Quentin Tarantino and the Use of Food as Power
This video essay utilizes an interview with Quentin Tarantino recorded at KCRW where he talks the role food plays in his scripts.Read More
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Death Tarantino Style
Kevin B. Lee explores how Tarantino treats death in his films. During a screening last Christmas of Quentin Tarantino’s extremely popular new film Django Unchained I had the disorienting experience of sitting in an American cinema packed with people cheering wildly as a man ruthlessly slaughtered dozens of people, just two weeks after a man in real-life Read MoreRead More
DJANGO UNCHAINED – How DP Robert Richardson Shot Masterpiece ‘Spaghetti Southern’
EOSHD covers some of the techniques used by DP Robert Richardson on Django Unchained. A big mainstream hum around Tarantino and the endless violence debates (which are really rather silly) can often get in the way of what I consider to be a great artist at work. He’s drawing in very broad brushstrokes again with Django Read MoreRead More
The Pulp Fiction Oral History: Filmmakers Retrace the Movie’s Making
Quentin Tarantino, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta look back at how Pulp Fiction became reality. “I wasn’t sure I wanted to be in the movie,” Uma Thurman tells Vanity Fair contributing editor Mark Seal of Pulp Fiction. Thurman explains that it wasn’t just the obscenity, or her character’s drug habit—it was also the rape Read MoreRead More
The Django Unchained-Pulp Fiction Connection
Quentin Tarantino is known for leaving little clues in all of his films that tie them together into one universe. It’s never anything major, and typically just involves characters being relatives. Vic Vega (Michael Madsen) in Reservoir Dogs is the brother of Vincent Vega (John Travolta) in Pulp Fiction. Donny “The Bear Jew” Donowitz (Eli Roth) in Inglourious Basterds is the father of Read MoreRead More
Full-Tilt Boogie – The Making Of From Dusk Till Dawn
Full Tilt Boogie is a feature length documentary chronicles Quentin Tarantino and George Clooney and the members of the crew working on Robert Rodriguez directed From Dusk Till Dawn. via Flm School RejectsRead More
Quentin Tarantino: “I’m Shutting Your Butt Down”
How do you break through the white noise of Entertainment News? With a catchy title and and a little bit of drama – Quentin Tarantino and the cast of Django Unchained (Samuel L Jackson did it here) seem to be playing a complacent media masterfully as witness in this confrontational interview with Channel 4 journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy.Read More
Quentin Tarantino Tackles Old Dixie by Way of the Old West (by Way of Italy)
In this essay by Quentin Tarantino, the famed auteur director dissects the spaghetti westerns of Italian drectors like Leone and Corbucci and how it inspired his own rendition in Django Unchained. Any of the Western directors who had something to say created their own version of the West: Anthony Mann created a West that had room Read MoreRead More
Director of Photography Robert Richardson on Django Unchained
Robert Richardson, the director of photography on Django Unchained, opens up about what it’s like working on Tarantino’s Spaghetti Western Mash-up. Django Unchained, a controversial mash-up of Italian “spaghetti westerns” and the horrors of slavery, is the fourth film multi-Oscar-winning cinematographerRobert Richardson has lensed for Quentin Tarantino. Over the span of a decade – encompassing the two martial Read MoreRead More
Supercut of Every Pop Culture Reference From Quentin Tarantino Films
In chronological order, from Chaplin to Elvis to Lohan.Read More
Quentin Tarantino’s Track-by-Track Commentary for the Soundtrack of “Django: Unchained”
Music selection is an intrinsic element in the styling of Quentin Tarantino films. In this 90 minute radio show from Little Stephen’s Underground Garage on SiriusXM, the director himself introduces each track from the soundtrack and explains why he uses it and what it’s like to dive into having original music composed for his film Read MoreRead More
Quentin Tarantino on Charlie Rose (12/21/12)
Quentin Tarantino talks with Charlie Rose about his new film Django Unchained, the possibility of working with Johnny Depp and his “wish list” actors Meryl Streep and Michael Caine. Tarantino also shares his views on current production trends and why he has only one camera on set. http://youtu.be/cS-PmU7IKnERead More