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easy cheesy
08-19-2011, 06:28 PM
Jacopetti - the director of the bizarre 1962 "documentary" "Mondo Cane", has died at the age of 91. RIP...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/mo...at-91.html?hpw (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/movies/gualtiero-jacopetti-maker-of-mondo-cane-dies-at-91.html?hpw)


Many consider "Mondo Cane" (A Dog's World) as the first "shockumentary". In a scenario almost as bizarre as the film, the title song "More" was nominated for an Academy Award and became a well-known standard.

Link to a trailer for "Mondo Cane": http://youtu.be/a-vLASqJYuk (http://youtu.be/a-vLASqJYuk)

Link to Sinatra singing "More": http://youtu.be/uwus-6Hu0Kw (http://youtu.be/uwus-6Hu0Kw)

In yet another twist, Jacopetti will be buried next to the late British starlet - Belinda Lee - with whom he was involved in the late 50s. She died in a car accident (in which Mr Jacopetti was a passenger) in 1961.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/8/18/1313699209214/Gualtiero-Jacopetti-big-p-001.jpg

Freak Out
08-19-2011, 06:35 PM
Very cool film.

easy cheesy
08-20-2011, 01:35 AM
That movie freaked me out when I was a teen..... anywhoo... I know that you are a Russ Meyer fan.... he took a "spin" of his own....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060712/

Unfortunately I can't post the applicable videos here... but... you get the drift.... you have GOT to love someone named Babette Bardot... HELLZ YEAH!

Freak Out
08-20-2011, 03:29 AM
I just saw that Dario Argento is making a 3D version of Dracula...Rutger Hauer as Van Helsing. Of course his hot daughter is in it as well.

easy cheesy
08-20-2011, 10:13 PM
Yes he is! Here's a link to the website...

http://www.dracula3d.it/

Daughter is looking hot.... Rutger is not...

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/Dracula_3D_movie_image-10-600x399.jpg (http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/Dracula_3D_movie_image-10.jpg)