A soldier in Zanzibar raises his rifle over his head before smashing it down on to the car windscreen. Shards of glass ...

“Mondo,” being the Italian word for world, should be a neutral noun. Yet go to any modern dictionary and find a variety of definitions far from the original. “Adjective: enormous; huge; extremely ...

Filmmaker Gualtiero Jacopetti — the man behind documentary “Mondo Cane” and its sequels, cult classics that collected examples of the creepy and bizarre from around the world — died Wednesday in Rome.

Insofar as he’s known at all, Italian director Gualtiero Jacopetti is known as the father of “Mondo,” or “shockumentary,” cinema—and Insofar as he’s known at all, Italian director Gualtiero Jacopetti ...

When the satirical US rock group The Tubes wanted to shock audiences in the mid-Seventies, they had their lead singer, Fee Waybill, wear a leather mask and thong, and little else, as he shone a ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gualtiero Jacopetti (born 4 September 1919) is an Italian director of documentary films. He was born in Barga, in northern Tuscany. With Paolo Cavara and Franco ...

Throughout this year’s Neither/Neither program at the 13th annual True/False Film Festival, I found myself frequently calling to mind storied Los Angeles film curator John Fles’ concept of “analytic ...