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Jackie Brown | USA | 1997 | 154 mins
Synopsis : Jackie Brown is the name of a flight attendant who gets caught smuggling her boss' gun money on the airline she works for. Luckily for her, the Fed Ray Nicolet and the LA Cop Mark Dargus decide to team up in order to arrest the arms dealer she works for, whose name they don't even know. Here's when she has to choose one way: tell Nicolet and Dargus about Ordell Robbie (the arms dealer) and get her freedom -except that if Ordell suspects you're talking about him, you're dead- or keep her mouth shut and do some time. That's when she meets Max Cherry -her bail bondsman-, a late fifties, recently separated, burnt-out man, who falls in love with her. Then Jackie comes up with a plan to play the Feds off against Ordell and the guys he works with -Louis Gara and Melanie Ralston, among others- and walk off with their money. But she needs Max's help. No one is going to stand in the way of his million dollar payoff...
Awards/ Screenings : Best Female Performance, Best Screenplay - 2000 Csapnivalo Awards; Best Supporting Actor - 1998 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
Kill Bill Volume 1 | USA | 2003 | 111 mins
Synopsis : The Bride wakes up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of. Beatrix Kiddo a.k.a The Bride is a female assassin, a trained killer who has been betrayed by The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad led by her former boss Bill who gunned her down at her wedding leaving her for dead. The Bride awakes four years later and she sets out to begin her quest for vengeance. With help of one of Bill's former tutors, retired sword maker Hattori Hanzo, The Bride sets out to eliminate her first two targets on her list: Vernita Green, who has retired from the Deadly Viper Assassin Squad and has a daughter and O-Ren Ishii, who is now the kingpin of the Toyko criminal underworld and leader of the "Crazy 88" crime gang. The Bridge engaging in a roaring rampage of revenge will not rest until every member of The Deadly Viper Assassin Squad is dead and she will save Bill for last. Written by Daniel Williamson
Awards/ Screenings : Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films 2004 - Best Action/ Adventure/ Thriller Film, Best Actress (Uma Thurman); Central Ohio Film Critics Association 2004 - Best Score; Empire Awards 2004 - Best Actress (Uma Thurman), Best Director; Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards 2004 - Best Editing; MTV Movie Awards 2004 - Best Female Performance (Uma Thurman), Best Fight (Uma Thurman and Chiaki Kuriyama), Best Villain (Lucy Liu); San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2003 - Best Editing; Sant Jordi Awards 2005 - Best Foreign Film; Sitges-Catalonian International Film Festival 2003 - Best Feature Film
Kill Bill Volume 2 | USA | 2004 | 136 mins
Synopsis : There were five on her list. Now it's three. O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green were the first to fall, now The Bride is out to finish the job by killing Elle Driver, Budd, and last of all, Bill. If the final three aren't afraid now, they better start, because she's coming for them. However, something has thrown off her plans a bit. Her daughter (whom she was pregnant with as she was getting married) is still alive. What affect this will have on her quest for vengeance is unclear, but the question is, will The Bride have actually succeeded in completing her ultimate goal, to kill Bill? Written by Roguemaster83
Awards/ Screenings : Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films 2004 - Best Action/ Adventure/ Thriller Film, Best Supporting Actor (David Carradine), Best Supporting Actress (Daryl Hannah); American Choreography Awards 2004 - Outstanding Achievement in Choreography Fight (tied with Pirates of the Caribbean); Central Ohio Film Critics 2005 - Best Sound Design; MTV Movie Awards 2005 - Best Fight (Daryl Hannah and Uma Thurman); Sant Jordi Awards 2005 - Best Foreign Film; World Stunt Awards 2005 - Best Fight (Monia Staggs and Zoe Bell), Best Overall Stunt by a Stunt Woman (Monica Staggs and Zoe Bell)
Pulp Fiction | USA | 1994 | 153 mins
Synopsis : An inside look at a memorable community of criminals. Prizefighter Butch Coolidge has decided to stop payment on a deal he's made with the devil. Honey Bunny and Pumpkin are a couple of young lovers and small time thieves who decide they need a change of venue. Meanwhile, two career criminals, Vincent Vega and Jules, go about their daily business of shooting up other crooks who are late on payments to their boss. While one is asked to babysit their boss' dangerously pretty young wife, the other suddenly realizes that he must give up his life of crime.
Awards/ Screenings : Cannes Film Festival 1994 - Golden Palm; Academy Awards 1995 - Best Original Screenplay; Golden Globes 1995 - Best Screenplay; Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films USA 1995 - Saturn Award Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film; BAFTA 1995 - Best Supporting Actor (Samuel L. Jackson); Blue Ribbon Awards 1995 - Best Foreign Language Film; Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1994 - Best Director, Best Film, Best Screenplay; Brit Awards 1995 - Best Soundtrack; Casting Society of America 1995 - Best Casting for Feature Film, Drama; Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1995 - Best Director, Best Screenplay; David di Donatello Awards 1995 - Best Foreign Actor, Best Foreign Film; Egar Allan Poe Awards 1995 - Best Motion Picture; Independent Spirit Awards 1995 - Best Director, Best Feature, Best Male Lead (Samuel L. Jackson), Best Screenplay; Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 1995 - Best Director, Best Film; Kinema Junpo Awards 1995 - Best Foreign Language Film Director; London Critics Circle Film Awards 1995 - Actor of the Year (John Travolta), Screenwritier of the Year (Quentin Tarantino); Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1994 - Best Actor (John Travolta), Best Director, Best Picture, Best Screenplay; MTV Movie Awards 1995 - Best Dance Sequence, Best Movie; National Board of Review 1994 - Best Director, Best Picture (tied with Forrest Gump); National Society of Film Critics Awards 1995 - Best Director, Best Film, Best Screenplay; New York Film Critics Awards 1994 - Best Director, Best Screenplay; Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards 1995 - Best Director, Best Picture; Stockholm Film Festival 1994 - Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Bronze Horse
Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | USA | 100 mins
Synopsis : They were six strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime: Mr. White, a professional criminal; Mr. Orange, a young newcomer; Mr. Blonde, a trigger-happy killer; Mr. Pink, a paranoid neurotic; Mr. Brown; and Mr. Blue. Hired by mob boss Joe Cabot and given fake names so no one could identify the others, they thought there was no way their heist could have failed. But after a police ambush, killing Mr. Brown and seriously injuring Mr. Orange, the criminals return to their rendezvous point (a warehouse), and realize that one of them had to have been a police informant. But who? Written by movies_are_forever
Awards/ Screenings : Sundance Film Festival 1992 - Nominated Grand Jury Prize; Avignon Film Festival 1992 - Prix Tournage; Stockholm Film Festival 1992 - Bronze Horse; Toronto Film Festival 1992 - International Critics' Award (FIPRESCI); Sitges-Catalonian International Film Festival 1992 - Best Director (Quentin Tarantino), Best Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino); Sant Jordi Awards 1993 - Sant Jordi Award Best Foreign Actor (Harvey Keitel); Independent Spirit Awards 1993 - Best Supporting Male (Steve Buscemi), Best Director (Quentin Tarantino), Best First Feature (Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence Bender - producer), Fantasporto 1993 - Best Film; London Critics Circle Film Awards 1994 - Newcomer of the Year (Quentin Tarantino); DVD Exclusive Awards 2003 - Best Overall New Extra Features, Library Release for the 10th Anniversary Edition (Mark Rance) |
