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While we're certain that no-one has ever mistaken Pirate Cinema for an arthouse
theater, we've just decided to fill some of the Sommerloch with a program that
is a bit more populist than usual. It's called "Pirate Cinema's Top 3 Hollywood
Movies of the 1990s" (*) -- and obviously, even though not more than maybe one
of our picks will usually show up on such lists, all three are quite fantastic.
Our #3 is the only proper action film in our program. It's part of a hugely
popular series, the kind of stuff that kids like to watch when on airplanes.
From the first minute on, it is clear that the filmmakers love the city their
movie is set in, as the entire plot is driven by the joy of having things blow
up in it. This is what makes it a 90s film more than anything else, since post
9/11 Hollywood movies, even if they still do it, don't do it like this anymore.
If all the action wasn't confined to a single metropolitan area, this could be
a James Bond movie -- it has the ticking timers, the German villains, and
culminates in a bank robbery so ambitious that Grand Theft Auto V modeled its
final heist mission after it -- but of course, there is no James Bond movie,
and hardly any other 90s big-budget action cinema, that comes even close.
(*) 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 14, 8:30 pm
12 seats, rsvp
first come first serve
location in separate mail
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www.piratecinema.org
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