Tarantino

If you ask Quentin Tarantino fans what their favorite of his films is, you will likely get many answering Pulp Fiction. Heck, we even put it in the number one spot on our ranking of the director’s oeuvre. Pulp Fiction is more than a reasonable response when picking a favorite Tarantino film because few films changed the pop-culture landscape quite like the filmmaker’s second directorial outing when it was released in 1994. But is it his best movie? Well, according to the man himself, no, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is.…

Quentin Tarantino has made several iconic films over his decades-long career. Yet what does the Academy Award winning screenwriter-director consider his favourite work so far? The filmmaker has put these speculations to rest in a recent interview saying that 2019 film Once Upon a Time In Hollywood is his favourite. (Also read: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood movie review: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt shine; Quentin Tarantino shocks)The director recently appeared in The Howard Stern show on SiriusXM, where he was asked to…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeQuentin Tarantino has declared that the current film era is the “worst in history”.Speaking of the modern movie era being tied with the 1980s and 1950s, the 59-year-old filmmaker expressed that today’s films come under “the worst in Hollywood history.”“Even though the Eighties was the time that I probably saw more movies in my life than ever – at least as far as going out to the movies…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeQuentin Tarantino has named Once Upon A Time in Hollywood his best movie to date.During an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, the 59-year-old filmmaker was asked to pick his best film ever.“For years people used to ask me stuff like that,” Tarantino said. “And I would say something like, ‘Oh, they’re all my children.’ I really do think Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is my best…

Credit: Stefania M. D'Alessandro/Getty Images for RFF Quentin Tarantino has made some of the most iconic films in Hollywood, from cult classics Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill to gory re-takes on history such as Django Unchained, the director has left an imprint in the history of cinema. From all of these great movies he has created though, he chose one that has left fans raising their eyebrows. Speaking with Howard Stern on the radio host’s SiriusXM show, the director was asked if it was possible for him to pick a…

Credit: Stefania M. D'Alessandro/Getty Images for RFF Director Quentin Tarantino doesn’t mince words. The opinionated filmmaker has no problem sharing his thoughts on pretty much any subject, and when recently asked about the state of modern media he pulled no punches. Tarantino was pontificating on his own podcast called The Video Archives Podcast and said this era of filmmaking is tied with the two previous eras as “the worst in Hollywood history.” “Even though the ‘80s was the time that I probably saw…

Some years ago, purely for work purposes, I visited a “cult TV convention” at a hotel in Solihull, where the fans at the bar were all dressed as Klingons and Peter Tork from the Monkees hosted an unruly pub quiz. Parked at a table, the B-movie actor John Saxon signed souvenir headshots for £10 a time. Saxon was in attendance thanks to his roles in Falcon Crest, Dynasty and The Six Million Dollar Man, but the indignity of the occasion showed on every line of his face. “I once made a movie with Marlon Brando,” he explained…

Are we really going to need the audiobook version? From the very first page, the author’s unmistakable voice ricochets between the reader’s ears: giggling, provoking, digressing, seducing and dropping deadpan little hints about his own life.Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Quentin Tarantino has published his first work of movie criticism, a study of his personal favourites from the New American Cinema era, including superb, boisterous pieces on Peter Yates’s Bullitt, John G Avildsen’s Joe, Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry,…

Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for RFF Quentin Tarantino is without a doubt one of the most accomplished, successful, and influential creative talents of the modern era, with the filmmaker having knocked out a string of classics dating back 30 years, landing himself two Academy Award wins from eight nominations in the process. As much as he likes to draw inspirations, lift shots, and include homages to the works of his favorite cinematic figures, he’s also built his career on creating completely…

There’s a darkness on the edge of town — and on the edge of my weekend. You know it’s coming. I know it’s coming. What can you do ... except maybe run out and enjoy a sunset before it starts getting dark absurdly early on Sunday.I’m Glenn Whipp, columnist for the Los Angeles Times, host of the Envelope’s Friday newsletter and the guy who’s pretending that’s it not really beginning to look a lot like Christmas, despite the fact that my local Trader Joe’s was playing holiday music the day after Halloween. Let’s see who’s…