The Movie Book

ANGELS AND MONSTERS 259 and dreams, almost as if they were listening to snatches from different radio stations while turning the ...

260 WINGS OF DESIRE captures the pleasure in everyday experiments with identity that are beyond the angels. Separations Wings of ...

ANGELS AND MONSTERS 261 Marion is a trapeze artist at a failing circus. She lives in a trailer, and leads a lonely existence dan ...

What else to watch: Matador (1986) ■ Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989) ■ High Heels (1991) ■ Live Flesh (1997) ■ Volver (2006) ■ Th ...

ANGELS AND MONSTERS 263 What else to watch: Do the Right Thing (1989, p.264) ■ Slacker (1991) ■ Reservoir Dogs (1992, p.340) ■ S ...

264 TODAY’S TEMPERATURE’S GONNA RISE UP OVER 100 DEGREES DO THE RIGHT THING / 1989 F ew movies capture the drama of city life as ...

ANGELS AND MONSTERS 265 W ith its portrayal of the traditional formalities of the past, Raise the Red Lantern initially seems mo ...

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268 A s this book nears the end of its broad sweep of movie history, the time has come to introduce Quentin Tarantino. By the ea ...

269 camcorders. Nothing would be the same again. In the short term, filmmakers now had cameras so small and light they could mov ...

THE TRUTH IS YOU’RE THE WEAK. AND I’M THE TYRANNY OF EVIL MEN PULP FICTION / 1994 ...

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272 PULP FICTION 00:20 On a job for Marsellus Wallace, Jules and Vincent shoot some men who have taken a suitcase belonging to M ...

SMALL WORLD 273 What else to watch: Kiss Me Deadly (1955, p.134) ■ Shoot the Piano Player (1960) ■ Band of Outsiders (1964) ■ Bl ...

274 PULP FICTION deliberately avoids projecting his own sense of right and wrong onto his characters. The most telling instance ...

SMALL WORLD 275 stance and conditions them for the best way to appreciate the movie, which is simply to submit and go along for ...

276 I FEEL SOMETHING IMPORTANT IS HAPPENING AROUND ME. AND IT SCARES ME THREE COLORS: RED / 1994 T hree Colors: Red is the final ...

SMALL WORLD 277 What else to watch: Ashes and Diamonds (1958, pp. 146–47) ■ We Have to Kill This Love (1972) ■ Europa, Europa (1 ...

278 GET BUSY LIVING OR GET BUSY DYING THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION / 1994 A movie that deals with the triumph of the human spirit ov ...