Mr. Caine is one of the few reasons to sit through "Harry Brown," an exercise in art-house exploitation directed by Daniel Barber and tarted up with self-importance and a generally striking visual design.
" 'Kill Bill' has the same relationship with 70's grind-house exploitation cinema that 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' had with the 40's or late 30's movie serials," Mr. Tarantino says.
Like many contemporary genre flicks, the new movie features a hyperactive visual style that owes its tricks and tics, smeared images and staccato cuts to art-house exploitation like "City of God" and latter-day Tony Scott, but without the commensurate technical finesse.
The film, which heads to American theaters later this year (via Miramax), was directed by Fernando Meirelles, who shook up screens in 2002 with "City of God," an art-house exploitation film with lots of bullets and not enough brains, and then went higher-brow with an adaptation of John le Carré's "Constant Gardener".
The otherworldly Fauvist palette, as well as the interludes of frenetic cutting, at times recall the Brazilian art-house exploitation flick "City of God," though Mr. Macdonald, who has a background in documentary, proves somewhat savvier about the politics of representation.
Having made several unwatchably dreadful movies in the past (Gummo, Mister Lonely), former enfant terrible Harmony Korine finally hits his stride with Spring Breakers (2012, Universal, 18), a sporadically interesting art-house exploitation movie about a group of young women behaving badly in neon-hued Florida.
Writing in The New Yorker, Michael Sragow said that "The human content... is the stuff of art-house exploitation".
James Franco is calling party foul on "Spring Breakers: The Second Coming," the recently announced sequel to writer-director Harmony Korine's 2012 art-house exploitation flick — and he's doing so in the most Franco-esque way possible.
The various groups of children that participated in the study identified the following issues as the most pressing in their lives: poverty; un-systematic aid; education and training - lack of access to education and vocational training; family reintegration and fostering; housing; exploitation; HIV/AIDS; psychosocial difficulties and isolation; and protection of children's rights.
Robert Bonanza, business manager for the Mason Tenders District Council, which had picketed Lettire job sites and assisted the workers, said the settlement "sends a clear message to anyone who has either worked in the past, or intends to work in the future, on publicly funded, affordable housing projects: exploitation of workers will not be tolerated".
However, widening economic and social gaps have also left many others suffering from extreme poverty, gender inequality, limited access to education, poor health, disability, inadequate housing, and exploitation.
