Quentin Tarantino biographer Ian Nathan on why Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the director’s most personal film
Original Airdate: Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2020
TVC 479.1: Ed welcomes Ian Nathan, one of the best known film journalists in the UK, and the author of Quentin Tarantino: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work, an engaging new book that explores the entirety of Tarantino’s career—from his early writing on such screenplays as True Romance and Natural Born Killers to his break-out directorial debut, Reservoir Dogs, the career-defining Pulp Fiction, and such later efforts as Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Topics include what it means for a movie to be “Tarantinoesque”; how certain TV shows from the 1960s and 1970s helped shape the Tarantino style; and Tarantino’s belief that movies that right wrongs, if not change the world.
Why Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is really an homage to the TV actors of Tarantino’s youth
Original Airdate: Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2020
TVC 479.2: Ian Nathan, author of Quentin Tarantino: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work, talks to Ed about the lengths Tarantino took to recreate footage from “All the Streets are Silent,” the episode of The FBI that appears in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and how the film really pays homage to the many working actors who appeared in the TV shows that Tarantino devoured as a youth; the role that Tarantino played in reviving the film careers of John Travolta, Pam Grier, and Robert Forster; and why Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Jackie Brown, in many respects, are companion movies. Quentin Tarantino: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work not only explores the whole of Tarantino’s career, but has a visually arresting design that mimics the director’s singular approach to filmmaking.
