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Jun 17, 2024 · A groundbreaking debut feature film by The Wachowskis that helped define the neo-noir movement for the 1990s and beyond, Bound has been beautifully remastered and restored in 4K and Blu-ray from Criterion.
Jun 14, 2024 · Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s Bound, their low-budget neo-noir debut feature from 1996, is both an outlier in a filmography subsequently defined by high-concept science fiction and an ur-text for the filmmakers’ overriding interest in the power of erotic and romantic love to liberate people.
Jun 16, 2024 · “Bound,” directed by the Wachowski siblings and released in 1996, stands as a groundbreaking film in multiple respects. This neo-noir thriller tells the story of Corky (Gina Gershon) and Violet (Jennifer Tilly), two women who devise a scheme to steal $2 million from Violet’s mobster boyfriend, Caesar (Joe Pantoliano).
Jun 23, 2024 · The 1996 film neo-noir thriller "Bound" pushed boundaries in its portrayals of sex and gender on screen. It was re-issued as part of the Criterion Collection this past week.
Jun 18, 2024 · Bound: Be Gay, Do Crime. By McKenzie Wark. Essays —. Jun 18, 2024. T he first time I saw Bound (1996) was with my “gold star” lesbian girlfriend Kaye. She had never even kissed a boy before she met me—and as it would turn out, I wasn’t a boy anyway. It was the 1990s. I wasn’t out as transgender.
Jun 25, 2024 · As Corky in Bound, Gershon displays a fierce commitment to the physical and emotional realism of a lesbian ex-con trying to restart her life, seamlessly transmuting the brooding of a classic noir protagonist into the body of a contemporary butch plumber.
Jun 18, 2024 · Quick Hit Review: In 1996 Bound ushered in The Wachowskis as a force in Hollywood as only a few short years later they would go on to make The Matrix, one hell of a science fiction flick that has held up quite well all these years later.
