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 29, 2019

SANTO CONTRA CAPULINA (1969)

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A s El Santo, the Man in the Silver Mask, Rodolfo Guzman Huerta was Mexico's own action hero of the 1960s and 1970s. A champion luchad...

Sunday, September 22, 2019

DVR Diary: THE LONG SHIPS (1964)

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R ichard Fleischer's The Vikings (1958) inspired a cycle of Viking films in Europe, including two by Mario Bava, but U.S. audiences a...

Thursday, September 19, 2019

DVR Diary: EMITAI (1971)

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W orld War II wasn't the "good war" everywhere. Far from Europe, in Europe's colonies, what Hitler was up to hardly matt...

Monday, September 16, 2019

1984 x 2

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G eorge Orwell's dystopian classic 1984 was published in 1949. Between 1953 and 1956 it was filmed three times: first as an American te...

Sunday, September 8, 2019

DVR Diary: RINGO AND HIS GOLDEN PISTOL (Johnny Oro, 1966)

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S ergio Corbucci's follow-up to Django feels more like a conventional American "adult" western than the more exotic product...

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Pre-Code Parade: DOUGHBOYS (1930)

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B uster Keaton reportedly liked Doughboys , his second talking feature, the best of his pictures for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Keaton fans real...

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Sunday, August 25, 2019

On the Big Screen: ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD (2019)

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T he ninth film by Quentin Tarantino has become slightly controversial for a bit of historic revisionism. It appears to assert that Bruce ...

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