Death Proof
Quentin Tarantino / US, 2007
To highlight the premiere of The Hateful Eight, EYE presents a few unadulterated Tarantino classics on the big screen, light years removed from the teeny, stunted and far too cramped screens of the average mobile, tablet or laptop. For all Tarantino fans: screenings of Grindhouse: Death Proof, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs on honest, deeply warm and human 35mm celluloid!
“Grindhouse' is the American name for the grotty cinemas of the sixties and seventies that showed equally grotty films at the lower end of the market. Tarantino”s virtuoso version of a seventies B-film would not have been out of place on a contemporary screening list. In Death Proof a psychopathic stuntman (Kurt Russell) uses his stunt car to kill young women; Tarantino meticulously copied all characteristics of the genre, from the inevitable ramshackle script, poor image quality and wobbly scenes to the distorted audio tracks.
The film is part of the Grindhouse double feature written and directed by Robert Rodriguez, Tarantino and others (with fake trailers in style) as a tribute to the lost genre of the exploitation film. Rodriguez directed Planet Terror.
Details
Director
Quentin Tarantino
Production year
2007
Country
US
Original title
Death Proof
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
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