Uma Thurman has range (and rage). Her primal scream after feeling her flat stomach is a gut-wrenching moment. The violence is grounded in Tarantino's surprisingly emotional script.
It's a movie full of people who all deserved better careers. Thurman, Daryl Hannah, Vivica A. Fox. Lucy Liu get the check from Red One but also let's get you an auteur moment or at least a new manager.
Tarantino foot counter off the charts.
Willem Dafoe's first credited onscreen role.
Kathryn Bigelow's directorial debut.
A lively but tragic movie about bikers disrupting a small southern town in the 1950's.
Bigelow and her co-writer are interested in the transgressive nature of these social outcasts, and how the townspeople they encounter want a taste of the freedom that the bikers embody. The townies hate them and envy them, stuck in a place they can only escape by death. They're trapped by social conventions, especially regarding sex.…
The Hunger is soapy, vampire melodrama. There's a ridiculousness to the story but it's played so earnestly by Catherine Deneuve, who is an aristocrat trapped here by time's passing. Opposite her is David Bowie, her partner for hundreds of years, and the onscreen dynamics they share are haunting. They're like an old couple who is deeply in love but has run out of time. Then there's her next onscreen partner in Susan Sarandon. She's a modern lady of the eighties…
