Quentin Tarantino

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By Andrew O'Hehir Nov 4, 2009

  • What's behind the "WALL-E" cult?

    Is Pixar's Chaplin-meets-Kubrick robot romance really the best animated film ever? Plus: Answers to our "Sukiyaki Western Django" quiz revealed!
    By Andrew O'Hehir November 20, 2008

  • The ultimate Japanese Shakespeare spaghetti western!

    Takashi Miike's "Sukiyaki Western Django" offers a spectacular mashup of Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, Tarantino and the Bard -- and it's weirder than that sounds.
    By Andrew O'Hehir August 28, 2008

  • See Tarantino's next movie right now (sort of)

    Eager to catch the ultraviolent WWII shootout "Inglorious Bastards," loaded with blaxploitation beefcake and naked chicks? Come on over!
    By Andrew O'Hehir August 13, 2008

  • Double-wide dreams

    Courtney Hunt on her Sundance-acclaimed, slo-mo rural thriller "Frozen River" and making an indie film even action-movie fans can love (interview/podcast).
    By Andrew O'Hehir July 30, 2008

  • All-night party in a lost city

    Kent Mackenzie's gorgeous black-and-white film "The Exiles" captures a garage-rock world of urban American Indians in a vanished L.A. Plus: German groupie tells all!
    By Andrew O'Hehir July 10, 2008

  • Beyond the Multiplex

    Quentin Tarantino greets his adoring fans, explains "Death Proof." Plus: Harvey Weinstein slaps down Kurt Russell.
    By Andrew O'Hehir May 22, 2007

  • Rapist No. 1 action figure

    Get your very own plastic rapist, courtesy of NECA toys and Quentin Tarantino.
    By Catherine Price April 17, 2007

  • "Grindhouse"

    This deliciously depraved B-movie homage is as subtle as a buzz saw headed for a villain's private parts -- and it's rip-roarin' fun!
    By Stephanie Zacharek April 6, 2007

  • Beyond the Multiplex

    Opening weekend at the Austin filmfest offers a controversial documentary about (not by) Michael Moore, an outrageous horror-comedy by Alan Cumming and a few Tarantino impersonations.
    By Andrew O'Hehir March 12, 2007

  • "Kill Bill, Vol. 2"

    Tarantino's talent can be dizzying, and Uma Thurman and David Carradine have great chemistry. But all it adds up to is that Q.T. seems to revere every movie he's ever seen.
    By Charles Taylor April 16, 2004

  • "Kill Bill: Vol. 1"

    Quentin Tarantino supposedly loves movies. So why is this ultraviolent, style-crazed revenge fantasy so empty?
    By Stephanie Zacharek October 10, 2003

  • Underground rising

    From Tarantino to Spike Jonze, from "Memento" to "Y Tu Mama," we're living through an independent film explosion. Salon introduces Indie Film -- a new section dedicated to cinematic life beyond the blockbuster.
    By Andrew O'Hehir December 6, 2002

  • "It seems like exactly the wrong film to make"

    Oscar-winning "Pulp Fiction" screenwriter Roger Avary attacks the teen genre -- and American complacency -- with an audacious adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' "The Rules of Attraction."
    By Ben Schwartz October 15, 2002

  • Black to the future

    Director Isaac Julien talks about "BaadAsssss Cinema," his Independent Film Channel tribute to the outrageous fashions, foot-high Afros and subversive politics of '70s blaxploitation movies.
    By Uju Asika August 20, 2002

  • Sharps & Flats

    RZA's music "inspired by" Jim Jarmusch's "Ghost Dog" lags behind the inspired cuts of the actual film.
    By Alex Pappademas April 25, 2000

  • The art of crime

    Ex-con and man of letters Edward Bunker discusses his new memoir, "Education of a Felon," and life as an upstanding citizen.
    By Stephen Lemons April 24, 2000

  • Elmore Leonard

    The world's coolest crime writer has an uncanny ear for wry dialogue and a deep belief in lives with second acts.
    By Sean Elder September 28, 1999

  • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

    A transatlantic crime caper arrives in America jetlagged.
    By Mary Elizabeth Williams March 5, 1999

  • Full "Steam" ahead

    Alessandro Gassman, the Italian star of last year's award-winning film "Steam," is poised to become the next European heartthrob to find an American audience.
    By Dakota Smith March 4, 1999

  • Violence or entertainment?

    A new book on our cultural obsession with violence finds kids' TV and Quentin Tarantino movies inseparable from the Roman spectacles.
    By Dwight Garner May 21, 1998
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