Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction -- at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal -- is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award- winning film. RICK DALTON - Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick's a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it? CLIFF BOOTH - Rick's stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he's the only one there who might have gotten away with murder. . . . SHARON TATE - She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon's salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills. CHARLES MANSON - The ex-con's got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he's their spiritual leader, but he'd trade it all to be a rock 'n' roll star. HOLLYWOOD 1969 - YOU SHOULDA BEEN THERE

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number one New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino. In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with CINEMA SPECULATION, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans - and all movie lovers - could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining. At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QT's and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the artform ever.

Cinema Speculation

Presents the screenplay of a film that features three intertwined crime stories inspired by the pulp magazine stories of the thirties and forties

Pulp Fiction

Academy Award-winning screenwriter Quentin Tarantino returns with his most infamous, most brilliant, most masterful screenplay yet... At the end of the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive captive Daisy Domergue race toward the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter Major Marquis Warren, a former Union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter; and Chris Mannix, a renegade who claims to be the town's new sheriff. Lost in a blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren, and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie's Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover. When they arrive, they are greeted by four unfamiliar faces: Bob, who takes care of Minnie's in the owner's absence; Oswaldo Mobray, the hangman of Red Rock; cow-puncher Joe Gage; and Confederate general Sanford Smithers. As the storm overtakes the mountainside, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all ... THE HATEFUL EIGHT is a Tarantino master class in tension-filled atmosphere, singular characters, and razor-sharp dialogue.

The Hateful Eight

Jason Latour

Danijel Žeželj

Denys Cowan

R. M. Guéra

"Set in the South two years before the Civil War, DJANGO UNCHAINED stars Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-top-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz. Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittlebrothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles--dead or alive. Success leads Schultz to free Django, though the two men choose not to go their separate ways. Instead, Schultz seeks out the South's most wanted criminals with Django by his side. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda, the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago. Django and Schultz's search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie, the proprietor of "Candlyand", an infamous plantation. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen, Candie's trusted house slave. Their moves are marked, and a treacherous organization closes in on them. If Django and Schultz are to escape with Broomhilda, they must choose between independence and solidarity, between sacrifice and survival"--

Django Unchained

With such iconic films as the Oscar-winning Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill: Volumes 1 & 2, and Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino has become the most famous and revered writer/director of his generation. Now he's back with his most ambitious movie yet: the World War II epic Inglourious Basterds. Starring Brad Pitt and filmed on location in Germany and France, it has the largest cast of characters of any Tarantino film to date. The movie will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009. The action tale follows the parallel story of a guerilla-like squad of American soldiers called "The Basterds" and the French Jewish teenage girl Shosanna who find themselves behind enemy Nazi lines during the German occupation. When the Inglourious Basterds encounter Shosanna at a propaganda screening at the movie house she runs, they conspire to launch an unexpected plot to end the war. Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine--the leader of the Basterds. Raine is an illiterate hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee who puts together a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers to hunt down the Nazis. Filled with Tarantino's trademark electric dialogue and thrilling action sequences, Inglourious Basterds is destined to become one of the most talked about films of 2009 and a landmark in cinematic history.

A Screenplay

Inglourious Basterds

The story of a heist gone wrong, "Reservoir Dogs" weaves a taut and menacing path laced with bursts of absurd and unexpected humor. Tarantino won accolades around the world and earned a devoted following with his directorial debut.

Reservoir Dogs

Not since Martin Scorsese in the mid-1970s has a young American filmmaker made such an instant impact on international cinema as Quentin Tarantino, whose PULP FICTION won the Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prix Award. A manic talker, Tarantino obsesses about American pop culture and his favorite movies and movie makers.

Interviews

This original screenplay offers fans and film buffs the opportunity to compare Tarantino's original vision with Oliver Stone's version of the story of Mickey and Mallory, outlaw lovers on the run.

Natural Born Killers

Llega el esperado y ansiado primer libro de no ficción de Quentin Tarantino. Su libro más personal: un viaje íntimo por sus películas favoritas, relatado con una voz inconfundible. «La crítica cinematográfica de Tarantino [es] tan rotunda, inteligente y asombrosa como sus películas». The New York Times «Se antoja difícil que haya un mejor libro de cine en 2023 que este arrebatado Meditaciones de cine. A no ser que Quentin publique una segunda parte». Gregorio Belinchón, El País Probablemente, Quentin Tarantino sea uno de los mayores cineastas de la historia, pero de lo que no hay atisbo de duda es de que estamos hablando del espectador que mejor puede contagiar su pasión entusiasta por las películas que ha visto. Ahora, por fin llega el libro con el que tantos años soñaron él y sus seguidores. En Meditaciones de cine, Tarantino analiza desde los puntos de vista más insólitos y con su particular conocimiento enciclopédico varias películas clave del cine norteamericano de los setenta, todas ellasvistas en su más tierna infancia (de las más violentas a las más tórridas), así como revisitadas compulsivamente. El resultado es una obra tan rigurosa y reflexiva como juguetona y entretenida. Meditaciones de cine es, a la vez, crítica cinematográfica, teoría del cine, reportajeliterario y unas memorias formidables, a la altura de clásicos del género como los de Hitchcock y Truffaut o Luis Buñuel. La crítica ha dicho: «Un libro sagrado». La Razón (Libro del día) «Apasionante y revelador». Xavi Serra, Diari Ara «En la distancia corta, Quentin Tarantino no huele a pólvora. Si tuviera que oler a algo olería a triunfo». Jacinto Antón, El País «Es un verdadero placer leerle, ajeno a todo tópico y siempre dispuesto a relecturas originales de viejas películas». Daniel Serrano, Público «Una pasarela vivaz por la que desfilan películas, repartos y directores, unas veces muy conocidos y otras mucho menos. Los rescata del olvido y contagia las ganas por revisar sus trabajos. En fin: un festín». Tino Pertierra, La Nueva España «Se disfruta mucho su lectura, nos contagia su pasión hasta la obligación de revisar esos filmes, y a su vez invita a recorrer un periodo en el que el cine en salas ejercía una influencia política y social real en la población. Pero sobre todo este testimonio apasionado es una evidencia del talento que germinó como espectador y desarrolló como cineasta para centrifugar en su propia voz las ramificaciones de su desatada cinefilia. Y así este libro bien podría ser su Santo Grial». Carlos Reviriego, El Cultural «Tarantino especula,reflexiona, y le sale de Oscar. [...] Inesperado, ingenioso, genial, divertido, iluminador». Rodrigo Fresán, ABC Cultural (Cinco estrellas) «Un manual fabuloso en el que habla mucho de sí mismo para hablar de todo lo demás». Rubén Amón, El Confidencial «Muere un cineasta y nace un escritor. [...] Sin duda, uno de los libros de cine más divertidos, ingeniosos y contagiosamente entusiastas publicados en mucho tiempo». Joric, Jenesaispop (**Los Mejores Libros de 2023**)

Meditaciones de cine

tres narraciones sobre una misma historia

A Novel

Once upon a Time in Hollywood

The script of a film featuring a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. Society tries to separate them, but their compulsion to be together admits no obstacles. In charting the mayhem they cause, the author focuses his moral gaze on the media and their collaboration in the chaos that ensues.

Tarantino se pasa a la literatura: la primera novela del cineasta más icónico de nuestra era. Rick Dalton, un actor de televisión en decadencia, abocado al alcohol y en busca de un papel que lo redima, y Cliff Booth, su doble de escenas de acción y heroico veterano de guerra (con alguna que otra sombra), son los antihéroes de esta sorprendente novela, que va mucho más allá del final que vimos en el cine. Los acompañan algunos secundarios de lujo, figuras históricas, como Sharon Tate o Charles Manson, pero también otras inventadas e indiscernibles de las reales. Con todas ellas el autor construye un mundo único y original, irrepetible en ningún otro lugar salvo en su imaginación. Érase una vez en Hollywood es el insólito debut de Quentin Tarantino en la literatura, una deliciosa y brutal primera novela. Con esta nueva muesca en su trayectoria propone, cómo no, nuevas reglas para el género de la novelización, pues logra voltear la historia que nos mostró en la gran pantalla. Todos los personajes, escenas y tramas que aquí nos ofrece --con diálogos y descripciones marca de la casa-- no solo expanden el universo fílmico de Tarantino sino que nos presentan a un narrador con un talento excepcional. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited first work of fiction—at once hilarious, delicious and brutal—is the always surprising, sometimes shocking, novelization of his Academy Award winning film. RICK DALTON—Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick’s a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it? CLIFF BOOTH—Rick’s stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he’s the only one there who might have got away with murder. . . . SHARON TATE—She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon’s salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills. CHARLES MANSON—The ex-con’s got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he’s their spiritual leader, but he’d trade it all to be a rock ‘n’ roll star.

Érase una vez en Hollywood / Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Mark Ebner

Harry Knowles

Paul Cullum

Ain't It Cool? Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out

1858, sud des Etats-Unis. Le Dr King Schultz, ancien dentiste devenu chasseur de primes, fait l'acquisition de Django, un esclave à qui il propose un marché : l'aider à capturer les frères Brittle en échange de sa liberté. Tandis que les deux hommes entament leur traque, Django ne perd pas pour autant de vue son principal objectif. Dès qu'il sera libre, il partira à la recherche de sa femme, vendue comme esclave à un riche propriétaire terrien du Mississippi. Django Unchained est l'adaptation en bande dessinée du script intégral de Quentin Tarantino, récemment porté à l'écran. Interprétés par Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio ou encore Christoph Waltz, les personnages hauts en couleurs du scénariste de Kill Bill et Pulp Fiction sont ici illustrés par R-M Guéra (Scalped), Jason Latour et Danijel Zezelj. Un récit épique, sombre et drôle à découvrir ou redécouvrir sur papier, et agrémenté d'une galerie de croquis exclusive.

Django unchained

Featuring never-before-seen photos from the set and posters and other memorabilia from Rick Dalton's career, an original, exclusive script for a Bounty Law episode by Quentin Tarantino titled "Incident at Inez" and a Mad Magazine parody of Bounty Law titled "Lousy Law: Loser's Last Ride" Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction--at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal--is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award- winning film. The sunlit studio back lots and the dark watering holes of Hollywood are the setting for this audacious, hilarious, disturbing novel about life in the movie colony, circa 1969. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood tells the story of washed-up actor Rick Dalton. Once Rick had his own television series, a famous western called Bounty Law. But "it ain't been that time in a long time" and now Rick's only regular parts are as the heavy, ready to be bested by whichever young "swingin' dick" the networks want to make a new star out of come pilot season. When a talent agent approaches Rick about starring in Italian Westerns ("Eye-talian Westerns"?), it only ignites a new crisis of confidence for the perpetually insecure actor. And then there's Rick's stunt double, Cliff Booth, a war hero who killed more Japanese soldiers during the Second World War than any other American, and who never thought he'd make it back home. If Rick's career has stalled, Cliff's has flamed out. Already living under a cloud of suspicion after the strange death of his wife at sea, Cliff makes the mistake of picking the wrong fight on set, and is soon reduced to the status of Rick's full-time gofer. Right next door to Rick's still glamourous Benedict Canyon home ("the house that Bounty Law built") some Hollywood dreams are coming true, and these dreams belong to Sharon Tate. Not only is she Mrs. Roman Polanski--married to the only true rock star director--but Sharon is fast becoming a star in her own right, living life on the upswing in a tough town. Only a few miles away, in the desert around Chatsworth, lives a different kind of dreamer. Charles Manson is an ex-con who has spellbound a group of hippie misfits living with him in squalor on an old "movie ranch." Little do his young followers know to what degree Charlie himself is an industry striver, more desperate for Columbia Records and Tapes's attentions than for the revolution he preaches. These indelible characters--and many more: an acting child prodigy beaming with hope; a booze-drenched former A-lister who's lost it all--occupy a vanished world from not so long ago that is brought to brilliant life in these pages. Here is 1969, the music, the cars, the movies and TV shows. And here is Hollywood, both the fairy tale and the real thing, as given to us by a master storyteller who knows it like the back of his hand.

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