National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Pulp Fiction was released by Miramax Films in October 1994, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film arrived as a seismic event in American independent cinema, weaving interconnected stories of Los Angeles criminals, fixers, and fighters through a fractured chronology. Its dialogue, structure, and ensemble performances reshaped what mainstream audiences expected from genre filmmaking, and its Palme d'Or at Cannes confirmed its international standing.

This cell captures Butch Coolidge in close-up, bathed in the warm red and purple ambient light characteristic of the film's richly designed interiors. The three frames hold nearly the same composition, suggesting a slow or static moment in the scene, with only subtle shifts in expression across the strip. It is a quiet, concentrated portrait of one of the film's most self-determined figures.