(Gates) DESERT ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL (Through Saturday) Makor's festival of movies that its audiences voted most desirable to have around if they were trapped on a desert island ends tomorrow with Quentin Tarantino's brutal and brilliant "Pulp Fiction" (1994).
This movie's stiff self-consciousness about its historical responsibility prevents it from being as limber as Tate Taylor's The Help (2011), and balancing anti-racist anger with demure insistence on the white rulers' good faith means it can't let rip with the passion of Daniels's earlier film Precious (2009), or his brilliant pulp thriller The Paperboy (2011).
Jarvis was cagey about that one: he said that he didn't want to speak for the group, and also he felt that the concerts had been brilliant partly because Pulp hadn't done any press about them, they'd just announced them, accompanied by a few cryptic questions on their website.
Sadly, a collection of his eloquent letters to the British cineaste Paul Rotha, Portrait of a Flying Yorkshireman, is long out of print, but You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up, his brilliant pastiche hard-boiled pulp novel set in California and published in 1938, is available in paperback.
It was a brilliant combination of arthouse film techniques and pulp-fiction storytelling, somewhat reminiscent of the films of Sam Fuller.
The savage wit, the finest lyricist of his generation, the master of Pulp's album of 1995, the brilliant Different Class.
Over the course of a short life "right out out of pulp fiction," Morrisroe "made the thousands of battered, brilliant Polaroids, photograms, and manipulated prints — plus a few campy Super-8 films — that brought him underground fame.
Rafa, on the other hand, is young, rampant and brutally brilliant, capable of smashing virtually anyone in the world to a pulp right now.
Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's Sin City is the guignol pulp-noir based on Miller's graphic novels, shot in brilliant and starkly defined monochrome on which splashes of lurid colour show up like wounds.
One can hear her syntax and thoughts in the stories of Raymond Carver, in Robert Duvall's brilliant movie "The Apostle," in the Samuel L. Jackson character's final monologue in "Pulp Fiction".
He was intelligent, withdrawn, and bookish, building a haven of pulp literature for himself in a world dominated by his pushy, slightly hysterical mother, Minnie, and his brilliant, overbearing brother Leonard.
