Jackie Brown: Miramax Collector’s Edition

Reviewed by:
Paul Ulane

Quentin Tarantino managed a solid follow up to Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown, and now he’s releasing special collector’s edition DVDs of both on the same day. Getting the same exhaustive treatment as the Pulp DVD, Tarantino delivers an awesome array of side features worthy of the time it takes to get through it all. Even with a regular feature like deleted scenes, Tarantino provides a helpful introduction, discussing which of the deleted scenes are worth watching and why—it’s fun to watch Pam Grier and Michael Keaton go at it in a totally improvised scene—and which were closest to being kept in the final cut. A sense of history—and blaxploitation, for that matter—is thrown in as well, with a group of classic movie trailers for both Pam Grier’s and Robert Forster’s ’70s films. The DVD also has one of the few “making-of”—or, in this case, “How It Went Down”—featurettes in which everyone from the movie participates in telling a coherent story of the film’s construction. And for anyone who wants to learn more about guns, screw the NRA—check out the full-length “Chicks with Guns Video.”

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