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Celebrating its 30th anniversary on Oct. 14, “Pulp Fiction” has left a massive footprint on moviemaking.

Originally conceived as an anthology by writer-director Quentin Tarantino and his longtime friend, collaborator and Video Archives coworker Roger Avary, the film evolved into a funny, violent, endlessly inventive, non-linear odyssey. In addition to reviving the career of John Travolta, minting a star in Samuel L. Jackson and spawning a still-thriving cottage industry of knockoffs and imitation films, “Pulp” earned the 1994 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or, seven Academy Award nominations and one win (for Tarantino and Avary’s screenplay), while its commercial success ($213 million off of an $8.5 million budget) forever changed the economics of independent cinema.

To commemorate the legacy and impact of “Pulp Fiction,” Variety spoke with more than 20 members of the film’s cast and crew to solicit their experiences and recollections. Armed with more than 100 pages of interviews, we’ve elected...

The 1994 follow-up to Reservoir Dogs is a remarkable act of alchemy, winning over both arthouse and multiplex audiences like nothing else before it

Opening Pulp Fiction with the literal two-part definition of “pulp” is a wink and a nudge on the writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s part, funny in retrospect when the first definition aptly describes the pieces of brain and skull that are accidentally splattered across the back of a 1974 Chevy Nova. Perhaps Tarantino felt some need to offer the audience a formal introduction to the type of low-down genre trash that had always existed outside the mainstream, in lurid dimestore paperbacks or filthy grindhouse theaters. This was not going to be a typical contender for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival, let alone the actual winner.

Yet there’s a swagger to Pulp Fiction that makes you believe Tarantino, a true moviemaking savant, could see the...

This article contains spoilers for “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” season 2 of “Yellowjackets” and “Beef.”

2023 has been a year saddled with head-thumpingly obvious needle drops.

Excited to see robots scuffle in “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts”? A key fight scene will be soundtracked to LL Cool J’s 1991 hit, “Mama Said Knock You Out.” During the trailers beforehand, a spot for the Dracula movie “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” features a remix of Smashing Pumpkins’ “Bullet With Butterfly Wings,” in which Billy Corgan sings, “The world is a vampire / Sent to drain.” Chilling out after the movie to watch the new episode of “The Idol”? Prepare for star The Weeknd’s new song “Take Me Back,” which literally describes the toxic relationship between the two lead characters

Why are so many blockbuster films and some of television’s most adventurous shows addicted to cringey song choices? The unlikely...

People have strong opinions, both good and bad, about films directed by Quentin Tarantino.

Regardless of your opinion on the filmmaker, though there’s no denying his new releases demand to be seen – if only in order in order to debate whether they rank up there with Pulp Fiction (1994) or way down with The Hateful Eight (2017).

Even if viewers don't like a particular Tarantino film, there'll probably be a small part they do like, thanks to his knack for creating fantastic characters – not to mention casting the perfect people in those roles.

It's no surprise that actors including Samuel L Jackson, Uma Thurman and Leonardo DiCaprio rush to be in his films – all three of whom have delivered some of their best performances in Tarantino films.

Following news of Tarantino’s next film, which is expected to be the last before his retirement, we have ranked the director’s 30 greatest characters.

Jackie Brown has one of Quentin Tarantino’s grooviest soundtracks, featuring songs by such iconic artists as Bobby Womack and the Delfonics. The movie revolves around a flight attendant who plays a notorious gun runner and a couple of Atf agents against each other so she can make off with their loot. From Mr. Blonde torturing a cop to the tune of “Stuck in the Middle with You” to the opening credits of Pulp Fiction kicking off to the tune of “Misirlou,” Tarantino is famous for his needle drops. His soundtrack choices are as crucially tied to his filmmaking style as his idiosyncratic dialogue and scenes of graphic violence.

Based on Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch, Jackie Brown was Tarantino’s only adaptation of another writer’s work. It scored much-deserved career comebacks for Pam Grier and Robert Forster, with the latter earning an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting...

Quentin Tarantino’s classic crime drama, Pulp Fiction, has an iconic soundtrack that is full of nostalgic and upbeat songs, which give the film a powerful momentum from start to finish. The soundtrack is filled with energy and vibrancy, bringing every scene to life and elevating the entire project way beyond the words written on the page. Not a single moment of Pulp Fiction would be the same without Tarantino’s entertaining music choice, making it one of the most valuable assets in the film’s arsenal. There’s a wide range of styles and genres that play throughout the story, allowing each scene to feel distinct and new.

Although nobody can agree upon which of Tarantino’s several movies is his best, Pulp Fiction is his certainly one of his most iconic. It practically reinvented the entire genre, proving that crime films don’t need to be sad and...

End Of The Road is a festival that keeps its promises. The cultured leftfield shindig – where croquet tournaments break out in forest glades and peacocks roam the trimmed lawns of Dorset’s Larmer Tree Gardens, unbothered by the experimental folk, rock, rap and electronic tomfoolery floating across the site – has been promising a weekend headlined by indie giants Pixies and Bright Eyes since 2020. Covid scuppered that event, and post-pandemic travel issues forced the 2021 bill to become more UK-based. But this year, Eotr puts its music where its mouth is at last, with plenty more curveballs thrown in to keep this crowd of discerning alternative music fans pleasingly off-balance.

The opening Thursday night bill is a brain-rattling case in point. On the main Woods Stage, LA’s Sudan Archives sets out to invent jig-hop, interspersing psychosexual ambient raps with ruined snippets of Irish folk played on the fiddle she brandishes throughout.

In 1971, the Cannes Film Festival opened with a screening of Gimme Shelter by Albert and David Maysles, an immersive, vérité depiction of two weeks in the touring life of the Rolling Stones. If that was all it did, it might have been forgotten by now. But by a terrible freak of chance, the filmmakers followed the band to the most notorious concert of their entire career — the Altamont Speedway Free Festival in Livermore, CA, where the Stones, along with Santana, Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, were set to perform a free concert for 300,000 people on Dec. 6, 1969. “We didn’t know what it was going to be,” Albert said later. “We just had a childish faith that having seen the Stones and getting along with them, there might be a feature film there.”

At the apparent suggestion of Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead (who...

Do you remember your first contact with a Tarantino movie? Mine was "Pulp Fiction," and I was almost levitating out of my seat from the moment "Misirlou" burst out over the opening credits. Hell, I even got a big kick out of the title font. The movie hadn't even started properly and already I couldn't wait to see it again. As a 16-year-old ducking into an 18-rated movie with his fake ID, it was simply the coolest thing I'd ever seen.

Of course, I rented "Reservoir Dogs" straight away afterwards. When it comes to Quentin Tarantino, you just have to admire the brass balls on...

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Twenty-year-old guitar virtuoso Marcin, a.k.a. Marcin Patrzalek, has released a searing rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.”

Standing inside a parking garage, the Polish percussive fingerstyle guitarist ripped through the Physical Graffiti epic, thumping his hands across the guitar while playing Jimmy Page’s riffs. Tom Morello and Paul Stanley even praised the video, with Morello writing:”Some people are just really talented.”

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In 2019, Marcin appeared on the 14th season of America’s Got Talent, making it to the semi-finals.

Actress Marisa Saks (below) is the latest to sign up for to Dimension's 'Scary Movie 5' which will shoot in Atlanta, Georgia. Marisa just finished shooting for a role on new MTV comedy series 'Zach Stone is Gonna Be Famous' and is also starring in Trevor Simms' new horror thriller 'Misirlou'. She has signed up to play the role of Amy in the Malcolm D. Lee directed 'Scary Movie' sequel, the first not to feature Anna Faris ('The House Bunny'). Saks joins Craig Bierko ('Scary Movie 4'), Ashley Tisdale ('High School Musical 3: Senior Year'), Erica Ash ('MADtv'), Terry Crews ('The Expendables 2') as well as Charlie Sheen ('Scary Movie 3') and Lindsay Lohan ('Machete') in the latest follow-up in the comedy-horror parody franchise....