Part of Music City Mondays
With a nod to our current Hong Kong Classics series, and CITY ON FIRE in particular, Quentin Tarantino looked to the East in his 1992 sendup. When a botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse, crime begets violence as the survivors unravel.
Programmers’ Note: On Mon, Oct 14: see back-to-back screenings of RESERVOIR DOGS (3:30pm, 8:00pm) and CITY ON FIRE (5:40pm)
“If Quentin Tarantino's gritty, bone-chilling, powerfully violent new film, RESERVOIR DOGS, doesn't pin your ears back, nothing ever will. The movie, which zeros in on the anatomy of a diamond heist, and, beyond that, the flimsy notion of honor among a temporarily assembled gang of Los Angeles thieves, is as caustic as battery acid. It's brutal, it's funny and you won't forget it. Guaranteed.” —Hal Hinson, Washington Post (Oct 24, 1992) “Brilliantly acted by a high-testosterone cast that includes Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn, and the charismatic British actor Tim Roth, RESERVOIR DOGS is funny, thrilling, and so unabashedly violent it both shocks you and leaves you giddy at your own capacity for shock…. Tarantino has made a nihilist comedy about how human nature will always undercut the best-laid plans.” —Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly (Oct 30, 1992)
