Quentin Tarantino

[The Curious Sofa]

i enjoyed his podcast with Roger Avery. He's a loudmouth, but he can talk about film, his passion is genuine and while I don't agree with some of his opinions, they are the result of a sensibility not many filmmakers of his stature share. As a filmmaker he is hit and miss for me, though I agree with him that Inglorious Basterds is his best film (while I think Kill Bill 2 is his worst)

[Maltic]

His blog posts (collected in Cinema Speculation or whatever the book was called) were so poorly written, I began to doubt "his craft", although they were unmistakably written in his voice.

He's still preferable to Dave Denby, though, even though Denby is "a good writer". God, so much time wasted reading New Yorker reviews during my best years.

[beamish14]

His blog posts (collected in Cinema Speculation or whatever the book was called) were so poorly written, I began to doubt "his craft", although they were unmistakably written in his voice.

He's still preferable to Dave Denby, though, even though Denby is "a good writer". God, so much time wasted reading New Yorker reviews during my best years.

Given his documented challenges in school, I’ve always figured that Tarantino has some kind of learning disability, such as a processing disorder.

[mfunk9786]

Tarantino's an interesting case of the public being unrelentingly cruel about a famous person for reasons I can't even begin to quantify or even speculate too much about.

Plenty of people line up to defend confirmed sex criminals, but Tarantino has a harmless predilection toward women's feet which is brought up mockingly constantly by the hooting masses. Plenty of people are boisterous or blunt about being high on their own supply, but when Tarantino does his version of it, most people are disgusted by the way he accesses his self-confidence. Plenty of people like to bloviate about old movies online, but when Tarantino does his version of sharing those opinions it's seen as uncouth.

To me... the guy's work is excellently done even if each and every film doesn't suit every viewer, he's done more to give back to the rep cinema community than all of the CHUDs who line up for the screenings combined (highly doubt the Vista or New Bev turn a reliably healthy profit month over month), and there is a looming possibility that he stops doing the thing he's obviously best at very soon. It'll be a much sadder day when he hangs it up than anyone will be willing to acknowledge, for fear of losing their own personal cool-factor and admitting that that Tarantino's a treasure.

[Grand Wazoo]

I personally find his whole arrogant auteur persona quite fun, perhaps even more so when I disagree with him. Frankly the only thing he deserves justifiable vitriol for (in the way he receives it for so many other silly or totally benign traits/actions listed above) would be him visiting the IDF to "boost morale."

And despite that, I still adore his films.

[therewillbeblus]

Well said. I think about it like this: Here's a guy who always believed he was a genius filmmaker waiting to get his big break and then made it, creating a huge popular cult following validating that idea of himself. I don't know what else I'd expect for his ego. I don't necessarily want to hang out with someone like that day-to-day in my personal life, but it's fun to watch and I'm forever grateful for the art he's given us - and, for as much as he loves to talk about himself and his work, he never overexplains it, committing to an ethos above even that ego that the fans deserve to create their own stories in their minds the way he did growing up watching others' movies. That's pretty neat

[dwk]

I actually listened to that recent podcast (not worth the two hours, his appearances on the Pure Cinema Podcast are much better) that resurrected this thread and he confirmed that he gets his films (assuming that is all the films made after Pulp Fiction) back after 20 years. So the following rights go back to him:
2027 - Death Proof
2029 - Inglourious Basterds
2032 - Django Unchained
2035 - The Hateful Eight
2039 - Once Upon at Time in Hollywood

He also confirmed that he is the reason that Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair isn't on disc. He wants it to be theatrical only.

[therewillbeblus]

He also confirmed that he is the reason that Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair isn't on disc. He wants it to be theatrical only.

Hopefully he changes his mind on that someday. I get it on some level, but the accessibility is limited to certain areas/theatres, and if you're vocal about conceiving it as one movie, why allow it to remain on disc as two separate films? That seems to be offering the very experience you didn't want to begin with. But then again, Tarantino isn't really a fan of altering his films once they're in their finished form, so maybe Kill Bill broken in half is just 'the way it is'

[dwk]

Hopefully he changes his mind on that someday. I lf is just 'the way it is'

If I heard him right, he was going to release it when the rights reverted to him but he changed his mind. So I suppose there is always the possibility that he'll change it again.

[beamish14]

I actually listened to that recent podcast (not worth the two hours, his appearances on the Pure Cinema Podcast are much better) that resurrected this thread and he confirmed that he gets his films (assuming that is all the films made after Pulp Fiction) back after 20 years. So the following rights go back to him:
2027 - Death Proof
2029 - Inglourious Basterds
2032 - Django Unchained
2035 - The Hateful Eight
2039 - Once Upon at Time in Hollywood

He also confirmed that he is the reason that Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair isn't on disc. He wants it to be theatrical only.

The New Beverly and Vista make a fortune whenever he programs The Whole Bloody Affair. People fly in from overseas to watch the very same print that played at Cannes and has French subtitles. I wonder what other materials for it exist.

[dwk]

The New Beverly and Vista make a fortune whenever he programs The Whole Bloody Affair. People fly in from overseas to watch the very same print that played at Cannes and has French subtitles. I wonder what other materials for it exist.

I recall him talking about having an assistant dig through all the boxes of footage to get the footage of Uma's accident to give to her, so I assume he still has everything in storage. Since it is such a draw, he really should have a new print made.

[mfunk9786]

I actually listened to that recent podcast (not worth the two hours, his appearances on the Pure Cinema Podcast are much better) that resurrected this thread and he confirmed that he gets his films (assuming that is all the films made after Pulp Fiction) back after 20 years. So the following rights go back to him:
2027 - Death Proof
2029 - Inglourious Basterds
2032 - Django Unchained
2035 - The Hateful Eight
2039 - Once Upon at Time in Hollywood

He also confirmed that he is the reason that Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair isn't on disc. He wants it to be theatrical only.

The New Beverly and Vista make a fortune whenever he programs The Whole Bloody Affair. People fly in from overseas to watch the very same print that played at Cannes and has French subtitles. I wonder what other materials for it exist.

Funny enough, I’ve now seen this exact print twice - once in Philadelphia, once in LA.

What stands out in particular is how batshit insane the sound is. It is immaculate and loud and likely toned down a little in future cuts. It rocks.

[albucat]

Tarantino's an interesting case of the public being unrelentingly cruel about a famous person for reasons I can't even begin to quantify or even speculate too much about.

He's an outspoken zionist supporting a publicly unpopular genocide (that there are genocides that aren't unpopular isn't worth getting into...). The reason people hate him now doesn't seem confusing or surprising in the least, and I say this as a person who until far too recently was still a fan.

[pistolwink]

Have people been "unrelentingly cruel" to Tarantino? Before the Israel stuff, at least, most of the criticism I'd seen amounted to finding him annoying.

Tarantino's VHS intro to Chungking Express is the perfect artifact of Tarantino's first flush of fame: it's incredibly '90s, he's painfully cringe, but his enthusiasm is admirable and infectious (and of course the film is entirely deserving of it).

[albucat]

Have people been "unrelentingly cruel" to Tarantino? Before the Israel stuff, at least, most of the criticism I'd seen amounted to finding him annoying.

Tarantino's VHS intro to Chungking Express is the perfect artifact of Tarantino's first flush of fame: it's incredibly '90s, he's painfully cringe, but his enthusiasm is admirable and infectious (and of course the film is entirely deserving of it).

Yeah, totally with you here--he's often a selling point, a brand. I remember being so excited to see him on the commentary track for Hot Fuzz. He knew he was kind of annoying and we all embraced it because he was also smart and funny with great film knowledge. I learned a lot from his recommendations and there was excitement just to see his name on a product.

[ellipsis7]

Tarantino turns to theatre (or is that theater)... Please take your seats, the carnage is about to begin: what will Quentin Tarantino’s West End debut look like?

[domino harvey]

Shower thought for today: Did Tarantino settle on the arbitrary number of ten films so that people would eventually designate this as the “QuenTEN” or some such play on words?

[therewillbeblus]

I don’t think so. He doesn’t think it’s arbitrary - he keeps calling it a nice round number or whatever. But there was a recent interview clip I saw where he relented for a second and said he might actually do eleven. I forget where it was from, though

[domino harvey]

Quent11n

[black&huge]

But there was a recent interview clip I saw where he relented for a second and said he might actually do eleven.

Spinal Tap remake confirmed. Billed as "The Spinal film from Quentin Tarantino".

[Roger Ryan]

Had he stopped at five, he could have called the collection/himself the Quintet Tarantino - missed opportunity.

[HJackson]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a ... ouser.html

All he said, in a podcast last August, was: 'The play is written. It is absolutely the next thing I'm going to do. We'll start the ball rolling on it in January... It's probably going to take up a year and a half to two years of my life.'

I can finally reveal what 'it' is.

The stranger-than-fiction truth is that Tarantino has written an original, old-fashioned British farce, in the door-slamming, trouser-dropping, mistaken identity vein of Brian Rix or Ray Cooney.

It will most likely come to the stage in 2027, although late 2026 is still a remote possibility. My perfectly placed source says: 'He has written this himself. It is not based on any of his films. It is a farce, in the British, Noises Off tradition.

Not what I was expecting when this project was first mentioned…

[domino harvey]

Is Tarantino even funny enough to try something like this? What an intriguingly odd project for him

[Never Cursed]

Sounds like he wants to get the hell out of Hollywood for a while. I wonder if he'll act in it

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

Tarantino’s play has a title out of an early Wes Anderson movie: The Popinjay Cavalier. It’s described as a swashbuckler and is being cofinanced by Sony.