Jackie Brown
We kick off our summer series with the ferocity of the memorable Kill Bill double feature, setting the stage for a fast-paced lineup of films. Logically, we will conclude the summer season with a program devoted to Quentin Tarantino. A true cinephile and the foremost virtuoso of the video store era, he stormed onto the global stage of action and auteur cinema and has never left it. Watching his films back-to-back reveals a body of work built at a blistering pace, with a confidence that might sometimes make one forget the extreme attention to detail in the writing—from the narrative structure down to the smallest lines of dialogue.
Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Actor for Samuel L. Jackson, 1998 Berlin International Film Festival
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who supplements her income by transporting money for an arms dealer. Cornered by the police, she is strongly urged to cooperate in order to bring down the network. Clever Jackie devises a plan to extricate herself from this tricky situation. With this film, Tarantino brings Pam Grier back into the spotlight, one of his childhood idols who starred, in the 1970s, in films associated with the Blaxploitation genre, including Foxy Brown.
Quentin Tarantino
Born in 1963 in Tennessee, Quentin Tarantino is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, actor, and writer. A fervent cinephile since a very young age, he gained international acclaim in the 1990s with his first two independant feature films, Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Pulp Fiction, which won the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival. He also had commercial success internationally with Inglourious Basterds (2009), Django Unchained (2012) and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019), where he brilliantly crafts alternate history. In just ten films, his over-the-top direction, the incisive style of his dialogue, his taste for musical quotations, and his sense of homage (which has revitalized the careers of several actors and actresses) have earned him cult status among film lovers.
