Tarantino, 60 years between broken heads and tears for Bambi

A 'wild heart' capable of intercepting the whole range of human emotions through characters who have only one mission: to do 'the right thing' and do it immediately.

Anti-hero characters, eternal repeaters, animated by a dialectic without synthesis, thus capable of talking for hours and hours about the Hawaiian Kahuna Big Burger, of passages from the Bible (Ezekiel 25.17) and of miracles, but really prepared only in knowing what Madonna really meant with the song 'Like a virgin'.

Quentin Tarantino, 60 years old pulp

This is only a part of the world of Quentin Tarantino, the director of that masterpiece which is PULP FICTION, which today, March 27th, is sixty years old.

Some call Tarantino 'living celluloid', for his maniacal knowledge of cinema, some a DJ director, for his ability to switch from one genre to another, some a philosopher of violence, for his love for gore, splatter , and who is a meta-historical director, for his very personal reinterpretation of periods of the past as he did, for example, in INGLOURIOUS BASTARDS.

Great expert in auteur cinema and b-movies, but certainly not for his work in the Manhattan Beach Video Archives video store in Los Angeles: "I didn't become a cinephile because I worked there - Tarantino is keen to underline -. It is exactly the contrary:

In the 1980s he began writing screenplays (UNA VITA AL MASSIMO, NATURAL BORN KILLERS and FROM DUSK TO DAWN), to then arrive in 1992 with his debut as a director with THE RESERVOIRS (Palme d'Or at Cannes) and his first Oscar, the one for the best original screenplay, which went, two years later, to PULP FICTION.

And that was until his ninth film as a director, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, after winning another Academy Award in 2013 for Best Original Screenplay for DJANGO UNCHAINED.

In the folds of the life of this director, screenwriter, actor, many curiosities.

Among the favorite directors, for example, we find many Italians: Sergio Leone, Mario Bava, Fernando Di Leo, Sergio Corbucci, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Sollima, Enzo G. Castellari, Umberto Lenzi, Michele Soavi, Ruggero Deodato, Antonio Margheriti and Carlo Lizzani .

While on the international front: Brian De Palma, John Woo, Roger Corman, Jean-Luc Godard, Martin Scorsese, William Friedkin, Jean-Pierre Melville and niche authors such as André De Toth, Monte Hellman and Jack Hill.

As for the present there is a long shadow over his many fans over the news that Tarantino will retire after his 10th film (something that has been announced for some time).

Will he really do it?

Nobody knows, but what is certain is that he has already written the screenplay for his next film.

This is THE MOVIE CRITIC and will have a female protagonist at the center of the story.

A woman who will move in Los Angeles in the seventies and could be inspired by Pauline Kael, influential critic known for her clashes with publishers and filmmakers and former consultant of the Paramount distribution house in the seventies.

as well as a pioneering critic of the New Hollywood film movement.

A criticism that would also inspire other directors such as Wes Anderson.

No production studio is yet officially involved in the project, although some negotiations, according to the Hollywood Reporter, should start shortly and Sony Pictures, which also distributed ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, could be at the forefront.

Last year, Tarantino published a collection of essays inspired by Pauline Kael's work entitled CINEMA SPECULATION.

should start soon and at the forefront could be Sony Pictures, which also distributed ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD.

Last year, Tarantino published a collection of essays inspired by Pauline Kael's work entitled CINEMA SPECULATION.

should start soon and at the forefront could be Sony Pictures, which also distributed ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD.

Last year, Tarantino published a collection of essays inspired by Pauline Kael's work entitled CINEMA SPECULATION.

A book that, among other things, he will present on 7 April at the Mondadori Duomo bookshop in Milan and available from 21 March for La nave di Teseo.

Additionally, rumors say Tarantino plans to shoot an eight-episode TV series this year that would mark his first work on the small screen.

Finally, a curiosity: despite being a lover of bloody scenes such as the split heads of the Nazis in INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, it seems that Tarantino was forever marked by the first film he saw together with his stepfather, Disney's BAMBI: "It's a traumatizing film - he said in an interview -, I had to leave the cinema. If I had known that there were fires, chaos, deaths, I would have been prepared, but I didn't know, there was a confusion of misery".

and there