Quentin Tarantino

Django Unchained: The Most Moving Scene Quentin Tarantino Has Yet Filmed

Django is Like "Accidental Racist," Except Not Godawful.

Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained Is Both Seriously Thoughtful and Seriously Entertaining

Top 10 Films of 2012

More than ever, boiling this concluding year down to the 10 "best" movies feels both arbitrary and reductive. Ideally, I'd have 25 unnumbered slots. I'd cite another five, formally varied nonfiction films: Tchoupitoulas, Detropia, The Ambassador, Only the Young and How to Survive a Plague. And were ... More >>

Cinefamily's Telethon Will Include Robert Downey, Jr. Digging Up a Time Capsule, and More

Quentin Tarantino Wants a Second Oscar. Will Django Give It to Him?

Quentin Tarantino emerges from a chaotic couple of years with his most ambitious film to date, Django Unchained. Will the Academy really, really like it?

Bondage art

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Dream Drawings to a King Kong Mash-Up

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *Our Latest Theater Reviews This week, artist Jim Shaw pops up in two places, a TV phenomenon loosely inspires an exhibition and a playwright known for breaking the fourth wall breaks it before finishing his new play. 5. Be ... More >>

Movie Violence Has Never Been Better. But Here's the Problem...

Part of the renascent body-count action industry, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning mere existence might shock many Americans. "There are four Universal Soldier movies?" those shocked Americans would say. They might also be taken aback by the bracing violence that marks the film from stem to stern ... More >>

Spaghetti Westerns at the Egyptian and Aero Theaters

Movie Studios Are Forcing Hollywood to Abandon 35mm Film. But the Consequences of Going Digital Are Vast, and Troubling

Pulp Shakespeare

Human Zoo Review

Supermodel Sex and Violence in Quentin Tarantino Presentation at New Bev

9 Circles, blu, Pulp Shakespeare and more new theater reviews . . .

Fresh Frame FotoLOLPERA​LOLPERA at Long Beach's Garage Theater is this week's Pick of the Week, with recommendations for a number of Southland performances, including Pulp Shakespeare at the Asylum Theatre, ​ Henry Murray's Monkey Adored, presented by Rogue Machine, Virginia Grise's lyrical new ... More >>

Pulp Shakespeare

This Dude Rolls on Shabbas

Go Fu Yourself

The Wu-Tang's RZA Dedicates Free Song 'Gone' to Late Quentin Tarantino Editor Sally Menke

RZA releases "Gone," a memorial.​Wu-Tang production mastermind, aspiring filmmaker and L.A. resident RZA has released a new free song called "Gone," which he's dedicated to Sally Menke, the longtime editor of Quentin Tarantino's films who passed away last week. Via his Facebook profile, RZA f ... More >>

The Spiteful Dodger

Quentin Tarantino at LAX: Rolling Roadshow Hits Town for 'Jackie Brown'

Read Karina Longworth's article "Tarantino's Angst" from L.A. Weekly's print edition. Nicole Campos​ When Texas's Alamo Drafthouse comes to town to unleash their special brand of bad-ass cinema experience, they mean business. No one's going to stand in their way, not even the entire city of T ... More >>

Tarantino's Angst

Jackie Brown and its worried-man blues

Ye Coach & Horses Evicted, But Not Riding Off Yet

Ye Coach & Horses ​Ye Coach & Horses' red-hues, dark crevices, cheap (for the area) drinks and Old World charm have made it a long-standing hideout for barflies, struggling musicians (Guitar Center is nearby) and celebrities for decades. Regulars over the years have included Alfred Hitchock, ... More >>

Top 10: Fictional Movie Food and Drink

Sometimes you watch a movie like Tampopo or Chocolat and can't help but want to eat everything on the screen. But there is another type of movie food too, the kind that doesn't actually exist. Some of these are from the future, some are disgusting, and some could potentially destroy the planet. With ... More >>

Lalo Schifrin: The Cool Maestro

On the eve of the Oscars, film's premier composer offers thoughts on the state of the art

Hollywood's Labor Pains or, Why the Numbers Still Matter

​Although the official start of Fall is still a couple of weeks away, Hollywood's Autumnal Equinox is already upon us, as the books are closed on the 2009 summer movie season and the curtain goes up on the Toronto International Film Festival, the still-humid summer air starting to hum with the fir ... More >>

Quentin and Harv, Marty and Leo, Tom and Jerry

Filmdom's Controversial Duos

One Item Only, Basterds: Quentin Tarantino Signs at Amoeba

Nicole CamposThe QT has landed.Any night is a bad night to do road work in front of Amoeba Records, but Thursday night in particular made for bad rush-hour congestion on a date where the Hollywood record mecca was about to play host to Quentin Tarantino, signing the soundtrack to Inglourious Basterd ... More >>

Mr. Blood Red: Ella Taylor's 1992 Quentin Tarantino Profile

Archive Weekly story catches Reservoir Dogs director a week before its L.A. premiere

Inglourious Basterds' Final Solution

In a triumph of his will, Tarantino makes Holocaust revisionism ridiculously fun

Quentin Tarantino Serves Up Hitler's Head in Inglourious Basterds

Mr. Blood Red, Vol. 2

Viennese Waltz: Inglourious Basterds Brings Late-Career Glory to Austrian Actor

Role of SS Colonel Landa won Christoph Waltz Cannes Best Actor award

Apocalypse Maintenant: Last Week at Cannes

Cannes Day Zero: J. Hoberman, Live from France

In addition to L.A. Weekly's Scott Foundas, Village Voice's longtime film critic J. Hoberman will be filing regular dispatches from this year's Cannes Film Festival. Day zero: Hoberman plans his schedule, looks for strawberries, equates Quentin Tarantino's proudly misspelled Inglourious Basterds to ... More >>

Frozen River: A Hard-Knock Life

Struggling single mom skates on thin ice in Sundance prizewinner

Ellen Page Defects, Fox's Archive Withers and the Moguls Hit Ketchum, Idaho

Inglorious Bastards and ungrateful bitches

Bored of the Dance

Book signings gone wild; Spindrift, BRMC at Safari Sam's; Sundance from afar

Sherman Torgan: Last of the Independents

1944–2007

The Reel Real Grind

Tarantino brings back moviedom’s classic grunge

Glittering Hunks of Trash

Grindhouse welcomes you to the democracy of cinephilia

Grindhouse Gang

Quentin Tarantino summons the masters to historic summit

Pulp Diction

Sin City gets high on style and juvenile hijinks

The Tarantino Factor (According to Chan-Wook Park)

Please, Sir, I Want Some Moore

Post cards from Cannes

Kill Bill... Or Else!

Quentin Tarantino on opening night fever, postpartum depression and the descent from Mt. Everest

Bang Bang Kiss Kiss

The smashing conclusion to Tarantino’s double Bill

Once Upon a Time in the East

Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (or half of it, anyway)

The Misfits

Four killer producers on the cutting edge of independent film

Dogs, Bodies

Amores Perros and Chopper

Speed, Baby, Speed

Doug Liman's gone Go

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