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GRADUATES OF Capilano Coliege’s studio arts programm, including (left to right) Will Rafuse,

Darry! Simon and Rebin Shepherd, displa

their work at West Varicouver's Ferry Bullding Gallery

unti! Sunday, Nov. 6. The gallery, at 1414 Argyle, is open Monday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tarantino's latest is
lurid hit Pulp Fiction

Another grisly tale for Reservoir Dogs director

Pulp Fiction ***% (Alliance)
Rated R (at the Park and Tilford,
Granville, Coquitlam, Scett 72,
Richport, Station Square and
Clearbrook cinemas)

YOU HAVE to hand it to
Quentin Tarantino. Besides
slapping comedy night up
next to wholesale slaughter,
he hires yesteryear’s boys
Bruce Willis and John
Travolta to star in a criss-
cross of four non-linear sto-
ries for 24 hours. And it
works.

In fact, the results are so rock
solid that Tarantino (Reservoir
Dogs) opens the movie with a dic-
tionary definition of pulp as not
only “‘a Jurid fiction style” but also
as “a formiess mess.” Now that’s
confidence.

Shock humor thrives even
before the credits roll as two cooing
lovebirds, Honey Bunny and
Pumpkin (Amanda Plummer, Tim
Roth) decide over Sanka that rob-
bing restaurants is safer than liquor
store holdups and immediately put
it into practice.

In between the wrap-around
story, three othe: tales unravel with
dim, well-groomed hitman Vincent
Vega (Travolta) as the solitary link.

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FILM REVIEW

The grisliest chapter also offers the
most morbid laughs. He and his
partner, Jules (Samuel L. Jackson),
frantically try to dispose of a head-
less body in broad daylight after
Vincent accidentally sprays their
hostage’s grey matter all over the
car’s interior.

He also has other dirty work
dealing with a boxer-on-the-lam,
Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) who
finds his perfect plan to rob the
mob hopelessly mangled when his
French girlfriend (Maria de
Madeiros) forgets to pack his lucky
gold watch.

Butch’s dangerous return to
fetch the family heirloom not only
puts him face to face with the mob-
ster he swindled (Ving Rhames),
but concludes with the film’s most
bizarre twist.

In Travolta’s shining hour (you

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have to see him do the “Bat"
dance), he escorts his boss’ wife.
Mia (Uma Thurman) to a kitschy
bar populated by Buddy, Marilyn
and Elvis clones. His super-cool on
the dance floor dissolves to sheer
panic after Mia overdoses on
Vincent’s dope. After all, her last
chaperone “fell” four storeys for
just giving her a foot massage.

While this tribute to testos-
terone. gore and irony won't be to
everyone's taste, it's a musi-see if
you like edgy gallows humor, an
energetic pace and crackling dia-
logue.

The Snapper x** (Home Video)
Rated Mature

Sharon (Tina Kellegher) is
unwed, pregnant and defiantly
refusing to name the “snapper's”
father leaving her own blustery,
confused father (Colm Meaney) to
endure the sniggering neighbors.

This delightful Irish film from
Roddy Doyle (The Commitments) is
refreshingly politically incorrect.

The characters alrnost slip into
Irish stereotypes, but a terrific cast
and Stephen Frear’s sympathetic
direction makes them endearing.

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