diary: KISMET (1944)

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T he 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad should go down as one of the most influential movies of the Classic Hollywood era, if you judge ...

Sunday, August 13, 2017

THE FOUNDER (2016)

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J ohn Lee Hancock's biopic probably was doomed at the box office from the start. I'm sure most people, first hearing of the idea, ...

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