Robert Rodriguez : interviews / edited by Zachary Ingle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ingle, Zachary

Series:

Conversations with filmmakers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rodriguez, Robert, 1968---Interviews.

Rodriguez, Robert.

Rodriguez, Robert, 1968-.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Interviews.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Mexican American motion picture producers and directors.

United States.

Mexican American motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 170 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2012]

Summary:

Rogue filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (b. 1968) rocketed to fame with his ultra-low-budget film El Mariachi (1992). The Spanish-language action film, and the making-of book that accompanied it, were inspirational to filmmakers trying to work with meager resources. Rodriguez embodies the postmodern auteur, maintaining a firm control of his projects by not only writing and producing his films, but also editing, shooting, composing, as well as working with the visual effects. He was one of the first American filmmakers to adopt digital filmmaking, now the norm. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) helped bring back 3-D to mainstream theaters. He is as comfortable creating family films (the Spy Kids series) as action (Sin City) and horror films (Planet Terror). He has maintained his guerilla filmmaking approach, despite increasing budgets, choosing to work outside of Hollywood and even founding his own studio (Troublemaker Studios) in Austin, Texas. He has also arguably become the most successful Latino filmmaker.

In this, the first book devoted to Rodriguez, interviews and articles from 1993 to 2010 reveal a filmmaker passionate about making films on his own terms. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Borrowed Camera, $7,000, and a Dream / Gregg Barrios (1993)

Mr. Mariachi / Kenneth Korman (1993)

A Killer Sequel / Jason Cohen (1995)

From Rags to Riches / Michael Haile (1995)

The Reformation of a Rebel without a Crew / Rustin Thompson (1995)

The Power Couple: Robert Rodriguez and Elizabeth Avellan / Joe Nick Patoski (1998)

Before Dusk Till Dawn / Jon Keeyes (1998)

The Faculty / Jon Keeyes (1999)

The Mariachi Aesthetic Goes to Hollywood / Charles Ramirez Berg (2000)

Deep in the Heart of Action / Christian Divine (2001)

Robert Rodriguez / Keith Phipps (2002)

A Digital Desperado / Brian McKernan and Bob Zahn (2002)

Secret Agents and Desperadoes / Christian Divine (2002)

Working at the speed of thought / Jody Duncan (2003)

Robert Rodriguez's New Toy / Mel Rodriguez (2003)

Moving in Stereo / Phil LoPiccolo (2003)

"I'm Able to Write the Score as I'm Shooting the Script" / Leila Cobo (2003)

Once Upon a Time in Moviemaking / David Hochman (2003)

Triplets in Sin / John Allina (2005)

Finding Redemption / Lisa Y. Garibay (2005)

Double Trouble / Ann Donahue (2007)

Moving at the Speed of Thought / Brian O'Hare (2008)

Exclusive Interview: Robert Rodriguez Talks Shorts / Silas Lesnick (2009)

Two Days at the World's Coolest Studio / Nick De Semlyen (2010)

Robert Rodriguez and Nimrod Antal Talk Predators / Peter Sciretta (2010)

Robert Rodriguez, Film Director / Stephen Applebaum.

Notes:

Includes filmography (pages xvii-xxvi).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781617032714

1617032719

9781617032721

1617032727

9781617032738

1617032735

OCLC:

748812958