A Film Review... kinda!
grindhouse [noun]
(1): a theater that mainly showed 'grindhouse cinema', also referred to as 'exploitation films', usually consisting of a double feature where two films were shown back to back. These scungy, aound the clock theatres were prevalant along 42nd Street and Times Square, back in the '70s and 80s, before the district became a Disneyfied version of its former self
(2): a 2007 film presented as a double feature of two full-length segments, one being a zombie film, Planet Terror, written and directed by Robert Rodriquez, and the other being a slasher film, Death Proof, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, with faux trailers advertising fictional films preceding each segment
Back in August last year I made comment in a blog entry about the yet-to-be-released, Grindhouse. I'm not big into zombie films but the artificial film scratches, missing reels gags and assorted aesthetics kept me interested in Rodriquez' part and while Tarantino's homage to trash cinema was not quite as blantant, his contribution was more to my taste.
(1): a theater that mainly showed 'grindhouse cinema', also referred to as 'exploitation films', usually consisting of a double feature where two films were shown back to back. These scungy, aound the clock theatres were prevalant along 42nd Street and Times Square, back in the '70s and 80s, before the district became a Disneyfied version of its former self
(2): a 2007 film presented as a double feature of two full-length segments, one being a zombie film, Planet Terror, written and directed by Robert Rodriquez, and the other being a slasher film, Death Proof, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, with faux trailers advertising fictional films preceding each segment
Back in August last year I made comment in a blog entry about the yet-to-be-released, Grindhouse. I'm not big into zombie films but the artificial film scratches, missing reels gags and assorted aesthetics kept me interested in Rodriquez' part and while Tarantino's homage to trash cinema was not quite as blantant, his contribution was more to my taste.
I love it; cinema about cinema.
posted by Joshiesmoov @ 1:44 PM
1 Comments:
have u heard that they are actually going to split it in two? they are not making enough money together
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