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Created 2007-Apr-09. Updated 2025-Jul-08.

Quentin Tarantino (director, USA)

imageDeveloped an audacious fusion of pop culture and independent art house cinema; his films are thrillers that are distinguished as much by their clever, twisting dialogue as their non-linear narrative and outbursts of extreme violence.
Quentin Tarantino IMDB page

What makes him infinitely more interesting than just another flash-in-the-pan filmmaker with a predictable Oedipal drive challenging the codes and conventions of the dominant, parent cinema is that he can't be categorized as either mainstream or independent.
His style and content, is a glorious and often unruly mix of classic Hollywood, Hong Kong action cinema, comic book and television.
Is a master of film "language".

Favorite movies list

Pulp Fiction (1994)
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
Modern fairy tale (set in Hollywood's golden age) about an actor and his stunt double and longtime friend navigating a changing Hollywood film industry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Hollywood

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Jackie Brown (1997)
A middle-aged flight attendant, makes ends meet smuggling money. An almost quiet but more adult Tarantino (adapted from an Elmore Leonard's novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Brown

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Kill Bill (2003,2004) vol. 1, vol. 2
"Mauvais genre" cinema brought to the level of art; poetry of violence, poetry of motion in the language of film.
Formal perfection with (in vol. 2) substance/emotion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Bill

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Revenge is a dish best served cold (old Klingon proverb)

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(special guest director on Sin-City)