Quentin Tarantino
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![Quentin Tarantino [Part 5] — The Revisionist’s Revenge (Vol. 2)](https://thedirectorsseries.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/working-sequence.00_22_45_05.still038-e1625104973471.jpg)
Watch this full 47 minute episode of THE DIRECTORS SERIES exclusively on Special! PREVIEW PART 5: THE REVISIONIST’S REVENGE (VOL. 2) is the fifth chapter of THE DIRECTORS SERIES’ examination into the films and career of director Quentin Tarantino, continuing our look at his late-career historical revisionism with THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2015) and ONCE UPON…
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Notable Festivals: Cannes It’s often said that the 1960’s came to an end, not on New Year’s Eve 1969, but several months earlier, on August 9th— the night that film actress Sharon Tate and her houseguests were murdered in her home in the Hollywood Hills. The shocking event signified a collective innocence not so much…
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![Quentin Tarantino [Part 4]– The Revisionist’s Revenge](https://thedirectorsseries.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/working-sequence-2.00_03_14_10.still032-e1620939007843.jpg)
Watch this full 30 minute episode of THE DIRECTORS SERIES exclusively on Special! PREVIEWPART 4: THE REVISIONIST’S REVENGE is the fourth chapter of THE DIRECTORS SERIES’ examination into the films and career of director Quentin Tarantino, covering his two spaghetti-western-styled meditations on retribution: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (2009) and DJANGO UNCHAINED (2012).
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![QUENTIN TARANTINO [PART 3]- FAR EAST BY SOUTHWEST](https://thedirectorsseries.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/working-sequence.00_19_50_05.still026-e1617135248237.jpg)
PREVIEW PART 3: FAR EAST BY SOUTHWEST is the third chapter of THE DIRECTORS SERIES’ examination into the films and career of director Quentin Tarantino, covering his string of supersized works from the mid-2000’s: the epic 2-part KILL BILL saga and DEATH PROOF, his contribution to the throwback double-feature experiment, GRINDHOUSE. Watch the full 40…
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![QUENTIN TARANTINO [PART 2]– POSTMODERN PULP](https://thedirectorsseries.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/working-sequence-2.00_12_16_03.still030-e1614117618470.jpg)
PART 2: POSTMODERN PULP PART 2: POSTMODERN PULP is the second chapter of THE DIRECTORS SERIES’ examination into the films and career of director Quentin Tarantino, covering his pair of zeitgeist-defining follow-up films, PULP FICTION (1994) and JACKIE BROWN (1997). Subscribe to our channel on Special to gain access to the full episode!
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![Quentin Tarantino [Part 1]– A Bloody Breakout](https://thedirectorsseries.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/working-sequence.00_11_32_22.still019-e1611638621983.jpg)
PREVIEWPART 1: A BLOODY BREAKOUT A BLOODY BREAKOUT is the first chapter of THE DIRECTORS SERIES’ examination into the films and career of director Quentin Tarantino, covering his lost first effort, MY BEST FRIEND’S BIRTHDAY (1987) and his debut feature, RESERVOIR DOGS (1992). Subscribe to our channel on Special to gain access to the full…
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Sometime after the runaway success of 2012’s DJANGO UNCHAINED, director Quentin Tarantino was taking in a viewing of John Carpenter’s horror classic, THE THING (1982). He came away from this particular screening with complicated feelings– an impression that compelled him to take to his writing as a way to process his reaction (1). The idea…
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Academy Award Wins- Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay The success of 2009’s INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS sent director Quentin Tarantino off on another career high. It was the realization of an idea that had been a long-time coming, with Tarantino purportedly first conceiving the idea around 1994, after the production of PULP FICTION. In 2012, he…
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Notable festivals: Cannes (Best Actor) Academy Award Wins: Best Supporting Actor Director Quentin Tarantino’s seventh feature film, 2009’s INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, is a very personal film for me, in that various facets of its existence coincided with my own at the time. I had moved to Los Angeles in the summer of 2008, and my first…
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The series of collaborations between directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez reached their apex in 2007 with the release of GRINDHOUSE. The project was an ode to a bygone era from their youth, where cheesy genre and exploitation films where shown on a double bill in cheap art-house theatres. As the megaplex and the blockbuster…
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The crime procedural is a staple of primetime television. There’s at least three different shows focused on criminal investigations for every major broadcast network. As someone who doesn’t regularly watch these shows, much less primetime broadcast TV, I frequently joke that they’re all the same show. One of my best friends works on USA’S BURN…
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In 2005, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and comic book auteur Frank Miller collaborated on a film adaptation of Miller’s seminal work, “Sin City”. Shot digitally entirely against a green-screen virtual “backlot”, the film told three lurid stories in the tone of classic noir and pulp fiction. The film was released to critical and audience acclaim, and…