Quentin Tarantino

Beyond the Multiplex
Quentin Tarantino greets his adoring fans, explains "Death Proof." Plus: Harvey Weinstein slaps down Kurt Russell.
Rapist No. 1 action figure
Get your very own plastic rapist, courtesy of NECA toys and Quentin Tarantino.
"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!
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.
"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.
"Kill Bill: Vol. 1"
Quentin Tarantino supposedly loves movies. So why is this ultraviolent, style-crazed revenge fantasy so empty?
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.
"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."
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.
Sharps & Flats
RZA's music "inspired by" Jim Jarmusch's "Ghost Dog" lags behind the inspired cuts of the actual film.
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.
Elmore Leonard
The world's coolest crime writer has an uncanny ear for wry dialogue and a deep belief in lives with second acts.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
A transatlantic crime caper arrives in America jetlagged.
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.
Violence or entertainment?
A new book on our cultural obsession with violence finds kids' TV and Quentin Tarantino movies inseparable from the Roman spectacles.
Long-legged woman
Charles Taylor reviews 'Jackie Brown' directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Forster.

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