‘Pulp Fiction’ to start things off – The Hollywood Reporter

Now is the perfect time to listen to Chuck Berry’s “You Can Never Know It.”

30th Anniversary, 35mm screening of the film Pulp Fiction — with an appearance by John Travolta — The 15th annual TCM Classic Film Festival will begin at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood on April 18, it was announced Thursday.

“Pulp Fiction It is one of the most important and influential films of the 1990s. “It was Quentin Tarantino’s magnum opus and the beginning of a well-deserved comeback for John Travolta,” noted TCM host Ben Mankiewicz in a statement. “Likes Bonnie and Clyde And The GodfatherIt changed our thinking about the kind of stories Hollywood can tell.

Reporting from Cannes 1994, Duane Berg Hollywood Reporter He wrote in his original review that the Miramax film was “full of more good things than you do after the riots.” Some of Tarantino’s lines are so pure, you could mix them with 80 percent talcum powder and still make big by selling them in an alley somewhere. Visually, Tarantino has it covered too. This thing comes at you in crazier ways than you’d expect from a room full of hoodies.

Tarantino won the Palme d’Or at Cannes for his work, and then added an Oscar for original screenplay. Pulp Fiction It was also nominated for Best Picture but lost forrest gump On Oscar night.

As previously announced, actor Billy Dee Williams and makeup artist Lois Burwell will be honored at the festival, while writer Jeanine Basinger will receive the Robert Osborne Award, which honors an individual who has helped keep the cultural legacy of the classic film alive for future generations.

Williams will submit Lady sings the blues (1972) and Bingo Lounge Traveling All Stars and Car Kings (1976), and Burwell will appear with Always famous (2000) and Lincoln (2012). Both will also sit down with the TCM host for talks at Club TCM at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

Meanwhile, Basinger chose to pitch for a movie Westward women (1951).

TCM also announced seven additional titles that will be showcased during the festival: Grand Hotel (1932), National velvet (1944), Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Great heat (1953), Sabrina (1954), She said murder (1961) and Send me no flowers (1964).

The festival, which bears the slogan “Most Wanted: Crime and Justice in Cinema,” continues until April 21. For more information, click here.