Africa Blood and Guts (1966)
Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi could have stopped with Mondo Cane, but no, they had more people to educate. And offend. Actually, mostly offend. This three-year in the making ode to the end of the colonial era in Africa is a barrage of brutality, set to the wondrous music of Riz Ortolani. Some claimed that the […]
Nona (2019)
Michael Polish (of the Polish brothers twins), know for the critically acclaimed Twin Falls Idaho (1999), Jackpot (2001), Northfork (2003), and The Astronaut Farmer (2006) returns with his wife, Kate Bosworth (Lois Lane in Superman Returns), in this human trafficking drama. Nona is a poor Honduran girl who, after losing her father in a shooting […]
Wild, Weird, Wonderful Italians (1966)
Pasquale Prunas has only one other IMDB entry for a documentary about Mussolini called Blood on the Balcony. However, the writer, Gian Carlo Fusco, would work on several mondos like Realities Around the World and Naked World. This movie was part of American-International TV’s “Real Life Adventures” syndicated TV package that was offered in 1966. It’s a mondo, […]
The Rainman Twins (2003)
Flo and Kay Lyman were not only bullied for being different, but nearly killed by their mother. Yet they are incredibly special. The only identical twin autistic savant sisters known to exist, Flo and Kay have memorized everything in the world, unable to forget dates, songs, the weather, what they ate or what others wore […]
Mondo Hollywood (1967)
Robert Cohen also made Inside Red China, Inside East Germany, Committee on Un-American Activities and Inside Castro’s Cuba. This movie was sold as starring Jayne Mansfield, who had just died, even though she’s only in it for a moment. I love how each person narrates their own scenes in the film, setting up who they are […]
Crip Camp (2020)
Executive produced by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, this documentary is all about Camp Jened, a camp for the handicapped in the Catskills that offered young kids the opportunity to move beyond their confined lives and feel as if they were like anyone else. The things they learned there would stay with them their […]
Australia After Dark (1975)
Burlesque, body-painting, snake-eating, mud-wrestling, alien landings, a gay wedding, and Satanism. Yep, director John D. Lamond (Felicity, Nightmares) pretty much watched Mondo Cane and said, “I borrowed a 16mm print of it and ran it on a closed circuit cinema thing and stopped and started the projector and looked at it. It ran on a sort of […]
The Soul Collector (2020)
An old man, fated to collect souls for eternity, seeks atonement after trading his daughter’s soul in this feature film debut by South African writer-director by Harold Hölscher. The bankrupt William Zeil returns with his new wife, Sarah, and adopted daughter, Mary, to the family farm he inherited from his estranged father, with the hopes […]
Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Five years after Africa Blood and Guts, Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi returned with this movie, which is pretty much one of the roughest films I’ve ever made it through. This was shot primarily in Haiti, where the directors were the guests of Haitian dictator Papa Doc Duvalier, who gave them diplomatic cars, clearance to film […]
Monster: The Josef Fritzl Story (2010)
In this sickening story, Elisabeth Fritz tells the story of how her father Josef kept her locked in a cellar for 24 years, during which time she gave birth to seven incestuous children before she was eventually freed from a life of beatings, rape and torture, This is not the strangest tale director David Notman-Watt has created. […]
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