Starring Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta and Uma Thurman, Pulp Fiction exploded on to the screen in 1994 and transformed the direction of contemporary cinema. Nominated for seven Oscars and winner of the BAFTA award, this triplet of masterfully interwoven crime stories is witty, gritty and shamelessly violent, displaying Tarantino's visceral approach to character and plot. Tarantino has spawned a whole host of wannabes in the wake of this, the defining movie of the 1990s. But none has demonstrated the elegant style and compassion that make Tarantino's screenplays so compellingly readable. Nominated for seven Oscars, Pulp Fiction starred John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman and won the US Oscar for Best Screenplay, the BAFTA and the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Quentin Tarantino's other films include Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, From Dusk Till Dawn and most recently, Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained.
The villain of the piece is Texas Ranger Frank Hamer ( Denver Pyle ) , the humorless and revenge - crazy official who finally tracks the couple down and has them killed ina brutal , treacherous ambush . The gang members , by contrast ...
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Essential authoritative and entertaining, The Gangster Film is the guide for serious students of film, film buffs and home viewers.
The interweaving of the characters and stories is masterly; the trajectory of the characters' lives drawn with great generosity of spirit.
This intensely readable summary of the best gangster films ever made spans the decades from the 1930s to the present day.
From the Prohibition-era classics of Mervyn LeRoy and William A. Wellman to the mean streets and Mafiosi of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, 101 GANGSTER MOVIES YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOU DIE explores the rise of the gangster movie to ...