Premiere - Newsletter 4.6.2007


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4.5.2007, IN THIS ISSUE: • Tarantino & Rodriguez Inc. • The 20 Coolest Cameos • Richard Gere-signed posters

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The 20 Coolest Cameos From Springsteen in High Fidelity to Tom Cruise in Young Guns, we've found some of the funnest walk-on roles in moviedom. Don't blink!	Tarantino & Rodriguez Inc. Brothers in arms Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez team up for an exploitation twofer like nothing you've ever seen. Get ready for Grindhouse!	Blog: Premiere's Glenn Kenny Our critic muses on why 300 worked, the grindhouses of his youth, and more. Add your thoughts to the fray.	Gallery: Black Book Cast Premiere's camera caught up with Black Book stars Sebastian Koch, Carice van Houten and director Paul Verhoeven.


	Win a Richard Gere-signed Hoax poster! Don't be fooled by the title, we're giving away posters signed by the film's star.
	Win Children of Men on DVD The dystopian Clive Owen thriller could be yours.
	Win 300: The Art of the Film One Premiere.com visitor will score a lush photo book about the movie.
	Win Everyone's Hero on DVD The baseball 'toon from the late Christopher Reeve could be yours.

Grindhouse

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, working with enormous, wide-ranging casts (including uncredited A-listers, indie youngbloods, and veterans of genuine low-budget potboilers) serve up two "features": Rodriguez's paranoid, blood-and-pustule-squirting zombiethon Planet Terror and Tarantino's serial-killer-on-wheels revenge saga Death Proof. Each feature is replete with simulated print-scratches, blurry patches, missing reels.

Then there are the interstitial ratings bumpers, "Our Feature Presentation" cards, and trailers for nonexistent films, each representing a genre that was part of the core curriculum of exploitation cinema. (They're all tasty, but my favorite was the one by the Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz guys, for a sub-Amicus-style horror feature with a hilariously apt title.) I'm almost surprised that Tarantino and Rodriguez didn't convince their patrons, Harvey and Bob Weinstein, to coat the floors of the theaters themselves with the very special shoe-sole-sticking gunk that was an unavoidable aspect of the real grindhouse experience.

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• The Reaping
• The Hoax
• Black Book
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