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SXSW Interview: 'American Grindhouse' Director Elijah Drenner
Filed under: SXSW », Interviews »
In under 80 minutes, the documentary American Grindhouse is a rather impressive and very entertaining documentary on the history of exploitation films and the theaters that hosted them. The film's producer and director, Elijah Drenner, took some time out before its world premiere at this year's South by Southwest Film Festival to talk to Cinematical about the making of the film and how the grindhouse influence still exists in today's cinema.
Cinematical: When films are done as well as yours, you submit an abbreviated brand of film school to moviegoers everywhere. But what do you think that today's film students can learn for the better from grindhouse cinema?
DRENNER: I'll start by saying that I don't really agree to describing a movie as a grindhouse movie. It's not accurate. A grindhouse movie theater is a relic of the 20th Century. They do not exist anymore. Jonathan Kaplan explains, although we did not use this in the doc, that his NYU teacher would take them to 42nd Street to learn about Howard Hawks in the late 60s. So is Rio Lobo a grindhouse movie, obviously no. But it played on 42nd Street. If I have to teach younger filmgoers about movies that they might not watch on their own and disguise it in this doc as some kind of historical or evolutionary step in grindhouse/exploitation film history - then I guess that I have done my job. Film students should watch everything and know that it is all related.
Paramount Is First In Line For The Shop
Filed under: Drama », Deals », Mystery & Suspense », Paramount », Newsstand »
Well the only other movie I can think of that was based on a Vanity Fair article was The Insider, and that was a fantastic film that managed to generate box office and Oscar buzz -- what more could you want? I would imagine that Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Jason Blum had similar ideas about adapting a high profile VF article,when they picked up their latest project for Paramount.Variety reported that Blum and Di Bonaventura have bought the rights to David Wise's article The Shop for Paramount. Wise's article has yet to be published, but already a movie deal is on the table -- wow, they didn't waste any time did they? Wise, an investigative journalist, co-authored the infamous book about the CIA called The Invisible Government. Wise also is remembered for a column in the New York Times in 1981, that attacked Reagan for the pardon of Mark Felt (who's now probably better known as Woodward and Bernstein's Deep Throat).
Details about the project are being kept under lock and key, since the article hasn't even published. Plus, would you expect any less from a project about the intensely secret organization? Kelley Sane has already been hired to adapt the piece, but there is no word of a director yet, I can only assume it will be on a "need-to-know" basis. ...
[via Empire Online]
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