sunday, august 21, 8:30 pm: pirate cinema's top 3 hollywood movies of the 1990s - #2

[pirate cinema berlin]

Keep the Abwesenheitsnotizen coming! In case you're anwesend though, welcome 
back to our series "Pirate Cinema's Top 3 Hollywood Movies of the 1990s" (*). 
Our #2 was so successful that it spawned an entire franchise of horror movies, 
even though we like it most as a detective story. At the time, it was the male 
lead, a deranged criminal mastermind, who received almost all of the attention, 
but it's his antagonist, a young law enforcement officer, who makes this film 
special. She learns to survive in a highly adversarial environment dominated by 
predatory sexuality, and even though her personal life takes a back seat for 
most of the film, every 21st century lesbian movie cop is deeply indebted to 
her. Beyond that, this is a movie with an unusually sharp sense for suspense 
and surprises. There's another same-era film that is famous for obliterating 
more than 90 minutes of exposé in a closing sequence of less than 90 seconds, 
but this one tops it when it achieves one of its major plot twists by means of 
what is probably the single best cut that anyone in Hollywood made in the 1990s.

(*) excluding the usual suspects: nothing by Martin Scorsese or David Lynch,
    obviously no Quentin Tarantino, and no film we have ever screened before,
    which rules out Heat, Point Break, Showgirls, Bound and Twelve Monkeys.

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                                                            pirate cinema berlin
                                                                u kottbusser tor
                                                      sunday, august 21, 8:30 pm

                                                                  12 seats, rsvp
                                                          first come first serve
                                                       location in separate mail

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