![]() ![]() Bounty hunter John “The Hangman” Ruth is on his way to turn over fugitive outlaw Daisy Domergue. Jackson among them, we are set in post-Civil War Wyoming and for various reasons, everyone is heading to the town of Red Rock in the middle of a blizzard. A slightly different edit from the roadshow version given the need for “coverage shots” due to the absence of the ultra widescreen, the storytelling and emotional resonance remains indelibly Tarantino without sacrificing the intimacy and excitement.Ĭalling on many of his usual suspects for casting – Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Samuel L. Equally impressive, however, is the film’s multiplex version which goes wide today in time for New Year’s. The result is nothing short of glorious! Complete with Overture and Intermezzo, currently playing in a 100 theatre cross-country roadshow version, THE HATEFUL EIGHT is both intimate and immersive as Tarantino engrosses us with two concurrent plays – the characters in the foreground of any given scene, and then those in the background – creating a pressure cooker of tension (and fun), never knowing when the twain shall meet for an all explosive result. Cinema befitting legends like DeMille, Hawks, Ford and others who came before, with THE HATEFUL EIGHT Quentin Tarantino goes above and beyond with an epic 70mm viewing experience thanks to shooting with Ultra Panavision lenses, the very same lenses used to shoot Charlton Heston and that famous chariot scene of “Ben-Hur”. The soundtrack included Ice Cube’s “How to Survive in South Central”, and the fashions worn by the cast were not only of the moment, they’ve had a permanent influence on our culture.Now, THIS is how you make a movie. Tre is approaching the end of high school, and being pulled in a multitude of different directions, by the lure of college, by his girlfriend, by friends increasingly involved in gang activity.īoyz n the Hood was a turning point in American filmmaking, and a realization that there were more teen stories to be told than just those of white kids, stories that deserved more attention, and Singleton became both the youngest and the first Black nominee for Best Director at the Oscars. ![]() as Tre, Angela Bassett as his mother Reva, Lawrence Fishburne as his father, Furious, and Ice Cube, Nia Long, Regina King, and Morris Chestnut in supporting roles. It instantly boosted the profiles of its lead actors: Cuba Gooding Jr. John Singleton’s 1991 debut film captured a different sort of '90s aesthetic, in his coming-of-age story of a young man growing up in South Central L.A. ![]() The au courant soundtrack included songs by World Party, Lenny Kravitz, Lisa Loeb, and Ethan Hawke. Love story aside, Reality Bites encapsulated a lot of the dreams and fears of 20-somethings in the '90s: how to get a job and be an adult when you essentially raised yourself, how to find love in the era of AIDS, how to be responsible when no one’s taught you how, and how to hang onto the friends of your youth. Lainey is also caught in a love triangle between Michael, a music TV exec played with yuppie precision by Stiller, and Troy, Hawke’s sexy stoner with a total lack of ambition. She and her bestie Vickie (Janeane Garofalo) are obsessed with '80s TV and music, thrift store clothing, and resisting the urge to join corporate America. Similar to Jennifer Aniston’s Rachel haircut in Friends, Ryder’s pixie shag as unemployed videographer Lelaina inspired thousands of 20-somethings to pick up their scissors. The year was 1994 and Ben Stiller was directing his feature film debut starring Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder, in what was to become the definitive Gen-X rom-com with an edge. ![]()
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