In honor of the twentieth anniversary of “Pulp Fiction” premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, here’s a video essay about Quentin Tarantino’s cool characters, and how they mythologize themselves. I cowrote and edited this with my colleague Peter Labuza, a contributor to The Film Stage. The narrator is RogerEbert.com contributor Dave Bunting, Jr.
“Pulp Fiction” and the mythology of cool
Matt Zoller Seitz
Formerly the Editor-in-Chief and Editor-at-Large of RogerEbert.com, Matt Zoller Seitz is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism and the founder of MZS.Press, The Arts Bookstore of the Internet
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