Frederick Aldama's "The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez" (2014) was the first full-scale study of one of the most prolific and significant Latino directors making films today. In this companion volume, Aldama enlists a corps of experts to analyze a majority of Rodriguez's feature films, from his first br[...]
Robert Rodriguez stands alone as the most successful U.S. Latino filmmaker today, whose work has single-handedly brought U.S. Latino filmmaking into the mainstream of twenty-first-century global cinema. Rodriguez is a prolific (eighteen films in twenty-one years) and all-encompassing filmmaker who h[...]
In "Rebel Without a Crew," famed independent screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez ("Sin City, Sin City 2, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids)" discloses all the unique strategies and original techniques he used to make his remarkable debut film, "El Mariachi, " on a shoestring budget. This i[...]
The film "Grindhouse "gleefully resurrects the theatrical experience of watching back-to-back "exploitation" movies. Written and directed by two of the genre's most hard-core and best-known fans, the film consists of two short features -- one from Quentin Tarantino and the other by Robert Rodriguez [...]
Received wisdom has always put Sgt. Pepper at the head of the class, but it was Revolver that truly signaled the Beatles' sea change from a functional band to a studio-based ensemble. These changes began before Rubber Soul but came to fruition on Revolver, which took an astonishing 300 hours to prod[...]