Quentin Tarantino
Locarno: Stacey Sher on Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh and the Films That Got Away
Few filmmakers can claim to have helped shape an entire era of cinema, but the boom in 1990s indie cinema is impossible to imagine without producer Stacey Sher. “If you say, U.S. independent cinema of the ’90s, whatever film touched your feelings, your emotions and your memory, most probably, it has Stacey involved in it,” […]
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Paul Mescal, Rita Moreno and Quentin Tarantino to Be Honored at 2024 Academy Museum Gala
The Academy Museum will host its fourth annual star-studded gala on Oct. 19, this year honoring Paul Mescal, Rita Moreno and Quentin Tarantino. The fundraising event will celebrate the museum’s third anniversary and help raise funds to support museum exhibitions, education initiatives and public programming. Mescal will receive the Vantage Award, honoring an emerging artist or scholar […]
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How Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Movie Critic’ Fell Apart
“I trust myself as a writer, I trust my process,” Quentin Tarantino declared onstage at the Adobe Max creative conference in 2016. “I never try to take anything out too soon. If I do, I realize it, and I put it back.” The acclaimed filmmaker added: “Not every film needs to be made. Not every movie […]
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Quentin Tarantino’s 10-Movie Retirement Plan Has Some Flaws
For several years now, Quentin Tarantino has been adamant that he plans to make a single 10th and final movie — which will no longer be The Movie Critic. Some of his fans were relieved when this news broke yesterday. The Movie Critic originally sounded like a nostalgic character study (“more epilogue-y,” as Tarantino once […]
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Quentin Tarantino No Longer Making ‘The Movie Critic’ as Final Film
Quentin Tarantino is going back to the drawing board for his 10th and final film. The auteur had been preparing to start shooting The Movie Critic this year, but is backing away from the project, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. Tarantino had been honing The Movie Critic for months. Set in 1977 California, it initially […]
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TCM Classic Film Festival to Open With ‘Pulp Fiction’
Now’s the perfect time to cue up Chuck Berry’s “You Never Can Tell.” A 30th anniversary, 35mm screening of Pulp Fiction — complete with an appearance by John Travolta — will kick off the 15th annual TCM Classic Film Festival at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on April 18, it was announced Thursday. “Pulp […]
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Brad Pitt Circling Role in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Movie Critic’
Brad Pitt is looking to reunite with Quentin Tarantino for The Movie Critic, his 10th and apparently final film, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. The duo previously collaborated on Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which landed Pitt a best supporting actor Oscar for the role of stuntman Cliff Booth. […]
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Sundance at 40: The Most Infamous Fistfights, Freak-outs, Walk-Outs and Firsts
How a broken movie projector almost ruined "Reservoir Dogs," why Harvey Weinstein lost his temper in an Italian restaurant, what that camel was doing in Utah and other unforgettable events.
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Pam Grier Set for Career Tribute at Toronto Black Film Festival
Pam Grier, the pioneering action hero who starred in such Blaxploitation classics as Roger Corman’s The Big Doll House, The Big Bird Cage and Friday Foster, is set to receive a career achievement award at the upcoming Toronto Black Film Festival. Grier, who went on to star for Quentin Tarantino as the title character in Jackie Brown in 1994, will be […]
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How ‘Thanksgiving’ Director Eli Roth Turned a Fake Trailer Into His Best-Reviewed Movie
Thanksgiving filmmaker Eli Roth has been dreaming of a Thanksgiving-themed slasher movie since he was 12 years old, and he thought he’d forever scratched that itch when he made a fictitious trailer for a movie called Thanksgiving inside of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse (2007) double feature. But much to his surprise, genre fans […]
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‘Thanksgiving’ Director Eli Roth on Making a Black Friday-Inspired Slasher and Lessons He Took From ‘The Idol’
The Vista Theatre hosted two premieres on Tuesday night — the first was for Thanksgiving, Eli Roth’s latest horror offering based on the fake trailer he created for the 2007 film Grindhouse. The second was for the movie house itself, which held its first premiere since Quentin Tarantino purchased the single-screen theater in 2021 and […]
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Quentin Tarantino Visits Troops in Israel to “Boost Morale” Amid Hamas War
Quentin Tarantino visited a military base in Southern Israel to help “boost morale” amid the state’s war with Hamas. The 60-year-old Pulp Fiction director toured military bases and mingled with soldiers, according the international nonprofit Israel education organization Stand With Us. First, the Israel War Room X (formerly known as Twitter) account shared an image […]
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