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...then, for me the grindhouse was not a place to see high-speed mayhem. Exploitation cinema was essentially sexploitation: great-looking women being naughty. The auteurs of this genre (Radley Metzger, Jose Benazeraf, Russ Meyer) could seduce an audience already panting for a striptease; the movies were just that, promising more than they delivered but still delivering an eroticism that in the pre-porn days was both forbidden and liberating...
...perhaps something of a split personality: a man who cannot unlearn the headlong American way of making movies that he learned comparatively late in life (he was 48 when he came here) and a man who may also have an aging eye angled at his eventual place in cinema history. Black Book is, I think, an attempt to satisfy both these impulses. Such mixtures of motives rarely work in the movies. But this time it does. Verhoeven has something fascinating to say about characters whose motives are as messy as his own, and he does it in a tumbling, heedless...
...thriller with some bloody fabulous effects; it's fast, icky and smart. You can skip the second feature: Tarantino's Death Proof, above center, offers an hour of gaseous girl talk and an inane car chase. More than the autos get totaled here; so does Q.T.'s reputation as cinema's fanboy-genius...
...bustling and agenda setting, the new Democratic majority ought to think about passing an Affirmative Action Resolution for Women in Movies. Madame Speaker, women are more than half the population of this great country, yet onscreen they're an endangered species--the ivory-billed woodpeckers of cinema...
...especially competitive weekend at theaters, is The Last Mimzy, a family fantasy film based on the popular short story "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett. (The story is about a mysterious box of toys; the title is a line from Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky.") For New Line Cinema, the studio behind the project, the movie is also a family affair. Production President Toby Emmerich penned several early drafts of the screenplay and studio co-chairman Robert Shaye is both an executive producer and the director...