What the Italians do with a bed... the Americans so with a beach!

Righted Ahhh

Happy Birthday!

Glenn Gould, the greatest Canadian (and there are lots of them) of all!!



A nice Japanese B2 for the theatrical release of two NFB documentaries on Glenn.

sons of Lee Marvin AND Jack Palance

Waiting for the print of this to arrive so that I can swig some whiskey and fire my shotgun in the projection booth... Monte Walsh will be in the house! Also starring Bo Hopkins! Not to be confused with the Tom Selleck TV remake from 2003. That's a mustache of a lesser god.

the DON is back

Time to kick these bums out of the cheap seats and get back to blogging!

1959

*sniff*

Genuine beauty

It gets so eerily quiet around this place when the Toronto International Film Festival gets going and 2/3 of the staff take off to hobnob with the glitterati and yours truly is left to just aimlessly drag a broom around the place and ceaselessly sing (I don't want to go to) Chelsea by Elvis Costello. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's _________ so I guess glum me, misfit myself and unglamourous I will just keep on keeping on as though George Clooney meant nothing at all.

And why not just indulge myself a little here?

A recently acquired piece of gorgeousness in the form of a Japanese tatekan (or 2 panel) for Pier Paolo Passolini's fantastico 1968 art-film, Teorema, starring the unbelievably resplendent Silvana Mangano. Oh, and Terrence Stamp is in it someplace too.





Here she is enjoying some class privileges with husband Dino De Laurentiis and family and holding one of the cigarettes that would help her develop lung cancer, I'm sure.





A scene (that doesn't feature Silvana)...

Genuine renaissance man

Vincent

Over

The Perfect Heist

Brainschlager

Ivan Rebroff brings it on!!!

...The Baby!

1955

It's a poster but it's also the trailer. And I love it!

man with the indonesian golden gun

Thanks to my pal Carol for pointing me to this Indonesian comic book adaptation of The Man With The Golden Gun. Visit the source link for more pics and also this link for more wild action and horror comics from Indonesia.

Two great CDN posters

iPhone pics of two of the newly mounted posters in my girlfriend's office. And yes, she works in the industry. Stalkers go here: twitter.com/katarinag

EH

hand job

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watching

Replying on the interweb to see this film have been waiting and watching for it to arrive via my nefarious applications. Rip Torn as a psychopath! I am so there! As a kid, my dad worked as an administrative librarian and had a catalogue of films that could be rented from MGM. I remember the synopsis for the film in it and image they used for it has stuck with me throughout my years.

Beat the heat with horror

This was sent to us from Eric over at 32 Elvis Movies (one of the Cinema Patrons on our blog roll on the side aisle), found in a Toronto newspaper from July 1972. The Titania is now The Music Hall and tomorrow night is celebrating its 90th birthday by recreating the opening night by screening the silent film Dollars and Sense. Read Eric's piece on it that he wrote for The Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/article/681010

1956

Remarkably, the last in a semi-long line of films to share this sensitive tile.

Molester Train

Caine rolls the dice

Been on holiday and will get back to regular postings shortly. In the
meantime, found this great photo spread over at The Scandy Factory: http://scandyfactory.blogspot.com/2009/08/war-games-w-michael-caine-1969_07.html

Mondo del Mondo!

A celebration of our world of worlds!

After the 1962 release and success of the seminal film, Mondo Cane, a flood of similarly styled exploitation/documentary films were unleashed with varying degrees of reality, relevance or ridiculousness, just like the original they were imitating. I just assume that everybody online is so savvy and beyond being taught that I feel a lesson in the history of the films is unnecessary and you all have such googly skills that my words are a waste of our collective time when I could be riding my bicycle.

Mondo Cane and the other films of Prospero/Jacopetti are certainly well made and definitely interesting in the context of what they were trying to do, (both real and by lucky error) how it hadn't been done quite that way and tat it touched off a stream of curiosity in (often faux) realism that, arguably, is still being processed today through reality television and our desire to tsk-tsk and tut-tut at all the oddballs, perverts and zealous whosits in the world from the safety of the cinema seat or our couch. We're so above all that baseness that it's laughable, really. Film viewing is almost purely voyeurism so it's nice to see the honesty represented in this oft-maligned genre. Besides, they can be fun too, you know?

I collect anything (and I mean anything) poster related with the word Mondo on it. I'm serious. It's not a huge dossier here but it is well stocked and will continue to grow for as long as I draw breath.

Demure, yet throbbingly so

Saturday Night...




...and Sunday morning.

Another special day

Happy birthday to Annie Sprinkle!





The erotic fantasies of my youth would have been lonely without her.

We all have things

Leave the children

Great and varied selection of design and sizes for a lesser-known but nonetheless astonishing late-60s work from John Huston. The cast is uniformly great and I only wish that the character of Anacleto could have been featured in the trailer as his scenes have some astounding impact towards the overall mood and oddness of the proceedings. Originally screened as a print with a golden tint, I think they changed it to standard colour due to the confusion of the sepia over the already strange goings-on. Seek it and be rewarded in glorious excess.