The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, January 13-19
Jackie Brown (1997)
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Recent films have made it clear that Tarantino has race relations on his mind, but he never addressed that theme better than here. Working from an Elmore Leonard novel, Tarantino had a blueprint that was able to negate some of the more controversial or less successful elements of Django Unchained or The Hateful Eight. Tarantino’s sense of film history and love of Blaxploitation, meanwhile, permeates everything from casting to soundtrack, both of which are deployed in subtle ways that make the film genuinely poignant. Some combination of racial justice, film history revision, and the aura of cool define Tarantino’s films, but all three never came together so beautifully as with Jackie Brown, and there is even emotion to go along. Forrest Cardamenis (January 16, 17, 11am the Nitehawk; sold out)
