Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction Comes Full Circle

This time, there was no fainting in the audience.

JerusalemFilmFestivalLogoWhen Pulp Fiction premiered at the 1994 New York Film Festival, there was the kind of dramatic moment that, today, would be punctuated by a trending Twitter hashtag. From a 2013 Vanity Fair oral history of the movie:

Tarantino sat with [Eric] Stoltz, who recalls, “We were sitting on one of those Juliet balconies, where you can look down on the audience. Just as the needle scene was happening, they brought the lights up. There was shouting: ‘Is there a doctor in the house?’ People ran down the aisle and carried this fellow, who had fainted, out.

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