At the film 's release at the Sundance Film Festival , film critic Jami Bernard of the New York Daily News compared the effect of Reservoir Dogs to that of the 1895 film L'Arrivée d'un Train en Gare de la Ciotat , whereby audiences putatively observed a moving train approaching the camera and scrambled .
At the movie 's release at the Sundance Film Festival , movie critic Jami Bernard of the New York Daily News compared the effect of Reservoir Dogs to that of the 1895 movie L'Arrivée d'un Train en Gare de la Ciotat , where audiences watched a moving train approaching the camera and ran away frightened .