Quentin Tarantino Category Archive
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Tarantino Served With Plagiarism Lawsuit
QT is being sued for $1m for allegedly stealing the idea for Lucy Lui's character from Dannez Hunter.
Couple of obvious questions:
1. Why wait so long to file the suit?
2. Why only seek $1m.
Tarantino Crossword Puzzle
A Tarantino crossword puzzle [thanks Bobby]
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Tarantino To Tackle Slavery Next?
A glimmer of what Tarantino thinks might be next for him: a spaghetti western set during the time of slavery and the underground railroad. He's calling it 'a southern'.
I'd like to do a Western. But rather than set it in Texas, have it in slavery times. With that subject that everybody is afraid to deal with. Let's shine that light on ourselves. You could do a ponderous history lesson of slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad. Or, you could make a movie that would be exciting. Do it as an adventure. A spaghetti Western that takes place during that time. And I would call it 'A Southern.'"
Tarantino Wins Critics' Circle Award
Tarantino won the Critics' Circle Dilys Powell Award for Excellence, which I guess is kind of a consolation prize since they gave Director of the Year to Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker.
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QT Saves A Theater
Tarantino saves an LA theater from closing down. [thanks Eva]
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Quentin Tarantino Graphic Movie Poster Series
Ibraheem Youssef has created some very cool looking minimalist posters for Tarantino's films.
Very cool stuff, and unlike most of the alternative poster designs I've ever seen, you can actually purchase these from Ibraheem's website.
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QT's Movie Idea For Conan
Quentin was on the Tonight Show with Conan and came up with revenge movie idea for him.
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QT's Cell Phone Commercials
QT is doing cell phone commercials in Japan.
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Quentin-O-Lantern
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What Comic Book Movie Would You Love To See Q.T. Make?
Tarantino once said (and I am paraphrasing here) he would never do a comic (or was it superhero?) movie because of all the critical crap and b.s. that comes from your typical fanboy. Regardless, wouldn't it be great to see a Tarantino-esque PUNISHER film? Or perhaps his take on PREACHER? So the question of the day is what Comic Book movie would you like to see Q.T. take on? Here a few of the top choices, but feel free to toss in one of your own.
PUNISHER
PREACHER
100 BULLETS
STRAY BULLETS
WOLVERINE
SUPERMAN
CAPTAIN AMERICA
JUSTICE LEAGUE
GHOST RIDER
CRIMINAL
UNKNOWN SOLDIER
MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER
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Tarantino's Favorite Films 1992-2009
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ReelzChannel Discusses Top Ten QT Character Types
The fine folks at ReelzChannel.com have an interesting little Top Ten list on the various character types used by Tarantino over the years and what INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS characters fit each particular type.
You can check it out here.
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Short List Interviews Quentin Tarantino
Short List Magazine has an interview with Tarantino
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What QT "Sequel" would you like to see produced?
With Inglourious Basterds just around the corner Tarantino is busy on two fronts; deciding on a final cut (keep that bastard..err...basterd long, I say) and prepping for the endless rounds of interviews and promotion that come with a highly anticipated new release.
But after that, what's next?
For the sake of fun and a good argument, if you had your choice, what "Sequel" would you like to see come from Mr. Brown in the near future? For years a VEGA BROTHERS film had been rumored in the works. I've heard musings over a Kill Bill sequel THE BRIDE.
So, dear reader, what would you like to see as a Tarantino feature?
THE BRIDE
VEGA BROTHERS
PULP FICTION PART TWO
TRUE ROMANCE 2
THE DEADLY VIPERS
TALES OF THE WOLFE
RAVEN MCCOY AND FOX FORCE FIVE
Do any of these strike your fancy, or do you have something bigger and bolder in mind. Let us know what you think.
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Where will Lt. Aldo Raine rank in the Tarantinoverse?
With INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS a little over a month away from it's U.S. debut the question of the moment is where will Brad Pitt's Lt. Aldo Raine, Eli Roth's Donny Donowitz and the other Basterds rank in the vast and memorable library of Tarantino characters?
With that in mind we would like to know not only where you think they will stack up, but also who you think are QT's coolest and most memorable characters?
Who do you like? The Bride? Vic or Vincent Vega? Mr. Blonde? Stuntman Mike? Mr. White? Jules Winnfield? Bill? Seth Gecko?
Chime in and let us know what you think. And remember, fix your bayonets, strap on your helmets and prepare for the coming of the Basterds, August 21.
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QT On American Idol
QT is gonna be on American Idol.
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Tarantino's Birthday
Happy 45th B-Day to Quentin Tarantino today.
UPDATE: Thanks to the commenters that pointed out he turned 46 today, rather than 45. When I started this site, I was assured there would be no math. ;)
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If Quentin Did PETA Ads
What it might look like if Quentin Tarantino started making ads for PETA.
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Another 'Tarantino' Killing In Europe
Another violent crime in Europe, another comparison to Tarantino.
"They pointed a stun gun at a waiter and demanded the cash from the till, but the staff grabbed kitchen knives and charged at the men," a customer in the busy restaurant said. "It was like a moment from Tarantino's 'Kill Bill' films.
Note: This is a continuation of a theme I noticed some time ago.
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Tarantino's Mind
A video short - Tarantino's Mind. Good little film - although there shouldn't be anything new in this for the hardcore fans, but those new to QT's films will find it enlightening.
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The Tarantino Murders?
Thats the headline on Drudge right now. Why is it that whenever there is a brutal murder in Europe, the media or the police always seem to drag Quentin Tarantino's name into it?
One detective compared the killings to a Quentin Tarantino film.He said: "The scale of the violence is extraordinary. This was like a scene from a Tarantino gangster film but these men were not criminals. These were two talented and innocent men who had no history of criminality."
UPDATE: The Tarantino reference has been scrubbed from this article (the quote above was in the piece originally). But not all traces of connection to QT has been removed, the URL of the article still has his name in it.
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Tarantino Trading Card
On April 23rd, Donruss will debut the Americana Celebrity Cuts trading card set and our very own Mr. Tarantino will have a card. Below is the image.
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Tarantino To Teach At Cannes
Quentin is going to be the instructor for Cinema Masterclass during Cannes this year.
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Happy Birthday Quentin!
Quentin is 45 years old today.
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Tarantino's Presidential Pick
In case it matters, QT is backing Barack Obama for President.
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QT Confronts Paparazzi
Quentin had a bit of a run-in with some paparazzi at Sundance.
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Tarantino Wins 2008 Ray-Ban Visionary Award
Quentin will be receiving the 2008 Ray-Ban Visionary Award on January 20th, 2008 in Park City, Utah.
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QT Announces Drama Nominees
QT got to announce the nominees for the Golden Globes Best Drama category.
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Tarantino As Elvis On Golden Girls
Chronological Snobbery has an extremely detailed account of Tarantino's appearance on The Golden Girls as an Elvis impersonator. This is pre Reservoir Dogs, so Quentin was a true unknown at the time.
After the jump is a YouTube video of the scene
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Election DVD
The DVD for Election was released this past week. This is a Tartan Asia Extreme release that features a quote from Quentin on the front cover calling it:
The Best Film Of The Year
I haven't seen anything beyond the trailer (see video after the jump), but it looks interesting.
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Film Ink Interview With Tarantino
Thanks to the good folks at Film Ink, here are some advance scans of their November 2007 issue with Quentin on the cover. The issue has a icon article with Rosario Dawson and a big profile/interview with Tarantino.
Rosario Dawson article: Page 1, Page 2
Tarantino article: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4
Film Ink is on newstands in Australia and New Zealand beginning this week and copies of this issue can be ordered thru Dina (dina@filmink.com.au).
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Video Of Tarantino At Dublin Event
New Minute news has some pictures (scroll down, no permalinks that I could see) of Quentin from an appearance in Dublin from earlier this month. They've also got a video of Quentin from the same event.
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QT Not A Hero
Quentin turned down Heroes when they offered him a chance to direct an episode this season. Regardless of the reason (he says he's never seen the show), its a good move as I expect Heroes to take a big nose-dive in the ratings this year.
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Quentin Appearance In London
Quentin is going to be signing stuff in London on Thursday, Sept 20th if you happen to be close by. Here's the details:
Date: Thursday 20th Sept
Time: 1pm
Where: Waterstone's Piccadilly, 203 - 206 Piccadilly London W1V 9LE
Contact: 020 7851 2400 for further information.
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Tarantino Turns Down Hawaii Five-0
It doesn't sound like the idea ever got very far, but QT turned down the chance to make a Hawaii Five-0 film recently.
"I tried to watch the old TV show, but it sucks. I don't even like Hawaii."
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Random QT Stuff
Quentin made a flight attendant cry after he refused to sit in his assigned seat (he'd injured his back).
QT is also talking up the idea of a cheerleader or women's prison movie, neither of which interest me at all.
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Five Fingers Of Death
The Shaw Brothers King Boxer (Five Fingers Of Death) has been released on DVD, and it features a commentary track from Quentin.
Blog Critics has a detailed review if you are interested.
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When Harvey Met Quentin
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Tarantino's Past Lives
I'm not sure why it came up, but Quentin is talking about his past lives as a black slave and a Chinese and Japanese guy.
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QTs Favorite Movie Posters
Along with Robert Rodriguez, Quentin picked out his 10 favorite movie posters of all time for EW.
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QT Talks Film
Its been around a couple days, but I missed it. QT wrote article for the Sunday Times titled I Call The Shots Here talking about how and why he makes movies and various other stuff.
Violence is one of the most cinematic things you can do with film. It's almost as if Edison and the Lumiere brothers invented the camera for filming violence. The most cinematic directors, they're taking cinema and exciting you. I really do think about it like that. I'm doing my own thing, but I'm thinking about the audience, too, though not in a manipulative way. I am the audience.
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LA Grindhouse Festival
Leading up to the release of GRINDHOUSE, Tarantino will be hosting the Los Angeles 2007 Grindhouse festival beginning March 4th and running thru the end of April. Coming Soon has the details.
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Bad Taste Bears Tarantino Event
Everyone's favorite Tarantino-themed band, the Tarantinotes are going to be playing at the Bad Taste Bears Tarantino Event on March 31st.
The event is to celebrate the launch of Killed Bill. There are only 4,000 of the yellow being created, and only 700 of the pictured limited edition black version. There is also going to be a great looking Tarantino sketch book available that I'd love to get my hands on.
Check out the event website for all the details.
QT Talks Halloween, Evil Dead, Jason
Fangoria has a short interview with Quentin up (with a great photo of QT in character from Planet Terror).
Surprisingly though, the topic isn't GRINDHOUSE, but rather Evil Dead, Halloween and Friday the 13th. He was approached to at least discuss doing an Evil Dead remake (he's not), and you probably remember the Friday the 13th rumors from 2005.
But I had never heard that he nearly had a hand in making Halloween 6.
"That was weird," Tarantino recalls. "It was one of those things where Scottie was bringing me along and I was the one who put two and two together and come up with at least the first couple of scenes."The filmmaker recognized that it would be up to him to pick up from the end of HALLOWEEN 5, where Michael Myers is freed from jail by the now-infamous man in black. "I thought hands-f**kin'-down the best part of HALLOWEEN II was the first 15 minutes, when Michael is trying to get out of suburbia. It was very BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN: The monster is now stuck in the village and the scenes are of everyone he bumps into until he gets the f**k out. Well, that's what Michael does in part two. He's going through the backyards and going in through houses and someone's kitchen and killing everyone along the way. That shit was magnificent; then when it got to the hospital, it totally fell apart.
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Tarantino Wins Golden Eddie
Tarantino was awarded the ACE Golden Eddie filmmaker of the year award.
The board of American Cinema Editors (ACE) called the Pulp Fiction director "a true visionary" when they announced he was to receive the gong, reports Variety.The statement added: "His rich and original body of work represents the best that our creative community has to offer."
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Tarantino On Iconoclasts
Tarantino is going to be on Iconoclasts on the Sundance Channel tonight (Nov 10) with Fiona Apple. There's already a bit of a clip up on You Tube of the episode.
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Tarantino Spits On Chris Connelly
An odd video of Tarantino spitting on MTV's Chris Connelly at the 1997 Oscars. QT had him confused with somebody else.
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QT's Finger-Lickin' Good
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Jet Li Talks Kung Fu Films, QT
Q: More western directors like Quentin Tarantino are doing Chinese martial arts films. What is the difference between a martial arts film directed by a Westerner and someone from China?
A: Quentin Tarantino is in love with Asian movies and martial arts movies. He’s a specialist, a genius, he knows a lot of things but even in movies made in the States, the director may be from the States but the choreographer or action director is still Asian. It’s just a different angle to see the same thing.
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QT Tube
Jules Winfield as a junior hockey coach [thanks Publis]
Just because you look like The Gimp doesn't mean you play like The Gimp.
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Signed Pulp Fiction Poster Being Auctioned
More info on Bloom's Syndrome at Wikipedia.
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Vote For Tarantino
AskMen.com has a poll running to determine the Top 49 men of 2006, and Quentin Tarantino has made the list of nominees. Go vote him up.
UPDATE: QT finished in 39th place.
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Pulp Crucifixion
This is pretty good stuff - a welcome diversion.
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Best Of QT Fest Update
Day 2 update.
Day 3 update.
Day 4 update.
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QT7 - Tarantino Film Festival In Austin, TX
QT himself is coming back to Austin, and he's bringing the best of his personal film collection for QT Seven - The Best of QT. During the seven-day film festival, he'll tell you why he loves these wacky, unique and always interesting films and why you should too.Info on last years' film festival, QT6, can be found here and here.
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QT Holiday Bits
IESB also has a video interview with QT up that appears to have been shots at a screening of Hostel.
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Tarantino Talks Clerks 2
Thanks to Desk and Johnny for sending this in.
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Shar Just A Horror Movie Buddy
This was discussed to death back in the Summer.
Tarantino As Shakespeare
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Tarantino Wins World Stunt Award
TWSA executive producer Mitch Geller said, "Quentin Tarantino's work with the Kill Bill films, solidified him as one of today's best action directors making him the perfect choice for the Taurus Action Movie Director of the Year award. He has consistently shown an ability to learn from the stunt teams on his many films and has expressed a genuine interest in the field of stunt work."Kill Bill V2 also won awards for Best Fight and Best Overall Stunt By a Stuntwoman.
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A Report From QT6
Day 1 - Secret Agent Night
Day 2 - 1980's Horror Marathon
Day 3 - Australian Night
Day 4 - Documentary Night
Day 5 - Italian WW2 Epic Night
Day 6 - Italian Crime Films from the 1970's
Day 7 - Sexploitation Night
Day 8 - Grindhouse Triple Feature
Day 9 - Mystery Encore Presentation
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Tarantino Does NASCAR
"Yeah, Baby! That's what I'm talking about!" he yelled after several seconds of silence. "That was incredible. I didn't 100 percent know what to expect when I got here. I was very open to be intoxicated, and I most definitely was."I just hope there are no Days of Thunder sequel rumors that come from this.
"Ben Affleck, he looked like a little girl!," Tarantino said. "When I saw Ben Affleck and Dave Spade acting like little girls, I said I got this one. I'm all good. I don't have to worry about nothing.
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QT 6 Film Festival
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