Vincent Vega (John Travolta) flips open a battered briefcase, and suddenly his face glows as if lit by divine revelation. Jules (Samuel L. Jackson), curious to know, asks him, “We happy?” And us? We ...
J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...
Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) walking into Jack Rabbit Slim’s is one of those few movie scenes that stick in your cultural imagination. It’s a surreal time capsule—an ...
J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...
“Pulp Fiction” is a modern Hollywood classic, but upon release, the 1994 Quentin Tarantino-directed offbeat crime thriller was audacious to say the least. It told a narrative in non-chronological ...
Citizen Kane. The Godfather. The Bicycle Thief. Lawrence of Arabia. What do these films have in common? They’re all generally considered cinematic classics of the 20th century. Despite this, many ...
Though now widely recognized as a seminal film with indelible cultural influence — sparking references, parodies and homages aplenty since its 1994 release — Pulp Fiction, created on a small ...
He wrote more than 130 books, mostly collections of poetry and translations of classics, as well as lowbrow novels under a pen name. By Clay Risen One day in 1966, not long after he wrote a scathingly ...
Nevertheless, the film succeeded, so much that audiences are still discussing it over a generation later. “Pulp Fiction” producer Lawrence Bender attended the Variety 120 Series screening, presented ...