But before he was director, Doueiri worked with renowned filmmaker Quentin
Tarantino on films like Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.
Not exact matches
There are moments where Django Unchained feels
like Quentin
Tarantino's take
on Blazing Saddles, for example, particularly a sequence involving the KKK that plays far funnier than the rest of the tone of the
film.
It was a time of big budget, Oscar nominated studio
films like Misery and early genre work from filmmakers who would go
on to become the best in the business,
like Fincher's Seven, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense,
Tarantino and Rodriguez's From Dusk Til Dawn, and Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder.
Easier said than done, the picture is a fantastic, spot -
on shrine to
films that don't deserve it and,
like a more carefree
Tarantino, obviously the product of guys intoxicated by the strange wine of B - cinema.
While names
like Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer and Francois Truffaut may not be familiar to even
film - buffs without an extensive education in European art house (though most would certainly recognise the name of Jean - Luc Godard) they have gone
on to influence filmmakers such as Quentin
Tarantino, Martin Scorcese and Michel Gondry.
Anderson has long been a proponent of shooting
on celluloid and releasing his
films theatrically, which puts him
on an anti-streaming team that also includes directors
like Christopher Nolan and Quentin
Tarantino.
For the past couple of years — except 2013 when he was working
on his own «Django Unchained «-- Quentin
Tarantino wasn't shy about sharing the
films he
liked, and sometimes, the ones he didn't.
Tara Wood will direct the Quentin
Tarantino documentary which follows her work
on last year's similarly themed 21 Years: Richard Linklater, which focussed
on the US director of
films like Slacker, Before Sunrise and Boyhood.
Yet filmmakers
like Joe Dante, Martin Scorsese, and Quentin
Tarantino have singled him out for praise, and recently Image Entertainment released «The Mario Bava Collection»
on DVD, vanquishing the bastardized American versions of his
films with digital transfers of the original European releases.
Granted, the first half of the
film moves
like molasses as
Tarantino gets all of his pieces
on the board, but the pacing is intentional, slowly building to a boil that spills out into a flurry of violence in the final hour.
It's an exceptionally strange
film, somewhere between a yakuza thriller and a ponderous reflection
on the violent childishness of the criminal mind — only finally getting its due when Quentin
Tarantino stepped in to offer U.S. distribution and certain themes began to show up in weirdo crime flicks
like Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog (which itself culled themes from Branded to Kill and Le Samouraï, the latter of which Beat cited as a particular influence).
At the recent press day,
Tarantino and his actors talked about the advantages of shooting in 70 mm, how a
Tarantino set differs from other movie sets, how Leigh and Russell played off each other while chained at the hip for 4-1/2 months, why Russell remained in character after his character met his demise, the decision to stay close to the script,
Tarantino and Jackson's take
on race relations in America, why a period
film affords a filmmaker the opportunity to comment
on the present in ways a present day
film does not, what their filmmaking adventure was
like for the veteran actors who have been with
Tarantino from the beginning, and why
Tarantino doesn't mind dancing
on the edge of political correctness.
Top directors
like Quentin
Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Kelly Reichardt, Wes Anderson and Xavier Dolan work almost exclusively
on film, while Steven Spielberg, David Lynch and Martin Scorsese are returning to
film after brief flirtations with digital.
The two - disc release of «Inglourious Basterds» isn't quite as heavy
on bonus material as fans would probably
like, but it's still better than we're used to seeing from a Quentin
Tarantino film.
Like Tarantino, they have the film set in one room, and like Tarantino, they got their hands on great actors that no longer get the roles they deserve (Cary Elwes, Danny Glover,
Like Tarantino, they have the
film set in one room, and
like Tarantino, they got their hands on great actors that no longer get the roles they deserve (Cary Elwes, Danny Glover,
like Tarantino, they got their hands
on great actors that no longer get the roles they deserve (Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, et.