Kill Bill Vol. 1 Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino 2003, USA Starring Uma Thurman (The Bride/Black Mamba), David Carradine (Bill/Snake Charmer), Lucy Liu (O-Ren Ishii/Cottonmouth), Vivica Fox (Vernita Green/Copperhead), Daryl Hannah (Elle Driver/California Mountain Snake), Michael Madsen (Budd/Sidewinder). Also starring Sonny Chiba, Julie Dreyfus, Chiaki Kuriyama, Gordon Liu and Michael Parks. “Revenge is a …
True Romance Directed by Tony Scott Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino 1993, USA “Not since Bonnie and Clyde have two people been so good at being bad”. Written by one-of-a-kind Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction) and directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun, Hunger, Crimson Tide), True Romance is if anything consistently entertaining. This outlaw-lovers-on-the-run flick …
Reservoir Dogs Directed By Quentin Tarantino Written By Quentin Tarantino 1992, USA What is left to say about the first outing for director/ writer Quentin Tarantino, a then 29-year-old product of the Sundance Institute’s Director’s Workshop? Along with the likes of Tim Burton, John Waters, David Lynch, and David Cronenberg, Tarantino is one of the …
Tarantino is a great director and not a great actor. So, why is it that he has consistently tried his hand at performance? There doesn’t seem to be an acknowledgement of his limited talents and the consistency in which he employs himself within his films leads me (and I am sure I am not alone) …
At the start of awards season, THR assembles actors, actresses and directors involved in some of the most critically acclaimed films of the year, and sits them all in one room for a roundtable discussion about their careers and their movies. Joining the directors roundup this year is Ang Lee (Life of Pi), Tom Hooper …
Sushi Girl Directed by Kern Saxton Written by Kern Saxton and Destin Pfaff USA, 2012 Remember that iconic opening scene in Reservoir Dogs, when Steve Buscemi’s Mr. Pink has a scenery-chewing whinge about the audacity and impudence of tipping? Well, imagine if instead of coffee and breakfast on the table there was a fully naked …
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With the notion of film canonization once again at issue, we thought it might be an appropriate occasion to check in on our staff’s collective opinion of the greatest films of all time. We had no idea what to expect; our contributors come from all over the world and come from vastly different backgrounds and …
The Tumblr round-up is a compilation of images, links, posters, stories, videos and so on, taken from the Sound On Sight Tumblr account. We simply do not have the man power nor time to write articles on every interesting movie related goody we find, so this is our way of still promoting some of the …
True Romance Directed by Tony Scott Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino 1993, USA “Not since Bonnie and Clyde have two people been so good at being bad”. Written by one-of-a-kind Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction) and directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun, Hunger, Crimson Tide), True Romance is if anything consistently entertaining. This outlaw-lovers-on-the-run …
The Tumblr round-up is a compilation of images, links, posters, stories, videos and so on, taken from the Sound On Sight Tumblr account. We simply do not have the man power nor time to write articles on every interesting movie related goody we find, so this is our way of still promoting some of the …
My Best Enemy Directed by Wolfgang Murnberger Written by Wolfgang Murnberger and Paul Hengge Austria/Luxembourg, 2010 Some have wondered if a movie will ever be able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust. While there are films (Schindler’s List, Sophie’s Choice, The Pianist) that cast a macabre and cautionary depiction of the Shoah, the only …
There has been some confusion with the upcoming Quentin Tarantino film. Django Unchained is the film directed by Tarantino but there is no confirmation that Franco Nero is starring in it, at least not yet. However there is another western called The Angel, the Brute and the Wise which will feature Tarantino acting. That …
Well it seems that now it is official. Quentin Tarantino’s latest script, is indeed a spaghetti western titled Django Unchained. Franco Nero first hinted at the posibility of Taranino taking on the genre back in February, a project that is now confirmed to tie into the character that Nero played in the 1966 film Django, …
Reservoir Dogs Directed By Quentin Tarantino Written By Quentin Tarantino 1992, USA What is left to say about the first outing for director/ writer Quentin Tarantino, a then 29-year-old product of the Sundance Institute’s Director’s Workshop? Along with the likes of Tim Burton, John Waters, David Lynch, and David Cronenberg, Tarantino is one of …
Tim Doyle has created seven incredible art prints inspired by the movies of Quentin Tarantino for the upcoming art show put on by Spoke Art opening Thursday in New York City. As fans of both the Coen brothers and Tarantino, we’ve been following the show for a few weeks now, posting some of the great …
I posted this video a while back but I decided to post it again since so many people haven’t seen it. Kill Bill is one of my favourite films of the aught, making my best of the decade list. It’s no secret that Tarantino borrows heavily from as many filmmakers and films as he possibly …
Since 2009’s successful Inglourious Basterds and its subsequent awards season run for 2010, Quentin Tarantino has stayed relatively under the radar with his film developments…until last week. Deadline caught Tarantino out at an Oscar afterparty and got an exclusive word from the famed director/writer that he will be setting up shop at the Weinstein Company …
Spoke Art, the team behind the recent Wes Anderson-themed Bad Dads exhibit in San Francisco is heading to New York for their next big film-themed art show titled Quentin vs. Coens. The exhibit will be open from April 7-April 9 at the Bold Hype Gallery in Manhattan and includes work from over 100 artists who …
Italian actor and one-time spaghetti western star Franco Nero announced his involvement with Quentin Tarantino in his next feature, a spaghetti western no doubt, which will also star Inglourious Basterds star Christoph Waltz. The announcement came from Nero when speaking at the Los Angeles Italia festival where his latest effort, Pasquale Squitieri‘s Father made its …
As the Super Bowl approaches, Slate has created a video which shows us what it might be like if filmmakers directed the telecast for the big game. Watch the video embedded after the jump. Head over to Slate to check out the video.
As much as I love art-house cinema and foreign language films, I also do love comic book movies, and it’s no secret that I am highly anticipating Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger. the studio is going to show the first footage from the movie during the Super Bowl on Sunday, and now Empire Magazine, …
Since the earliest days of American cinema there has been a shadowy counterpart to the commercial mainstream: exploitation movies — pictures whose appeal lies in their sensational treatment and leering promotion of often lurid and prurient material. Pre-1960, when mainstream Hollywood worked within severe restrictions on content, exploitation movies offered audiences titillating glimpses of the …