Cult, Camp, and Canon Film Discussion Group

This week's cult/camp pick is Pulp Fiction (1994), written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.

• Pulp Fiction tells four intertwining tales of crime and violence in Los Angeles, California. The film stars John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman. The title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic violence and punchy dialogue. Considerable screen time is devoted to monologues and casual conversations with eclectic dialogue revealing each character's perspectives on several subjects and featuring an ironic combination of humor and strong violence. (Wikipedia)

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This week's canon pick is The Women (1939), directed by George Cukor.

• The memorable bon mots and caustic one-liners fly fast and furious in this delightfully acidic tale of gossiping, backstabbing, and romantic rivalry amongst a coterie of high-society women. Featuring a star-studded cast composed entirely of women—including Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine, and Paulette Goddard—this Production Code–skirting classic traces the scandal that erupts when a wealthy Manhattan housewife (Shearer) discovers her husband is having an affair with a shopgirl (Crawford). Though shot in black and white, the film bursts into Technicolor for an extended fashion-show sequence that luxuriates in the eye-popping designs of 1930s couture. (Criterion Channel)

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This week's cult/camp pick is Spider Baby (1967), directed by Jack Hill.

Spider Baby: or, the Maddest Story Ever Told is a 1967 American comedy horror film, written and directed by Jack Hill. It stars Lon Chaney Jr. as Bruno, the chauffeur and caretaker of three orphaned siblings who suffer from "Merrye Syndrome," a genetic condition starting in early puberty that causes them to regress mentally, socially and physically. Jill Banner, Carol Ohmart, Quinn Redeker, Beverly Washburn, Sid Haig, Mary Mitchel, Karl Schanzer and Mantan Moreland also star. (Wikipedia)

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PLEASE NOTE: We are meeting on a Wednesday this week since I have a conflict on Thursday.

This week's canon pick is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1951), directed by Miloš Forman.

• When Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) gets transferred for evaluation from a prison farm to a mental institution, he assumes it will be a less restrictive environment. But the martinet Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) runs the psychiatric ward with an iron fist, keeping her patients cowed through abuse, medication and sessions of electroconvulsive therapy. The battle of wills between the rebellious McMurphy and the inflexible Ratched soon affects all the ward's patients. (Rotten Tomatoes)

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