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SinCast - THE LAST MATINEE INTERVIEW!

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CinemaSins | Chris Atkinson & Jeremy Scott

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The SinCast had the pleasure of sitting down with director Maxi Contenti to discuss his new film, THE LAST MATINEE! Inspired by the Giallo and slasher subgenres, The Last Matinee is a thrilling horror film with a magnificent theatrical backdrop. Maxi discusses his love of movie theaters, alternate versions of the movie-within-a-movie set-up and so much more. Dark Star Pictures and Bloody Disgusting will release the Uruguay-Argentinian horror film THE LAST MATINEE on VOD, Digital and DVD on August 24, 2021. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

CinemaSense has a fan club. It's called The Sin Club, and members get all sorts of things like early episodes, bonus videos, merch discounts, and even monthly bonus podcasts.

0:09.5

Membership starts at $3 a month, and you can sign up now at patreon.com slash CinemaSense.

0:15.9

Yeah, I would put that on Twitter, release the, you know, release the...

0:19.0

The yellow cut.

0:20.0

The yellow cut.

0:22.0

It's the original script cut. Yeah, now.

0:25.0

Welcome to Sincast, presented by CinemaSense.

0:45.0

All right, everybody. Welcome to The Sincast. This is Chris Atkinson from CinemaSense joined by Jonathan Watkins.

0:51.0

Hello, hello.

0:52.0

And today we have a very special guest, its director and co-writer, Maxi Continti, who has done a movie called The Last Matinee.

1:01.0

It's on VOD, digital, and DVD on August 24th. Maxi, welcome.

1:06.0

Hey, hey, thanks for having me.

1:09.0

Yeah, absolutely. You know, this, this movie, I always get nostalgic about movies that are set in movie theaters because I worked in one,

1:21.0

I worked in several movie theaters for 20 years and worked as a projectionist for a long time.

1:27.0

Do you have any experience with movie theaters itself?

1:30.0

No, actually, I don't just have a lot of experience going to movie theaters.

1:36.0

Sure. For sure.

1:39.0

Yeah.

1:40.0

And at some point in my life, I went, like, I guess, five days a week.

1:46.0

There was, there was some part of my life that I was crazy and just going every day all the time.

1:53.0

Oh, yeah. Oh, we've been there. No doubt about that.

1:58.0

So what was your inspiration for this movie?

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