“Like a motorcycle to order”: Quentin Tarantino celebrated his 60th birthday

“Like a motorcycle to order”: Quentin Tarantino celebrated his 60th birthday


On March 27, Quentin Tarantino turned 60 years old. In March, it became known that he had finished the script for the movie Film Critic and would start filming in the fall. According to Hollywood's previous enfant terrible statements, this will be the last film in his career: he promised to shoot 10 and put an end to it.

Quentin Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963 in the USA. His parents are a nurse and an artist. Each has a lot of blood mixed in from Irish and Italian to the outlandish, Indian tribe of the Charoqui. This burning mixture makes itself felt in their son. The self-taught genius grew up in Los Angeles, from childhood he became interested in cinema, worked as a usher in a porn cinema, sold video cassettes, took acting classes, started writing scripts early and for the time being unsuccessfully offered them to studios.

In 1992, Tarantino made his film debut with Reservoir Dogs. And two years later he became famous as soon as his "Pulp Fiction" was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

The jury, headed by Clint Eastwood, then included the Russian actor Alexander Kaidanovsky. It was in 1994, when Nikita Mikhalkov with "Burnt by the Sun" also claimed the "Palma". Then "Pulp Fiction" was marked by "Oscar", "Golden Globe", the highest British film award BAFTA.

Tarantino has visited Russia twice. For the first time - in 2004 at the International Moscow Film Festival. His sequel "Kill Bill-2" opened the Moscow Film Festival. Tarantino went to Peredelkino to the grave of Boris Pasternak to bow to the author of his favorite novel Doctor Zhivago. His kneeling photos went around all the media.

Tarantino also visited the Cinema Museum, met with its director Naum Kleiman. And soon spoke in his defense, when a crazy campaign to destroy the museum began. 15 years later, Quentin visited Moscow again on the eve of the release of his ninth film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He made a tour of the Kremlin, accompanied by Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky.

This picture made a lot of noise, offended many, because Tarantino, starting filming, did not discuss the details of the project with Roman Polanski and crossed the ethical line. "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" refers to the events of 1969, when Polanski's wife, actress Sharon Tate, was mauled to death by cult leader Charles Manson, who stabbed her in her last pregnancy.

Polanski also appears on the screen, although from the back, but is still recognizable. After the premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, accusations flew against Tarantino, including from Polanski's current wife, actress Emmanuelle Seigner. She stated that Tarantino "wiped his feet" about Polanski.

Quentin reacted nervously, at the Cannes press conference he behaved like a hunted animal, avoiding detailed answers.

At the same time that Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was nominated for ten Oscars, the documentary Once Upon a Time... Tarantino by Tara Wood was released. One of her heroes compared Tarantino to a unique custom-made motorcycle.

A little earlier, in an interview with Variety, Tarantino said that he plans to make ten films and put an end to his career. Nine have already been made. One left. There was, however, a reservation that maybe by the age of 75 the idea to make another film would come.

Tarantino's films have been produced by the Weinstein brothers more than once, and they have all been successful. He angered many when, as president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival, he awarded the Palme d'Or to Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, created with the participation of their mutual producer Harvey Weinstein. When about 90 charges of violence were brought against the latter, Tarantino could no longer work with him. Thus ended their 25-year friendship. In some minds, a version was born that Tarantino no longer wants to shoot, so that they don’t say that he used to do it cool, but now he doesn’t.

In 2018, the inveterate bachelor Tarantino married Israeli singer Daniela Pick and settled in Tel Aviv. On February 22, 2020, his son was born, and on July 2, 2022, a daughter was born. But bridges are not burned. Tarantino is due to start filming his final film, tentatively titled Film Critic, this fall.

It is likely that Cate Blanchett will play the lead role. The only thing known about the project is that its action takes place in Los Angeles in the 1970s. Pauline Cale, a real and very influential film critic, writer and essayist of the second half of the 20th century, will be in the center of events. She worked for The New Yorker for a quarter of a century, writing scathing reviews that Tarantino, by his own admission, read for 15 years. It was she who became for him a professor at that film school, which existed only in his head, since he did not graduate from film universities, he studied everything himself. Pauline Cale passed away in 2001.

Quentin Tarantino turned 60: a photo of the Oscar-winning director of different years

Quentin Tarantino turned 60: a photo of the Oscar-winning director of different years

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