Concord music publishing, and 1 music rights societies. Mondo cane 1962 directed by paolo cavara, gualtiero. A shockumentary consisting of a collection of mostly real archive footage displaying mankind at its most depraved and perverse, displaying bizarre rites, c. Mona in italian is a polite form of address originating as ma donna similar to maam, madam, or my lady in english. The album cover is in very good condition with a few heavy scuffed torn corners. I never thought a film released in 1962 could be so shocking. Watch mondo cane 1962 trailer film gorillas on dailymotion. The title of the painting, which is known in english as mona lisa, comes from a description by renaissance art historian giorgio vasari, who wrote leonardo undertook to paint, for francesco del giocondo, the portrait of mona lisa, his wife. Rites, rituals and superstitions is a 1962 italian mondo documentary film written and directed by paolo cavara, franco prosperi and gualtiero jacopetti. Finland from the producers of the mondo canes comes this violent document of a continent in transition.
The mondo cane collection 19621971 popmatters film. Often times, this resulted in the wholesale massacre of thousands of people and the indiscriminate extermination of wild life. The mondo cane collection makes a case for jacopetti and prosperi, providing another frame for their films. I have heard murmurings about this movie since i was a video store hoping teen and i had always wanted to check it out since it was evidently a precursor to faces of death. Mondo cane meaning doggish world, which is a mild italian profanity. A collection of bizarre documentary footage from around the world, some of it staged, some of it not.
This vinyl looks very clean with minuscule surface wear. Released 1962, mondo cane stars rossano brazzi, yves klein, stefano sibaldi the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 45 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic, which put together. The theme from mondo cane was eventually to become the most recorded pop song of the sixties. Ortolani and oliviero originally composed it as an instrumental. Featuring a fortymember orchestra and fifteenpiece backing band, the album contains a series of cover versions of 1950s and 1960s italian pop music. This shockumentary caused a stir when it was released in 1962 no one had seen anything quite like it before. Mondo cane 1962 mondo cane 21963africa addio1966la donna nel mondo,eva sconosciuta1963. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film.
Patton conceived of the album while living in bologna, and became attracted to music he heard on the radio featuring pop singers backed by orchestras. More theme from mondo cane is a film score song written by riz ortolani and nino oliviero for the 1962 film mondo cane. Gualtiero jacopetti and paolo carva came up with an entirely new style of filmmaking with this, and back in 1962 it must have made even greater an impact on audiences, and also been more. It was rushed into release on 30 january, following the international boxoffice success achieved by its predecessor, the initial mondo film, mondo cane, which premiered in italy ten. Sometimes beautiful, often horrifying yet always surprising, it remains one of the most disturbing and controversial films of our time. Billed as a documentary, mondo cane focuses on obscure and bizarre rituals from around the world. Riz ortolani and nino oliviero mondo cane 1962, vinyl. Filmed in every corner of the world, this landmark epic explores the culture of life and death, the anguish of man and beast, and the taboos of sex and religion, all amidst the barbarism of civilization gone insane. Seeing mondo cane for the first time, i was surprised to see how downright quaint it all seems. Also there is no hype graphic as with riz ortolani and nino oliviero mondo cane. Subtitles of different languages may be downloaded for free as a. Nevertheless, its episodic construction, cosmopolitan concerns, and vaguely sardonic exposition set the template for a great deal of shock cinema to come. Original motion picture sound track album initial pressing with mondo cane at the bottom right of the cover. When i told our film editor, scott tobias, that i was planning to cover mondo cane, he looked at me blankly.
I recently picked up the mondo cane collection from blue underground. Our new desktop experience was built to be your music destination. Mondo cane collection, the 8disc limited edition out of print for the first time ever, these films have been fully restored from the original negatives and are presented in their definitive versions loaded with extras. More was composed by riz ortolani pictured and nino oliviero. It follows their career until their split in following the making of goodbye uncle tom in 1971. Mondo cane 1962 gualtiero jacopetti dvd new for sale. This week i chose the ol classic mondo cane from 1962. The movie is a documentary, and uses a variety of music to accompany various segments. Some scenes include the detailed slaughter of a bull, a pet cemetery, tribal rituals, and a wide variety of fine cuisine such as dogs and snakes. For a film featuring exploitative, racist, sexist stereotypes distorted into cartoons via juxtaposition, editing, and staging despite claiming to be a documentary, for a film that was a major hit when it was released despite being the basest kind of quasisnuff film, for a film that even in dub is an open sneer at cultures around the world, for a film that revels in graphic violence and nudity.
Italian creator of the satirical film mondo cane and its shockumentary successors when the italian film director gualtiero jacopetti, who has died at the age of 91, made mondo cane a dogs life in 1962, he tapped into people. Mondo cane 1962 a documentary that shocked many viewers at the time of its release, this film presents scenes from across the globe that feature strange rituals. Mondo cane este perro mundo 1962 subtitulado youtube. Im sure it shocked people when it was first released, but, and maybe im jaded in saying this, it just felt like a slightly risque national geographics episode. A look at the careers of gualtiero jacopetti and franco prosperi who invented the mondo genre with mondo cane in 1962. Visitors of subtitlesbank have given a rating of 6. Riz ortolani and nino oliviero mondo cane lp vinyl album. Mondo cane of 1962 is the first of a bunch of italian mondo shockumentaries and, without any doubt, an immensely influential piece of exploitation cinema. Per tutti i film ho tagliato alcuni episodi che consideravo eccessivamente crudi. Beautiful and blasphemous, they offer alternately dazzling and bleak images, as the. Between 1962 and 1963, the documentary mondo cane became a tremendous boxoffice success, but when we think of the films of 1963, the year it played america, titles like the birds, dr. The subjects vary from innocuous, like retirees visiting hawaii or women working out in a gym, to truly disgusting, like young men in nepal decapitating bulls as a rite as passage. In an age of instantaneous, unmediated representations of violence, mondo cane can feel wideeyed at times almost quaint.