Quentin Tarantino receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Among Tarantino’s fans-of which I am a proud member, two decades standing-he will always be our indie filmmaker, the movie obsessive with his own in-jokes, meta references, and cinematic winks.

Pulp Fiction came out in 1994.

There are many that would argue that Quentin Tarantino’s career continues to improve with age.

Tarantino’s 9th theatrical release, The Hateful Eight, has already collected a Golden Globe nomination ahead of its Christmas release and December 31 expansion, and the director appeared jubilant as he posed for photos and signed autographs. That tension drives the three plus hours that make up the film’s running time.

And then the action, such as it is, begins with a wide shot vista of a crucifixion with a desolate snowy background as a stagecoach comes upon a man, Major Marquis Warren, a bounty hunter played by Samuel L. Jackson who is beside his stranded wagon. With the USA premiere of “The Hateful Eight” coinciding with the latest installment in the “Star Wars” franchise, which opened worldwide last week, only the box office tally will reveal the success of his latest opus.

Now, just days away from the theatrical release of the movie, Tarantino discussed backlash to his controversial comments and the damage it might do to his film’s awards campaign and box office success.

“The Hateful Eight” will be polarizing, but only in the way that a trolling think piece is polarizing.

The reviewer did add that for anyone who appreciates Tarantino’s “fondness for narrative minutia”, this won’t be a problem at all.

To focus on the performances, Leigh’s Domergue is probably the best in show, and her essaying of this wild-woman provides a sense of unpredictability, that while even in shackles, as she spends much of the film, strikes a terrifying figure. Ultra Panavision 70 was used on only a handful of films, including Mutiny on the Bounty, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and Battle of the Bulge. Discontent with making the films he has in the past, Tatum is clearly blazing a bright future for himself- especially if he continues to work with visionary directors like Quentin Tarantino. While discussing the influence of John Carpenter’s The Thing (both thrillers where Kurt Russell is snowbound with bleak prospects) for which Morricone also wrote the score and happened to have enough unused music left over for Tarantino to use.