Modus+Operandi


 * = *Modus Operandi = || graded ||
 * *translation: Way of operating || [[image:http://www.caskstore.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/6/8/683.jpg width="269" height="239" caption="Pictured above is a wine called Modus Operandi" link="http://www.caskstore.com"]] ||
 * abbreviations: MO ||  ||
 * derivatives: mode, modulate; operation, operator ||  ||
 * *examples in English texts: (must include link or citation!)

Modus Operandi
=A Violent Homage to Genre Films=

The Zoo
Danny Trejo in “Modus Operandi,” directed by Frankie Latina. With its deliberate clumsiness, its seemingly random juxtapositions and a handmade look achieved through slavish attention to film stock, lighting, fashions and furnishings, Frankie Latina’s “Modus Operandi” bears a greater surface resemblance to the 1960s and ’70s genre films to which it pays homage than Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s “Grindhouse” did.

See full article on [|www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/movies/10modus.html?_r=1] ||

*created by: Rex Adams Publius ||