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The German script, heavy on wordplay and puns, loses a bit in translation but Spieler, made two years before Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, remains a post-modern gem full of in-joke references for the genre cinephile.
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
Some of the film’s winking references are more esoteric than others, and a lot of wordplay and in-jokes are potentially lost on a non-Japanese audience: some of them are, according to the subtitles on my copy, basically untranslatable.
—Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
Situating their work somewhere between neo-Dada and Pop Art’s poke at the high-art citadel, Arneson and his colleagues shamelessly embraced amateurish craftsmanship, in-jokes, put-ons and quirky narratives.
—Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 29 July 2024
By the 1970s, however, the mathematical and social thrill of Bourbaki’s in-joke was showing signs of waning.
—Michael Barany, JSTOR Daily, 24 Mar. 2021
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
Some of the film’s winking references are more esoteric than others, and a lot of wordplay and in-jokes are potentially lost on a non-Japanese audience: some of them are, according to the subtitles on my copy, basically untranslatable.
—Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
Situating their work somewhere between neo-Dada and Pop Art’s poke at the high-art citadel, Arneson and his colleagues shamelessly embraced amateurish craftsmanship, in-jokes, put-ons and quirky narratives.
—Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 29 July 2024
By the 1970s, however, the mathematical and social thrill of Bourbaki’s in-joke was showing signs of waning.
—Michael Barany, JSTOR Daily, 24 Mar. 2021
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“In-joke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in-joke. Accessed 22 Sep. 2024.
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