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Quentin Tarantino
Writing and directing Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.
Pulp Fiction · Kill Bill
- Born
- 27 March 1963
- Birthplace
- Knoxville, USA
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Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino is an American filmmaker whose movies combine genre references, extended dialogue and sudden violence. His career began in independent cinema before expanding into large period productions.
Early life
Los Angeles upbringing
Grew up largely in the Los Angeles area and developed an intense interest in movies.
Video-store years
Worked at Video Archives while writing scripts and pursuing film work.
Career
- 1992
Independent breakthrough
Directed Reservoir Dogs.
- 1994
International recognition
Pulp Fiction won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.
- 2000s
Genre experiments
Developed martial-arts, crime and exploitation-film-inspired projects.
- 2010s
Period filmmaking
Made revisionist war films, westerns and a story of late-1960s Hollywood.
Selected work
Pulp Fiction
Interwoven crime stories told out of chronological order.
Kill Bill
A two-part revenge story drawing on martial-arts and samurai cinema.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
An actor and stuntman navigate a changing film industry.
Beyond work
Film preservation
Owns and programmes cinemas showing films on physical prints.
Writing books
Published a novelisation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and the criticism collection Cinema Speculation.
Sources & photo credit
Life and career ↗Institutional or specialist reference ↗Photo: Gage Skidmore. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
