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...season has nothing to do with family, goodwill, peace on earth or any other Hallmark sentiment. It is about long lines, $10 buckets of state popcorn and a violent hatred for crying babies. Unfortunately, this year newborns were not the only theater patrons unable to control their emotions. The cinema was brimming with two particularity heart-wrenching tales, the three-hour tragedy Titanic and the historical drama Amistad and with each showing another auditorium of Americans was left a whimpering...
...Craven should move on; he's made his point. But look for Scream 3 in theaters next year, and don't come running when the cinema is engineered with a live-video hook-up of the audience occurring in an inset box on the screen... or something...
...meeting was two years ago, on a street in Hollywood: Pam Grier, queen of ultraviolent "blaxploitation" flicks in the '70s, ran into Quentin Tarantino, king of ultraviolent indie cinema in the '90s. The director, it turned out, was a big fan. He even had a poster of Grier's 1973 movie Coffy up on his office wall. THE BADDEST ONE-CHICK HIT-SQUAD THAT EVER HIT TOWN! boasts the poster, which sports an illustration of a shotgun-wielding Grier in low-riding stretch pants and a revelatory bikini top. "I got an idea," Tarantino told Grier. "I want to write...
Jackson, De Niro...Grier? If you watch Grier's blaxploitation flicks, you can see what Tarantino may have seen in her (MGM is re-releasing both Coffy and Foxy Brown on video, rechristening them "Soul Cinema"). In her most popular films, Grier played a strong woman out for revenge. "This is the end of your rotten life, you motherf___ing dope pusher," she cries in Coffy before blowing a dealer's head off. Grier was a woman of action well before Thelma met Louise, or Ripley encountered aliens. In 1975 Ms. magazine put her on its cover. She was also...
...gentleness and "a bittersweet taste of a time and another place before." "Leave This City," the song that concretely conveys this disillusionment, is a depiction of an urban neighborhood as an Audrey Hepburn character would see it. One can picture Holly Golightly's jaded visage at the "boarded-up...cinema" lamenting the "strawberry dreams & the dust-filled beams/shut down in a modern town." "Another Flavour" is perhaps the largest exception to the mature mellowness of the rest of the album. Its edge and high-energy pacing shows Tanya Donelly's influence on some of the Sundays' stylings...