QT is gonna be on American Idol.

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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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What it might look like if Quentin Tarantino started making ads for PETA.

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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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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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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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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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Quentin is going to be the instructor for Cinema Masterclass during Cannes this year.

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Quentin is 45 years old today.

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In case it matters, QT is backing Barack Obama for President.

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Quentin had a bit of a run-in with some paparazzi at Sundance.

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Quentin will be receiving the 2008 Ray-Ban Visionary Award on January 20th, 2008 in Park City, Utah.

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QT got to announce the nominees for the Golden Globes Best Drama category.

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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The history of Quentin Tarantino and Harvey Weinstein.

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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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Along with Robert Rodriguez, Quentin picked out his 10 favorite movie posters of all time for EW.

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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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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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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.

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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 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 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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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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Quentin made the gossip rags today after his date sucked on his fingers at the Spike TV Scream Awards. There's a picture of the girl if you follow the link.

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Jet Li talks about whats different when Tarantino makes a kung-fu film, vs. someone from the Far East.

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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Chinese commercial with Kill Bill as the backdrop, though its not about Kill Bill per se. [thanks Henry]

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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Quentin is auctioning a Pulp Fiction poster signed by himself and John Travolta at Clothes Off Our Back. All proceeds go to the Milo Gladstein Foundation for Bloom's Syndrome. QT is involved because the young son of Richard Gladstein - one of the Pulp Fiction producers - has the disorder.

More info on Bloom's Syndrome at Wikipedia.

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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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What if Quentin Tarantino authored the bible? With Uma Thurman starring as Mary Magdalene.

This is pretty good stuff - a welcome diversion.

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QT Fest is currently going on down in Austin and AICN has coverage of Night 1.

Day 2 update.

Day 3 update.

Day 4 update.

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The Austin Film Society has announced that Quentin Tarantino will be in Austin to host QT 7 - the Quentin Tarantino Film Festival from April 24th thru April 03th, 2006.

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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Encore is running a Tarantino film marathon today for Christmas. Michael Madsen will be presenting each film.

IESB also has a video interview with QT up that appears to have been shots at a screening of Hostel.

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There is a video up over at the Clerks 2 website of Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez talking about the film right after they screened it with Kevin Smith.

Thanks to Desk and Johnny for sending this in.

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Shar Jackson has clarified her relationship with Quentin, claiming that they are just horror movie buddies.

This was discussed to death back in the Summer.

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Eric David has written a long essay on the role of vice in Quentin Tarantino's films. I think alot of the connections he tries to make - particularly the paragraph on the name Bill from Kill Bill - are a real stretch. Still an interesting article though.

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Quentin Tarantino was given a Best Action Movie Director award at the TAURUS World Stund Awards on Sunday night.

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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For those of us not able to attend, Dumb Distraction has a day-by-day account of what went on at QT6 in Austin.

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 got to ride along in a NASCAR today at Bristol Motor Speedway. Seems like he enjoyed himself.

"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."

"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.

I just hope there are no Days of Thunder sequel rumors that come from this.

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The Austin Film Society has announced that Quentin Tarantino will be in Austin to host QT 6, a nine-day film festival of movies hand-selected by the director. The festival runs September 9th thru the 17th and will be held at the Alamo Drafthouse in downtown Austin. The Austin Business Journal has a few more details and some history about past QT festivals.

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