TMI (Today’s Movie Info)
QUENTIN TARANTINO has four Academy Award nominations: writer and director for Inglourious Basterds (2009), and writer (won) and director for Pulp Fiction (1994)
His first feature film, Reservoir Dogs (1992), received immediate critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival, and he was hailed as the next great auteur in Hollywood.
His films frequently feature some or all: briefcases, suitcases, “car trunk shots”, close-ups of a woman’s bare feet, tributes to under-appreciated TV series, B movies and underground music. He is also a master of the long take … a single take of several minutes that follows one or more characters without a break.
Known for writing rapid-fire dialogue scenes … and that’s how he speaks in real life.
Reportedly has an IQ of 160 and an encyclopedic mind for music, movies and TV history
My own tip of the cap to him for reviving the careers of Michael Parks, Michael Madsen, Pam Grier and David Carradine (prior to his passing)
His next film is Django Unchained and it stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Kurt Russell, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Samuel L Jackson, Kerry Washington, Sacha Baron Cohen, Christoph Waltz, and Don Johnson. Expected release date is Christmas Day, 2012
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