Month: April 2009

Grooving on the soundtrack music of Ennio Morricone. Bought two vinyl LPs this weekend at Forever Young — 1971’s UNA LUCERTOLA CON LA PELLE and the obscure 1969 LA DONNA INVISIBLE. Both could be comfortably filed under Mondo Morricone material, reflecting a dreamier, slightly loungy side of the Il Maestro…although I wouldn’t go so far…

Watched a bit of the new Midnight Choir DVD release of Mario Bava’s THE WHIP AND THE BODY coupled with Fulci’s CONSPIRACY OF TORTURE. Ordered it off Amazon after reading a little controversy surrounding the disc’s legal status. If you know me, you know I’m a huge Bava fan — I own Tim Lucas’ 1000+…

OK, ok. I caught some flak from Head of Press and Publicity for AFI, John Wildman, for my last post. I just wanted to clarify a few points regarding my comments about AFI Dallas’ screenings. First off, I in no way wanted to sound ungrateful to the fest organizers. I was an invited guest at…

The past week my film society DALLAS CINEMANIA was invited to participate as a “community sponsor” for the AFI DALLAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST here in Big D. AFI has been more than generous and allowed me to spread my word to a few more people than would otherwise hear about it. There have been tons…