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.

Now Playing at The Uptown 3: GG IS...!

Now Playing at the FINE ARTS - don't miss the first important minutes!

Now playing at the IMPERIAL SIX: Again With The Kill And Kill

Going to be going posting a number of ads scanned from old, yellowed newspapers in days to come... Get used to it.

My kind of cinema poster

My kind of cinema

Yup, it's a shithole but I will miss it the day it's gone.

Happy birthday

To easily one of my all-time favourite screen actors, Warren Oates, who would have been an enigmatic 81 today had he lived longer than 53+ years. I had no idea that it was today but I did order this biography (and I'm very excited about it!) from my local bookstore this past Thursday and I was just sorts priming myself up by reading a bit about it and him here now when I came across the fact so I thought I'd celebrate him just a little bit and especially his wildly wonderful relationship with director Monte Hellman. If you get the chance, (re)watch something with Oates as soon as you can as you will not be disappointed.






Cockfighter re-released with a little more flair and drive-in eye-catchability, I'd have to assume. Warren isn't cockfighting, gambling and drinking anymore, he's flying around in a smashed-up convertible with an axe! As I recall, he drives a very tricked-out station wagon(a class vehicle!) with an automatic, drop-down back door.





Although Jack is illustrated and taking full credits, this picture belongs to Oates with his normal ease. I wish there was a truly magnificent DVD release of this one. In time, I suppose. Or hope.

From the desk of Anger

And speaking of personal correspondences, I just had to dig out this piece that I bought off ebay back when I was first struck with the deep-fevered virus of the poster collector. I just could not help myself. First, you've got the awesomeness of Kenneth's personalised stationary and, following closely, you've got the fact that it was written to Famous Monsters of Filmland mastermind, Forrest J. Ackerman. So, if two odd and eccentric figures communicating via the mail isn't enough to get you hot, it's all about Anger's anxiety over having left a valuable poster with a restorer to be mounted on linen for preservation. Who can't identify with that awful, sinking feeling?

Anyway, enjoy. And we'll touch on the art (and oftentimes you cannot justify calling it that) of linenbacking in the future. A touchy subject, you can bet.

DAVID CARRADINE REAL FAN MAIL sent to KUNG-FU HIMSELF

Browsing through eBay tonight finding some real gems, like this one:

DON`T YOU WANT TO KNOW??? Real FAN Mail! READ REAL FAN MAIL! Are you ever curious?? Curious what is in all that fan mail sent to movie and television stars? Well now you can have YOUR OWN peek. You are bidding on 5 0r 6 pieces of authentic fan mail sent to DAVID CARRADINE. KUNG FU himself!!! That`s a lot of mail. You will be amazed at what people put in a fan letter. Sex, passion, rock & roll! Curiouser?? Put in a bid and find out for yourself. This is the REAL stuff! Some of it still unopened.

This can be yours for the "Buy Now" price of only $14.95!

Canaday!

Happy Canada Day! We're 142 today!

In celebration, I thought I'd post this mildly Canuck-themed poster/paper bit.





We Want a Child is one in a long (and grand) series of exploitation films about fortunate and unfortunate sexual couplings resulting in pregnancy, whether wanted or not, and the often catastrophic results wrought upon every character within pointing distance of those with the upstanding and down-laying qualities. A fun night out at the movies!


When this Danish (more daring Scandinavians!) film from 1949 was brought to Canada, it was loaned an extra air of authority in that it was presented by the Canadian Child Health Association. I have no idea whether this is an actual government board or not but it's safe to assume it likely was and that this film was shown (including the always alluring birth of a baby scene) under the guise of public education. All Canadian should be proud to know that we'd gladly squander taxpayer dollars to bring this type of movie to many, many Canadians so that we might one day see the end of pre-marital hanky-panky, dysfunctional relationships, heartbreak and the slippery-sloped ruination of our proud and hardy citizens. Bless us!