event
Reservoir Dogs
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Wed Feb 15
7 pm,
9 pm
Reservoir Dogs at Muenzinger Auditorium
Before Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs premiered at Sundance in 1992, the festival—and the arthouse scene in general–had seen very little of its kind. The independent world was supposed to be cordoned off from the violent, profane genre fare that littered the multiplex. Reservoir Dogs was nonetheless a defining moment, because it lent artistic legitimacy to what would have otherwise been dismissed as pulp trash. Adding a twist on the usual heist movie, Tarantino concerns himself with the events leading up to and immediately following a diamond robbery gone violently wrong, but doesn’t show the robbery itself, instead focusing on the aftermath as the criminals involved try to figure out what happened while slowly turning on each other.
Muenzinger Auditorium 1801 Colorado Avenue, Denver/Boulder, CO
Before Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs premiered at Sundance in 1992, the festival—and the arthouse scene in general–had seen very little of its kind. The independent world was supposed to be cordoned off from the violent, profane genre fare that littered the multiplex. Reservoir Dogs was nonetheless a defining moment, because it lent artistic legitimacy to what would have otherwise been dismissed as pulp trash. Adding a twist on the usual heist movie, Tarantino concerns himself with the events leading up to and immediately following a diamond robbery gone violently wrong, but doesn’t show the robbery itself, instead focusing on the aftermath as the criminals involved try to figure out what happened while slowly turning on each other.
Updated 02/02/2012
