Sin City
Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
Winner of the Vulcan Award for the Technical Artist, 2005 Cannes Film Festival
Based on Frank Miller’s eponymous comic book series, Sin City depicts a city of vice where various characters—criminals, corrupt cops, and femme fatales—strive to make their mark, sometimes through revenge.
Robert Rodriguez
Robert Rodriguez is a Mexican-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and musician. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, he is known for making low-budget films that often achieve great commercial success, in which he holds many positions. His first feature film El Mariachi (1992) spremiered at various festivals (including Toronto, Sundance, and Berlinale). The reviews were quite good and caught the attention of major Hollywood studios, leading to two sequels. He then ventured into family adventure films with the Spy Kids franchise (2001-2023). He also collaborated several times with his friend Quentin Tarantino: the latter signed the screenplay of the fantasy horror film From Dusk Till Dawn *(1996) and directed a scene in *Sin City (2005), which Rodriguez co-directed with Frank Miller. Their most famous collaboration is the double feature Grindhouse (2007). In 2019, Rodriguez returned with a high-profile film adaptation of a manga: Alita: Battle Angel. Alongside his filmmaking career, he is a guitarist for the Texas rock band Chingón and also composes music for most of his films.
