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CHARLES COLEMAN
Film Programmer for Facets Cinémathèque

Read his feature in the Chicago Reader

October 2010

The Facets Cinémathèque is located at 1517 W. Fullerton Ave. in Chicago. For more information on films playing in the Cinémathèque, please call 773-281-4114. To order advance tickets online, visit the TicketWeb website by clicking here.


Chicago Premiere
Five days only!

MODUS OPERANDI

After the mysterious "Cowboy" double-crosses the CIA, two important briefcases go missing. Black Ops special agent Stanley Cashay is dragged out of retirement to track them down. His reward? The name of the man who killed his wife, but Cashay needs to clean up quickly if he wants to get back into the game. Frankie Latina proudly sets his debut film in his hometown of Milwaukee, populating it with local legends: Randy Russell, co-author of the great American Job, plays Cashay, and Mark Borchardt, hero of American Movie, plays art deco superagent Dallas Deacon. He and the delicious but deadly Black Licorice (Nicole Johnson) are hot for the briefcases! Along the way, Cashav consorts with "a rainbow assortment of mute American Apparel-clad vixens unburdening their breasts with medium cool" in this lovingly assembled oddity, made over the course of four years.

Modus Operandi invokes a checklist of low-budget styles, including: blaxploitation, French New Wave, Nikkatsu gangster flicks, William Castle, Russ Meyer, Seijun Suzuki, and early George A. Romero. Frankie Latina burnishes his genre bona fides by casting as his primary villain the veteran heavy Danny Trejo, currently starring in Robert Rodriguez's Machete. Once you add a soundtrack with piano keys and fuzz pedals as ammo and you have a fun, titillating low-rent James Bond!

Directed by Frankie Latina, U. S.A., 2009, 90 mins.





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