Critic's Notebook: 'Death' reincarnated

May 23, 2007 The opportunity to find out has come as his film, in a format designed for overseas distribution, is showing In Competition at the Festival de Cannes. The gimmick of "Death Proof," of course, was for Tarantino and his filmmaker buddy, Robert Rodriquez, to create two separate exploitation flicks that might have played together on a double bill at a grindhouse cinema in the 1970s, complete with missing scenes from beaten-up prints and Coming Attractions for other low-budget B movies. Dimension Films suffered at the boxoffice when young audiences either didn't get the concept or simply didn't care.

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