Grindhouse (Planet Terror/Death Proof) (35MM)

35mm Screening!

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s love letter to the exploitation double-features of the 1970s was conceived as a single theatrical experience, paring Rodriguez’s Planet Terror with Tarantino’s Death Proof, complete with vintage-style trailers, fake film scratches, and deliberately missing reels to recreate the rough-and-tumble atmosphere of the long-since passed Times Square movie houses.

Presented in all its 35mm glory, Enzian is proud to showcase one of the most outrageous and audacious projects of the 2000s in its complete original format.

Planet Terror, is a Fulci and Carpenter-inspired gore-soaked rednecks vs. zombie saga starring Rose McGowan, Bruce Willis, Josh Brolin, and Michael Biehn, while Death Proof is a sleek, high-octane thriller starring Kurt Russell as a sadistic stuntman and featuring a formidable ensemble including Zoë Bell, Rosario Dawson and Mary Elizabeth Winsted, that pays homage to gritty thrillers like Race with the Devil, Rolling Thunder, and Vanishing Point.

Together, the films revel in outrageous violence, hard-boiled dialogue, and genre archetypes pushed to maximalist extremes.  Since the release many of the films’ fake trailers (including Machete, Thanksgiving and Hobo with a Shotgun) have been turned into feature films of their own, fueling the legacy of this bold undertaking. Its unapologetic celebration of trash cinema, practical effects, and devil-may-care attitude stands as one of the most ambitious and affectionate acts of cinematic nostalgia to every grace the silver screen.

_{2007, 191 minutes, USA/Canada, In English and Spanish, Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino}