Word: cinema
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...course, another movie that fanboys were panting about at Comic-Con was last summer's Snakes on a Plane, which New Line Cinema pumped to the Web audience but declined to screen for mainstream critics. "We thought it was a stupid title, but we wanted to see it," says Garabedian. "There was swearing, snakes biting into breasts." But the fanboys are outsiders for a reason: the rest of America doesn't always share their taste. And the poor performance of Grindhouse, the double feature from two fanboy deities, directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, shows that fanboy love...
...blood of strangers. The flamboyant nature of these crimes is like a neon sign pointing to the truth. Charles Whitman playing God in his Texas clock tower, James Huberty spraying lead in a California restaurant, Harris and Klebold in their theatrical trench coats--they're all stars in the cinema of their self-absorbed minds...
...PEDRO INFANTE AND MEXICAN CINEMA...
...Grindhouse” isn’t meant to be a movie, it’s meant to be an experience. Envisioned as a tribute to the grimy heyday of grindhouse cinema in the ’60s and ’70s, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s double feature B-movie extravaganza screens as two separate flicks: Rodriguez’s zombie spectacular “Planet Terror” and Tarantino’s slasher/souped-up car ride “Death Proof.”The two are even separated by a series of faux...
BERLIN, 1936 Cinema pioneer and accused propagandist Leni Riefenstahl set a new standard for sports photography with Olympia, her film of the Nazi-hosted games. To the end, she maintained that art, sport and politics collided--but didn't collude...