Can a new Sin City thrive in an all-digital world? + MORE Aug 15th

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In the early days of 2005, director Robert Rodriguez delivered a dirty little piece of pulp called Sin City. Based on Frank Miller’s series of graphic novels, the film was a collection of brutal vignettes focused on death, sex and sexy death. It wouldn’t have distinguished itself from Rodriguez’s typical grind-ish wheelhouse (Once Upon a Time in Mexico, From Dusk Till Dawn) were it not for the film’s unprecedented visual style. Less an adaptation than a direct translation of Miller’s neo-noir work, the project stayed more faithful to its source material than any comic-book movie had ever attempted, right down to its evocative black-and-white cinematography, which was frequently punctuated with splashes of red and yellow to signal the blood and guts spilled by its various lowlifes.
The film was more than an exercise in comic-book devotion, though, with Rodriguez and Miller (who earned a co-directing credit) using Sin City to pioneer the concept of a digital backlot. Actors worked with little else but green screens and high-definition digital cameras, allowing the filmmakers to add whatever outrageous comic-like images they wanted in post-production…

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In the early days of 2005, director Robert Rodriguez delivered a dirty little piece of pulp called Sin City. Based on Frank Miller’s series of graphic novels, the film was a collection of brutal vignettes focused on death, sex and sexy death. It wouldn’t have distinguished itself from Rodriguez’s typical grind-ish wheelhouse (Once Upon a Time in Mexico, From Dusk Till Dawn) were it not for the film’s unprecedented visual style. Less an adaptation than a direct translation of Miller’s neo-noir work, the project stayed more faithful to its source material than any comic-book movie had ever attempted, right down to its evocative black-and-white cinematography, which was frequently punctuated with splashes of red and yellow to signal the blood and guts spilled by its various lowlifes.
The film was more than an exercise in comic-book devotion, though, with Rodriguez and Miller (who earned a co-directing credit) using Sin City to pioneer the concept of a digital backlot. Actors worked with little else but green screens and high-definition digital cameras, allowing the filmmakers to add whatever outrageous comic-like images they wanted in post-production…