Grindhouse Friday

*A word on Grindhouse: I’m going to see it but -- Good Lord, 3+ hours?

**The bulk of my hopes for the film rested on the assumption that it would be about 90 minutes long, thereby giving Rodriguez only 40 minutes or so (wasn’t his best film, El Mariachi, about an hour long?)

***And weren’t most grindhouse bills triple features?

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The DVDs reviewed on this here site are, with few exceptions, loaned from a public library; true grindhouse is hard to come by at the library, but I’ve borrowed a few films in the past year that meet the criteria –

Boxcar Bertha (1972)

the casual nudity no longer found in American films

Prime Cut (1972)

casual misogyny, genuine nihilism;

Vanishing Point (1971)

and the lurching rhythms, from lethargy

Assault On Precinct 13 (1976)

to riveting action, amateurish to inspired, sometimes within a single scene