#Gualtiero Jacopetti

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Mondo cane n. 2 (1963)

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Mondo Cane (1962) - Gualtiero Jacopetti, Francesco Prosperi, Paolo Cavara

Descubrí un feliz día que en Italia, en la década de los sesentas, apareció un genero de películas llamadas las "Mondo Films". Según leí estas eran semi documentales, o shockumentaries, que así como mis amados giallos o los hermosos spaghetti westerns, estos jugaban también al impacto, al exceso, al deseo, al terror. Con la ansiedad propia de haber encontrado algo que mi intuición me decía que podría ser provechoso, y con la certeza de haber dado con algo que definitivamente sonaba suculento, me lancé a ver la película con la que está familia de degenerados documentales empezó: Mondo Cane (en español se le conoció como "Perro Mundo").

Pero no quiero hacer acá una sinopsis y dañarte la sorpresa contándote acerca de los muy variados tesoros que esconde este baúl de curiosidades, pero si te repetiré lo que te alcancé a medio adelantar por telefono. Este documental, mentirosito, exotizante, amarillista y violento, es un caleidoscopio de extrañisimas viñetas del mundo. Entre el terror y la poesía, se mueve esta joya.

Acá te dejo el link de descarga porque está un poco difícil de conseguir:

https://www.filemail.com/d/vhdclydjedzyglm

Te amo y estoy muy feliz de mandarte este peligroso animal,

tuyo siempre,

Jeremiah Jhonson <3

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SOBRE MONDO CANE BOOKS En 1962, los cineastas italianos Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti y Franco Prosperi expusieron al público una película casi documental que consistía en una serie de viñetas de diversos lugares del mundo donde se mostraban detalles de las prácticas culturales que allí ocurrían, con la única intención de impactar o sorprender al público occidental. Estas escenas donde el folklore y las tradiciones se mezclaban con la excentricidad, lo grotesco y el salvajismo, expuestos con toda crudeza y autenticidad, se presentaban con poca continuidad, ya que pretendían ser una exhibición caleidoscópica de contenido impactante en lugar de presentar una estructura argumental clásica. Este inusual trabajo, que dio a luz a todo un género, se tituló Mondo Cane. Inspirados por esa intención visceral e imbuidos del mismo propósito fundamental, Mondo Cane Books pretende que cada publicación suponga un puñetazo en la boca del estómago del lector, al mismo tiempo que ofrece una visión particular de una realidad cultural de la forma más veraz posible. Así que advertido quedas. Puede que nuestros libros no sean para ti. De hecho, no son para ti. ¡No nos sigas! ─ Ilustración: Perros Atados Vol. 1 de IRRA.

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Mondo Cane [trailer] (1962) (Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara, & Franco E. Prosperi) [buy]

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Nouveauté bientôt en ligne : Adios Africa Adieu Afrique (Africa addio) est un documentaire mondo italien réalisé par Gualtiero Jacopetti et Franco Prosperi, sorti en 1966. Le film porte sur la fin de l'ère coloniale en Afrique. #oiseaumortvintage #melodieensoussol #butindechine #retourdechine #vhs #cassettevideo #africaaddio #mondo #mondomovies #shockumentary #jacopetti #prosperi https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl-v9kVMiKq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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594 to go

Magnolia (1999, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson): Self-indulgent is the word I’d use to describe this movie. Not always a bad thing but I think a little restraint could have gone a long way here. And boy is PTA ill-equipped when it comes to writing black characters.

The Right Stuff (1983, dir. Philip Kaufman): I hadn’t heard of this movie before starting this project, which is weird because watching it I recognized so many moments from other movies and tv shows so it seems to have been at least somewhat influential. It’s great fun if a bit weirdly structured and weak on characterization.

Carrie (1976, dir. Brian De Palma): I’ve read so much about this movie and I was so excited to watch it. It was a lot different than I expected - I don’t think it really has a plot? - but the best parts of it shone so much brighter than the whole.

Deconstructing Harry (1997, dir. Woody Allen): This is a lot more damning of Woody Allen than I think he realized.

Three Lives and Only One Death (1996, dir. Raúl Ruiz): I was intrigued by the premise of seemingly disconnected stories slowly coming together but I didn’t love the reveal at the end. Marcello Mastroianni was phenomenal though.

Mondo Cane (1962, dir. Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi): Large parts of this movie are just a parade of racism and animal abuse, and the mix of real and fake facts makes the social commentary lose a lot of its bite. Which is a shame, because this film is beautifully edited and has some powerful themes.

#1001 movies #magnolia #the right stuff #carrie #desconstructing harry #three lives and only one death #mondo cane

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June 23, 1962 - “Mondo Cane,” a feature-length documentary filmed in color by a variety of photographers in various parts of the world for Italian director Gualtiero Jacopetti, has been acquired for distribution by the Times Film Corporation. It is slated for release here this winter. The original title, which could loosely be translated as “World Gone to the Dogs,” will be retained. A report from the Cannes Festival, where the film generated much discussion, called “Mondo Cane” a “bitter, often shocking glimpse of sadistic rituals in the world in which we live.”

#classicmovies #documentary #1960s

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"La donna nel mondo" Movie, 1963 Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi et Paolo Cavara https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Femme_%C3%A0_travers_le_monde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_of_the_World

#Gualtiero Jacopetti #Franco Prosperi #Paolo Cavara

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WOMEN OF THE WORLD

This movie more or less opens on a scene in which, we are told by a genteel narrator, an all-male island tribe waits for a beached seal to die so they can gang rape its corpse. I have to wonder what people expected when this movie, from the team behind the abundantly titillating MONDO CANE films, began to make its theatrical rounds. It's important to remember that the mondo genre was created by ex-newsreel journalists who wanted to put to death the pretentious idea that film can deliver objective truth. With this in mind, Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi set out to create the most vivid, confrontational, emotionally manipulative documentaries (if you want to call them that) ever made, exposing every form of human life in the harshest light possible. No type of person is spared this cinematic vivisection, although the filmmakers' favorite subjects are certainly people who do not resemble themselves--that is, anyone who might be described as tribal, people from the "mysterious orient", people from backwater worlds with startling rules and rites...and of course, women. No one who has seen MONDO CANE 1 & 2, which produce an agitation heretofore known only in pornography, would be surprised to learn that Jacopetti and Prosperi also made a picture exclusively dedicated to the so-called fair sex.

While mondo movies offer a valuable critique of the documentary genre's self-righteousness, they also come with an unpleasant accusation against the viewer. "This is you, and if you deny it then you're a hypocrite," they mean to say, when they flaunt decontextualized "evidence" of hideous racial stereotypes, or images of "civilized" people violently exploiting animals, or enviably elites degrading themselves for the sake of fashion. The astoundingly beautiful, hyper-saturated photography, and Oscar-nominated music by Riz Ortolani, only throw into high relief Jacopetti and Prosperi's ugly message. While MONDO CANE can feel like humanity literally on trial, WOMEN OF THE WORLD is like a movie from the end of the world. These filmmakers, who profess no love for their fellow man, use the archetype of woman--lovely, gentle, sensitive, at once childlike and maternal--as a general guide for their final assault on the idea that there is beauty to be found anywhere in the universe.

In WOMEN OF THE WORLD, the idea of "love" is reduced to leering hoards of men hunting for fleeting gratification; the product of "love" is tearful orphans scattered wherever one finds child prostitution and sex tourism. Feminine beauty is cold and nasty where it is used to literally enslave men, and simply pathetic where men cultivate their own elegance. Lest the filmmakers be accused of pure xenophobia, they turn the spotlight on regions of their native Italy where too-young wives suffer the brutal consummation of their weddings, while the earth around them is sewn with the corpses of girls who died fucked but unmarried, planted in graves that are anonymous and elaborately insulting. The "world" in WOMEN OF THE WORLD is one where the very idea of intimacy is farcical, simply a flimsy excuse for indescribable cruelty. And yet, who cares about the victims of this cruelty, when the movie also describes women as so hungry for validation that they'll pay top dollar for doctors to torture them in cosmetic operations that result in permanent disfigurement if they fail? Jacopetti and Prosperi place their subjects, and their viewers, in a world of hurt that they believe we both desire and deserve. Here, the black comedy of MONDO CANE is supplanted by a purer blackness that is difficult to escape, even after the lights come up.

#Gualtiero Jacopetti #franco prosperi #mondo movies #mondo cane #exploitation #documentary #sexploitation #women of the world #blogtober

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#movies #Addio zio Tom #Gualtiero Jacopetti #Franco Prosperi #Antonio Climati #1971

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Jacopetti, Prosperi e io: la recensione di Indiscreto “Il merito del libro, oltre ad aneddoti divertenti e malinconici, sta nel sapere descrivere, in maniera sintetica, quasi chirurgica, …

#edizioni il foglio #Franco Prosperi #gualtiero jacopetti #passeggeremo ancora tra le rovine del tempio #recensione #stefano loparco

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1975 Mondo candido Also Known As (AKA) Bulgaria (Bulgarian title) Светът на Кандид Hungary Candide világa Turkey (Turkish title) Günah dünyasi West Germany Blutiges Märchen

Directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti Franco Prosperi

Release Dates Italy 21 February 1975 Japan 26 April 1975 West Germany 23 May 1975 France 3 September 1975 (Paris) Germany 25 July 2011 (DVD premiere)

Writing Credits Gualtiero Jacopetti … (story and screenplay) & Franco Prosperi … (story and screenplay) & Claudio Quarantotto … (story and screenplay) Voltaire … (novel) (uncredited)

Cast Christopher Brown Christopher Brown … Candido Michele Miller Michele Miller … Cunegonda Jacques Herlin Jacques Herlin … Dr. Panglos José Quaglio José Quaglio Steffen Zacharias Steffen Zacharias … Il saggio Gianfranco D'Angelo Gianfranco D'Angelo … Barone Salvatore Baccaro Salvatore Baccaro … Orco Alessandro Haber Alessandro Haber … Amante di Cunegonda Richard Domphe Richard Domphe Sonia Viviani Sonia Viviani Carla Mancini Carla Mancini Lorenzo Piani Lorenzo Piani Giancarlo Badessi Giancarlo Badessi Annick Berger Annick Berger Giancarlo Cortesi Giancarlo Cortesi Marcello Di Falco Marcello Di Falco Mauro Perrucchetti Mauro Perrucchetti Valerio Ruggeri Valerio Ruggeri

technical specifications Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min) (France)

filming locations Château de Pierrefonds, Pierrefonds, Oise, France

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

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#Este perro mundo #Mondo Cane #1962 #Paolo Cavara #Gualtiero Jacopetti #Franco Prosperi

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Film testé et ok Présenté ici en version allemande La boite est a changé L'incroyable Verité (Mondo cane 2) est un film documentaire mondo italien réalisé par Gualtiero Jacopetti et Franco Prosperi, sorti en 1963. Comme les titres originaux le suggèrent, il peut être considéré comme la suite de Cette chienne de vie (Mondo cane), sorti en 1962. Synopsis Le film consiste en une série de petits documentaires sur les différentes pratiques culturelles à travers le monde : Nouvelle-Guinée, Allemagne, Singapour, Portugal, Australie, Amérique et autres. Il montre entre autres des scènes violentes de cannibalisme, vivisection, lynchage, croque-morts, travestis, chasse aux alligators, rites religieux, déviations sexuelles, trafic de cheveux et exploitation d'enfants handicapés. #oiseaumortvintage #melodieensoussol #vhs #cassettevideo #mondo #mondocane https://www.instagram.com/p/Cea5XHnsnX4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#oiseaumortvintage #melodieensoussol #vhs #cassettevideo #mondo #mondocane

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Africa addio / Africa Blood and Guts (1966), Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi

#Africa addio #Gualtiero Jacopetti #Franco Prosperi #mondo films #italian cinema #movie poster

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Mondo Cane: Seminal Document of the Mondo genre

Mondo Cane, Gualtiero Jacopetti's masterpiece, is the first and the best mondo movie. 

Shot all over the world by an Italian crew and released in 1963, Mondo Cane's collection of grotesquery was a worldwide phenomenon so financially and artistically successful it spawned and defined an entire film genre. It was even nominated for an oscar for Best Song: Riz Ortolani's awesome "More.” Weird that hardly anyone has ever heard of it, right?

While exploitive documentaries about weird crap date back to Thomas Edison, Mondo Cane is the first film that encompasses all of the elements that were later called “mondo.” Since this is my first post, and Mondo Cane is the seminal document of the genre, I'll use it to define the elements of the mondo movie.

The Four Hallmarks of Mondo Movies

Documentary...kind of:  A mondo movie may or may not contain actual documentary footage, but all footage must be PRESENTED as real, no matter how obvious the fakery. Like the best of the genre, Mondo Cane is a mix of real footage, embellished-reality (IE: a narrator adding invented explanations), and completely staged segments. Jacopetti was more honest than most mondo directors, though (which is like being the tallest midget). He was a journalist and seemed to want to capture something of real life, even if his narration is questionable and he clearly staged and directed some of the action. Harmless here, but Jacopetti's tendency to treat real people as actors and alter real events eventually destroyed whatever reputation he had.

Narrated-Omnibus Structure: Mondo movies are made up of short segments held together by voiceover narration that joins disparate elements thematically. Mondo Cane's thematic skeleton is something like: "No matter how different our cultural expression, people all over the world are horrible and ridiculous." Later mondo movies are less elevated in their themes, which tend toward "Man, people in Asia do some weird crap." or "Ladies take their clothing off in many different situations!”

Cynical, Authoritative Tone: The narrators of Mondo movies are total assholes. Mondo Cane's narrator, Stefano Sibaldi, affects a world-weary tone that drips with contempt for sexuality, creativity, happiness, social mores, and really any cultural expression at all. Although the filmmakers have clearly gone to great lengths to present footage of, say, a "crazy" artist in New York City using naked women as paintbrushes (Yves Klein in an appearance he later deeply regretted) or a Taiwanese butcher slaughtering dogs, the narrator wants you to know he DOES NOT APPROVE OF IT and you probably shouldn't enjoy it too much. But Sibaldi's narration manages sympathy for a few of Mondo Cane's subjects too.

Perhaps the cynical, disgusted, "everything is shit" tone of Mondo Cane is a result of personal tragedy in the director's life. Jacopetti's girlfriend, actress Belinda Lee, was killed in a car crash at the beginning of production, and some say the film is Jacopetti's reaction to her senseless death.

Another universal element of Mondo narration: The pretense that the film has an elevated intellectual purpose, even though it clearly doesn't. This may have been to provide a "social value" argument if the censors ever cracked down. No matter why it's there, There's something hilarious about a movie lying to its audience so blatantly, telling them they're watching a thoughtful examination of cultural differences in sexual mores when it's clearly a bored stripper in a seedy Hong Kong club.  

"Shocking" footage: Presenting the shocking, weird and outre is the mondo movie's whole reason to be. Sex perverts, primitive tribes, buildings being wrecked, car crashes, druggies, hippies, etc. Mondo likes anything shocking. But like the reality of the footage, the "shock-factor" varies greatly from scene to scene. We're constantly TOLD how shocking the footage is, though, but it’s usually pretty tame.

"In the interest of public awareness, we snuck our cameras into an LSD freakout party where depraved hippie deviants enact unspeakable debauchery!" a narrator might soberly intone over footage of middle class teenagers frugging at a house party. 

The casual sexism, racism, and cultural bias, of Mondo Cane actually are shocking--people were FUCKED UP back in the 1960s--but other than grandpa-style bigotry, there's little of the truly disturbing in this movie... except the cruelty to animals. 

Animal cruelty is a common theme in the mondo genre, and my least favorite aspect of these films. I have no particular love for animals--most of them are dicks--but I don't need to see them slaughtered, hunted, vivisected and otherwise abused. 

Points to Mondo Cane for at least choosing interesting animal cruelty to present. The section on how French people force-feed geese to make pate is amazing. Who knew that's where that stuff came from? 

Lesser mondo films tend to pad out their running times with cheaply purchased stock footage of animals attacking each other in jungles (when there used to be jungles.)

There is room for an endless variety of films within those four criteria set by Mondo Cane, from amazing documentaries like The Killing of America to total dreck like The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield. But it’s really unfair to lump Mondo Cane (and the rest of Jacopetti's filmography) with its imitators. 

Jacopetti and his partner Franco Prosperi are unique in film, and their best-known movie is a landmark in filmic and cultural history. Their genuine artistic sensibilities and photographic eye (Mondo Cane is beautifully shot and edited) combined with their total lack of taste and restraint resulted in a groundbreaking, genre-smashing, and deeply troubling film that predicts our media landscape’s downward spiral into its current post-truth state.

Like the Catholic idea of God as both all human and all divine, Mondo Carne is at once 100 percent high Art and total gutter trash. Not quite fiction and not quite fact, it’s a documentary that ignores all the “rules” of documentary filmmaking (IE: Show things as they really are) in the supposed interest of making a larger point (”Everything in the world is terrible”) but it’s actually just an excuse to show half-naked ladies and weirdoes doing crazy shit... but the audiences themselves proves the movie’s point! Gathering together in dark rooms and being lied to by Italians is a ritual that could go in its own Mondo movie.

If you're new to the genre, Mondo Cane is essential viewing and a great place to start, you can watch the thole thing on YouTube for free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj5U8UbWqsk

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