This week marks the release of Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, director Quentin Tarantino’s ninth feature film. To celebrate, we’re looking back at the best of QT—the best scenes, the best stunts, the best dialogue. We’ll drill down on his extraordinary rise from video store clerk to filmmaking legend and talk to the man himself about his long career.
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August 2, 2019
The Stuntwoman Who Made the Stuntman of ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood’
To capture the old-school, rough-and-tumble aesthetic of 1960s moviemaking, Quentin Tarantino turned to his longtime collaborator, stuntwoman Zoë Bell, to help bring Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth to life
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August 2, 2019
The Art of the Casting Flex: How Tarantino and Others Use Megafamous Actors in Bit Parts
The ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ director has always put big stars in small roles, but his new film takes the practice to a new level
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August 1, 2019
Quentin Tarantino’s Issue With ‘Boogie Nights’
Quentin Tarantino’s one gripe with Paul Thomas Anderson’s classic film is one that only he could have
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August 1, 2019
Quentin, You’ll Be a Director Soon
In our third and final episode, Quentin the video store clerk transforms into Quentin the big-shot filmmaker
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July 30, 2019
Why We Keep Coming Back to the Manson Family
As the 50th anniversary of the Manson Family murders approaches, new books and films like Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ and journalist Tom O’Neill’s ‘Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties’ pick up a gruesome story that has come to define a turning point in American history.
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July 29, 2019
How Historically Accurate Is ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’?
And a discussion on the metric of success in the streaming world
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July 29, 2019
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right: On ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’
Quentin Tarantino’s alternate history on the Manson-tinged Los Angeles of the late ’60s is steeped in nostalgia, sometimes for worthy artifacts and other times for things best left in the past
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July 29, 2019
The ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Exit Survey
It’s a Quentin Tarantino movie about Charles Manson starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt—there’s plenty to talk about
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July 29, 2019
The ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Characters, Ranked
Steve McQueen and Bruce Lee don’t even crack the top five
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July 26, 2019
Explaining Who’s Real and Who’s Fake in ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’
Sean Fennessy and Chris Ryan break down the main characters from ‘Once Upon A Time ... in Hollywood’ to determine which are real and which are fake
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July 26, 2019
‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan
Revisiting Quentin Taratino’s debut as a director
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July 26, 2019
‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Is Quentin Tarantino’s Most Sentimental Film Yet (SPOILERS)
Our exit survey from Tarantino’s ninth—and allegedly penultimate—film
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July 25, 2019
‘Forrest Gump’ Won the Battle, but ‘Pulp Fiction’ Won the War
The 1994 Oscars awarded Robert Zemeckis’s American fable Best Picture. But it was Quentin Tarantino’s zeitgeist sensation that changed the future of film. Twenty-five years later, what did that mean for movies?
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July 25, 2019
Young Quentin Goes to the Movies
How ‘Point Blank’ influenced Tarantino’s directorial debut, ‘Reservoir Dogs’
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July 25, 2019
That’s a Bingo! The Best Quentin Tarantino Scenes Ever.
In the name of charity and good will, we will strike these scenes down upon you with great vengeance and furious commentary
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July 24, 2019
A Pre–‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Lesson on the Manson Family
Quentin Tarantino’s new film takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, the same year Charles Manson’s cult began its killing spree. So before seeing the movie, here’s what you need to know to catch the references to real-life events.
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July 24, 2019
My Life in Quentin Tarantino Movies
Eight films, eight chapters, eight ways of experiencing the world
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July 23, 2019
Introducing ‘Quentin Tarantino’s Feature Presentation’
A special podcast miniseries with Amy Nicholson and the director himself
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July 23, 2019
The Ballad of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio
The two legendary stars are finally coming together to costar in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood.’ What can we learn from the roles that came before this glorious union?
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July 23, 2019
How the ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Were Born
The story of Quentin Tarantino’s World War II revenge fantasy as seen through the eyes of the ragtag crew he created to take down the Nazis
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July 23, 2019
Top Five Quentin Tarantino Films. Plus: David Crosby, Cameron Crowe, and A.J. Eaton.
Plus, the ‘Cats’ trailer set fire to Twitter, and Marvel extinguished the flames by announcing its next decade of IP dominance—what are we looking forward to most?
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July 22, 2019
Tarantinoesque: The Making of the Last Great Celebrity Director
He hosted ‘SNL,’ jousted with Spike Lee, and even starred on Broadway. Quentin Tarantino is a self-made, self-imagined auteur unlike any we’ve seen since. Just how did he do it?
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July 19, 2019
Now Presenting: Leo and Brad Watch
Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt have been making their rounds in advance of their upcoming Quentin Tarantino film, ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood.’ But are the older actors equipped to navigate the modern viral-moment-thirsty press circuit?
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July 16, 2019
‘Inglourious Basterds’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin
Wait for the cream before you eat the strudel and listen to Chris, Sean, and Mallory break down the Quentin Tarantino film