His eighth film, The Hateful Eight (2015), was a long-form Western initially screened in a 70 mm roadshow theatrical release.
His long-postponed Inglourious Basterds (2009) tells an alternate history of Allied forces in Nazi-occupied France, and was released to favorable reviews it was followed by Django Unchained (2012), a Spaghetti Western set in the Antebellum South, to further critical favor.
Tarantino next directed the exploitation slasher film Death Proof (2007), part of a double feature with Robert Rodriguez released in the tradition of 1970s grindhouse cinema, under the collective title Grindhouse. In 2003, Tarantino delivered Kill Bill: Volume 1, a stylized "revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of kung fu films and Japanese martial arts Volume 2 followed in 2004. Tarantino paid homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s with Jackie Brown (1997), an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch. He wrote the screenplay for the horror comedy film From Dusk till Dawn (1996), in which he also starred. His second film, Pulp Fiction (1994), a crime comedy, was a major success among critics and audiences. Empire magazine hailed Reservoir Dogs as the "Greatest Independent Film of All Time". He began his career as an independent filmmaker with the release of Reservoir Dogs in 1992, a crime thriller film which was funded by money from the sale of his screenplay True Romance (1993).
His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, dark humor, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture and a wide variety of other films, eclectic soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, alternate history, and features of neo-noir film.īorn in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tarantino grew up in Los Angeles. Quentin Jerome Tarantino (/ˌtærənˈtiːnoʊ/ born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor.
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