Though not as widely recognized or worshiped as his one-time collaborator Quentin Tarantino, writer-director Roger Avary was nonetheless at the forefront of the new wave of neo-noir filmmakers to emerge in the mid-1990s and revitalize a stodgy industry. In fact, Avary had his hand in many of Tarantino’s early projects, most notably as a co-writer on the pair’s ode to 1950s pulp novels, “Pulp Fiction” (1994). After sharing the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, however, Avary and Tarantino went their separate ways in a public spat that many thought was due to Tarantino’s hogging of the