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.

Saturday, June 29, 2019

NIGHT AFFAIR (Le desordre et la nuit,1958)

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J ean Gabin's film career lasted from the 1930s to the 1970s and had two major phases. In the first, he was a leading man. In the seco...

Monday, June 24, 2019

WHY GO ON KILLING? (Perche' uccidi ancora, 1965)

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L ike Fritz Lang's Hollywood western Rancho Notorious , Antonio de la Lona's Spanish-Italian western is about "hate, murder a...

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

DVR Diary: MILE 22 (2018)

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A couple of years ago I was intrigued by an announcement that Iko Uwais, the star of Gareth Evans' Raid films, and Ronda Rousey, the...

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Monday, June 17, 2019

THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD (2018)

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B ack in the 1980s, a TV commercial promoting colorized movies quoted a random woman justifying the project on the ground that "we li...

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Sunday, June 9, 2019

DARK PHOENIX (2019) in SPOILERVISION

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O ne problem with the modern superhero film cycle is that most superhero comics stories are deemed too small for the big screen. Only exis...

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Friday, June 7, 2019

DVR Diary: A WICKED WOMAN (1934)

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M ady Christians was an Austrian star of German stage and screen who quit that country for Broadway in the year Hitler took over. She had ...

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

DANGER PAYS (1962)

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I n recent years American audiences were made acquainted with "Nikkatsu noir," the Japanese studio's sometimes gritty, somet...

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