Quentin Tarantino

Django Unchained: The Most Moving Scene Quentin Tarantino Has Yet Filmed

Django is Like "Accidental Racist," Except Not Godawful.

Django Django on Django Unchained, and America's Giant Food Portions

Though they share a moniker with some other important Djangos (see: Reinhardt and Freeman a/k/a Unchained), the UK's Django Django carved their own letters into the pop culture lexicon in 2012. They had a sort of unimpeachably successful year: their eponymous debut was appropriately lauded by the mu ... More >>

Tarantino To Reporter: "I'm Not Your Slave...I'm Not A Monkey!"

A TV reporter asked Django Unchained creator Quentin Tarantino how he's so sure that there's no link between enjoying movie violence and enjoying real violence. Tarantino could have replied, "Because movies are illusion. Mine, especially, is a satirical riff, a romp, a ride, with some self-consciou ... More >>

How to Defend Quentin Tarantino

What critics who attack the director's borrowings miss

Django Unchained Upends the Western

A history of violence

The Top 10 Films of 2012

The end of cinema? Hardly.

Quentin Tarantino Emerges with His Most Daring Film Yet

Basterd makes good

Django Unchained and Race: Here's What Drudge Doesn't Tell You

Ever vigilant for things to be outraged by, conservative internet precincts yesterday dropped the bombshell that there's gambling in Casablanca the word "nigger" is spoken in a Quentin Tarantino movie about American slavery. Since Drudge et al. haven't actually seen the movie, they just go with th ... More >>

The RZA On His Feature Directorial Debut, Quentin Tarantino and Kanye West

RZA's bucket list must be down to a paltry few uncrossed items. Where does one begin when interviewing someone like RZA? Supreme Clientele, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Tical... The guy helmed some of the dustiest, grittiest, most timeless rap classics ever banged out on a drum machine. He's acted in Ju ... More >>

Americans Are Cool, Says World's Coolest Poll

Just a couple of Cool-mericans.​Have you heard of Badoo? It's "the world's largest social network," and though we don't talk about it too terribly much in America, because we are too cool for such things, it is talking about us! According to a recent online poll on Badoo.com, in which 30,000 p ... More >>

Brutality Stretched Out to Sadean Extremes in I Saw the Devil

Beware of BMW Owners Who Will Shoot You and Lock You In Their Trunk

​The Daily News says police are investigating a bizarre Harlem "fender-bender," in which the driver of a BMW slammed into the back of a cab this morning, jumped out of the car, and ran away. Cops later popped the trunk and found a man with no ID and a gunshot wound in his head. (The man was rushed ... More >>

Black Swan Is "a Lezzie Wet Dream"!

Friars do Quentin Tarantino to a turn; Miami's pretty hot, too

Black Swan, Cyndi Lauper, South Beach, and Cockpit Jokes!

​CLICK HERE for my yuletide potpourri of a column which goes from movie premieres to Florida sun frolicking to free buffets to casino culture and back to the free buffets!

Jackie Brown

THUG LIFE

Film Forum shows off its criminal record

Urge Overkill

The Venice Film Festival -- That's a Wrap

​Back from the Lido, I learned that Somewhere, Sofia Coppola's slight, stringent, not-quite sentimental tale of a movie star on the edge of a nervous breakdown and the 11-year-old daughter that loves him, had won the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice Film Festival--the "unanimous choice" per jury ... More >>

Venice Midpoint: Women Rule

From Meek's Cutoff​Midway through the Venice film festival, the competition is notable for a pair of features by American women: Sofia Coppola's Somewhere and Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff -- both minimalist, open-ended exercises in myths debunked and protagonists lost. Evidently inspired ... More >>

Oscar Winner Turned Away From Gay Beer Hall

​That's just one of many spicy items in this week's column, a smorgasboard of earthly delights, pink tights, and quick bites, all served sans remorse. CLICK HERE and you'll also be asked to wonder:

This Week in the Voice

​Years ago, Ella Taylor interviewed Quentin Tarantino at his favorite Denny's. She returns to the scene to ask about Inglourious Basterds and his career. Tarantino is charmng, but if you want to be pissed at him, he does say things like, "A case can be made that I re-created the gangster fil ... More >>

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds Makes Holocaust Revisionism Fun

Quentin Tarantino: The Inglourious Basterds Interview

Two decades after the severed ear of Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino serves up Hitler's head on a plate

Cannes 2009: Inglourious Basterds Is Amoral, Crude, Juvenile--In Other Words, Quintessential Tarantino

Our film critic J. Hoberman is filing regular dispatches from this year's Cannes Film Festival. It's time, finally, to hear about Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Inglourious Basterds--a World War II spaghetti western even more drenched in film references than blood Wednesday dawned, Ingl ... More >>

This Week in Voice Blogs

At Sound of the City, our film critic J. Hoberman reports from the Cannes premiere of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: "A sort of World War II spaghetti western, even more drenched in film references than blood." Also: Behind the scenes as Method Man and Redman snub The Roots! At La Daily ... More >>

Cannes Day Zero: J. Hoberman, Live from France

Our longtime film critic J. Hoberman will be filing regular dispatches from this year's Cannes Film Festival. Day zero: Hoberman plans his schedule, looks for strawberries, equates Quentin Tarantino's proudly misspelled Inglourious Basterds to a bad T-shirt. Inglourious Basterds a/k/a I'M WITH STO ... More >>

American Idol Top 7: Adam Lambert Still Gay, Deja Vu as Quentin Tarantino Re-Visits Karaoke Idol

Ray Mickshaw / Fox Something is oddly familiar this week, with a special appearance by that highest musicological expert in all the land, film director Quentin Tarantino. He's the guest for Movie Music theme night, something that also happened five years ago. I am not an obsessive cataloger of Amer ... More >>

A Half-Minuted Animated Remake of Quentin Tarantino's 1994 Hit Movie That Stars Rabbits and Is Totally Hilarious

A few weeks ago I bemoaned how pointless AMC's censored version of Pulp Fiction was, so I did not expect to discover over the holiday weekend a half-minute animated remake of Quentin Tarantino's 1994 hit movie that stars rabbits and is totally hilarious. The 30-Second Bunnies Theatre company--John ... More >>

Hell Ride: A Vulgar Homage to Cheapie Biker Movies

Frozen River Lays It On Thick

Melissa Leo nails her role as a struggling mom.

Counter-Strike

Steel yourself for 2008 with a look back at the year's best scripts

Who Put the Goth in Gotham?

Unconventional swordplay and vamping, plus blind items that will make you go blind

Zombie Slasher Love

Match made in grindhouse: Rodriguez's undead meet Tarantino's psychopath stuntman in splatter-fest double-header

Redistributing the Wealth

NYFF's 31-film ode to Janus a veritable Cinema 101

Down for the Count

Better luck tomorrow: Bubbly cast and clever banter can't overcome blatant Tarantinoisms

'My Big Fat Independent Movie'

Getting It Together: The Best in Film Share Their Secrets

Michael Moore Wins Palme d’Or

Cannes 2004

All That Heaven Allows

Superior Education, feel-good agitprop, a hell-raising Moore dot the Cannes firmament

Vengeance Is Hers

Ethereal yin to Vol. 1's visceral yang, Tarantino's epic ends in a breeze of sweet reason

Bill Kill

How to get the public interested in campaign finance reform? Think Pam Grier.

Horoscope

Bildungshiphop

What Tarantino missed (and Jarmusch got) about the Wu

NY Mirror

Letters

Enter the Dragon Lady

After a six-year absence, Tarantino plunges once again into a cinematic hall of mirrors

Faster, Pussy Wagon! Kill! Kill!

Back from the dead with the new Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantino exposes the dick drive, movie ultraviolence, and his foot fetish

Tarantino-Tested

Will Quentin's Long-Awaited Kung Fu Gore-Super-Soak, Kill Bill, Inspire Moviegoing Fervor?

Freeze-Frame

A Year (Heck—A Decade, Even) of Pop Music at the Movies

Young Blood