[KILL BILL VOL. 1 screens Saturday September 17th at 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm at the Case Western Reserve University Film Society, Strosacker Auditorium.]
Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
Hard to recall now, but there was a time when Quentin Tarantino seemed like a two-hit wonder. After the cult-immortal RESERVOIR DOGS and the popular smash PULP FICTION the fellow had a high-profile yet paradoxically rather muted decade. His underrated, mature crime drama/character study JACKIE BROWN didn't quite thrill his fanbase, and he made mostly cameos in his friends' movies (FOUR ROOMS, anybody? Didn’t think so…), spearheaded re-appreciations of overlooked genre stuff and imports like SWITCHBLADE SISTERS, FIST OF LEGEND and DETROIT 9000, and looked alarmingly as though his most actively productive era was behind him.