Tarantino Poll

actually if you look at the 3 films travolta made before PF and the 3 he made after, well, it tells the whole story

and by "look" I don't mean watch, look at 'em on imdb or sumthin, you'll go blind

Travolta's gusto (Shakey otm) earned him most of his good will. Shortly after PF, The New Yorker ran a Travolta profile, in which he made it very clear that he almost rejected the scripts for Get Shorty and PF and he didn't give a damn about starring in the next Look Who's Talking movie ("where, like, the CHAIRS talk"). The guy has no shame, which is very refreshing.

I guess I will just ignore your film opinions from here on out

― from the lowly milligeir to the mighty gigahongro (Shakey Mo Collier)

face/off, get shorty, and the thin red line are dope, i don't think that's a challop?

Look Who's Talking Now (1993)
In this, the third film, it's the pets who do the talking. The Ubriacco's find themselves the owners of two dogs, Rocks, a street wise cross breed, and Daphne, a spoilled pedegree poodle. James has a new job, pilot to the sexy and lonely Samantha. Mollie's just lost hers and is stuck at home.

forget it, omar... its shakeytown

http://img.movieberry.com/static/photos/63472/5_midi.jpg

Shout (1991)
A new music teacher (John Travolta) in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.

Eyes of an Angel (1991)
John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young girl comes upon and then nurses a wounded Doberman used for fighting, back to health. Duped by underworld types he was working as a courier for, father and daughter leave the dog and flee cross-country to Los Angeles with both canine and mobsters in pursuit.

Shout (1991)
A new music teacher (John Travolta) in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.

^^^^ actually saw this in the theatre. I was straight at the time.

btw all these movies were mid nineties Blockbuster staples after PF took off. I would walk past the sixteen boxes of Eyes of an Angel.

I guess it was a powerful film what with all those interned boys

xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgWgTMcc6L4

how is it easy to forget?! after this Jackie Brown the dude flooded the market with one unbelievably shitty movie after another!

settle down morbs or we'll strap you down and make you watch chains of gold

alex de large style

put the lime in the coconut and drink em both up

http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Entertainment/Tarantino-Israeli-thriller-iBig-Bad-Wolvesi-is-the-best-film-of-the-year-328545

"That's the beauty of it--we got places all over the place." Kills me every time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n58V36ABwJY

The lowest of low-hanging fruit.

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2019/07/02/quentin-tarantino-renews-threat-to-retire-from-filmmaking

everyone is p good in Jackie Brown but they all feel like they're Acting. except Robert Forester who seems like he's a bit annoyed that he's being taken away from his bail bonds work to do a movie.

love the sound of Michael Keaton's jacket

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/cinema-speculation-quentin-tarantino?variant=40461820756002

Quentin needs to make another 90 minute movie.

Finished Cinema Speculation. I've posted about many of the book's strengths (the films) and weaknesses (a lot of the writing) across other threads, but the last chapter, about his friendship with his mother's friend Floyd, is really something. It's technically a 20-page footnote; when Floyd is mentioned earlier in the book, there's an asterisk beside his name but no accompanying footnote at the bottom of the page.

A lot there. Tarantino lands on one side of a topic, based on Floyd's comedic heroes, that is so out of sync with the moment we live in, I'm surprised I haven't encountered push-back. (Maybe it's out there, or maybe no one's bothering with the book enough to care.) Between that, a platform for Tarantino to say some stuff he wants to say, and the perfect sentimental ending to the book--which I did find moving--a small part of me wonders if Floyd isn't a fictional creation. Just a passing thought; I'm sure he was a real guy.

Didn't realize that Richard Brody had reviewed the book; I was able to read it going incognito.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/quentin-tarantinos-cinema-speculation-is-an-obsessive-insiders-view-of-hollywood

He liked the book a lot, more than I did.

Marcus has an entry on the book in Real Life this month:

Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation (Harper). On how lots of 1970s movies (Bullitt, The Getaway) could have turned out differently--so and so wanted a different director, a different actor, but this accident and that rights dispute got in the way but what if? At first it’s kind of interesting, in a They-wanted-Ronald-Reagan-for-the-lead-in-Casablanca way. And then it’s a big so what and you wonder why you read right up to the chapter on Hardcore.

Except for the what-if-De Palma-had-directed-Taxi-Driver chapter, I really didn't find the book all that speculative. And the interest level, for me, was pretty steady throughout.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/quentin-tarantino-sets-the-movie-critic-final-movie-1235351260/

Logline details are being kept in a suitcase but sources describe the story as being set in late 1970s Los Angeles with a female lead at its center

It is possible the story focuses on Pauline Kael, one of the most influential movie critics of all time. Kael, who died in 2001, was not just a critic but also an essayist and novelist. She was known for her pugnacious fights with editors as well as filmmakers. In the late 1970s, Kael had a very brief tenure working as a consultant for Paramount, a position she accepted at the behest of actor Warren Beatty. The timing of that Paramount job seems to coincide with the setting of the script — and the filmmaker is known to have a deep respect for Kael, making the odds of her being the subject of the film more likely.

Just watched Pulp Fiction again last week with my 19 year old son. It's an immaculately scripted film and a shitload of fun.

no Star Trek film?

Ha! I've been saying here and elsewhere for the past few years that Kael's life could make a great fictionalized film. Hopefully it's not about this one guy he ridicules three or four times in his book--really nasty stuff--and towards whom he obviously still bears a major grudge.

Kael's gonna kill that guy on-screen, I guarantee it.

https://tenor.com/view/trump-shrug-smile-idk-i-dont-know-gif-16515321

really nasty stuff

Imagine thats a gif of trump shrugging

I've always thought KB 2 was far better than KB 1.

Kael wrote a novel?

Oh, I like this idea a lot.

A rep theatre here has a Friday night series running based on his book: Taxi Driver, Sisters, Deliverance, Escape from Alcatraz, and Dirty Harry. Planned on seeing this first--Friday night, packed theatre probably--but a terrible storm quashed that. (The manager said they still drew 80 people.) Skipped Sisters, may see one or two or all three of the others, although I wish I hadn't just watched them while reading the book.

I'll say it again: if the above is true, Meryl Streep has to play Kael. I actually think she'd keep some well deserved payback out of it and create something memorable.

Mary Charlotte Wilcox has retired from acting to become a minister, otherwise she'd be in the running:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVpPsATDyy0

"I don't languish in that kind of naïveté"--love that whole bit! So that's what her name was...maybe the only thing she ever did on the show? She definitely caught some of Kael's manner of speaking.

My post above doesn't make sense--should read "Planned on seeing Taxi Driver..."

Holly Hunter is a little older than Kael was in 1979, but she'd be fun.

I always kind hoped he would do Kill Bill 3 with Vivica Fox's daughter going after Uma, but this will hopefully be a much better movie to go out on.

I liked the Kellow bio well enough, but I worry about a Kael "biopic." So much of a writer's life is writing. Once she settled into Shawn's New Yorker her life was watching movies, with her daughter as faithful amanuensis. If Tarantino (or anybody) created a work of fiction about a formidably intelligent female writer in the 1950s experimenting with fiction and theater who marries a gay man, this would be worth watching.

To be clear: a chapter of her life which a director would fictionalize.

Given his previous film, he'll set it up so she ends up going out to Kalispell, forcing Cimino to focus and saving New Hollywood (with guns).

I could imagine a great movie more in the “hang out” style of most of once upon a time in hollywood.

The movie will end with her watching Reservoir dogs

I thought of guns too--an alternate ending where she just blows away Renata Adler. (Still alive...sorry, that's in bad taste.)

Holly Hunter is a little older than Kael was in 1979, but she'd be fun.

I could see that, yeah--Kael liked Hunter. Maybe a couple of other actresses she really liked too: Joan Cusack or Sigourney Weaver. (Not Debra Winger, though, I don't think.)

Tagline: "You won't see it a second time."