Tagged: quentin tarantino
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Pulp Fiction originally ran as part of our top 100 movies list. The Scorseses and the Spielbergs were the first generation of successful filmmakers to have...
Quentin Tarantino’s four most recent films have all been titled in homage to his heroes of the 1960s and ‘70s. It hasn’t been my favorite tendency he’s indulged, as the works themselves are far more imbued with his considerable creativity...
I know you’re expecting this fable to start in the summer of ’69. After all, that’s when the story you know happens, well, happens. But things started going wrong a bit before and when we first meet TV actor Rick...
A priest, a salesman, and a hippie walk into a motel. Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one, because before long, the priest will be digging for buried treasure, the salesman making calls to Hoover, and the hippie dragging...
I decided to undertake a movie challenge in 2017. This seemed like a good way to see some classic movies that I have unfortunately never seen. The Battleship Pretension Top 100 list provided such a challenge. I was very late to...
QUENTIN TARANTINO PULP FICTION, RESERVOIR DOGS, KILL BILL, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, JACKIE BROWN There might not be a better case for director-as-pop-star than Quentin Tarantino. He’s kind of the Warhol of filmmakers, only I think he’s having more fun. He...
