Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, Revised and Updated

by Gerald Peary (Editor)

Overview

Here, in his own colorful, slangy words, is the true American Dream saga of a self-proclaimed "film geek," with five intense years working in a video store, who became one of the most popular, recognizable, and imitated of all filmmakers. His dazzling, movie-informed work makes Quentin Tarantino's reputation, from his breakout film, Reservoir Dogs (1992), through Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), his enchanted homages to Asian action cinema, to his rousing tribute to guys-on-a-mission World War II movie, Inglourious Basterds (2009). For those who prefer a more mature, contemplative cinema, Tarantino provided the tender, very touching Jackie Brown (1997). A masterpiece--Pulp Fiction (1994). A delightful mash of unabashed exploitation and felt social consciousness--his latest opus, Django Unchained (2012).

From the beginning, Tarantino (b. 1963)--affable, open, and enthusiastic about sharing his adoration of movies--has been a journalist's dream. Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, revised and updated with twelve new interviews, is a joy to read cover to cover because its subject has so much interesting and provocative to say about his own movies and about cinema in general, and also about his unusual life. He is frank and revealing about growing up in Los Angeles with a single, half-Cherokee mother, and dropping out of ninth grade to take acting classes. Lost and confused, he still managed a gutsy ambition: young Quentin decided he would be a filmmaker.

Tarantino has conceded that Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), the homicidal African American con man in Jackie Brown, is an autobiographical portrait. "If I hadn't wanted to make movies, I would have ended up as Ordell," Tarantino has explained. "I wouldn't have been a postman or worked at the phone company. . . . I would have gone to jail."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496800275
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	11/01/2013
Series:	Conversations with Filmmakers Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Gerald Peary is professor emeritus of film studies at Suffolk University, Boston, film critic for Arts Fuse, and editor of Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, John Ford: Interviews, and Samuel Fuller: Interviews, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
Gerald Peary is professor emeritus of film studies at Suffolk University, Boston, film critic for Arts Fuse, and editor of Quentin Tarantino: Interviews; Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, Revised and Updated; John Ford: Interviews; and Samuel Fuller: Interviews, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Chronology xvii

Filmography xxi

Interview at Cannes Michel Ciment Hubert Niogret / 1992 3

A Talk with Quentin Tarantino Gerald Peary / 1992 20

Interview with Quentin Tarantino Peter Brunette / 1992 23

Reservoir Dogs Press Conference: Toronto International Film Festival / 1992 28

Answers First, Questions Later Graham Fuller / 1993 34

Quentin Tarantino on Pulp Fiction Manohla Dargis / 1994 49

Interview with Quentin Tarantino Michel Ciment Hubert Niogret / 1994 53

When You Know You're in Good Hands Gavin Smith / 1994 61

Four X Four Peter Biskind / 1995 78

Interview: Quentin Tarantino J. Hoberman / 1996 83

Out of the Past: Quentin Tarantino-On Ambition, Exploitation, and Playing Psycho Don Gibalevich / 1996 95

Quentin Tarantino: Press Conference on Jackie Brown Transcribed Peter Keough / 1997 101

Quentin Tarantino on Adapting Rum Punch, Moving the Story to LA, Elmore Leonard's Opinion Adrian Wootton / 1998 107

The Mouth and the Method Erik Bauer / 1998 112

Quentin Tarantino Reveals Almost Everything That Inspired Kill Bill Tomohiro Machiyama / 2003 118

An Interview with Quentin Tarantino Jeff Otto / 2003 127

Total Tarantino Mary Kaye Schilling / 2004 131

Tarantino Bites Back Nick James / 2008 137

Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds Interview Kam Williams / 2009 147

Quentin Tarantino: The Inglourious Basterds Interview Ella Taylor / 2009 153

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds Interview Mali Elfman / 2009 161

Pulp and Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History Terry Gross / 2009 165

Days of Gloury Ryan Gilbey / 2009 174

Tarantino "Unchained": Django Trilogy Henry Louis Gates, Jr. / 2012 184

Additional Resources 199

Index 201