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...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 can get you only so far. Plenty of people heard about the movie--a three-hour '70s-exploitation-style gorefest--but decided it was an inside joke they weren't going to get. "There's this perception that the geeks have inherited the earth," says Smith...
...cool things about seeing movies for a living: it's a school of continuing education, where school's never out. I got a fast graduate course watching the 10 old films and the tribute documentary ?Así era Pedro Infante! (This Is Pedro Infante!), all from Rodriguez Brothers Productions, and most of them directed by Ismail Rodriguez, who guided Infante in 17 of his 62 movies. The "Colecció n Pedro Infante -Edició n de Homenaje" (Warner Home Video, all titles sold separately) not only clued me in to one of the major stars of Mexico's midcentury...
...population and the descendants of Spanish emigrés, the country was its own rainbow coalition, or contradiction. Most of the movie stars were light-skinned; those that weren't often played comic or villainous relief. But unlike Hollywood, Mexico didn't ignore the race issue. And in Joselito Rodriguez' Angelitos Negros (Little Black Angels), the prejudice of the invaders toward the natives, or anyone with native blood, is crucial, poignant and bizarre. Its script, by Rogelio A. González (from a play by the Cuban Felix B. Caignet), has to be recounted in a little detail to believed...
...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...
...wealth. In 1960 South Korea and Brazil had about the same per capita income. Today South Korea's per capita income is five times Brazil's. "Most of the growth in Korea in this period can be attributed to improvements in total factor productivity," Rodriguez says. "And that is what Brazil needs...