The year is 1997.

I just feel like I'm always starting over,

with another movie that really deserves a full podcast episode.

This movie, Jackie Brown. Hello everyone a welcome to I am Paul Sheer I am joined as always by Amy Nicholson

we love chatting about movies we're talking about the best movies of all time. We're trying to figure out if the movies that people just assume are the best are really that good.

Or do we just remember them that way? Yes, it's hard.

I'm coming to this conversation as a film critic. I write for a lot of places including the New York Times and

Paul, my goodness, has there ever been a man who is what a sex double threat as you?

I well look I love to do a lot of things and and watching movies is on that list

as you can tell by my letterbox account I love talking movies with you and I love when we can

find these little areas that open up doorways. And we've been in this Elmore- Leonard area

for the last two weeks and we're going to go into what arguably

is one of the best Elmore- Leonard adaptations at least according to Elmore Leonard.

So I think that he's probably the person you want to trust on this one.

Yeah, and it's a film done by the person who wrote as some people have called it the best

Elmore Leonard movie that wasn't even an Elmore Leonard movie, which is true romance.

There's this synergy happening here

between a screenwriter, a novelist,

and a screenwriter who's also a director.

Another thing we're talking about

is all the twists and turns, not in this movie movie but in how this movie got made because everybody that you talk to has a different perspective on how they were cast, why choices were made, it seems like over the years this movie has become a legend in at least the way

that people talk about it. But when it first came out, it was not well received at all, and

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