Grab your Royale with cheese and take another look at your grandfather’s watch, because Pulp Fiction just turned 30.
To honor the anniversary of Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-winning film, the 2024 Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival will kick off with a special 35mm screening of Pulp Fiction. Oscar nominee and Golden Globe and Emmy winner John Travolta will be in attendance to toast his return to the role from 1994.
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“‘Pulp Fiction’ is one of the most important and influential films of the 1990s. It was Quentin Tarantino’s masterpiece and the beginning of a well-deserved comeback for John Travolta,” said Ben Mankiewicz, host of the TCM Classic Film Festival and TCM prime time anchor. “Like ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ and ‘The Godfather,’ it changed the way we think about the kind of stories Hollywood can tell.”
The theme of the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival is “Most Wanted: Crime and Justice on Film” to celebrate the network’s 30th anniversary. The festival will take place April 18-21 and will feature an extensive film program, appearances by legendary stars and filmmakers, presentations and panel discussions, special events and more.
Actor Billy Dee Williams will introduce his films “Lady Sings the Blues” (1972) and “The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings” (1976), while Oscar-winning makeup artist Lois Burwell will appear with her films “Almost Famous” (2000) and “Lincoln” (2012). Both tributes will also join a TCM host for a conversation at Club TCM in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
As previously announced, author Jeanine Basinger will also host a screening of the 1951 film Westward the Women. Basinger will receive the Robert Osborne Award, which recognizes an individual who has helped keep the cultural legacy of classic film alive for future generations.
Other titles screening during the 15th annual TCM Classic Film Festival include “Hot Iron,” “Murder Is Her,” “National Velvet,” “Sabrina” (1954), “The Mafia: Revenge of the Fallen,” “Grand Hotel” and “Send Me No Flowers.”
Last year’s 2023 TCM Classic Film Festival marked a turning point for the network, bringing together auteurs Steven Spielberg, Paul Thomas Anderson and Martin Scorsese to preserve films and curate the channel’s programming.
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