David Wilt

#MexicanMovieMonday: #CineMexicano in production 70 yrs ago this month Part 2: Fantasy-comedy: Best Picture Ariel, Best Actress Ariel for #SilviaPinal; #Resortes comedy; Period Western about Joaquín Murrieta, shot in Spanish & English language versions, aka "The Last Rebel."

#MexicanMovieMonday: #CineMexicano in production 70 yrs ago this month Part 1: Melodrama, remade by director Benito Alazaraki in 1970 w/ #FannyCano & Junior as "Los jóvenes amantes"; Melodrama, film debut of María Rojo; Mexican-Spanish co-production shot in Spain

#ThisWeeksFilms -- More #CineMexicano for the next Mexican Film Bulletin: La mujer y la bestia ('58): re-watching after 4 decades, #AnaLuisaPeluffo is a serial killer; Jóvenes y bellas ('61): don't remember ever seeing this youth-oriented romantic comedy w/#GastónSantos.

#SantoSaturday: Santo vs. Animals, part 1 – #ElSanto meets the Wooly Bully! Santo’s encounters with Buffalo ( = American Bison) pre-dated Sam the Sham and the Pharoah’s 1965 hit “Wooly Bully” (a thing “with 2 big horns and a wooly jaw”), but you get the idea. #CineMexicano

#FilmQuotesFriday -- "I'd like to send my brain to a laundry." If you think your mind is dirty *now*, just wait until the Internet is invented. Yama no oto (Sound of the Mountain, '54), directed by Mikio Naruse.

#ThisWeeksBooks -- Mealtime-Reading: "The History of Haiti" (Steeve Coupeau); Metro-Commute Reading: (only 3 weeks left of this until summer hiatus) "Chinese Whispers" (Peter May -- I don't like to start a series in the middle, but am doing so in this case) #FridayReads

#TopTuneThursday: Eighth Wonder featuring #PatsyKensit from 1988 -- "I'm Not Scared." #7 in UK, #1 in Italy. Written by the Pet Shop Boys. I actually prefer this TOTP performance to the official music video version -- tinyurl.com/bdeenah5

#SwipeFile 103 – Karloff Karbon Kopies #BorisKarloff's image as Frankenstein’s monster was frequently swiped but was also very specific. For generic horror purposes, images from The Mummy (’32) & The Haunted Strangler (’58) were useful. Details: tinyurl.com/bd3zv2mm

#WarehouseWednesday: Vintage #CineMexicano Posters part 16 – Posters for 1953 films starring women: Cantando nace el amor; I paid $25 in ’95; Llévame en tus brazos; paid $25 in ’95, Heritage price $41 in ’19; Mi noche de bodas; paid $30 in ’98; La perversa; paid $25 in ‘96

#BallyhooTuesday: Spectacular Cinema Similes! They play around with murder like they play around with men! They say she uses men like pep-up pills! He treated women like garbage . . . and they loved him for it! His fists are like fire! Makes Hell’s Angels look like Boy Scouts!

#RomanceComicsTuesday -- Weight Watching "You're gaining weight! Things like that annoy me!" "You're gorgeous! A little too heavy, maybe." #Romancecomics would sometimes deal with body-image issues, but not too often. Details: tinyurl.com/b788hj9d

#MexicanMovieMonday: #CineMexicano in production 80 yrs ago this month Clockwise: Revolution drama/ranchera; Comedy w/ #Resortes in his first film; Comedy w/ music; Romantic comedy based on a play by Miguel Mihura; Spy film set in the USA

#ThisWeeksFilms: For the next Mexican Film Bulletin -- La fuerza del deseo ('55) --first Calderón "nude scenes" film; Los pistoleros ('61) -- uncredited remake of "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" ('57), #ElizabethCampbell's first #CineMexicano role.

#SantoSaturday -- #ElSanto Meets the Aliens Santo confronted aliens in two of his films, and on numerous comic book covers (the interior stories in the comics were generally not related to the cover art), a few examples of which are shown here. #CineMexicano

#FilmQuotesFriday: "It seems sometimes that my own mind is slipping away from me." Oh, you too? Les Visiteurs du Soir (aka The Devil's Envoys, 1942)

#ThisWeeksBooks: Mealtime Reading: "Political History of Belgium: From 1830 Onwards" (Els Witte, Jan Craeybeckx, Alain Meynen); Metro-Commute Reading: "Resurrection Walk" (the 35th #MichaelConnelly book I've read) #FridayReads

#TopTuneThursday: The #LouvinBrothers harmonise on "The Great Atomic Power." Recorded in 1952 & 1962, not sure which version this is. youtube.com/watch?v=-5i4ZG…

#SwipeFile 102: Recycling Raquel The iconic image of #RaquelWelch from One Million Years B.C. (’66) was imitated on multiple film posters, while Welch & #JimBrown from 100 Rifles ('69) showed up on an Italian comic book cover. Details here: tinyurl.com/mr9vzvvz

#WarehouseWednesday: Vintage #CineMexicano #MoviePosters part 15 – 1953 dramas: As negro: I paid $40 in ’98, Heritage price $37 in ‘08; La infame, striking Renau art on this one: I paid $20 in ’99, Heritage price $85 on linen in 2020; La intrusa: I paid $30 in ‘99

#BallyhooTuesday – Monster Truck Bally(hoo) Local cinema owners went to great lengths to promote the films they were showing. Why not have a mini-“parade?” Borrow a truck, attach some signs & drive it around town! Better yet, add a life-size monster, robot, etc. #horrormovies