Mondo Cine

An ongoing discussion (tinctured with some actual experience) on the world of film exhibition, film studies, preservation and spectatorship.

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

AI Critics Say the Darndest Things

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Mr. Coppola's latest film has been long in gestation, presumably since 1977 around the end of the effortless production of Apocalypse No...
Friday, January 28, 2022

Let It Back

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So I’ve seen the original Let It Be (1970) as much as the next Beatle fan, maybe once more than I probably wished, because in that case mor...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

They Lose Their Noses

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I've written about Chinatown before. It's seminal to my appreciation of what movies could do. I caught it years after it came out i...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Hollywood's Rainbow

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So as a "movie" person it seemed de rigueur to see the new Tarantino joint, Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood . Funny title. It...
Monday, October 29, 2018

hEllO mOthEr!

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Okay, is two times the charm? Darren Aronofsky's mother! (so capitalized) seems nice. A amiable and unassuming domestic family drama....
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Friday, April 13, 2018

Damned

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Here's a still from Losey's The Damned , a rather rare cold-war SF-y film to see, at least up to now, from 1962. I remember where ...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Wonder Women

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I finally caught up with Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman (2017) and found it much better than what I think most superhero movies tend ...
Thursday, June 8, 2017

The Buffalo Roam

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We miss Hunter S. Thompson more than ever recently. His journalistic viewpoint aside, his character is as large and as imposing as any on th...
Monday, May 15, 2017

Fellini In Order

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I haven't been able to find anything worth watching on Netflix lately. All old shows and flashy fake sitcoms. Amazon Prime's selec...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Incorporated

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N.B.: This one is a little inside. * * * I like podcasts -- they make my commute go by quicker and more productive. You should r...
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Roger L.
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Roger Leatherwood has worked in various aspects of the film industry for most of his life. He received an MA in the Moving Image Preservation program at UCLA, which taught him, above all, that things don't last.
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