Hints and tips:
...An example is “The Women’s Revenge”, a Tarantino-like video piece reinterpreting the revenge/exploitation genre movies from the 1980s....
...Godard influenced many filmmakers including Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino....
...If any film-maker deserved the title “founder of modern cinema”, it was Jean-Luc Godard, who has died at the age of 91....
...In the nominal real world, the Russos swap superheroes for Tarantino-style needle drops and splashy stuntwork. Gruesome violence is mostly just suggested....
...Pedro Almódovar’s films — camp carnivals of melodrama — have included designer collaborations such as Jean Paul Gaultier and Versace in the 1993 film Kika....
...The list is long: Cartier-Bresson, Brassaï, Weegee, Arbus, Parr, Sternfeld, Crewdson, diCorcia, Wall and Sherman, Hitchcock, Lean, Powell and Pressburger, Paul Thomas Anderson, Tarantino and so on....
...Jean-Luc Godard’s À Bout de Souffle — Breathless — was once a smack in the face....
...You may, as I did on a balmy evening this summer, have seen Quentin Tarantino’s latest pop-cult provocation, the irresistible Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood, which is, apart from anything else, a love letter...
...Like the year commemorated in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood , my talismanic twelve-month, my moment of nothing-will-ever-be-the-same-again, was 1969....
...Sir Nigel himself will host the grand gala dinner at Tarantino’s in Hornchurch....
...(Even Tarantino’s. He named his film company A Band Apart after a Godard movie.) Britain’s BFI Southbank starts 2016 with a Godard retrospective, its showpiece a revival run of Le Mépris (1963)....
...Sitting before me on a plump sofa in jeans and an untucked navy shirt, he is getting towards the end of a long day of press engagements....
...Like Tarantino, De Palma neither canonises the criminal mind nor portentously condemns it....
...The film, which recreated the beaches of Anzio, Italy, and the battlegrounds of Sicily and Germany in Washington state, is little watched today, although Murphy haunts Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds...
...Norman Mailer saw fit to call a book Marilyn, and Elton John sang goodbye to “Norma Jean”. Film directors tend not to inspire this kind of personal love....
...A few years ago the dernier cri in Gilbert & Sullivan was director Chris Monks’ audacious comic re-imaginings, setting The Mikado in a cricket club or giving a mock-Tarantino spin to The Pirates Of Penzance...
...Jean-Luc Godard: “Mr Red” Far-left and fearless in spilling the blood of the ancien régime. The prodigal father of the Nouvelle Vague, Godard created its fiercest anti-cinema....
...A Tarantino Ring? Cy Twombly takes on Tosca? Lily Allen does Lulu? Lulu does Lulu?...
...There is even, in the end credits, a sly send-up of Quentin Tarantino. Here, one felt, was an emergent cultural force in full flow, replete with confidence and brio....
...This year all eyes will be on Diane Kruger at the screening of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, where she is likely to wear Chanel fine jewels and a Jaeger-LeCoultre watch....
...His cinema was so vital that it appealed even to a populist-tendency critic such as the New Yorker’s Pauline Kael and today influences filmmakers as diverse as Jarmusch and Tarantino....
...And when a goofy American pastiches a pretentious Frenchman, jackpots are hit: just ask Quentin Tarantino....
...Tarantino’s Death Proof at least has energy....
...Eli Roth (who made Hostel and contributed to Tarantino’s Grindhouse) never quite lets expectation sit still long enough for our drool glands to work....
...There must be those occasions when the extreme response to a new movie gets physical, when we push to get into Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction or push to get out of Vincent Gallo’s Brown Bunny....
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