The US Library of Congress has today revealed its 2013 selection of 25 movies it will be adding to the countrys National Film Archive in recognition of their great cultural, historic or aesthetic significance. The highlight of that bunch is Quentin Tarantinos Pulp Fiction, an expletive- and violence-laden tale of interconnecting storylines and dark humor that never aspired to be as great as it turned out to be. The directors initial intent was to create a pastiche of film noir and the comic books he grew up reading, but in the process of remixing the old he came up with a resoundingly fresh and visceral experience.
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