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PULP: What Do You Do For an Encore?

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In the spirit of Stop Making Sense and The Last Waltz, director Garth Jennings (Sing; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) crafts a kinetic 90-minute movie that fuses the spectacle of Pulp’s arena show with four decades of colourful archival material, charting Pulp’s extraordinary journey from obscurity to cultural touchstone. Narrated by Pulp’s iconic frontman, Jarvis Cocker, and featuring twenty songs — hits and deep cuts — this movie is Pulp and Garth’s spectacular answer to the question, “What do you do for an encore?”

Director

Garth Jennings

Cast

Jarvis Cocker

Credits
Country of Origin

UK

Year

2026

Language

English

19+
90 min

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Wednesday September 23

8:00 pm
Hearing Assistance
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Credits

Producer

Octavia Peissel, Danny Gabai, Amy Rattray, Paul Dugdale

Cinematography

Brett Turnbull

Editor

Barney Pilling, Dylan Hansen-Fliedner

Original Music

Pulp

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