TMI (Today’s Movie Info)
February: Director’s Month
QUENTIN TARANTINO … his first full-length feature, Reservoir Dogs, received rave reviews at the Sundance Festival in 1992. Tarantino’s second feature exploded into Hollywood, as Pulp Fiction (1994) garnered Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and winning for Best Screenplay. While it may seen that Tarantino is a cinematic fixture, he has actually only directed 7 full length features to date. His eighth film, Django Unchained, is due for release on Christmas Day 2012. Tarantino is known for his encyclopedic knowledge of film and TV history, and each of his films features a tribute or nod to a film, TV series and/or song that influenced his work. He also writes his own movies, and has a small group of confidants that he allows to read his drafts. He is quoted as saying “When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, ‘no, I went to films’”.
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