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...Toddy," as friends call her. He was also buoyed by the simple, touching love of his father, who knew more than a little about combat. Lewis B. ("Chesty") Puller had won his general's stars leading his regiment to safety in the harrowing American retreat from the Chosin Reservoir during the first winter of the Korean...
...ways," because we get to see plenty of violence-domestic, sexual and racial. The film attempts to achieve a fervent pitch of turbulent emotion, but is incapable to sustaining it. The goal here seems to be to achieve the numbing qualities of a "Reservoir Dogs" but ends without delving deeply enough below the emotional skin to make the audience empathize with any of the characters...
...ever wanted to know what it was like to have your ear cut off, you could watch "Reservoir Dogs," or you could always ask the film's director, Quentin Tarantino. And if you ever want to know what the titles to Madonna's songs meant, you could watch the movie, or you could ask Quentin. Normally you would have to track him down on the set of his latest high-power neo-noir film, or play phone tag with his agent. Now you can forget about he headache and instead of receiving a form letter, you can meet Tarantino...
...Olivier Assays. Jean Pierre Gorin and David Brown; some that are the rising stars on both sides of the Atlantic such as Quentin Tarantino and other fledgling director such as Guy Jacques, Agnes Merlet, Nora Jacobson Matthew Harrison and Filip Forgeau. Tarantino's neo-noir, soon-to-be-classics. "Reservoir Dogs" and "True Romance" are to be shown. And even more notable is the premiere of Mika Kaurismaki's Amazonian adventure of a film within a film, "Tigrero: A Film That was Never Made" and Jean-Pierre Melville's 1955 cop drama, "Bob Le Flambeur." Themes which seem...
Quentin Tarantino's first film, "Reservoir Dogs," files in the face of every Hollywood cops-and-robbers flick you've ever seen. It has the emotional level and acting quality of "Glengarry Glen Ross" and the script and camera work of a newcomer who isn't afraid to challenge the status quo. It screams out, "CULT CLASSIC...