Cinema. SLAYRIDE. Sin City.

(From Financial Mail)

Byline: Peter Wilhelm

Cinema SLAYRIDE Sin City directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, guest director Quentin Tarantino The complex headline credits owe their patrimony to a number of factors. Essentially, the direction is by Rodriguez whose El Mariachi (1992) was made for US$7000, and was later transformed into Desperado (1995). These excursions into florid Latino ultraviolence naturally attracted Tarantino, whose landmark Pulp Fiction (1994) is still very much part of common cultural memory.

Sin City's structure three interwoven noir tales owes much to Tarantino, responsible for a manic chase sequence involving a …