Desperado, El Mariachi - Double Feature July 17, 2005

Robert Rodriguez Weekend! Double Feature!
Desperado at 5:15, 9:30
(1995) dir Robert Rodriguez w/Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida, Cheech Marin, Steve Buscemi, Quentin Tarantino [106 min]

Rodriguez's 1995 follow-up to his lauded debut EL MARIACHI established him as an accomplished action director in league with Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone. Antonio Banderas stars as the Mariachi, who once again finds himself embroiled in a revenge plot and another bad case of mistaken identity. Steve Buscemi costars as El Mariachi's trusty sidekick

Robert Rodriguez Weekend! Double Feature!
El Mariachi at 7:30
(1992) dir Robert Rodriguez w/Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez, Jaime de Hoyos, Peter Marquardt, Reinol Martinez [81 min]

At twenty-three years old, Robert Rodriguez made a name for himself in Hollywood with this low-budget action picture. Released in 1992, EL MARIACHI tells the story of a wandering musician who becomes a marked man when he shows up in a Mexican border town only to be mistaken for a local assassin. Rodriguez's enormous talent and technical finesse was already apparent in this hugely entertaining take on the Western.