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Mondo Cine

Mondo Cine

http://mondo-cine.blogspot.com/

An ongoing personal discussion (tinctured with some actual experience) on the world of film exhibition, film preservation, and film appreciation.

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  • History Will Be Written By Nobody

    Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 22:20 in internet, digital, twitter

    The historical record is the most important object that civilization probably creates. It's not a discreet product or manufactured building or monument that is pre-ordained, pre-determined, or pre-meditated.It's not a cultural mandate or steered agen...

  • Would You Buy A Used DVD From This Man?

    Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 00:13 in internet, ipod, cloud, digital, revolution

    The good news is that we, as a race of consumers, have finally figured out that we really don't need to buy every sell-through DVD in stacks at Best Buy, in spite of any value-added deleted scenes or alternate soundtracks. The DVD of Don Roo's "Boun...

  • Spectacles Public and Private

    Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 01:05 in ipod, cultural memory

    Movies seem bigger than ever and less relevant than ever. We're not falling in love with going to the movies. Because we don't go, certainly not as often. They're simply around too much. In too many sizes. "Star Trek" notwithstanding, and even t...

  • Teen Scream

    Posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 23:44 in teenagers, spectatorship, cultural memory, drive-in theatres

    Teen comedies have changed over the last 10 to 20 years because teens have changed.Of course. The audience is what dictates what's produced, because if a movie shows in an empty theatre, does it make any noise?Around the '70s and '80s there was a ra...

  • Dark Archives

    Posted on Thursday July 9th, 2009 at 01:53 in internet, Transformers, archives, archiving, cultural memory

    In film archiving programs much like the one I am in, what you end up learning is a lot more about library studies than actual preservation of film.What's important now is not trying to find an extant copy of an old lost classic. Let's presume that ...

  • Now

    Posted on Friday July 3rd, 2009 at 23:39 in Transformers, hollywood, promotion, exhibition

    Has there ever been a film more review-proof than Transformers 2? The word is so uniformly and excoriatingly bad, not only from the egghead academic critics from such august publications as the New York Times and Aintitcool.com, but from our friends...

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