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...keep on shooting. Blam! Blam! In this year's heralded crop of low-budget films from tyro directors, the outlaw is in. Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs: gangsters pull a heist, then engage in a long therapy session of bitchery and carnage. Tom Kalin's Swoon: those gay cutups of the '20s, Leopold and Loeb, are back, artier and hornier than ever. Stacy Cochran's My New Gun: doctor gives his restless wife a handgun; audience waits for it to go off. Add two other, more seasoned directors of outlaw movies -- Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant) and Hal Hartley (Simple...
That's the itinerary of the ultra-violent gangsters in Reservoir Dogs. When they are not exploring the priapic subtext of lyrics to Madonna songs or debating the efficacy of tipping, they are shooting (or, vividly, torturing) anyone who gets in their way, including themselves. It's Glengarry Glen Ross at gunpoint. The talented Tarantino has devised one bravura sequence in which an undercover detective acts out, for the benefit of the duped hoodlums, a fake story about a close call with the cops; easing from the past tense to the present and then into seductive fantasy, the sequence reveals...
Swoon, another fable of a vicious, failed crime, renounces the garish naturalism of Reservoir Dogs. Swoon is artifice aspiring to art. So was the 1924 atrocity it portrays. When Nathan Leopold (Craig Chester) and Richard Loeb (Daniel Schlachet), two rich young homosexuals, murdered the child Bobby Franks, they were creating a portrait of themselves: powerful elitists, unsullied by the vulgarity of conscience. Director Kalin -- a comer -- is smart enough not to explain the murderers. Instead, in a chiaroscuro cinema style that suggests morgue photos taken by Cecil Beaton, he presents the pair as stars of their own camp pageant...
Loews Harvard Square. 10 Church St., Cambridge. 864-4580. Through Thursday, Nov. 5. Reservoir Dogs at 1, 3:15, 5:25, 7:45 and 10:10 p.m. Husbands and Wives at 1:3:10, 5:20, 7:40 and 9:55 p.m. River runs Through It at 1:30, 4:15, 7:20 and 9:50 p.m. Glengarry Glen Ross at 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 and 10 p.m. Last of the Mohicans...
Loews Nickelodeon. 606 Commonwealth Ave., Kenmore Square. 424-1500. Through Thursday, Nov. 5. Reservoir Dogs at 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 and 10:10 p.m. Zebrahead at 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:55 and 10:15 p.m. Gas, Food, Lodging at 1:10, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20 and 9:30 p.m. A Brief History of Time at 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 p.m. Bob Roberts...