Planet Terror
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Fri 11 January 2008 // 20:00
A GRINDHOUSE DOUBLE BILL:
featuring Planet Terror & Death Proof
(Rodriguez & Tarantino / USA / 2007 / 35mm / 219 Mins / Cert 18)
(Fri 11th / 8pm / £6/4)
Rodriguez and Tarantino’s double-barrelled homage to classic genre and exploitation films is jam packed with surreal gore and visceral car chases, a catalogue of film references and allusions that is nothing short of being a film geek's paradise. However, behind all the swagger and gusto, the film also constitutes a serious film-essay on the medium that many consider to be dying out: cinema-going itself. The experience of the grindhouse is particularly rooted in the collective experience of cinema-going, something threatened by the onset of digital technology and home cinema. We at the Cube obviously disagree, and consider that tonight Grindhouse is truly coming home!