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Quentin Tarantino |
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Director / Screenwriter |
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1963 - |
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Born March 27,
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA |
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Key
Production Country: USA |
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Key Genres:
Crime, Action,
Martial Arts |
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Key
Collaborators:
Sally Menke (Editor), Lawrence Bender (Producer), David Wasco (Production
Designer), Uma Thurman (Leading Player), Michael Madsen (Leading Player),
Samuel
L. Jackson (Leading Character Player), Robert Richardson
(Cinematographer), Michael Parks (Character Player), Harvey Keitel
(Leading Player), Tim Roth
(Leading Player) |
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Highly Recommended: Reservoir
Dogs (1991)*, Pulp Fiction (1994)*, Jackie Brown (1997) |
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Recommended: Kill
Bill Vol. 1 (2003)^, Kill
Bill Vol. 2 (2004)^ |
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Worth a Look:
Inglourious Basterds (2009)^ |
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Duds: Death Proof
(2007) [also released as part of Grindhouse (2007), co-directed
by Robert Rodriguez] |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
section; ^
Listed in TSPDT's
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films
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Links: [
Amazon
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IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
Film Reference ]
[
Wikipedia ] [
The Quentin Tarantino Archives ] [
San Francisco Chronicle Article (2009) ] [
Bright
Lights Film Journal Feature ] [
Guardian
Unlimited Article (2003) ]
[
1994
Interview ]
[
Everything Tarantino ] [
Crime Spree: Quentin Tarantino
Fanlisting ]
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PopMatters Article (2011)
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Books:
[
Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy ] [
Quentin Tarantino: The Man, The Myths and His Movies ]
[
Raised by Wolves: The Turbulent Art and Times of Quentin Tarantino ] [
Quentin
Tarantino: The Man and His Movies ] [
King
Pulp: The Wild World of Quentin Tarantino ] [
Quentin
Tarantino: The Film Geek Files ] [
Quentin
Tarantino: Interviews ] [
Quintessential Tarantino: The Films of Quentin Tarantino ] [
Quentin Tarantino: The Cinema of Cool ] [
Quentin Tarantino ] [
Tarantino A to Zed: The Films of Quentin Tarantino ] |
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"After working as
a video clerk while studying acting, he used the sale of an
early screenplay to raise money for his first directorial
venture, Reservoir Dogs (1992), a violent heist movie
that became a huge success. Noted for his witty dialogue,
non-linear narratives and distinctive use of music, he has
since blended humour with stylish violence to great effect,
and achieved cult status as a director." -
(Chambers Film Factfinder, 2006) |
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"With
their philosophical dimensions, unremitting
representations of venality and depravity among the
criminal under and over class, art cinema narrational
complexities, and black humor, Tarantino's first two films
are strikingly original contributions to an American
cinema struggling to rebound from the artistic doldrums of
the 1980s." -
R.
Barton Palmer (The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia,
1998) |
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"In
so many ways, he is the epitome of that brilliant,
remorseless, empty-life student that every film teacher
has tried to avoid. And yet, he is a real, weird writer, a
conduit for swinging, hardboiled talk which, if it is
gangsterese for the moment, might one day end in inspired
comedy." -
David
Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)
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"Movies are my
religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in
the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool.
When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me;
like I would die for it." - Quentin Tarantino |
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"To
me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a
script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm
going to play for the opening sequence." - Quentin Tarantino |
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"One
of the key figures in the debates around the fate of
cinephilia is Quentin Tarantino (b. 1963), who famously had
his formative education as a video store clerk. His own
filmmaking is very much indebted to the Blaxploitation genre
of American cinema, which by revisiting, he has helped to
redeem from the dustbin of history. Is this videophilia? Or
is it the cinephilia of the collector, whose obsessive and
passionate movie watching is yet another foray into the
politics of good taste?" -
Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film |
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Top 250 Directors |
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21st Century Top
50 |
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100 Essential Directors (Pop
Matters) |
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Ranked
17th on The Guardian's 2004 List of the World's 40 Best
Directors |
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Ranked 17th on Film Comment's list of the 25 Best Directors
of the Decade (2000-2009) |
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501 Movie Directors: A
Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers |
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See Also |
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Roger Avary (external link) |
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Cheh Chang |
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Brian
De Palma |
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Doug
Liman |
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Takeshi
Kitano |
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Robert
Rodriguez |
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Martin
Scorsese |
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Tony Scott |
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Barry Shear |
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Bryan Singer |
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Seijun Suzuki |
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John
Woo |
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Quentin Tarantino's Favourites |
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Blow Out (1981)
Brian De Palma,
Carrie (1976)
Brian De Palma,
Five Fingers of Death (1973) Chang Ho Cheng, Five Graves to
Cairo (1943)
Billy Wilder,
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Sergio Leone,
His Girl Friday (1940)
Howard Hawks,
Pandora's Box (1928)
G.W. Pabst,
Rio Bravo (1959)
Howard Hawks,
Taxi Driver (1976)
Martin Scorsese,
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
Preston Sturges.
Source: Empire (2008) |
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