Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi achieved notoriety in 1962 with the sensationalistic documentary Mondo Cane, a globetrotting exposé of bizarre rites and other human grotesqueries that opened the floodgates for a deluge of Mondo titles. When the release of their 1966 film Africa Addio (a.k.a. Africa: Blood and Guts), a despairing look at the continent’s decolonization movements, led to accusations of racism, Jacopetti and Prosperi sought to address the charges by revealing (some would say reveling in) the history of slavery in America. The resulting film, Goodbye Uncle Tom, is an extremely disturbing, at times almost unwatchable, descent into the inferno of an unpardonable institution.
Goodbye Uncle Tom leaves any pretense of objectivity behind in the dust. Using a conceit similar to such Peter Watkins classics as Culloden and The War Game, Jacopetti and Prosperi’s film brings modern-day documentary technology back into a historical setting, using it in...
Goodbye Uncle Tom leaves any pretense of objectivity behind in the dust. Using a conceit similar to such Peter Watkins classics as Culloden and The War Game, Jacopetti and Prosperi’s film brings modern-day documentary technology back into a historical setting, using it in...
- 4/13/2024
- by Budd Wilkins
- Slant Magazine
If you grew up during the 1980s and the 1990s like myself, you gotta check out this video created by Smash TV called Megaplex. It’s the ultimate audio and visual nostalgia trip: a mashup of over 80 movies, fake trailers, and more edited together with some retro music from the era. This thing is absolutely ridiculous in the greatest of ways and it made me miss the good ol’ days. Here’s the note that came along with the video:
Megaplex is the most insane double feature the world has ever seen. With a running time of 80 minutes and thousands of cuts from more than 80 movies, Smash TV has spent the past year and a half cramming the most entertainment possible into every second. It's dense enough to pressurize these diamonds in the rough into gleaming treasures.Megaplex is the long awaited followup to the critically acclaimed Skinemax, much more fully realized,...
Megaplex is the most insane double feature the world has ever seen. With a running time of 80 minutes and thousands of cuts from more than 80 movies, Smash TV has spent the past year and a half cramming the most entertainment possible into every second. It's dense enough to pressurize these diamonds in the rough into gleaming treasures.Megaplex is the long awaited followup to the critically acclaimed Skinemax, much more fully realized,...
- 6/18/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
It might be missing the industry saturated Park City fervor, but the smaller, shorter, and more intimate Columbia, Missouri based True/False Film Festival is the Rolls-Royce (by way of John Deere) of doc focused cinema. Filmmaker Laura Poitras is not alone in stating that her “love for True/False runs deep – from the smart programming, passionate audiences, inspired buskers, and fabulous venues.” Time and time again, selected filmmakers throughout this year’s edition expressed their love of the fest, while plenty of filmmaker personalities from prior editions could be spotted milling around town as casual filmgoers happy to pay to relive the experience.
With a highly curated program just shy of 50 films shown on 9 different screens (each of which are walkable in just 5-10 minutes of one another) over just 4 days, True/False centers its attention on quality and community, both locally and cinematically. For a city with a...
With a highly curated program just shy of 50 films shown on 9 different screens (each of which are walkable in just 5-10 minutes of one another) over just 4 days, True/False centers its attention on quality and community, both locally and cinematically. For a city with a...
- 3/15/2016
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Gian Maria Volonté has a big part in this prime quality Italo crime thriller blessed with a great score by Ennio Morricone. But the movie belongs to Robert Hoffman as the real-life public enemy who earned the alias 'The Machine Gun Soloist.' Director Carlo Lizzani's realistic treatment glamorizes nothing and implicates the police in shady policies as well. Award-winning co-star Lisa Gastoni is the woman who loves Hoffman, and is tempted to betray him. Wake Up and Kill Blu-ray + DVD Arrow Video (UK) 1966 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 124 98 min / Svegliati e uccidi; Lutring; Wake Up and Die / Street Date November 24, 2015 / 29.95 Starring Robert Hoffmann, Lisa Gastoni, Gian Maria Volonté, Claudio Camaso, Renato Niccolai, Ottavio Fanfani, Pupo De Luca, Corrado Olmi. Cinematography Armando Nannuzzi Film Editing Franco Fraticelli Original Music Ennio Morricone Written by Ugo Pirro, Carlo Lizzani Produced by Jacques Bar, Joseph Fryd, Carlo Lizzani Directed by Carlo Lizzani
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- 12/12/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Some of the international movie posters presented in Cinema Retro issue #28, which features in-depth coverage of the making of Zulu.
By Brian Hannan
The 50th anniversary showing of Zulu in Britain next month is unlikely to be repeated in the U.S. where the film flopped. But even the poorest box-office performer has an afterlife. So in 1965 Zulu was pushed out again anywhere that would have it. That meant it supported some odd, not to say ugly, bedfellows – exploitationer Taboos of the World in Kansas City, The Three Stooges in The Outlaws Is Coming in Phoenix, B western Stage To Thunder Rock in Long Beach, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini in Des Moines and Rhino in Abilene. They liked it in Long Beach where it supported both Circus World and That Man from Rio. It was the second feature to None But the Brave in Provo, Utah, and to two more successful Joe E.
By Brian Hannan
The 50th anniversary showing of Zulu in Britain next month is unlikely to be repeated in the U.S. where the film flopped. But even the poorest box-office performer has an afterlife. So in 1965 Zulu was pushed out again anywhere that would have it. That meant it supported some odd, not to say ugly, bedfellows – exploitationer Taboos of the World in Kansas City, The Three Stooges in The Outlaws Is Coming in Phoenix, B western Stage To Thunder Rock in Long Beach, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini in Des Moines and Rhino in Abilene. They liked it in Long Beach where it supported both Circus World and That Man from Rio. It was the second feature to None But the Brave in Provo, Utah, and to two more successful Joe E.
- 5/19/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Cannibal Holocaust was possibly the most feared and hated film among the Video Nasties. With its missing documentary footage storyline, many people believed the film was real. The film has a unique charm, being very horrific and brutal, but also being very absorbing and engaging at the same time. It is impossible to look away as the horror unfolds.
I have often thought that Cannibal Holocaust took the idea of Mondo movie making and turned it on its head with the lost documentary film crew being killed by the natives. Of course, no Mondo movie ever led to the death of a film maker (although Prosperi and Jacopetti reportedly had a close shave in Africa Addio) but director Ruggero Deodato plays out these themes in Cannibal Holocaust.
The film has remarkable similarities to the Mondo genre that other Italian Cannibal films do not have. Cannibal Holocaust dares to go one...
I have often thought that Cannibal Holocaust took the idea of Mondo movie making and turned it on its head with the lost documentary film crew being killed by the natives. Of course, no Mondo movie ever led to the death of a film maker (although Prosperi and Jacopetti reportedly had a close shave in Africa Addio) but director Ruggero Deodato plays out these themes in Cannibal Holocaust.
The film has remarkable similarities to the Mondo genre that other Italian Cannibal films do not have. Cannibal Holocaust dares to go one...
- 10/21/2013
- by Clare Simpson
- Obsessed with Film
Exploitation movies are the sleazy underbelly of cinema. The delicious, forbidden sleazy underbelly of cinema. Despite their reputation for being low budget and poorly made, exploitation films have delighted fans of alternative cinema for decades. Trash cinema addicts exist in their millions, and the thought of that makes me really happy.
I have tried, in this article, to explore which films exemplify the exploitation genre. In order to do this, you cannot dwell upon one subgenre of exploitation – as this is far too narrow a scope. So I have chosen 10 subgenres of exploitation cinema and I have picked the film which I feel best represents the subgenre it belongs to. This is no mean feat as there is a plethora of goodies to choose from in each subgenre. But I hope you enjoy my top picks and if you disagree just leave your comments in the box below.
10. Mondo Movies...
I have tried, in this article, to explore which films exemplify the exploitation genre. In order to do this, you cannot dwell upon one subgenre of exploitation – as this is far too narrow a scope. So I have chosen 10 subgenres of exploitation cinema and I have picked the film which I feel best represents the subgenre it belongs to. This is no mean feat as there is a plethora of goodies to choose from in each subgenre. But I hope you enjoy my top picks and if you disagree just leave your comments in the box below.
10. Mondo Movies...
- 5/16/2013
- by Clare Simpson
- Obsessed with Film
Article by Aaron AuBuchon
Television means one of two things these days: episodic, long form (usually cable) dramas- the high water mark of narrative motion media storytelling, and on the other end, the nadir, are so-called ‘reality’ shows. We are bombarded by advertisements for shows about former celebrities doing strange things, people who desperately want to be celebrities, and normal people doing insane things for money. It gets nauseating sometimes, and we like to think of this as being indicative of some new shortcoming in the moral or intellectual fabric of our times, as though the mere presence of these things points to a reduction in the cultural ideal of our society. A common misconception about these shows is that they’re a relatively new phenomenon and that they have originated out of virtual air over the last decade or so. While this may be true of television, moviegoers have...
Television means one of two things these days: episodic, long form (usually cable) dramas- the high water mark of narrative motion media storytelling, and on the other end, the nadir, are so-called ‘reality’ shows. We are bombarded by advertisements for shows about former celebrities doing strange things, people who desperately want to be celebrities, and normal people doing insane things for money. It gets nauseating sometimes, and we like to think of this as being indicative of some new shortcoming in the moral or intellectual fabric of our times, as though the mere presence of these things points to a reduction in the cultural ideal of our society. A common misconception about these shows is that they’re a relatively new phenomenon and that they have originated out of virtual air over the last decade or so. While this may be true of television, moviegoers have...
- 7/10/2012
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Full disclosure: I am a huge fan of the filmmaking team of Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi. This pair, who invented the Mondo documentary film style in 1962 with Mondo Cane, did more to expand the concept of documentary filmmaking than any of their contemporaries, and even today their work continues to ruffle feathers. Over the next fifteen years, the pair made a series of films that pushed not only the boundaries of documentary films, but also the boundaries of European artsploitation in that same era. Following the incredible controversy and financial debacle of their statement on African colonialism, Africa Addio, they had some decisions to make. They moved away from documentaries slowly, but not without a fight. Their next film, Addio Zio Tom (Goodbye,...
- 4/3/2012
- Screen Anarchy
0:00 - Intro 5:25 - Headlines: Sacha Baron Cohen Banned from Oscars?, Tugg, The Raid Title Change, Dwayne Johnson to Star in Hercules, Edgar Wright to Direct The Night Stalker, Jai Courtney is John McClane's Son, Weinsteins Boycott MPAA Over Bully Rating 24:00 - Review: Goon 53:40 - Other Stuff We Watched: Midnight in Paris, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Help, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, Wet Hot American Summer, Firecracker, Nightwish, Charley Varrick, Matinee, The Woman in Black, The 10th Victim, Willow, Life's Too Short 1:31:05 - Junk Mail: Reviewing Bad Movies, Letterboxd for Video Games, Interpreting Director's Intentions, Involuntary Audible Reactions to Movies, Africa Addio, Nostalgia and The Sandlot vs. Mighty Ducks, Mixing DVDs and Blu-rays from Different Regions 2:00:50 - This Week's DVD Releases 2:01:30 - Outro
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- 2/28/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Italian creator of the satirical film Mondo Cane and its 'shockumentary' successors
When the Italian film director Gualtiero Jacopetti, who has died at the age of 91, made Mondo Cane (A Dog's Life) in 1962, he tapped into people's curiosity and provided the strangest commercially successful film in the history of cinema. Audiences not yet accustomed to cheap air travel or the idea of globalisation were unprepared for its colourful National Geographic-style montages of "primitive" rites and "civilised" wrongs. The following year, they flocked to see the film's sequels, Mondo Pazzo (Mad World, or Mondo Cane No 2) and La Donna nel Mondo (Women of the World).
Mondo Cane was a film made out of a compilation of pithy sequences depicting strange rituals from around the globe. But while Jacopetti documented the peculiarities of what was then described as the third world, he also mocked the alleged superiority of western culture. The...
When the Italian film director Gualtiero Jacopetti, who has died at the age of 91, made Mondo Cane (A Dog's Life) in 1962, he tapped into people's curiosity and provided the strangest commercially successful film in the history of cinema. Audiences not yet accustomed to cheap air travel or the idea of globalisation were unprepared for its colourful National Geographic-style montages of "primitive" rites and "civilised" wrongs. The following year, they flocked to see the film's sequels, Mondo Pazzo (Mad World, or Mondo Cane No 2) and La Donna nel Mondo (Women of the World).
Mondo Cane was a film made out of a compilation of pithy sequences depicting strange rituals from around the globe. But while Jacopetti documented the peculiarities of what was then described as the third world, he also mocked the alleged superiority of western culture. The...
- 8/22/2011
- by Mark Goodall
- The Guardian - Film News
Along with fellow documentarians Paolo Cavara and Franco Prosperi, Italian filmmaker Gualtiero Jacopetti helped to birth the exploitation cinema genre known as the mondo film, which took off following the success of their 1962 shockumentary classic Mondo Cane. Jacopetti, aged 92, died this week in Rome; his most provocative films include Africa Addio and Addio zio Tom (Goodbye, Uncle Tom), the latter of which happens to earn a nod in a certain upcoming Ryan Gosling automotive thriller opening next month.
- 8/20/2011
- Movieline
Specialty label Kritzerland today announced the CD release of Les Baxter's music for the cult film Sadismo. From the Press Release:In 1962 a documentary called Mondo Cane was unleashed on the world and became a box-office sensation. The film was such a huge success that it spawned its own genre – the mondo film, and soon everyone was rushing out their own mondo shock docs – Mondo Cane 2, Malamondo, Women of the World, Africa Addio, Addio Zio Tom, and some really low-budget knockoffs like Mondo Bizarro and Mondo Hollywood. A latecomer to the game was 1967&rsquo...
- 9/27/2010
- by Neil Shurley, Film Score Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
0:00 - Intro 7:45 - Headlines: Star Wars Live Action TV Series on Hold, The Outer Limits Movie, Tarantino to Rewrite and Direct The Shadow?, Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody Reteam 21:00 - Review: The Other Guys 43:25 - Trailer Trash: Jackass 3D 47:45 - Other Stuff We Watched: Transylvania 6-5000, The Lady Vanishes, Night Train to Munich, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Wicker Man, Panic in Year Zero!, Henson’s Place, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Africa Addio, Groundhog Day, Beer League, Dirty Work, Jerry Seinfeld Live, Tango & Cash, The Hard Way, Rambo: Extended Cut, Baraka, National Treasure, Lost Epilogue 1:28:25 - Junk Mail: Title Swapping and Death Metal Remix, Product Placement, Listening in Double Time, Digital and Film Resolution, Roger Corman, Rosie O'Donnell's Return, Casting the Film Junk Movie 1:45:25 - This Week's DVD Releases 1:46:50 - Outro » Download the MP3 (52 Mb) [1] » View...
- 8/9/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
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