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, September 23, 2018

ORBITER 9 (Órbita 9, 2017)

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F or an Anglophone moviegoer it's a novelty to see space exploration carried out in Spanish. This isn't some implausible chauvinis...

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

SPECIAL MISSION LADY CHAPLIN (1966)

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F or Ken Clark's last film as Dick Malloy, Agent 077, the credited director is Alberto De Martino but series creator Sergio Grieco is ...

Saturday, September 8, 2018

Burt Reynolds (1936 - 2018)

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I n his heyday, Reynolds was more an archetype than an actor. In some ways he was the antithesis of Seventies cinema as we idealize it today...

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Sunday, September 2, 2018

KAIZOKU BAHANSEN ("The Pirates," 1960)

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T he director Tadashi Sawashima, who died last January at age 91, specialized in samurai and yakuza films. I suppose a pirate film would o...

Saturday, August 25, 2018

TARGET FOR KILLING (Der Geheimnis der gelben Moenche, 1966)

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M anfred R. Köhler's "The Secret of the Golden Monks" plays out like a hybrid movie, part Bond-inspired Eurospy action, part...

Saturday, August 18, 2018

Pre-Code Parade: HOT PEPPER (1933)

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M arine Corps Captain Jim Flagg (aka "the Admiral" or "His Flagship") and Sergeant Harry Quirt were created by Maxwell...

Sunday, August 12, 2018

KNIFE OF ICE (Il coltello di ghiaccio, 1972)

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F or four years, and over four films, erstwhile Hollywood "Baby Doll" Carroll Baker was the muse of Italian director Umberto Len...

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