Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March
27, 1963) is an American
film director, actor, and Oscar-winning screenwriter. He rapidly rose to
fame in the early 1990s as a stylish auteur whose bold use of nonlinear
storylines, memorable dialogue, and bloody violence brought new life to
familiar American film archetypes.
He is the most famous of the young directors behind the independent
film revolution of the 1990s, well-known for his public persona as a
motor-mouthed, geeky hipster with an encyclopedic knowledge of both
popular and art-house cinema.
Quentin Tarantino
Early life
Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee to Tony Tarantino, an
actor and musician of Italian
descent, and Connie McHugh, who was of half-Irish
and half-Cherokee Indian extraction. Shortly after Quentin's birth, his
mother married musician Curt Zastoupil, with whom Quentin would form a
strong bond.
He started kindergarten in the San Gabriel Valley area in 1968. In
1971, the family moved to El Seundo, in the South Bay area of Los
Angeles, where Tarantino attended Hawthorne Christian School.
Dropping out of Narbonne High School in Harbor City, California at the
age of sixteen, he went on to learn acting at the James Best Theatre
Company.
At the age of 22, he wrote his first script, Captain Peachfuzz and
the Anchovy Bandit. In 1984, Tarantino started working the counter
at the Video Archives, a noted Manhattan Beach video store; there he
befriended Roger Avary, a fellow employee with whom he would later
collaborate. He continued to study acting at Allen Garfield's Actors'
Shelter in Beverly Hills, but began to concentrate mainly on
sceenwriting.
The sale of True Romance (eventually released in 1993)
garnered him attention. He met Lawrence Bender at a Hollywood party and
Bender encouraged Tarantino to go write a film. The end product was Reservoir
Dogs (1992), a stylish, witty, and blood-soaked heist movie that set
the tone for his later films. The script was read by director Monte
Hellman who helped secure funding from Live Entertainment and also
Tarantino's directorship of the film. Harvey Keitel heard of the script
through his wife, who attended a class with Lawrence Bender (see Reservoir
Dogs special edition DVD commentary for the full story). He read the
script and also contributed to funding, took an Executive Producer role,
and a part in the movie.'
Quentin Tarantino and George Clooney are the Gecko brothers
in From
Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Following the success of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino was
approached by Hollywood and offered numerous projects, including Speed
and Men in Black. He instead retreated to Amsterdam
to work on his script for Pulp Fiction. When finally released,
the film won the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1994 Cannes film
festival and, along with Steven Soderbergh's Palme d'Or winner sex,
lies, and videotape, and Michael Moore's Roger and Me
revolutionised the independent film industry by showing that such films
could also do well at the box office. Pulp Fiction was a
complexly plotted film with a similarly brutal wit. It featured many
critically acclaimed performances, and was noted for reviving the career
of John Travolta. Pulp Fiction
also earned Tarantino and Avary Oscars for Best Original Screenplay, and
it was also nominated for Best Picture.
After Pulp Fiction he directed episode four of Four Rooms,
"The Man from Hollywood", a remake of an Alfred Hitchcock
Presents episode that starred Steve McQueen. Four Rooms is a
collaborative effort with filmmakers Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell
and Robert Rodriguez.
Tarantino's next film was Jackie Brown (1997), an adaptation
of Rum Punch, a novel by his mentor Elmore Leonard. A homage to
blaxploitation films, it also starred Pam Grier, who starred in many of
that genre's films of the 1970s. In 1998, he turned his attention to the
Broadway stage, where he starred in a revival of Wait Until Dark.
He had then planned to make the war film Inglorious Bastards.
However, he postponed that to write and direct Kill Bill
(released as two films, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2), a highly stylized
"revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of Wuxia (Chinese
martial arts), Japanese film, Spaghetti Westerns and Italian horror or
giallo. It was based on a character (The Bride) and plot that he and Kill
Bill's lead actress, Uma
Thurman, had developed during the making of Pulp Fiction.
In 2004, Tarantino returned to Cannes where he served as President of
the Jury. Kill Bill was not in competition, but it did screen on
the final night in its original 3-hour-plus version. The Palme d'Or that
year went to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, despite Tarantino's
urging that the award go to Oldboy.
Tarantino is given credit as "Special Guest Director" for
his work directing the car sequence between Clive Owen and Benicio Del
Toro of the 2005 neo-noir film Sin City.
On
February
24, 2005
it was announced he would direct the season finale of CSI.
The two-hour episode, "Grave Danger", was aired on May
19 to stellar ratings and reviews. He also directed an episode of Jimmy
Kimmel Live.
Although Tarantino is best known for his work behind the camera, he
has also appeared on the small screen in the first and third seasons of
the TV show Alias.
In 2005, Tarantino announced his current project is Grind
House, which he is co-directing with Robert Rodriguez. He has
stated he will "probably" follow that with Inglorious
Bastards, a remake of an Italian World
War II film, but that he needed to spend another year working on the
script before filming, making a 2006 release extremely unlikely. There
are also unconfirmed rumors that he signed on to direct a Jimi
Hendrix biopic.
Among his current producing credits are the horror flick Hostel
(which included numerous references to his own Pulp Fiction), the
adaptation of Elmore
Leonard's Killshot
(which Tarantino had once written a script for) and Hell
Ride (written & directed by Kill Bill star Larry
Bishop).
In 2005 Quentin Tarantino won the Icon Of The Decade award at
the Empire Awards.
Quentin Tarantino suited up
Aesthetics
Tarantino's movies are renowned for their sharp dialogue, splintered
chronology, and pop culture obsessions. Often they are viewed as
graphically violent, and certainly in his key films, Reservoir Dogs,
Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, there are copious amounts of
both spattered and flowing blood. However, what affects people most is
the casualness, and even macabre humour, of the violence, as well as the
tension and grittiness of these scenes.
Fictional
brands such as Red Apple cigarettes and Big Kahuna Burgers from Pulp
Fiction have shown up in several movies, including Four
Rooms, From
Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill and even Romy
and Michele's High School Reunion. The director is also known
for his love of breakfast
cereal, and many of his movies feature brands such as Fruit
Brute (a monster cereal similar to Franken
Berry, Count
Chocula, and Boo
Berry that was discontinued) in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp
Fiction, and Kaboom in Kill Bill.
Influences
Tarantino is widely known as a director who is very much a
"film-geek", with an astonishing, encyclopedic knowledge of
movies, film criticism, and film history. Particularly, he has a vast
knowledge of foreign films, genre films and little-known pieces of
cinema. He is a declared lover of exploitation
films, Hong
Kong action cinema, Spaghetti
Westerns, giallo
horror, French New Wave, and British
cinema. His love of those genres is mirrored in his works — all of
his films regularly quote other movies and genres in their styles,
stories and dialogue. He once summed it up by saying, "I never went
to film school; I went to films."
In the 2002 Sight
and Sound Directors'
poll, Tarantino revealed his top-twelve films of all-time: 1.The
Good, the Bad and the Ugly , 2.Rio
Bravo , 3. Taxi
Driver, 4. His
Girl Friday, 5. Rolling
Thunder, 6. They
All Laughed, 7. The
Great Escape, 8. Carrie,
9. Coffy,
10. Dazed
and Confused, 11. Five
Fingers of Death and 12. Hi
Diddle Diddle.
A previous top-ten list of Tarantino's also included Blow
Out, One-Eyed
Jacks, For
a Few Dollars More, Bande
a part, the remake of Breathless,
Le
Doulos, They
Live By Night and The
Long Goodbye.
Tarantino also credits
Martin
Scorsese's Taxi
Driver and Mean
Streets, as well as George
A. Romero's Dawn
of the Dead as strong influences.
Criticism
Tarantino has come under criticism for his use of racial epithets in
his films, particularly the word nigger
in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, most notably from
black American director Spike
Lee. In an interview for Variety,
Lee said: "I'm not against the word... and I use it, but Quentin is
infatuated with the word. What does he want? To be made an honorary
black man?"
An oft-cited example is a scene in Pulp Fiction in which a
character named Jimmie Dimmick, portrayed by Tarantino himself, rebukes Samuel
L. Jackson's character, Jules Winnfield, for using his house as
"dead nigger storage", followed by a rant that uses the word
profusely. Lee makes direct reference to this in his film Bamboozled
when the character Thomas Dunwitty states: "Please don't get
offended by my use of the quote-unquote N word. I got a black wife and
three biracial children, so I feel I have a right to use that word. I
don't give a damn what Spike says, Tarantino is right. Nigger is just a
word."
Tarantino has defended his use of the word by arguing that black
audiences have an appreciation of his blaxploitation-influenced
films that eludes some of his critics, and, indeed, that Jackie Brown,
another oft-cited example, was primarily made for "black
audiences:"
To me the film is a black film. It was made for black audiences
actually. It was made for everybody, but that was, pretty much, the
"main" audience. If I had any of them in mind, I was
thinking of that because I was always thinking of watching it in a
black theatre. I didn't have audiences ridiculously in mind because
I am the audience, but that works well for that too because I go to
black theatres. To me it is a black film. [1]
Tarantino has also been criticized for borrowing ideas, scenes, and
lines of dialogue from other films. For example, the general plot of Reservoir
Dogs seems to be culled from Ringo
Lam's City
on Fire and Stanley
Kubrick's The
Killing, while the idea of the color-coded criminals is taken
from The
Taking of Pelham One Two Three. The infamous ear-cutting scene
in Reservoir Dogs was copied from a movie named Django
made in 1966 by the Italian director Sergio
Corbucci.
The
Don
Siegel version of The
Killers played an influence on the opening and ending sequences
of Pulp Fiction, and the events and dialogue of the
adrenaline-injection scene closely resemble a story related in Martin
Scorsese's documentary American
Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince. The line about 'going to work
on him with a blow torch and pair of pliers" is from the Don Siegel
movie called Charlie Varrick made in 1971.
Meanwhile, the story of True Romance is practically the same
as that of Terrence
Malick's Badlands,
while several plotlines, characters and scenes of Kill
Bill Vol. 1 seem to be taken from Lady
Snowblood. In addition, Kill Bill appears to have been made based on
the works of the late Hong Kong director Chang
Cheh. [2]
The Superman monologue delivered at the end of Kill Bill Vol. 2 was
copied almost verbatim from Jules
Feiffer's 1965 book, The Great Comic Book Heroes. [3]
Much debate has been sparked on when such references cease to be
tributes and become plagiarism.
Tarantino, for his part, has always been open and unapologetic about
appropriating ideas from films he admires.
One other criticism of Tarantino is that some of Tarantino's dialogue
can be found in other films. The verse Samuel Jackson quotes in Pulp
Fiction can also be found in the movie Karate Kiba (a 1970s
Japanese action film starring Sonny
Chiba, also known as The Bodyguard). In this movie the
narrator has the following lines:
The path of the righteous man and defender is beset on all sides
by the iniquity of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed
is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak
through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's
keeper, and the father of lost children. And I will execute great
vengeance upon them with furious anger, who poison and destroy my
brothers; and they shall know that I am Chiba the Bodyguard when I
shall lay my vengeance upon them.
Classic
Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction
Trivia
His own special style has led to the creation of a new adjective:
Tarantinoesque.
Tarantino once played an Elvis impersonator on an episode of The
Golden Girls.
One of Tarantino's closest friends is fellow director Robert
Rodriguez (the pair often refer to each other as brothers). Their
biggest collaborations have been From Dusk Till Dawn (written
by Tarantino, directed by Rodriguez), Four Rooms (they both
wrote and direct segments of the film), Sin
City and the upcoming Grind
House. It was Tarantino who suggested that Rodriguez name
the final part of his El
Mariachi trilogy Once
Upon a Time in Mexico. They are both members of A
Band Apart, a production company that also features directors John
Woo and Luc
Besson. Rodriguez scored Kill Bill: Volume 2 for one
dollar - in return, Tarantino directed a scene in Rodriguez's 2005
film Sin City for the same fee.
Tarantino has been romantically linked with numerous actresses,
including Sofia
Coppola, the Golden Globe and Academy
Award winning writer/director of Lost
In Translation, Academy Award-winning actress Mira
Sorvino, and comedian Margaret
Cho. There have also been rumors about his relationship with Uma
Thurman, who he has referred to as his "muse". However,
Tarantino has gone on record as saying that their relationship is
strictly platonic.
He has stated that the character of Clarence in True Romance
and My
Best Friend's Birthday was somewhat autobiographical.
He is
dyslexic.
Tarantino spat at
Chris
Connelly on the red carpet during the 1997 Oscars. He mistakenly
thought Connelly edited a story in Premiere
magazine about his estranged biological father.
Although all of his films feature elements of crime, Tarantino's
only brush with "real" crime was an arrest for shoplifting
Elmore
Leonard's novel The Switch when he was 15 years old. The
book is the first Leonard book to feature the characters of Louis
and Ordell, whom Tarantino would bring to life with his 1997 film Jackie
Brown.
Tarantino directed an episode of ER
called "Motherhood" that aired May 11, 1995.
Tarantino directed the fifth season finale to the hit show CSI:
Crime Scene Investigation. The highly rated episode,
entitled "Grave Danger", shared a very similar situation
from Tarantino's second Kill Bill film: CSI Nick Stokes is
captured and buried alive in a Plexiglas
coffin while an Internet camera broadcasts the whole thing to CSI
headquarters. In Kill Bill, the Bride (Uma Thurman) was also
captured and buried alive in a coffin. The episode was delayed in
being shown in the UK as the broadcast date coincided with the
terrorist attacks in London and it was felt that the underground
theme in the episode would cause offense. This double-length episode
has recently found its way to its own DVD Release on October
10, 2005.
Tarantino was also nominated for an Emmy for his role in this
episode.
Owns a rare 35mm copy of Manos:
The Hands of Fate; he cites it as his favorite
"comedy".
Tarantino was one of the few filmmakers pushing for Chinese action
filmmaker John
Woo to make an American film. When a studio executive once said,
"I suppose Woo can direct action scenes," Tarantino
replied, "Sure, and Michelangelo can paint ceilings!"
Tarantino is good friends with Hip Hop group
Wu-Tang
Clan, who call him "Q.T." They are often seen together
in the VIP room of night-clubs.
Michael
Madsen's character in Reservoir Dogs and John Travolta's
in Pulp Fiction are said to be brothers. They are Vic and
Vince Vega. Harvey
Keitel's character in Reservoir Dogs, Larry Dimmick, is
also said to be related to Tarantino's own character in Pulp
Fiction, Jimmie Dimmick.
Tarantino has a female foot fetish, as indicated on America's
Next Top Foot Model, which was a spin-off of America's Next
Top Model. Tyra
Banks did the spin-off for Tarantino on an episode of the Tyra
Show that aired early 2006. Tarantino's foot fetish is also
indicated in many of his films such as Kill Bill, showing
many foot shots of the actress Uma Thurman. It is also indicated in
the movie From
Dusk Till Dawn in which he has Salma Hayek's foot in his
mouth in the scene where she is doing a table dance and pouring
whisky down her leg into his mouth. Also in Pulp Fiction, Uma
Thurman's character is introduced by showing her feet first as she
walks in to the room where Travolta waits for her.
In the early-mid '90s, when Tarantino was bursting onto the scene,
the satirical journal Private
Eye featured a series of cartoons based on puns around his
name. Memorable ones included: a hand holding a gun appearing out of
a mug of hot drink saying, "Go to sleep, you fucking
fuck!" with a caption "Ovaltarantino" (pun on Ovaltine);
a man shouting at a group of four children and their dog, "Why
don't you fucks fuck off and have a fucking adventure or
something?!" with the caption "Uncle Quentin
Tarantino" (referring to Uncle Quentin from Enid
Blyton's Famous
Five stories), and a spoof of The
Telegraph's society column Peterborough,
with Quentin Tarantino instead of its usual writer Quentin Letts.
Trademarks
Lead characters usually drive
General
Motors vehicles, particularly Chevrolet and Cadillac.
Incorporates a scene into each movie in which music is heard to
fade out completely before fading back in again.
Reservoir Dogs (the ear scene)- Mr Blond walks to his
car, then back inside
Pulp Fiction (the gimp scene)- Bruce Willis escapes
upstairs and then returns with a samurai sword
Jackie Brown (Chris Tucker's death) - Tucker is in the
trunk of a car driven by Samuel L. Jackson. The radio is playing
and the car drives off before performing a U-turn and heading
back toward the camera.
He often frames characters with doorways and shows them opening
and closing doors. Much of the violence and minor character dialogue
is offscreen in his films.
Briefcases
and suitcases play an important role in many of his films.
Almost all of his films are set in
Los
Angeles (Kill
Bill being a notable exception; even though it did
have minor scene taking place in Los
Angeles).
Makes references to and features music from
cult
movies and television.
Often makes (sometimes oblique) connections with his previous
films, to the point where he's almost created his own world, much
like Kevin
Smith's View
Askewniverse, albeit much more subtle.
The
Mexican
standoff: Most his movies feature a scene in which three or more
characters are pointing guns at each other at the same time.
Often uses an unconventional storytelling device in his films,
such as retrospective
(Reservoir Dogs), non-linear
(Pulp Fiction), or "chapter"
format (Kill Bill, Four Rooms). He also guest directed
a scene in Sin
City, which uses a similar layout.
Often casts comedians in small roles:
Steven
Wright as the DJ in Reservoir Dogs, Kathy
Griffin as an accident witness in Pulp Fiction, Julia
Sweeney as Raquel in Pulp Fiction , Phil
LaMarr as Marvin in Pulp Fiction, and Chris
Tucker as Beaumont in Jackie Brown.
Widely imitated quick cuts of character's hands performing actions
in extreme closeup, a technique reminiscent of Brian
De Palma.
Long closeup of a person's face while someone else speaks
off-screen (closeup of The Bride while Bill talks, of Butch while
Marsellus talks).
Trunk shot in Jackie Brown
Although he did not invent it, Tarantino popularized the
trunk
shot, which is featured in Reservoir Dogs, Pulp
Fiction, From Dusk Till Dawn, Jackie Brown, and Kill
Bill. This shot was seen previously in Martin
Scorsese's Goodfellas.
Characters in nearly all of his movies have aliases. Honey Bunny
and Pumpkin from Pulp Fiction, the heist crew in Reservoir
Dogs, and Bill's team in Kill Bill.
Often plays a small role in his films (Jimmie Dimmick in Pulp
Fiction, Mr. Brown in Reservoir Dogs, the answering
machine voice in Jackie Brown and a dead Crazy 88 gang member
in Kill Bill).
Often features a character singing along to a song from the
soundtrack. (Mr. Blonde, Reservoir Dogs - "Stuck in the
Middle With You", Stealers Wheel; Butch, Pulp Fiction -
"Flowers on the Wall", Statler Brothers; Elle Driver, Kill
Bill - "Twisted Nerve", Jackie Brown "Jackie
Brown" - "Across 110th street").
Makes remarks about
Holland
in every movie (ringtones, subjects in the dialogues, etc.)
While characters rarely use the bathroom in film, Tarantino often
includes a toilet
scene (e.g. Tim
Roth in Reservoir Dogs, John Travolta in Pulp Fiction,
Christian Slater in True Romance, Juliette Lewis in From
Dusk Till Dawn, Uma Thurman in Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Daryl
Hannah in Kill Bill Vol. 2).
Tarantino, who is of mixed ethnic heritage, uses biracial
characters in some of his movies. In Pulp Fiction, Jules
Winfield (Samuel L. Jackson) mentions a half-black, half-Samoan
named Tony Rocky Horror, and in Kill Bill Vol. 1, O-Ren Ishii
(Lucy
Liu) is half-Japanese, half-Chinese-American, and her
best-friend in the film, Sofie Fatale (Julie
Dreyfus), is half-Japanese, half-French. Drexel (Gary
Oldman) in True Romance is white, likes to think he is
black, and claims to have Apache in him.
Each of the four films Tarantino has directed and the three movies
which he wrote the script for but did not direct have had plots
revolving around crime and criminals.
Cigarette
smoking by several main characters is a recurring element of
Tarantino's movies, a notable exception being The Bride in the Kill
Bill series.
Often includes characters dressed in black suits with white shirts
and black ties. The thieves in Reservoir Dogs, John Travolta
and Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction, George Clooney and
himself in From Dusk Till Dawn, the crazy 88s in Kill Bill
Vol. 1.
Often films characters from the back, developing motifs and
themes.
In Kill Bill: Volume 2, The Bride escapes her coffin via a
straight razor inside of her cowboy boot (and breaking through the
coffin with a close-ranged punch). Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs
also carries a straight razor in his boot, which he uses to torture
a cop.
Every movie he has directed contains at least one instance of the
Wilhelm
scream sound effect.
Filmography
Director
My
Best Friend's Birthday (1987)
Reservoir
Dogs (1992)
Pulp
Fiction (1994)
ER
(1995)
Season 1; Episode 24: "Motherhood" (Director)
Four
Rooms (segment "The Man from Hollywood") (1995)
Jackie
Brown (1997)
Kill
Bill (Vol. 1 2003,
Vol. 2 2004)
Sin
City (2005)
(Special Guest Director)
CSI:
Crime Scene Investigation (2005)
'"Grave Danger: Vols. I & II"
Grind
House ("Death Proof" segment) (2006)
Inglorious
Bastards no official release date announced, possible 2007
release
Writer
My
Best Friend's Birthday (1987)
Past
Midnight (1992)
(uncredited rewrite)
Reservoir
Dogs (1992)
True
Romance (1993)
Pulp
Fiction (1994)
Natural
Born Killers (1994)
(Story credit)(he has dis-owned this movie, as Oliver Stone changed
it so much)
It's
Pat (1994)
(uncredited rewrite)
Crimson
Tide (1995)
(uncredited rewrite)
Four
Rooms (segment "The Man from Hollywood") (1995)
From
Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
The
Matthew Barnard Show Episode 48: Say wha now? (1996)
CSI:
Crime Scene Investigation (2005)
'"Grave Danger: Vols. I & II" (Story credit)
Hostel
(2006)
(uncredited rewrite)
Grind
House ("Death Proof" segment) (2006)
Inglorious
Bastards no official release date announced, possible 2007
releas
Actor
My
Best Friend's Birthday (1987)
Clarence Pool
Reservoir
Dogs (1992)
Mr. Brown/Archibald Greene
Pulp
Fiction (1994)
Jimmie Dimmick
Sleep
With Me (1994)
Sid
Destiny
Turns On the Radio (1995)
Johnny Destiny
Four
Rooms (segment "The Man from Hollywood") Chester
Desperado
(1995)
Pick-up Guy
From
Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Richard Gecko
Girl
6 (1996)
Q.T
Jackie
Brown (1997)
Answering Machine Recording
Little
Nicky (2000)
Deacon
Alias
(TV Series) (2001)
McKenas Cole
BaadAsssss
Cinema (2002)
(documentary)
Kill
Bill (2003)
Crazy 88 member
The
Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005)
Producer
My
Best Friend's Birthday (1987)
Past
Midnight (1992)
Iron
Monkey (1993)
(2001 U.S. release)
Killing
Zoe (1994)
Four
Rooms (1995)
From
Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Curdled
(1996)
God
Said, 'Ha!' (1998)
From
Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)
From
Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000)
Daltry
Calhoun (2005)
Freedom's
Fury (2005)
Hostel
(2006)
Killshot
(2006)
Grind
House (2006)
Hell
Ride (2006)
Hostel
2 (2007)
Presented by...
In recent years, Tarantino has used his Hollywood power to give
smaller and foreign films more attention than they would otherwise have
received. These films are usually labeled "Presented by Quentin
Tarantino." The first of these productions was in 2001 with the
Hong Kong martial arts film Iron
Monkey which made over $14 million in the United States, seven
times its budget. In 2004 he brought the Chinese martial arts film Hero
to U.S. shores. It ended up having a #1 opening at the box office and
making $53.5 million. In 2006 the latest "Quentin Tarantino
presents" production, Hostel,
opened at #1 at the box office with a $20.1 million opening weekend,
good for 8th all time in the month of January. He will also be the
producer of the (2007)
film Hostel
2.
In addition, in 1995, Tarantino formed Rolling Thunder Pictures with
Miramax as a vehicle to release or re-release several independent and
foreign features. By 1997, Miramax shut down the company due to
"lack of interest" in the pictures released. The following
films were released by Rolling Thunder Pictures: Chungking
Express (1994, dir. Wong
Kar-Wai), Switchblade
Sisters (1975, dir. Jack
Hill), Sonatine
(1993, dir. Takeshi
Kitano), Hard
Core Logo (1996), Mighty
Peking Man (1977), Detroit
9000 (1973), and Curdled
(1996).
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