Director:
Elijah DrennerGuión:
Elijah DrennerMúsica:
Jason BrandtReparto:
Allison Anders, Judith Brown, Larry Cohen, Joe Dante, Don Edmonds, Robert Forster, David Hess, Jack Hill, Jonathan Kaplan, Jeremy Kasten, John Landis (más)Sinopsis(1)
The salacious and uproarious hit of the Film Festival circuit, American Grindhouse explores the hidden history of the American exploitation film. From the tents of carnie roadshows of the early 20th Century to Nudie Cuties, blood-soaked gore fests, biker flicks, blaxploitation and beyond - American Grindhouse takes a fascinating look at the films, the filmmakers, shysters and hustlers who make it all happen. Narrated by Academy Award nominee Robert Forster, American Grindhouse boasts exclusive interviews with Herschell Gordon Lewis, Joe Dante, Larry Cohen, John Landis, Fred Williamson and many, many more! This brand new DVD includes over 2 hours of hilarious outtakes, classic grindhouse trailers and long lost, never-before-seen interviews rescued from the vaults and included here for the first time ever. (texto oficial de la distribuidora)
(más)Reseñas (2)
Another in a series of documentaries that both lived from and fuelled the DVD market boom at the time, which brought to light the sunken treasures of the trashy history of (not only) American cinema, which to a significant extent was supported by Tarantino and Rodriguez with their Grindhouse joint project, as well as with their previous films. The filmmakers replicatea previously proven concept, strengthened by Mark Hartley, for example. A sequence of clips, which make the cited films look many times better and more attractive than they actually are, is accompanied by testimonies from an attractive ensemble of filmmakers-witnesses, knowledgeable experts and narrators guaranteeing entertainment (the always satisfying John Landis). American Grindhouse attempts to cover a very broad field and it is necessary to acknowledge that, given the brief runtime, it does so very well. Thanks to the knowledgeable speakers, the film has a few inspiring observations even for informed viewers and it succeeds in building a nice arc across the decades. In the meantime (and even before), other documentaries have been made onthe individual subtopics, which in this film are organised into chapters divided by titles, and a number of publications have been published that analyse them more thoroughly and more broadly, but this document fulfils its purpose as an initiating work of popularisation. Furthermore, its creators deserve recognition for the fact that, unlike other identically conceived documentaries about trash flicks, they do not conceal the fact that, for the most part, the films in question are not treasures, but simply trash, though characteristic of their time.
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I can't help but love documentaries like this. They're going back to films that most viewers don't want to watch or simply don't know about. But grindhouse represents interesting films; they're great B-movies and sometimes films where you'll see scenes that are still taboo today. That's the beautiful thing about films like this, and I'm glad for any documentary that revisits and reminds us of them.
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