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Josh Becker: Q & AName: Nikolay Yeriomin. E- mail: nikolayyeriomin@gmail. Date. 6/5/1. 6Dear Josh : Loved previous q& a's with Keith and Tim because it is quite an interesting "food for thoughts". If it is okay, I have a few comments and questions regarding what they were writing, so this message may be a little bit long (I hope that it may be separated if that will be more comfortable for you and/or webmasters). Firstly, regarding Alfred Hitchcock (by the way, my all- time favorite director) - it should be noted that "Hitchock/Truffault", even though it is one of the greatest books on Hitchcock and movie- making in general is quite flawed by one thing in nearly any translation, that thing being the fact that all of the Hitchcock statements were translated in French and then book was again translated in English from that translation, so at times what Hitchcock actually said was somewhat paraphrased and may have affected the sense of a few statements. Secondly, a little thought on Hitchcock's movies - last summer I've discovered that I've actually haven't seen that much of his directorial works, mainly because in cases of one of the favorite directors dying or working rarely I usually postpone some movies in advance, just to have a few if I'll have some specific mood.
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In case of Hitchcock, though, I understood it was quite pointless, because if counting his TV episodes and some other things he has quite a big filmography. So, I've started a tradition of sorts that I hope to continue this year - to pick five Hitchcock directorial works (from each decade of his career excluding the 7. I've seen everything) mostly at random and watch them on and around his birthday.
- Quentin Tarantino (/ ˌ t ær ə n ˈ t iː n oʊ /; born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, writer, and actor. His films are characterized by nonlinear.
- It has been 22 years since the Academy last presented a Special Award, and it will be only the 19th such honor in the Academy's 90-year history.
What I've picked in 2. The Pleasure Garden", "Jamaica Inn", "Spellbound", "The Trouble with Harry" and an episode of "Startime" named "Incident at a Corner". I can highly recommend each one of them (though "Spellbound" is probably the better one of them), but "Incident at a Corner" is especially recommended because it is mostly overlooked and forgotten, despite this little gem is actually pretty impressive. Thirdly, while I can understand your and Tim's concern of culture being "rotted", I have some optimism for it and I just believe that we're living in a period of quite a big shift and it's hard to judge the society which is in a constant stress and undergoes a process of certain social and cultural mutations. I'm quite concerned about culture as well because, well - mainstream culture seems less and less appealing to me. Especially since younger people (of which I am, to some unfortunate extent) seem less and less tolerant to more individual and "unconventional" tastes and will try to force you to watch what they like, massively overreacting if you dislike their choice, forgetting that anyone has right to choose what he or she wants to watch.
I'm quite tired of people shaming me for my dislike of "Game of Thrones" and "The Walking Dead" - while both series are very popular and acclaimed I just can't find anything of strong interest in both of them (not to mention that people fail to notice how much "Game of Thrones" is derivative to works of William Shakespeare) so I don't have a point to watch them. But I hope that such "Age of Overreacting" will eventually pass and we'll have some kind of renaissance. I don't lose that hope because, well, even my dorm roommate (1. I'm of the same age gap and yet I can easily watch anything regardless of time period) loved "Lawrence of Arabia" and is amazed by Buster Keaton stunts (despite him being a parkour practitioner he just can't understand how some of them were executed) and another one of the same age is reading a lot and tries quite thoughtfully to compare and balance mainstream, independent and classic art.
One of my best friends who is essentially of my age disliked "The Hateful Eight", by the way and while I was okay with that movie I can totally see why and approve both his and yours concerns about it. Fourthly as you've asked for someone to pick ten greatest movies and albums of the past ten years (that should be the period of 2. Watch Scream 3 Mediafire on this page. I guess?) I might as well try to name at least movies. But I should warn you that I'm casually watching some movies two or three years after the initial release, so I'm quite surely missed at least a few great titles. I'm also subjective, of course and will try to balance those movies which both I've found great and at least some significant amount of people enjoyed a lot as well, trying hard to limit it for one- two movies per year. My picks are (in chronological order): 1."Shaun of the Dead" (2.
Dir. Edgar Wright (UK); 2."Takeshis'" (2. Dir. Takeshi Kitano (Japan); 3."A Scanner Darkly" (2. Dir. Richard Linklater (USA); 4."Reign Over Me" (2. Dir. Mike Binder (USA); 5."Serce na dloni" (2. US as "And a Warm Heart" though the translation is "Heart in the Hand") Dir.
Krzysztof Zanussi (Poland); 6."Drive" (2. Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn (USA); 7."Fire. Crosser" (Toy. Khto. Proyshov. Kriz. Vohon) (2. Dir. Mykhailo Illienko (Ukraine); 8."L'écume des jours" (2.
US as "Mood Indigo", though the translation is "The Foam of Days") Dir. Michel Gondry (France); 9."The Guest" (2. Dir. Adam Wingard (USA); 1.
Mad Max: Fury Road" (2. Dir. George Miller, (Australia and USA).
The problem is - great rarely equals life- changing personal favorites - if you'd asked to put a list of ten personal favorites a fewer of those will move from one list to another. Yours sincerely,Nikolay Yeriomin.
Quentin Tarantino - Wikipedia. Quentin Tarantino[1] (; born March 2.
American film director, writer, and actor. His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, an aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts consisting of established and lesser- known performers, references to popular culture, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1. He is widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation. His career began in the late 1. My Best Friend's Birthday, the screenplay of which formed the basis for True Romance.
In the early 1. 99. Reservoir Dogs in 1. Greatest Independent Film of All Time" by Empire. Its popularity was boosted by his second film, Pulp Fiction (1. Judged the greatest film from 1.
Entertainment Weekly,[2] many critics and scholars have named it one of the most significant works of modern cinema.[3] For his next effort, Tarantino paid homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1. Jackie Brown (1. 99. Rum Punch. Kill Bill, a highly stylized "revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of Kung fu films, Japanese martial arts, Spaghetti Westerns and Italianhorror, followed six years later, and was released as two films: Volume 1 in 2. Volume 2 in 2. 00. Tarantino directed Death Proof (2. Robert Rodriguez, under the collective title Grindhouse.
His long- postponed Inglourious Basterds, which tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's political leadership, was released in 2. After that came 2.
Django Unchained, a Western film set in the antebellum era of the Deep South. It became the highest- grossing film of his career so far, making over $4. His eighth film, the mystery Western The Hateful Eight, was released in its roadshow version December 2.
Tarantino's films have garnered both critical and commercial success. He has received many industry awards, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and the Palme d'Or, and has been nominated for an Emmy and a Grammy. He was named one of the 1. Most Influential People in the World by Time in 2. Filmmaker and historian Peter Bogdanovich has called him "the single most influential director of his generation".[5] In December 2. Tarantino received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry.[6]Early life[edit]Tarantino was born on March 2.
Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Connie Mc. Hugh and Tony Tarantino. His father is of Italian descent, and his mother has Cherokee and Irish ancestry. Quentin was named after Quint Asper, Burt Reynolds' character in the CBS series Gunsmoke. Quentin's mother met his father during a trip to Los Angeles, when Tony was a law student and would- be entertainer.
She married him soon after, to gain independence from her parents, but the marriage did not last. Connie Tarantino left Los Angeles, and moved to Knoxville, where her parents lived. In 1. 96. 6, Tarantino's mother, after finishing her nursing studies, moved back to Los Angeles with her then three- year- old son. They lived in the South Bay, in the southern part of the city. Tarantino grew up there.[7][8]Tarantino's mother married musician Curtis Zastoupil soon after coming to Los Angeles, and the family moved to Torrance, a city in Los Angeles County's South Bay area.
Zastoupil encouraged Tarantino's love of movies, and accompanied him to numerous film screenings. Tarantino's mother allowed him to see movies with adult content, such as Carnal Knowledge (1. Deliverance (1. 97.
After his mother divorced Zastoupil in 1. Hodgkin's lymphoma, Tarantino was sent to live with his grandparents in Tennessee.
He remained there for about six months to a year, before returning to California. His mother's next husband, to whom she was married for eight years, also took Tarantino to films. At 1. 4 years old, Tarantino wrote one of his earliest works, a screenplay called Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit, where a thief steals pizzas from a pizzeria. It was based on Hal Needham's 1. Smokey and the Bandit, starring Burt Reynolds. The summer after his fifteenth birthday, Tarantino was grounded by his mother for shoplifting Elmore Leonard's novel The Switch from Kmart.
He was only allowed to leave to attend the Torrance Community Theater, where he participated in such plays as Two Plus Two Makes Sex and Romeo and Juliet.[9]At about 1. Tarantino dropped out of Narbonne High School in Harbor City, Los Angeles.[1. He got a job ushering at a porn theater in Torrance, called the Pussycat Theatre, after saying he was older than he truly was. Later, he put himself in acting classes at the James Best Theatre Company, where he met several people who would later appear in his films. While at the James Best, Tarantino also met Craig Hamann, with whom he collaborated to produce My Best Friend's Birthday, an eventually- forsaken film project. In the 1. 98. 0s, Tarantino worked in a number of places.
He played one of a group of Elvis impersonators in "Sophia's Wedding: Part 1", an episode in the fourth season of The Golden Girls, which was broadcast on November 1. Tarantino also worked as a recruiter in the aerospace industry, and for five years, he worked in Video Archives, a video store in Manhattan Beach, California.[1. Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor Danny Strong described Tarantino as a "fantastic video store clerk." "[Tarantino] was such a movie buff.
He had so much knowledge of films that he would try to get people to watch really cool movies."[1. Film career[edit]After Tarantino met Lawrence Bender at a Hollywood party, Bender encouraged him to write a screenplay. Tarantino co- wrote and directed the movie My Best Friend's Birthday in 1. The final reel of the film was almost completely destroyed in a lab fire that occurred during editing, but its screenplay later formed the basis for True Romance.[1.
Tarantino received his first paid writing assignment in the early 1. Robert Kurtzman hired him to write the script for From Dusk Till Dawn.[1. In January 1. 99. Tarantino's neo- noir crime thriller Reservoir Dogs—which he wrote, directed and acted in as Mr. Brown—was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. It was an immediate hit, with the film receiving a positive response from critics. The dialogue- driven heist movie set the tone for Tarantino's later films.
Tarantino wrote the script for the film in three- and- a- half weeks and Bender forwarded it to director Monte Hellman. Hellman helped Tarantino to secure funding from Richard Gladstein at Live Entertainment (which later became Artisan, now known as Lionsgate). Harvey Keitel read the script and also contributed to the funding, taking a role as co- producer and also playing a major part in the movie.[1. Tarantino's screenplay True Romance was optioned and the film was eventually released in 1. The second script that Tarantino sold was for the film Natural Born Killers, which was revised by Dave Veloz, Richard Rutowski and director Oliver Stone.
Tarantino was given story credit and in an interview stated that he wished the film well.[1. The film engendered enmity, and the publication of a 'tell all' book titled Killer Instinct by Jane Hamsher—who with Don Murphy had an original option on the screenplay and produced the film—led to Tarantino physically assaulting Murphy in the AGO restaurant in West Hollywood, California in October 1.
Murphy subsequently filed a $5m lawsuit against Tarantino, which was eventually settled out of court.[2. Tarantino was also an uncredited screenwriter on both Crimson Tide (1. The Rock (1. 99. 6).[2. Following the success of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino was approached by Hollywood and offered numerous projects, including Speed and Men in Black, but he instead retreated to Amsterdam to work on his script for Pulp Fiction. Tarantino wrote, directed, and acted in the black comedy crime film Pulp Fiction in 1.