Basically, it was a “B” movie, shallow, exploitative, the epitome of everything I don’t like in the movies. When I walked out of the screening, I was one of those who “hated it.” I felt it was way too long, had too much gratuitous violence and was much too talky. When I had first seen it a few months earlier, it was storming across the country, creating an avalanche of opinion. Personally, I had a lot of mixed feelings about Pulp Fiction. At which point someone raised their hand and asked if I included Pulp Fiction as a part of that revolution. During my talk I casually mentioned that from my perspective we were in the middle of a revolution. Mill Valley is a dedicated, intimate, and avant-garde film festival, screening a variety of films, individual in taste, style and vision. Shortly after the publication of my book, Four Screenplays in the mid-nineties, I was invited to speak at a screenwriting seminar at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
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