Pulp Fiction (1994)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 153m
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, Maria de Medeiros
Synopsis:
A collection of stories pertaining to the underworld milieu of Marcellus Wallace and two of his stooges, despatched to retrieve a mysterious briefcase and its contents.
Review:
Neatly bookended by a stick-up in a diner, Tarantino's much anticipated follow-up to Reservoir Dogs was both a confirmation of his predilection for violent and profane entertainment, and a first indication of the self-indulgence to come. Roth, Keitel and the suits make their reappearance, but Jackson, Willis and Rhames are the standout items in a remarkably self-assured and formally innovative piece of post-modernism (Hollywood culture, negro jive-ass vernacular, yankee klansmanship, the boxing set-up paradigm and Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly are all referenced). However, whether at this length all the rabbiting on about nothing very much amounts to transcendental entertainment is a moot point.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 153m
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, Maria de Medeiros
Synopsis:
A collection of stories pertaining to the underworld milieu of Marcellus Wallace and two of his stooges, despatched to retrieve a mysterious briefcase and its contents.
Review:
Neatly bookended by a stick-up in a diner, Tarantino's much anticipated follow-up to Reservoir Dogs was both a confirmation of his predilection for violent and profane entertainment, and a first indication of the self-indulgence to come. Roth, Keitel and the suits make their reappearance, but Jackson, Willis and Rhames are the standout items in a remarkably self-assured and formally innovative piece of post-modernism (Hollywood culture, negro jive-ass vernacular, yankee klansmanship, the boxing set-up paradigm and Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly are all referenced). However, whether at this length all the rabbiting on about nothing very much amounts to transcendental entertainment is a moot point.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 153m
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, Maria de Medeiros
Synopsis:
A collection of stories pertaining to the underworld milieu of Marcellus Wallace and two of his stooges, despatched to retrieve a mysterious briefcase and its contents.
Review:
Neatly bookended by a stick-up in a diner, Tarantino's much anticipated follow-up to Reservoir Dogs was both a confirmation of his predilection for violent and profane entertainment, and a first indication of the self-indulgence to come. Roth, Keitel and the suits make their reappearance, but Jackson, Willis and Rhames are the standout items in a remarkably self-assured and formally innovative piece of post-modernism (Hollywood culture, negro jive-ass vernacular, yankee klansmanship, the boxing set-up paradigm and Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly are all referenced). However, whether at this length all the rabbiting on about nothing very much amounts to transcendental entertainment is a moot point.