Mondo Cane is a bold and intriguing look at the worlds most unique costums and tastes in food. There are people eating ants in a posh New York restaraunt, dogs served in Thailand. Snakes skinned and sold in an asian grocery. There is gruesome animal slaughter. woman breast feeding a piglet, naked women used a human paintbrushes, hilarous drunken people in Germany, killer sharks fed poisinous sea urchins by vengeful fishermen, animal graveyards, and hu morous moments such as lustful sailors running from side to side of their huge vessl to watch scantily clad beauties. Mondo Cane is bizarre, unique, ugly, unsettling , educational and funny at times. Film is not for weak stomachs or easily offended.
Not for the faint of heart
I saw this movie back in 1967 and was grossed out at the vile things that were done to animals. To this day, it haunts me and gives me a sick feeling to believe that such things actually happen. A distinct memory is of a bull or cow getting its head chopped off, and to see the animal crumple to the ground. There is a sick fascination to the events but once is enough.
Apparently, "It's a Dog's World" ("More" or Less)
"Mondo Cane" ("It's a Dog's World") might not have been the first shockumentary, but this 1962 film is the first such film to get a wide viewing. I cannot believe they actually showed this to us in high school (WHAT were they thinking?). Then again, I have to admit I have never forgotten the sight of a guy with a sword cutting off a bull's head with one swing or the bugs prepared for dinner.
The film offers an initial disclaimer that says, in part, "the duty of the chronicler is not to sweeten the truth but to report it objectively". Of course, this is the justification for this fascinating and repulsive look at outrageous things around the world. Writer and co-director Gualtiero Jacopetti travels back and forth around the world between the so-called civilized and primitive worlds, creating all sorts of ironic frames of meaning (aided and abetted by thinly veiled sarcastic narration). In Rome chicks are dye bright colors for Easter eggs while a tribe out in the jungles waits five years to slaughter a hundred pigs and have a big feast. Of course, there are better examples, but it seems kind of pointless to spoil the fun by telling you the best shocks in a film that was considered the "most argued about film" on earth when it was first released in 1963.
This 107-minute Italian film is in French, with English subtitles, and was helped with its legitimacy by the fact its theme song "More" was nominated for an Oscar. On the one hand it is relatively tame given what we see in movies today, but then it does have the virtue of being documentary fact rather than special effects fiction. Still, I have to believe that "Mondo Cane" will be of more interest to those on whom it made an impression way back when, rather than winning new generations of viewers. But remember, sooner or later, this film will make you drop your jaw at something. You were warned.
This 1966 masterpiece by Michelangelo Antonioni (The Passenger) is set in the heady atmosphere of Swinging London, and stars David Hemmings as an unsmiling fashion photographer hooked on ephemeral meaning attached to anything: art, sex, work, relationships, drugs, events. When a real mystery falls into his lap, he probes the evidence for some reliable truth, but finds it hard to reckon with. Vanessa Redgrave plays an enigmatic woman whose desperation to cover something up only seems like one more phenomenon in Hemmings's disinterested purview. This is one of the key films of the decade, and still an unsettling and lasting experience. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Vanessa Redgrave - David Hemmings Director(s): Michelangelo Antonioni DVD Release Date: Released the 17 February 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The highlight of Mutiny on the Bounty is undoubtedly Charles Laughton's bracingly evil performance as Captain Bligh, a man so mean that he insists on having a dead sailor flogged. Bligh pushes his men beyond physical endurance, slashes their rations for his own profit, and drastically cuts down their frolicking time with scantily clad Tahitians. Finally, the moment everyone has been waiting for arrives: first mate Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) hits his limit and all hell breaks loose. Gable holds doggedly onto his American accent through the entire movie, but in a way it makes Christian come off as a Regular Guy in opposition to Bligh's institutionalized cruelty. Once you get past the hurdle of his diphthongs, Gable makes an excellent Fletcher Christian--strong, fair, and noble,... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Charles Laughton - Clark Gable - Franchot Tone Director(s): Frank Lloyd DVD Release Date: Released the 03 February 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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