2017) just as this documentary was being finished, a stain on Tarantino’s legacy that he has acknowledged and been self-critical about. Pink talk about what he “deems” to be true, and wonder how many low-life thugs you’ve ever heard use words like “deems.”Īnd Harvey Weinstein hangs over Tarantino and “QT8,” an animated ogre (literally) who was exposed (in Oct.
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The indulgent longueurs (most emphatically overdone with Brad Pitt in a car in “Once Upon a Time…”), the inane and dated pop culture debates - in every film save for “The Hateful Eight” - the junk TV and Z-movies referenced. Jackson profane and un-PC soliloquies provide.
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Nobody talks about the QT crutches, how unwatchable his movies can be merely by removing the offensive language (“American Movie Classics” my arse!) and the easy laughs the Samuel L. Kurt Russell, the great stuntwoman/actress Zoe Bell, and many others speak.
Why? Because we LOVE making movies!”Įli Roth, Lucy Liu and others speak of screenplays “that read like a novel…He’s adapting his own novels to the screen,” of how he writes scripts in longhand “because you can’t compose poetry on a computer.” We get a taste of Tarantino’s influences, Kubrick’s “The Killing” and Ringo Lam’s Hong Kong thriller “City on Fire.”Īnd stars like Robert Forster marvel over Jackie Brown’s long, romantic walk out of prison towards his character in “Jackie Brown” - “They never DO that.” Christoph Waltz talks of how Tarantino “uses filmic vocabulary,” Jennifer Jason Leigh opines that “He writes strong women like nobody’s business” and more than one performer confirms his on-set demeanor, how he speaks in “movie shorthand.”Ī good take will earn an “Ok, we GOT that. The film breaks into chapters - “Chapter 2: Badass Women & Genre Play.” Michael Madsen, who launched his career with “Reservoir Dogs” and still managed to turn down the Travolta role in “Pulp Fiction,” remembers telling the writer-director, “I don’t want to be killed by Tim Roth! Who’s HE?” (“Reservoir Dogs”).Īnd Roth taunts Madsen back over the actor’s refusal to do his sadistic little Golden Oldies torture dance in “Dogs.” The actors take us through the Tarantino universe, the connections between this guy in “Reservoir Dogs” and that one in “Pulp Fiction,” the possible kinship of bad hombres from “The Hateful Eight” to bad hombres in films set later. One Tarantino quotation that sticks out - “If you love movies enough, you can make a good one.” You can’t argue that he doesn’t, and even a hater would have to give it to him that he has. What is here is fun, enlightening and entertaining. Nobody’s here to challenge the assertion that he’s “the voice of his generation.”īut no matter. So it’s not exactly a critical reconsideration of the filmmaker’s work, a deep dive into his biography to connect it to the work. She uses quotations by him and the barest slivers of footage of him, on sets, etc., and lots and lots of interviews with actors who have worked with him, or owe their careers or “comebacks” to their association with “QT.”
21 release (at a theater near you).Īnd I’ve burned through hundreds of words just getting past the inaccuracy/problems with the title.įilmmaker Tara Wood - she also did a “21 Years: Richard Linklater” documentary - doesn’t interview Tarantino for the film. So purists will have a lot to bicker about before the credits to “QT8” roll on this Fathom Events Oct. That means leaving out “Death Proof” from “Grind House,” which “QT8″ covers, and his contribution to another anthology,” Four Rooms,” which “QT8” ignores.Īnd then there were his “True Romance” and “From Dusk Til Dawn” scripts, the story for Oliver Stone’s “Natural Born Killers.” 2,” “Inglourious Basterds,” “Django Unchained,” “The Hateful Eight” and “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood.” So, he’s nine films into his career - “Reservoir Dogs,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Jackie Brown, “Kill Bill Vol. It leaves out Tarantino’s first feature-length directing and co-writing credit, 1987’s “My Best Friend’s Birthday.” Here’s a career retrospective documentary that began life as “21 Years: Quentin Tarantino,” and was finished a few years ago (2017) - brushed up, repurposed, re-titled and released on the heels of a very successful run of “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood.”įootage from the trailer to “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood” was added to the coda of a film that considers Quentin Tarantino’s Hollywood films, from “Reservoir Dogs” to “The Hateful Eight.”
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