Adam Rifkin on “Mondo Cane”
Sep 27, 2009
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It's hard to imagine today the impact this tawdry but fascinating Italian "shockumentary" had on the world in 1962, when the bizarre customs of people in other lands seemed both exotic and horrifying to Western eyes. Its smash success spawned a whole genre of mostly phony Mondo movies, each outdoing the other for pure sleaze, which lasted into the 80s and paved the way for something much more upsetting: Reality TV.
Ray Cunneff on Psycho
02/01/2012
In 1960, my very first job was as an usher at the Apollo Theater on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey where "Psycho" played for most of that summer. I probably saw the film more than fifty times and could recite it from memory...
Ray Cunneff on The Man In The White Suit
02/01/2012
I was about eight years old when I first was exposed to the wonderful Ealing comedies starring Alec Guinness, "Kind Hearts and Coronets", "The Ladykillers", "The Lavender Hill Mob" and most memorably "The Man in the White Suit". The idea that something so obviously beneficial as this miraculous new fabric could pose such a threat to both business and labor interests was a mind-blowing idea then and still resonates all these years later...
Ray Cunneff on Auntie Mame
02/01/2012
One of my all-time favorites, although I never really thought about it as a 'gay' film. I think it's just plain hilarious, skewering pretention and pomposity with both style and bohemian sensibility...
swac on Walkabout
02/01/2012
Came here this morning looking for Bad Timing, but it's not posted yet. I like the irony of that.
swac on Walkabout
01/30/2012
Amazing film, saw it years ago, and it inspired me to eventually to my own walkabout, a 3-day trek through the outback of Kakadu in Northern Australia with an Aboriginal guide who grew up in the area (and knew David Gulpilil). Saw a lot of the wildlife depicted in the film (snakes, lizards, spiders, wallaroos--kind of a cross between a kangaroo and a wallaby--wild horses, water buffalo, crocodiles)...
swac on Batman '66
01/30/2012
For a second there I thought Soul Pilot typed "The Jeffersons" instead of "The Jetsons". I guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing dry cleaning fluid.
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