Year in Film: 1969

Mondo Trasho

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Released in 1969, John Waters’ Mondo Trasho, is the anti-thesis both to the hippie movement and the “New Hollywood” renaissance that was changing the face of a American film at the time. While Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda were out in Monument Valley filming scenes of motorcycles roaring down wide-open desert roads, John Waters was [...]


Take the Money and Run

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Woody Allen’s first true directorial credit is a fun and silly film which I have seen countless times, usually laughing at the same spots every time I see it. But Take the Money and Run is the kind of film that is always all the more fun to watch with others. I remember the first [...]


The Honeymoon Killers

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So much has already been written about this cult classic, the real-life serial killers whose story the film closely follows, and the shoestring production, with director Martin Scorsese fired shortly into filming as he was spending far too much time on each shoot. As there is not much new to say, at least I can [...]


Random Quote

“Are you accusing me here in front of everyone of freezing my chicken livers?”
-Blodgett (Frank Windsor)
from Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?