The 9th film from Quentin Tarantino

[lisa needs braces]

The Europeans sure would like to have a Tarantino, wouldn't they? But the rockstar of cinema is American and they're going to have to eat it.

Film premiered Tuesday night at Cannes film festival. Tarantino implored the audience not to spoil it.

The reviews are great. I'm not gonna lie, I thought Django and Hateful Eight weren't great films, though they were certainly good. Will Tarantino return to greatness with this picture? Is Tarantino the greatest American artist alive?

The new trailer. Hollywood 1969. An actor and his stunt double looking for work. Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski as minor characters. Charles Manson is in it too. 

Will this film bring me orgasmic and ecstatic joy?

https://youtu.be/qePl3OVYYgk

[relm1]

I live in Los Angeles and was fascinated to hear on the radio that parts of Hollywood Boulevard were restored to vintage 1970's signs and store fronts for the film.  LA has a fascinating and dark history and I'm looking forward to this film which I believe will do that period justice.

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

I enjoyed Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, From Dusk 'til Dawn, sort of. The rest I have found basically unwatchable.

[lisa needs braces]

I enjoyed Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, From Dusk 'til Dawn, sort of. The rest I have found basically unwatchable.

I also like "Reservoir Dogs." But I'm with you. Curiously, Tarantino could have gone with the route of adapting other Elmore Leonard novels (Jackie Brown is based on "Rum Punch") but he decided to go a different path of being the only vision in all his subsequent efforts. I remember him calling the writer/director combo role as the most artistically prestigious in Hollywood. Howard Roarke-esque egoism?

Anyway, about "Reservoir Dogs." A short film was shown around film festivals in 1996 that convincingly argues Tarantino basically re-imagined a mediocre Hong Kong film starring Yun-Fat Chow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HgbSAL8OKY

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

I liked Reservoir dogs when I first saw it but when I tried to watch it a second time I found it too crudely brutal.