Why Disney turned Harvey Weinstein's legendary indie empire into a zombie slave -- and why it doesn't much matter
By Andrew O'Hehir Nov 4, 2009
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"Up," Clooney, "Precious," "Lovely Bones," "Nine" all leading contenders. Plus: Is indie dead? (Part 174)
By Andrew O'Hehir
September 23, 2009
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"Inglourious Basterds" depicts Jews pursuing ultraviolent, absurdist revenge against their Nazi oppressors. Discuss
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 13, 2009
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Has critical taste become fossilized? A new greatest-films poll yields some odd results, but poses old questions
By Andrew O'Hehir
July 14, 2009
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Danish bad boy's gruesome horror venture outrages some, thrills others. In other news from 1995, "Piano" director debuts a poetic period piece, Francis Coppola goes indie and more.
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 18, 2009
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Is Pixar's Chaplin-meets-Kubrick robot romance really the best animated film ever? Plus: Answers to our "Sukiyaki Western Django" quiz revealed!
By Andrew O'Hehir
November 20, 2008
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Takashi Miike's "Sukiyaki Western Django" offers a spectacular mashup of Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, Tarantino and the Bard -- and it's weirder than that sounds.
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 28, 2008
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Eager to catch the ultraviolent WWII shootout "Inglorious Bastards," loaded with blaxploitation beefcake and naked chicks? Come on over!
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 13, 2008
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Courtney Hunt on her Sundance-acclaimed, slo-mo rural thriller "Frozen River" and making an indie film even action-movie fans can love (interview/podcast).
By Andrew O'Hehir
July 30, 2008
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Kent Mackenzie's gorgeous black-and-white film "The Exiles" captures a garage-rock world of urban American Indians in a vanished L.A. Plus: German groupie tells all!
By Andrew O'Hehir
July 10, 2008
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Quentin Tarantino greets his adoring fans, explains "Death Proof." Plus: Harvey Weinstein slaps down Kurt Russell.
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 22, 2007
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Get your very own plastic rapist, courtesy of NECA toys and Quentin Tarantino.
By Catherine Price
April 17, 2007
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This deliciously depraved B-movie homage is as subtle as a buzz saw headed for a villain's private parts -- and it's rip-roarin' fun!
By Stephanie Zacharek
April 6, 2007
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Opening weekend at the Austin filmfest offers a controversial documentary about (not by) Michael Moore, an outrageous horror-comedy by Alan Cumming and a few Tarantino impersonations.
By Andrew O'Hehir
March 12, 2007
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Tarantino's talent can be dizzying, and Uma Thurman and David Carradine have great chemistry. But all it adds up to is that Q.T. seems to revere every movie he's ever seen.
By Charles Taylor
April 16, 2004
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Quentin Tarantino supposedly loves movies. So why is this ultraviolent, style-crazed revenge fantasy so empty?
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 10, 2003
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From Tarantino to Spike Jonze, from "Memento" to "Y Tu Mama," we're living through an independent film explosion. Salon introduces Indie Film -- a new section dedicated to cinematic life beyond the blockbuster.
By Andrew O'Hehir
December 6, 2002
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Oscar-winning "Pulp Fiction" screenwriter Roger Avary attacks the teen genre -- and American complacency -- with an audacious adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' "The Rules of Attraction."
By Ben Schwartz
October 15, 2002
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Director Isaac Julien talks about "BaadAsssss Cinema," his Independent Film Channel tribute to the outrageous fashions, foot-high Afros and subversive politics of '70s blaxploitation movies.
By Uju Asika
August 20, 2002
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RZA's music "inspired by" Jim Jarmusch's "Ghost Dog" lags behind the inspired cuts of the actual film.
By Alex Pappademas
April 25, 2000
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Ex-con and man of letters Edward Bunker discusses his new memoir, "Education of a Felon," and life as an upstanding citizen.
By Stephen Lemons
April 24, 2000
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The world's coolest crime writer has an uncanny ear for wry dialogue and a deep belief in lives with second acts.
By Sean Elder
September 28, 1999
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A transatlantic crime caper arrives in America jetlagged.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
March 5, 1999
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Alessandro Gassman, the Italian star of last year's award-winning film "Steam," is poised to become the next European heartthrob to find an American audience.
By Dakota Smith
March 4, 1999
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A new book on our cultural obsession with violence finds kids' TV and Quentin Tarantino movies inseparable from the Roman spectacles.
By Dwight Garner
May 21, 1998