Word: pulp
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...chases, which basically means that the film starts out being one thing but ends up being something else entirely.The film revolves around a psychotic stuntman (Kurt “Snake Plissken” Russell, in a piece of such inspired casting it rivals John Travolta in “Pulp Fiction” and David Carradine in “Kill Bill”) whose “death-proof” car serves as the primary weapon on his murderous rampage. Until, that is, he gets a taste of his own medicine from a pack of girls (Tracie Thomas...
...surprise here. The director's four or five previous features - Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and the Kill Bill tandem - paid elaborate homage to, and ran elegant twists on, action films by otherwise-forgotten journeymen who were in no recognized sense auteurs; they were no-teurs. That's been a tonic corrective to the received wisdom about films: that, yes, there are still pearls worth diving for; you just have to look in ranker, more roiled waters. Hence, Vanishing Point's Richard Sarafian, and John Hough of Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, and a true indie daredevil, H.B. Halicki...
...Frost's "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (The QT version of that poem might end: "The road is kewl for this white trash / But I've a Challenger to smash /And miles to go before I crash...") But there's not much poetry, I mean of the pulp variety, in Death Proof. It doesn't show me much innovation, or much fidelity to the old grindhouse tropes. For example, in the seminal road movies of the late '60s and early '70s - Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, Vanishing Point, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry - all those careening, careering antiheroes ended...
...Palme d’Or, the most prestigious award at the Cannes Film Festival, has been given to such groundbreaking films as “Apocalypse Now,” “Blow-Up,” and “Pulp Fiction.” The newest entry added to this list of historic cinema is Ken Loach’s “The Wind That Shakes The Barley,” an incredibly wan and uninspired drama chronicling the Irish Civil War of the 1920s. Although the Cannes jury embraced the film, the latest offering from...
...single “Once Upon a Time,” which is nestled between chiming synths and the singers’ accented English vocals. “One Hell of a Party” features a mandolin and vocals by Jarvis Cocker, the frontman of former Britpop band Pulp. The track underscores the decidedly un-boisterous nature of the album. Later, “Mayfair Song” follows with piano chords and an electronic beat slow enough that the song comes dangerously close to “easy listening.” The song is ultimately rescued...