Mondo Video

12/10/2025

Among the gift baskets being raffled off at this event will be a few contributed by Mondo. See you there!

Join us for drinks, light snacks, conversation, art, and fun at our first ever Merry BIFFmas: A Buffalo Intentional Film Festival Fun(d)raiser! Thank you to our party sponsor Avenir Cine!

10/06/2023

Those of you who still miss Mondo (I run into you once in awhile in public: amazing how many of you held onto your cheap paper membership cards!) should check out this documentary on one of the stores that inspired me to open shop.

Originally run by the enigmatic Yongman Kim out of his dry-cleaning business, Kim's Video (NYC) was a cornucopia of rare, esoteric films.

11/20/2021

For THE FRENCH DISPATCH, Wes Anderson created this list of films that influenced its creation. Pretty much all of them were on the shelves at Mondo.

02/11/2016

Pretty much all of these films, aside from the ones that weren't made until after we closed our doors, were stocked at Mondo. http://flavorwire.com/476770/the-50-weirdest-movies-ever-made/view-all

A Lynchian renaissance is happening at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where David Lynch studied painting before his surreal entry into filmmaking with 1977’s Eraserhead. The school is the s...

12/03/2014

It just occurred to me today that a few months ago was the 20th anniversary of Mondo's opening. Guess I'm not the sentimental type.

11/28/2014

Still selling hard to find movies, but now doing it online (message me if you have any requests). www.amazon.com/shops/CinemaCornucopia

08/09/2012

The things you find when you clean your office. The black paint was not so much to make an aesthetic statement: it was just the cheapest, fastest way to cover the tropical motif the building had when I moved in.

01/15/2012

In case anyone is wondering what I do for a living these days, I sell Mondo-ish movies on Amazon - here's my store: http://www.amazon.com/gp/shops/storefront/index.html?ie=UTF8&marketplaceID=ATVPDKIKX0DER&sellerID=AKCHZDBQ3NYR6

10/26/2011

http://blogs.artvoice.com/film/2011/10/26/absentia-opens-buffalo-screams/

If you’re going to be checking out the Buffalo Screams film festival—and if you’re a horror fan, why wouldn’t you?—don’t wait until the weekend. It

09/28/2011

Two of my favorite bad movies of all time are DEADLY WEAPONS and DOUBLE AGENT 76, starring the infamous Chesty Morgan. After years of public absence she's been found.

Chesty Morgan, Burlesque Hall of Fame, Home Depot, Publix, Jeff Klinkenberg, St. Petersburg Times

07/15/2011

Hope y'all are enjoying your Netflix subscriptions.

07/06/2011

Former Mondo clerk Wheez (who for the last year of the store was there pretty much all the hours we were open) will be in Buffalo this week playing (drums, I presume) with Aussie rockabilly act -The Red Hot Poker Dots. They'll be at at Nietzche's Thursday night (July the 7th) - come say hi!