Quentin Tarantino Lists His Top 20 Films of the Last 17 Years
I should start a petition against copy&paste.
Well, a pretty dull list by a pretty dull director. Battle Royale was a sometimes enjoyable but not very profound and overall superficial preudo-critique on Japanese society which doesn´t stand up against his earlier films like Battles Without Honor and Humanity, and doesn´t have any of the artistic qualities directors like Aoyama, Koreeda or Kitano showcasted during the last 17 years.
^ You said basically what I was going to say.
1. Battle Royale
Anything Else
Audition
Blade
Boogie Nights
Dazed & Confused
Dogville
Fight Club
Fridays
The Host
The Insider
Joint Security Area
Lost In Translation
The Matrix
Memories of Murder
Police Story 3
Shaun of the Dead
Speed
Team America
Unbreakable
For the lazy.
Has he grown up an iota in the last 17 years? His list is that of an 18-year-old video store clerk.
EDIT: Well, at least, he got Memories of Murder in there.
some way too stupid movies (Anything Else),some definitely teen-style (Fight Club) but also,1-2 undoubtely popular yet personally intriguing (Dogville)
it’s too U.S.-centric though,even if there is a Shaun or an Audition in it…
Geez, totally uninteresting. What happened to his love affair with Chungking Express? I mean he did say on the DVD release that Wong was the most exciting filmmaker since he himself started releasing films.
He even thought Three Colors: Red would win the Palme D’or, and nothing!
“I mean he did say on the DVD release that Wong was the most exciting filmmaker since he himself started releasing films.”
did he say that now,huh?it’s all promotion and no depth or meaning whatsoever,the trend of U.S. industry to bring in some “unknown” cultures,well..i guess Tarantino did it well indeed…
I wonder if he is still watching Godard.
I was just amazed that he would make such a statement. He’s basically saying he believes he’s the greatest living filmmaker, and this was after he’d made only two films. Not that arrogance is necessarily a bad thing, and it doesn’t have a single thing to do with his work, but man is it off-putting.
“I wonder if he is still watching Godard.”
the real question is…does he even remember who Godard is?
he also quoted somewhere Rohmer is a major influence,so…….
Well, at least he put Dogville and Lost In Translation….
I think his leaving out some filmmakers he used to champion has to do with the fact that they in turn weren’t too enthusiastic about his films, e.g. Abbas Kiarostami. They actually once used QT’s raves about Kiarostami in a trailer for Through the Olive Trees. Can you imagine the core fan base of Tarantino being able to even sit through—much less appreciate—a film like that? Then I saw an interview with Kiarostami in which he pretty much trashed QT’s films by saying something to the effect that QT’s films didn’t interest him at all but QT’s personality did.
its an ok list. pretty diverse.
“fight club” seems great at first, but as the movie went on got hokier and hokier to me. ive never seen it since the first time it came out, and i have no desire to again.
“friday” is a nice comedy, but i dont know if id rate it as highly as quentin.
“the matrix” was so good that it had nowhere to go but down when it came to the sequels. great action film. truly unique and visionary. but unfortunately, i think history will deem it a fad when all is said and done. nothing more than a superficial curiosity.
i also feel “speed” is a bit underrated. not as a great artistic achievment in film, but just as a successful action flick. like “die hard”, its a joy to watch. hopper is great in it as the bad guy. in fact, the opening sequence of the film is almost as good as the entire bus sequence for me.
I also question whether he has seen any Godard from 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her onwards.
Rohmer a major influence? Seem poles apart to me. One wise, understated, and his mother didn’t even know he was a famous director, the other not quite so modest
That bus defied any and all laws of physics. I refuse to give that film credit.
“and his mother didn’t even know he was a famous director”
Rohmer’s mother did not know he was a famous director? Sounds strangely intriguing.
this was his top 12 when he voted for the Sight and Sound poll…
1 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)
2 Rio Bravo (Hawks)
3 Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
4 His Girl Friday (Hawks)
5 Rolling Thunder (Flynn)
6 They All Laughed (Bogdanovich)
7 The Great Escape (J. Sturges)
8 Carrie (De Palma)
9 Coffy (Hill)
10 Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
11 Five Fingers of Death (Chang)
12 Hi Diddle Diddle (Stone)
i suppose he doesn’t give a shit towards Godard nor Rohmer….
Coffy is pretty good. I like naked Pam Grier. I think that’s the one where she hides a razor blade in her giant afro and then cuts up some blond ho with it in a cat fight.
This shows further of how Tarantino is a twelve year old boy in a forty ear old’s body. Personally I thought Battle Royale (for one) was absolutely abnominable, and illustrates just how much violence is overused in cimena.
I mean why, if the naked body of a human is exposed on the screen, and that get’s an NC-17, but people like Tarantino, and in Battle Royale, can have mindless violence, and gore, and still get mainstream rating. Pulp Fiction was a classic, but Tarantino is a child, and an asshole.
“I like naked Pam Grier”
all men who don’t shall perish in the flames of her bussom ;)
Law, i presume the auteurs profile on Rohmer has that right but anyway he was a very private person and Rohmer wasn’t his real name. I’d be much more interested in a Rohmer selection of the last 17 years
Dimitris, that’s the funniest thing you’ve ever meant to say.
I like naked Pam Grier, AND I want to perish in the flames of her bosom.
EDIT: Yeah Dimitris, is “bussom” a neologism, a deliberate misspelling? It looks a little like that well, the word that refers to another female body part…
is he really an asshole Nathan? for liking a movie? wow…
im surprised yet very happy to see him mention Unbreakable. Excellent film!
I actually dont mind his list. I have a feeling most directors would feel pressured to name films such as The Three Colors Trilogy and Chungking Express, but this guy can hold his own without having to impress anyone.
i wanted to combine something,sorry…i think i drank too many beers tonight :P
Kenji,when i find a Rohmer list,i’ll let you know…i’d love to see his choices as well…
I’ve got a 1962 Rohmer list but that was a long time ago.
True Heart Susie
The General
Sunrise
Rules of the Game
Ivan the Terrible
Voyage to Italy
Red River
Vertigo
Pickpocket
La Pyramide Humaine
Sekzee, the list does show that QT has good survival instincts. He’s basically named films that appeal to his own core audience. They’re all pretty much style-over-substance type of films, thus his own style-over-substance body of work looks relatively decent in comparison. If he actually mentioned some real substantive filmmakers from the last 17 years like Koreeda, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Ceylan, Angelopoulos, Apichatpong, Kiarostami, Hong Sang-soo, and so on, people might actually watch those films and realize that QT is kind of a fraud.
Jimmy B.
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/quentin-tarantino-lists-his-top-20-films-of-the-last-17-years
I don’t know if this has already been posted or not, but the title speaks for itself. Discuss.