Reservoir Dogs & Pulp Fiction Returning to Theaters

[Irish]

Tuesday, December 4th. One day only.

Find theaters here:

http://www.miramax.com/tarantinoxx

[DavidSeven]

Projected digitally. Le sigh.

Still interested, I guess.

P.S. Pulp Fiction is in theaters December 6th. Reservoir Dogs only on December 4th.

[D_Davis]

I saw both a couple of years ago, 35mm prints. I think the prints were on loan from QT - he has a special relationship with The Grand Illusion and Scarecrow video here in Seattle.

[Pop Trash]

I saw Pulp Fiction on 35mm. TWICE back in '94 bitches.

[D_Davis]

I saw Pulp Fiction on 35mm. TWICE back in '94 bitches.

Pretty sure a lot of us did.

[Ezee E]

Pretty sure a lot of us did.
I was 11. Not old enough to see it yet.

[Boner M]

I was 9 at the time; actually saw Go before it.

[MadMan]

I was only 8 years old when Pulp Fiction came out.

Anyways as much as I love both movies, I'm not driving to Iowa City or Davenport to see them on the big screen.

[Scar]

I saw Pulp Fiction on 35mm. TWICE back in '94 bitches.

Represent!

[Russ]

I remember walking 12 miles in a driving snowstorm to make it to the last showing of PF at my village's local cinema. They fed us lukewarm soup and gave us scraps of leftover pastries before they allowed us to take make those long treks home.

That Samuel Jackson was one funny mofo.

Good times.

[StanleyK]

I was 2.

LOL you are all old.

[Scar]

I was 2.

LOL you are all old.

Get the FUCK off my lawn!

[D_Davis]

I was 2.

LOL you are all old.

HA!

I was reading some of your film posts and really disagreeing with almost everything you said. I thought, wow, StanleyK and really see things in different ways (but I don't really participate in much film discussion any more).

I bet the ~20 years between us has something to do with that! ;)

[Kurosawa Fan]

I saw it five times in theaters in '94. It is the title I often credit with completely reshaping my opinions on film as art. It single-handedly motivated me to look beyond the new release wall at my video store and start exploring canonical films.

I am most certainly going to see it again. I'm going to take my little sister. I'm kind of stunned it's coming my way.

[D_Davis]

I saw it five times in theaters in '94. It is the title I often credit with completely reshaping my opinions on film as art. It single-handedly motivated me to look beyond the new release wall at my video store and start exploring canonical films.


Pretty much feel the same way. It and Tsui Hark's Once Upon a Time in China had huge impacts on my life.

[Pop Trash]

I saw it five times in theaters in '94. It is the title I often credit with completely reshaping my opinions on film as art. It single-handedly motivated me to look beyond the new release wall at my video store and start exploring canonical films.


Yeah, I would say PF and The Sweet Hereafter had the most impact on my young cinephile life.

Tarantino was like Cobain. It was such a sea change for people my age and anything either of them would name drop became something I had to check out in my teenage years. Early Scorsese, the Pixies, etc.

EDIT: actually I have to give credit to a few Roger Ebert books I had around that time as well. Ebert and Tarantino were basically my shepherds.

[Ivan Drago]

I am praying to God that I don't have to work on the 6th so I can see Pulp Fiction. Not only has it been years since I saw it last, but it may be the movie to make me want to pursue a career in film.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Going to see PF in an hour! Thanks again for posting this.

[ledfloyd]

well that was fucking fun.

[Kurosawa Fan]

well that was fucking fun.

Yes it was. My sister loved it. What a great night.

[ledfloyd]

had she not seen it before? there seemed to be a few first timers in my audience, i'm kind of jealous they got to experience it that way. but is that ever a film to see in a crowded theater. i had burnt myself out on pulp a few years ago but after tonight i have a completely renewed appreciation for it. it's such a visceral film that it's just so much fun to experience with other people.

[Kurosawa Fan]

had she not seen it before? there seemed to be a few first timers in my audience, i'm kind of jealous they got to experience it that way. but is that ever a film to see in a crowded theater. i had burnt myself out on pulp a few years ago but after tonight i have a completely renewed appreciation for it. it's such a visceral film that it's just so much fun to experience with other people.

No, she's 15. This was her first viewing. She was speechless. She laughed at all the great moments, and as soon as the credits rolled, she thanked me.

I'm in the same boat as you regarding Pulp. I was severely burned out for the last 5-10 years, but tonight was such a positive experience, I'm all in again.

[ledfloyd]

No, she's 15. This was her first viewing. She was speechless. She laughed at all the great moments, and as soon as the credits rolled, she thanked me.
that's awesome. people were laughing for the majority of the film at my screening. it felt like a comedy, which i guess it kind of is in its own bizarre way. there was even one guy laughing a bit too heartily at the racist comments in the film.

[Kurosawa Fan]

that's awesome. people were laughing for the majority of the film at my screening. it felt like a comedy, which i guess it kind of is in its own bizarre way. there was even one guy laughing a bit too heartily at the racist comments in the film.

Yeah, a bit of that desire to be "in on every joke" in our theater too, but better than I thought it would be.

[number8]

Yeah, a bit of that desire to be "in on every joke" in our theater too, but better than I thought it would be.

That does tend to be the norm with revival screenings. It's as if people laugh just to let others know what their favorite jokes are.

When I saw Roger Rabbit, there was a guy who sounded like he was gassed by the Joker throughout the entirety of the cartoon that opened the movie. I was like, damn, has this guy never seen Looney Tunes before?

[DavidSeven]

Tarantino also draws that type of crowd generally, I think. I definitely remember a lot of overly boisterous laughter while watching Kill Bill Vol. 2 at the Cinerama in Seattle.

Most annoying experience I've had with this type of thing was definitely during a normal screening of Midnight in Paris in LA. Seriously, that literary reference made you double over as you filled the theater with your knowing guffaws? Okay.

Really sad that I couldn't make it to either of these revivals.

[ledfloyd]

it's weird, but my experience seeing Reservoir Dogs on tuesday was the complete opposite. the theater was nearly as full but almost completely silent. and rather than reaffirm my love, it made me realize that Reservoir Dogs is a great script that has, with the exception of one or two great scenes, completely quotidian direction and cinematography. the images in Pulp Fiction are so much more alive, Tarantino's camera significantly more unconventional. he really developed as a filmmaker in those two years.

[D_Davis]

it's weird, but my experience seeing Reservoir Dogs on tuesday was the complete opposite. the theater was nearly as full but almost completely silent. and rather than reaffirm my love, it made me realize that Reservoir Dogs is a great script that has, with the exception of one or two great scenes, completely quotidian direction and cinematography. the images in Pulp Fiction are so much more alive, Tarantino's camera significantly more unconventional. he really developed as a filmmaker in those two years.

Interesting. I saw a print of RD a couple of years ago, and while I remembered it being quite pedestrian, I was shocked by how vivid and expertly directed and shot it was. I remembered it as a great script, but saw it as a truly stunning debut film. That was only my second time seeing it - the first being upon its initial release.

[Rowland]

I still think it's marvelously directed.

[MadMan]

I still love both films, and I'm bummed that I couldn't get to see either one in theaters. RD does work best as a stage play of sorts, while Pulp Fiction is far more cinematic. I think it speaks to QT's talents that he was able to pull both of them off.

[Grouchy]

When I saw Roger Rabbit, there was a guy who sounded like he was gassed by the Joker throughout the entirety of the cartoon that opened the movie. I was like, damn, has this guy never seen Looney Tunes before?
In his defense, though, that cartoon is hilarious. One of the greatest openings ever.

It predated Itchy & Scratchy in making fun of the inmense amounts of painful violence in the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, too.

[number8]

is, but he was literally gasping for breath and laughing at the top of his lungs at every single gag. A baby crawling over dishes isn't that great of a revelation.

[Neclord]

is, but he was literally gasping for breath and laughing at the top of his lungs at every single gag. A baby crawling over dishes isn't that great of a revelation.

One of these days, he's gonna die laughing.