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Re: Tarantino's Best

HoldenM — Sat, 9 May 2015 07:21:12 GMT

Author: HoldenM

Posted: 05/09/2015 11:21

Pulp Fiction is unquestionably Tarantino's most important. Though it hasn't aged particularly well, the characters and dialogue are untouchable.

That being said, Inglourious Basterds is Tarantino's best. It's his most ambitious, his most technically impressive, most dynamic most entertaining, and most gratifying film. I think that the intersecting narratives all make for compelling stories, and that the film benefits from an eclectic and game ensemble. The direction is Tarantino's most confident and focused storytelling. Yes, a few moments are a little out of place–namely, the Hugo Stiglitz montage–but the film has a ton of memorable sequences, both intense and hilarious. All in all, Inglourious Basterds is the most accomplished culmination of very popular themes in Tarantino's work.

Re: Tarantino's Best

badseed — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:52:28 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 04/24/2015 03:52

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Jackie Brown
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Django Unchained
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Kill Bill (I won't rank them separately because I always watch them as a whole)
7. Death Proof
8. Four Rooms (co-director)

Re: Tarantino's Best

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 14:49:15 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/22/2015 18:49

Ridley Scott
John Lasseter, since Pixar's freakin' huge
Don Bluth
Bryan Singer
for the irony, Michael Bay
Francis Ford Coppola
Jon Favreau
Peter Jackson
George Lucas
AKira Kurosawa
Hayao Miyazaki

Re: Tarantino's Best

Shepard — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 14:14:42 GMT

Author: Shepard

Posted: 04/22/2015 18:14

the Coen Brothers
Ernst Lubitsch
Alfred Hitchcock
Billy Wilder
Frank Capra
David Lean
Paul Thomas Anderson
Francis Ford Coppola
David Lynch
David Fincher
Christopher Nolan
Wes Allen
Richard Linklater
Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli)
(Ealing Comedies)
Terry Gilliam (Monty Python)
Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorsese
Akira Kurosawa
Orson Welles
Ingmar Bergman
Robert Bresson
Vittorio De Sica
Werner Herzog
Yasujiro Ozu
Woody Allen
Sergio Leone
Sidney Lumet
William Wyler
Andrey Tarkovskiy
Fritz Lang
Mike Leigh
Roman Polanski
Clint Eastwood
Mel Brooks
Brad Bird
Alexander Payne
Alfonso Cuaron
David O Russell

Edgar Wright
Asghar Farhadi
Steve McQueen
Bennett Miller
Jeff Nichols

Re: Tarantino's Best

Facetious — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 13:27:06 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 04/22/2015 17:27

Orson Welles
John Cassavetes
Abbas Kiarostami
Charlie Chaplin
Robert Bresson
Luis Bunuel

Re: Tarantino's Best

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 03:00:07 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/22/2015 07:00

Jhereko wrote:

Strictly speaking he only has 1 film as director (though hopefully soon to be 2).

ah whoops was mentally crediting him as director of his written work. Which does remind me, Michel Gondry

Re: Tarantino's Best

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 02:57:33 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/22/2015 06:57

dividesbyzero wrote:

Charlie Kaufman

Strictly speaking he only has 1 film as director (though hopefully soon to be 2).

Re: Tarantino's Best

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 02:53:56 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/22/2015 06:53

CubaZed wrote:

Just list as many as you can. I may put up the first one soon to gauge interest and I'll write down noms and such as we go.

some off the top of my head

Jonas Mekas
Andrei Tarkovsky
Spike Jonze
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Akira Kurosawa
Ingmar Bergman
Yasujirô Ozu
Federico Fellini
Darren Aronofsky
Richard Linklater
Giuseppe Tornatore
Isao Takahata
Charlie Kaufman
Jan Svankmajer
Gus Van Sant
Henry Selick
Hayao Miyazaki
François Truffaut
Katsuhiro Otomo
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Makoto Shinkai

Re: Tarantino's Best

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 02:48:41 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/22/2015 06:48

In addition
Lars Von Trier
Francis Ford Coppola
Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Spielberg
Peter Jackson
Ingmar Bergman
Roman Polanski
Frank Capra
Gaspar Noe
Michael Mann
Danny Boyle
Peter Weir
Phillip Noyce
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu
Sam Mendes
Sam Raimi
Coen Bros
Ron Howard
Mike Leigh
Jason Reitman
Harold Ramis
Edward Zwick
Tim Burton
Pedro Almodovar
Gus Van Sant
Stephen Daldry
M Night Shymanalan
Steven Soderbergh
William Friedkin
Richard Linklater
Jim Jarmusch
Andrei Tarkovsky
Michael Haneke

Re: Tarantino's Best

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 02:43:19 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/22/2015 06:43

Just list as many as you can. I may put up the first one soon to gauge interest and I'll write down noms and such as we go.

Re: Tarantino's Best

mickilennial — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 02:43:13 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 04/22/2015 06:43

dividesbyzero wrote:

This could be fun 😁

how many noms do I get? I need a limit or I'll just keep going...

I only nom'd 6 so lets go with that?

Re: Tarantino's Best

Skinny — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 02:43:09 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 04/22/2015 06:43

CubaZed wrote:

Quick idea. What about a Let's Rank Film Directors? Obviously a weekly series would be too voluminous, but how about monthly?

Nominations?

Spike Lee, Wes Anderson, the Coens, P. T. Anderson, Rob Reiner, Terry Gilliam, David Fincher, Sergio Leone, David Lynch, Woody Allen, Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick - all fairly obvious ones that spring to mind.

Re: Tarantino's Best

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 02:40:18 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/22/2015 06:40

CubaZed wrote:

Quick idea. What about a Let's Rank Film Directors? Obviously a weekly series would be too voluminous, but how about monthly?

Nominations?

This could be fun 😁

how many noms do I get? I need a limit or I'll just keep going...

Re: Tarantino's Best

mickilennial — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 02:36:46 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 04/22/2015 06:36

CubaZed wrote:

Quick idea. What about a Let's Rank Film Directors? Obviously a weekly series would be too voluminous, but how about monthly?

Nominations?

Howard Hawks
John Ford
Blake Edwards
Sidney Lumet
John Huston
Fritz Lang

Got a lot more but that should get us started.

Re: Tarantino's Best

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 02:33:26 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/22/2015 06:33

Quick idea. What about a Let's Rank Film Directors? Obviously a weekly series would be too voluminous, but how about monthly?

Nominations?

Re: Tarantino's Best

Facetious — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 07:22:18 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 04/16/2015 11:22

Gigantic wrote:

But the sitcom scenes

And the second half.

Re: Tarantino's Best

HigherThanTheSun — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 18:57:06 GMT

Author: HigherThanTheSun

Posted: 04/15/2015 22:57

Reservoir Dogs by quite a bit I think

Natural Born Killers is good fun!

Re: Tarantino's Best

Patman360 — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 17:31:13 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 04/15/2015 21:31

Skinny wrote:

Also, I've never had a more gripping experience in a cinema than during those first twenty or so minutes of Inglourious. That shit will stay with me for life.

Probably my favourite part of any film ever, I've genuinely put it on just to watch that part.

Re: Tarantino's Best

Gigantic — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 17:23:43 GMT

Author: Gigantic

Posted: 04/15/2015 21:23

Skinny wrote:

Hated the latter though.

But the sitcom scenes

Re: Tarantino's Best

Skinny — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 17:08:48 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 04/15/2015 21:08

Anyway, ranking time:

1. Jackie Brown
2. Kill Bill
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Django Unchained
7. Death Proof
(8. From Dusk 'til Dawn
9. True Romance)

I basically think the top seven are all great. It sort of kills me to put Reservoir Dogs so low, but his filmography is consistent as fuck. Also, I've never had a more gripping experience in a cinema than during those first twenty or so minutes of Inglourious. That shit will stay with me for life.

Don't care enough for Four Rooms or Natural Born Killers to bother ranking them. Hated the latter though.