Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Friday, May 2, 2008
TriBeCa Diaries #5: The Wild Man of the Navidad
When Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez unleashed Grindhouse on us in early 2007, it was an essential orgy of nostalgia dressed up in zombie violence and car-chase-mania. It was an exhilerating experience for anyone who'd gone, back in the day, to the drive-ins and--yes--the grindhouses to catch Death Race 2000 or Dawn of the Dead or God Told Me To. It seemed to get every detail right--the
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Film #19: Last Night at the Alamo
Last Night at the Alamo, the late Eagle Pennell's seminal indie film from 1983, and one of the first hits at the Sundance Film Festival (then known as the USA Film Festival), is a boisterous, ultimately pitiful portrait of a doomed Houston bar's alcohol-sodden denizens. It takes its place alongside Barfly, Trees Lounge and Husbands as an unshowered, unshaven scetch of loud-mouthed drunks, so if
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