Quentin Tarantino
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eli Roth explores the dark power and wicked fun of scary movies, the craft that went into making them and the ways that horror films reflect the anxieties of their times. The themes include Houses of Hell, Monsters, Body Horror, Witches, Chilling Children, and Classic Horror. Interviewees include Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Jordan Peele and more.
6) Splice Here
Series
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
FILM IS DEAD! The mantra that accompanied the dawn of the digital projection age. But was it really true? Now ten years on from that momentous transition, journey to find out what has really happened to film.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning horror film director, writer, producer, and actor Eli Roth brings together the masters of horror, the storytellers, and stars who define the genre, to explore its biggest themes and reveal the inspirations and struggles behind its past and present. Each one-hour episode will take viewers on a chilling exploration of how horror has evolved through the years and examine the genre's impact on society as well as delving into how horror maintains...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning horror film director, writer, producer, and actor Eli Roth brings together the masters of horror, the storytellers, and stars who define the genre, to explore its biggest themes and reveal the inspirations and struggles behind its past and present. Each one-hour episode will take viewers on a chilling exploration of how horror has evolved through the years and examine the genre's impact on society as well as delving into how horror maintains...
Publisher
MVD Marquee Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Two clans battle for a legendary treasure hidden in a desolate mountain town. One day, a lone gunman, burdened with deep emotional scars but blessed with incredible shooting skills, drifts into town. Two clans try to woo the lone gunman to their sides, but he has ulterior motives. Dirty tricks, betrayal, desire and love collide as the situation erupts into a final, explosive showdown.
Series
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This documentary celebrates the life and career of one of America’s most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians, Buster Keaton, whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary. Filled with stunningly restored archival Keaton films THE GREAT BUSTER is directed by Peter Bogdanovich, a filmmaker and cinema historian whose landmark writings and films on such renowned directors...
12) Reservoir dogs
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After a botched bank robbery, the gang meets up in a warehouse, only to suspect that one of them is really a cop.
13) Django unchained
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Django, a former slave turned hired gun, heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda, from the tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie, with the help of a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Shultz.
14) Four Rooms
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In this dark comedy anthology, set in a quirky hotel on New Year’s Eve, Tim Roth plays Ted, a bellhop who gets caught up in four bizarre and outrageous stories, each directed by a different filmmaker: Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino. From a witches' coven attempting a resurrection to a deadly bet involving a finger, Ted must navigate through increasingly strange and chaotic situations in each room.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
“The most powerful, loved, and hated film critic of her time.” – Roger Ebert on Pauline Kael (1919-2001). In a field that has historically embraced few women film critics, Kael was charismatic, controversial, witty, and discerning. Her decades-long berth at The New Yorker energized her fans (“Paulettes”) and infuriated her detractors on a weekly basis. Her turbo-charged prose famously championed the New Hollywood Cinema of the late 1960s...
16) Desperado
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
[2001], c1995
Language
English
Description
A mysterious guitar player seeks vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend.
17) Pulp Fiction
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Critics and audiences worldwide hailed PULP FICTION as the star-studded movie that redefined cinema in the 20th Century. Writer-director Quentin Tarantino (Oscar® -winner - Best Original Screenplay, 1994) delivers an unforgettable cast of characters - including a pair of low-rent hit men (John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson), a gangster's wife (Uma Thurman), and a desperate prizefighter (Bruce Willis) - in a wildly entertaining and exhilarating adventure...
Publisher
AMC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The evolution of Hollywood horror films gets an affectionate appreciation from one of the recent genre maestros, as the AMC documentary series by writer/director Eli Roth slashes into the on-screen odysseys of zombies, vampires, ghosts, and more.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, the bride emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback ... with a vengeance. Having been gunned down by her former boss and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight. She didn't start this deadly series of events, but she is determined to finish the business.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Straight from the pages of Frank Miller's Sin City graphic novels, comes a universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care. A cop with a bum ticker vows to protect a sexy stripper. An outcast misanthrope is on a mission to avenge the death of his one true love. Dwight, the clandestine love of Shellie, spends his night defending Gail and her Old Town girls from a tough guy with a penchant...