Programmer for a Day curated by Lauren Summers
PULP FICTION
Thursday, May 30 at 7:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
This special screening is presented by Cinema Arts Centre
member Lauren Summers who won our ‘Programmer for a Day’ prize at a CAC
fundraiser.
With a sprawling cast, whip-smart script, and stylish visual
aesthetic, it's no surprise that Pulp Fiction helped redefine a
genre of films that would follow the movie's 1994 release. There are a million
stories in the City of Angels, and the craziest seem to revolve around John
Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson’s deadpan-deadly duo of contract
killers, who wax philosophical in between pulling jobs for crime kingpin
Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Along the way there’s Uma Thurman
as a coke-sniffing gangster’s moll; Bruce Willis as a prizefighter
having a really, really bad day; and a lovey-dovey pair of bandits (Tim Roth
and Amanda Plummer) who pick the wrong diner to hold up. Quentin
Tarantino’s ingeniously plotted instant classic crackles with
spot-the-reference pop-culture allusions and a retro-cool soundtrack. Pulp
Fiction is as iconic as cinema gets, and Tarantino's exhilarating dialogue
and surprising script deliver equal parts thrills and laughter for audiences to
slurp down like a $5 milkshake. (USA, 1994, 154 min., Color, DCP)
