Césars 2020

L'académie des Césars n'a pas oublié Tarantino puisque Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood est nommé dans la catégorie du meilleur film étranger de l'année aux côtés de Joker et Parasite entre autres. J'accuse, Les Misérables et Le portrait de la jeune fille en feu font figure de favoris avec une douzaine de nominations chacun.

OUATIH: A love letter to making movies (DOC)

RIP Black Mamba

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Lawrence Fishburne devait jouer Jules dans Pulp Fiction

Beaucoup de grands acteurs sont passés à côté de Pulp Fiction (Daniel Day-Lewis notamment) mais Quentin Tarantino en dit plus sur le cas Laurence Fishburne. Il explique ainsi que son premier choix pour jouer Jules n'était pas Samuel L. Jackson mais Laurence Fishburne, le futur Morpheus de Matrix, qui était alors en pleine ascension grâce aux succès successifs de King of New York et Boyz n the Hood.
QT a d'ailleurs proposé officiellement au comédien d'incarner le tueur à gages, mais celui-ci a refusé : "Il m'a dit : 'Je veux le faire, ok ? Mais je paye mes agents, donc je dois bien les écouter...'" Ceux-ci avaient conseillé à Fishburne de courtiser plutôt le rôle de Zeus dans Die Hard 3 aux côtés de Bruce Willis, pour lequel il pouvait réclamer un salaire plus conséquent. Sauf que la somme demandée était trop élevée pour le producteur Andy Vajna, qui, en pleine préparation de cette suite, a vu Pulp Fiction en avant-première lors du festival de Cannes... et a décidé de proposer le rôle de Zeus à Samuel L. Jackson. Une double victoire pour ce dernier puisque les deux films ont connu un grand succès ! Fishburne a quant à lui engagé une procédure contre la boîte de production de Vajna, Cinergi, considérant que celui-ci avait brisé un accord verbal à propos de ce film.

Source: Première

Tarantino: "La mise en scène, c'est pour les jeunes"

"Je sens qu’il est temps d’entrer dans le troisième acte de ma vie et de me plonger davantage dans la littérature, explique-t-il, dans une vidéo pour ABC. Ce sera mieux en étant un nouveau père, un nouveau mari. Je ne veux pas avoir à emmener ma famille sur un tournage, en Allemagne ou au Sri Lanka ou peu importe où se déroulera l’histoire. J’aimerais être plus à la maison et devenir un homme de lettres. Je sens que la réalisation, c’est pour les jeunes, que le cinéma est en train de changer, mais que moi, je suis plutôt de la vieille école."

Variety: Quentin Tarantino Celebrates Art of Screenwriting at Final Draft Awards

Quentin Tarantino celebrated the art of screenwriting during his induction into the Final Draft Hall of Fame Tuesday night at the Paramount Theatre in Hollywood.
The clearly delighted Tarantino, who scored Oscar nominations for writing, directing and producing “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” revealed filmmaker Walter Hill was his inspiration to become a screenwriter.
“Walter was one of my biggest heroes growing up,” he said. “I had only read two scripts and they were so effing dry. But when I read ‘Hard Times,’ it wasn’t just description. It wasn’t just a blue print for how to do the movie. I was supposed to make the movie in my mind. When the script was over and I put it down, I saw the movie.”
Tarantino went on to explain that he spent the next decade working on unfinished scripts, such as a knock-off of “Smokey and the Bandit” called “Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandits” about a gang robbing pizza parlors.

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Big Three in L.A Times

"I swear to God, I had to hide a tear,” Brad Pitt says, looking over at Quentin Tarantino and Leonardo DiCaprio, remembering the first time Tarantino played him the José Feliciano cover of “California Dreamin’” on the set of “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood.” “Look,” Pitt continues. “I’m not ashamed to say it. I got a little misty.”
We’ve settled onto a couple of sofas inside a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont because ... where else would we meet to talk about Tarantino’s wistful elegy to a bygone Hollywood? As the song declares, it’s a winter’s day, though the (palm tree) leaves are green, not brown, and the sun setting just beyond the swimming pool is making the sky periwinkle blue, not a dismal gray.
But otherwise, yeah, we’re California dreamin’, sitting back, talking about a movie that earned 10 Oscar nominations — three for Tarantino as a director, writer and producer, and acting nods for DiCaprio and Pitt — and also considering the good fortune that has graced their lives over the last few decades.
“You know, when I first moved out here, it was the summer of ’86 and I didn’t know [expletive]-all about Los Angeles, other than what I’d seen on ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’ and ‘Dragnet,’” Pitt says. “I landed in Burbank at a house I could crash at for a month or so. It was just me and a maid from Thailand who couldn’t speak English. Man, I was just so up for the adventure, and so excited when I’d drive by a studio where they make movies. It meant the world to me.”

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Popcorn with Peter Travers

Brad Pitt couronné aux SAG Awards

Brad Pitt raffle tous les prix du meilleur second rôle pendant cette saison de remise et il se bonifie à chaque discours. Les vannes ont fusé et l'autodérision était de mise. “Bon, je peux ajouter ça à mon profil Tinder”, a-t-il lancé en montant sur la cène du Shrine Auditorium à Los Angeles. Il a ensuite remercié ses collègues :“Leo, Margot Robbie, les pieds de Margot Robbie, les pieds de Margaret Qualley, les pieds de Dakota Fanning... Non, mais sérieusement, Quentin a demandé à plus de femmes d’enlever leurs chaussures que les agents de sécurité dans les aéroports”.

“Soyons honnêtes, c’était un rôle difficile. Un mec qui est drogué ou ivre, qui se balade torse nu, et qui ne s’entend pas avec sa femme... Ça a vraiment demandé de faire un grand écart...”, a-t-il ironisé devant le public hilare et son ex-femme Jennifer Aniston qui a applaudi son autodérision.

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Bounty Law: la série verra-t-elle le jour?

“As far as the ‘Bounty Law’ shows, I want to do that, but it will take me a year and a half, I ended up writing five half-hour episodes. So I’ll do them, and I will direct all of them. It got an introduction from ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,’ but I don’t really consider it part of that movie even though it is,” he said. “This is not about Rick Dalton playing Jake Cahill. It’s about Jake Cahill. Where all this came from was, I ended up watching a bunch of ‘Wanted, Dead or Alive‘, and ‘The Rifleman,’ and ‘Tales of Wells Fargo,’ these half-hour shows to get in the mindset of ‘Bounty Law,’ the kind of show Rick was on. I’d liked them before, but I got really into them. The concept of telling a dramatic story in half an hour. You watch and think, wow, there’s a helluva lot of storytelling going on in 22 minutes. I thought, I wonder if I can do that?"

Vu la hype de OUATIH en ce moment et la réelle possibilité de décrocher l'Oscar du meilleur film, il va sans dire que les grands networks américains comme HBO ou Netflix seraient prêts à signer un chèque en blanc pour pareil projet.

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Entretien: la réaction de QT à ses dix nominations

EXCLUSIVE: Landing 10 Oscar nominations spanning nearly every major category including Best Picture, Best Director and nods for his leads Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt marks the latest development in a long odyssey that Quentin Tarantino has gone through with Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood. This was a movie that needed a new studio when The Weinstein Company imploded, and found one in Sony. A movie that took a calculated risk with a Cannes premiere well before release that required Tarantino to ask media and audiences to not reveal plot spoilers — they actually listened. Here, Tarantino discusses what the nominations mean to him on a film where nearly everything seemed to go right, and even the challenge of defying Chinese censors that wanted him to excise a fictional scene involving Bruce Lee. He also describes what it means to be part of a 2019 bumper crop of audacious auteur-driven original films also celebrated with Oscar nominations today, films so good he believes they staved off the wisdom that studios are better off making mega-budget sequels and remakes. Tarantino also here confirms suspicions he won’t direct that Star Trek film he put in motion., He does, however, intend to direct all five of the episodes he wrote of Bounty Law, the fictitious ’60s Western series he created as the star vehicle for DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton character.

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Oscars 2020: les nominations

 Et 10 nominations pour Tarantino et son Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood!!!

Best Picture
Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
1917
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Parasite

Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Todd Phillips, Joker
Sam Mendes, 1917
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Bong Joon Ho, Parasite

Best Actor
Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes

Best Actress
Cynthia Erivo, Harriet
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Charlize Theron, Bombshell
Renée Zellweger, Judy

Supporting Actor
Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Supporting Actress
Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell
Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
Florence Pugh, Little Women
Margot Robbie, Bombshell

Adapted Screenplay
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
The Two Popes

Best Original Screenplay
Knives Out
Marriage Story
1917
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Parasite

Animated Feature
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
Missing Link
Toy Story 4

International Feature Film
Corpus Christi
Honeylan
Les Miserables
Pain and Glory
Parasite

Best Documentary
American Factory
The Cave
The Edge of Democracy
For Sama
Honeyland

Best Cinematography
The Irishman
Joker
The Lighthouse
1917
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best Costume Design
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Film Editing
Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Parasite

Makeup and Hairstyling
Bombshell
Joker
Judy
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
1917

Original Score
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
1917
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Original Song
“I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” – Toy Story 4
“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” – Rocketman
“I’m Standing with You” – Breakthrough
“Into the Unknown” – Frozen II
“Stand Up” – Harriet

Production Design
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
1917
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Parasite

Sound Editing
Ford v Ferrari
Joker
1917
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Sound Mixing
Ad Astra
Ford v Ferrari
Joker
1917
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Visual Effects
Avengers: Endgame
The Irishman
The Lion King
1917
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Documentary (Short Subject)
In the Absence
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)
Life Overtakes Me
St. Louis Superman
Walk Run Cha-Cha

Short Film (Animated)
Dcera (Daughter)
Hair Love
Kitbull
Memorable
Sister

Short Film (Live Action)
Brotherhood
Nefta Football Club
The Neighbors’ Window
Saria
A Sister

Critic's Choice Awards: OUATIH plébiscité

La moisson dorée se poursuit pour Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood puisque Tarantino et son équipe rafflent quatre prix la nuit dernière au Critic's Choice Awards, équivalent américain des Golden Globes (presse étrangère) dont le prix du meilleur film. Brad Pitt remporte une nouvelle fois le prix du meilleur second rôle et Tarantino celui du meilleur script. Ils sont favoris des pronostiques pour les Oscars, dont les nominations seront dévoilées dans l'après-midi. OUATIH pourrait recevoir entre dix et douze nominations selon les projections les plus optimistes.

National Board Of Review 2020

Les Oscars n'auront pas lieu avant le 10 février, mais le coup d'envoi de la saison des récompenses a bien été donné en ce début d'année 2020. Quelques jours après les Golden Globes, c'était au tour du National Board of Review (NBR), organisme fondé en 1909 à New York qui récompense les meilleurs films de l'année écoulée, d'organiser sa grande soirée. Mercredi 8 janvier, rendez-vous était donné à de nombreuses personnalités du septième art au Cipriani, à New York, pour assister au sacre de Brad Pitt, Renée Zellweger ou encore Quentin Tarantino.

Le premier est apparu avec un grand sourire sur scène. Brad Pitt a reçu le prix du meilleur acteur dans un second rôle pour sa performance dans «Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood», un trophée qui lui a été remis par son ami Bradley Cooper. De son côté, Renée Zellweger a été honorée pour sa prestation dans «Judy» (meilleure actrice), biopic retraçant la fin de vie de Judy Garland qui sortira en février sur les écrans français. Enfin, Quentin Tarantino a reçu le prix du meilleur réalisateur pour «Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood».

Martin Scorsese et Robert de Niro étaient aussi présents pour récupérer le prix du meilleur film pour «The Irishman», tandis qu'Adam Sandler a raflé le prix du meilleur acteur pour son travail dans «Uncut Gems». Kathy Bates a pour sa part été sacrée meilleure actrice dans un second rôle pour son rôle dans «Richard Jewell».

BAFTA 2020

  Tarantino, primé en 2013 pour le script de Django Unchained

Deux jours après la cérémonie des Golden Globes, la liste complète des nommé.es pour les BAFTA Film Awards a été dévoilée par les acteurs Asa Butterfield ("Sex Education") et Ella Balinska ("Charlie's Angels"), ce mardi 7 janvier à Londres. "Joker" part favori avec onze citations, devant "Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood" de Tarantino et "The Irishman" de Scorsese qui cumule chacun dix nominations.

3 Golden Globes pour OUATIH

Tarantino et OUATIH sortent grand vainqueur de la cérémonie des Golden Globes après avoir remportés trois prix: meilleur script, meilleur film (comédie) et meilleur second rôle (Brad Pitt). 

 Acceptance speeches

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AFI Awards

Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt , Margaret Qualley and Leonardo DiCaprio attend the 20th Annual AFI AWARDS luncheon at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on January 03, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.

Greta Gerwig Brings Quentin Tarantino to Tears With Emotional Tribute at Palm Springs Gala

In presenting Quentin Tarantino with the Director of the Year award at the 31st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Film Awards Gala Thursday night, Greta Gerwig spoke about the profound impact the filmmaker has had on her life, from longingly staring at a video store copy of “Pulp Fiction” as a kid to choosing to shoot her “Little Women” on film, rather than digitally, in a nod to Tarantino’s own preference.

“Quentin Tarantino makes movies as if movies could save the world,” she said. “Movies can kill Hitler, free slaves, and give Sharon Tate one more summer … he makes movies like movies themselves matter, like they are both high art — which they are — and that they are populist art — which they are. They’re speaking the most profound truths to the biggest crowds with the bravado that comes with the confidence that collectively everybody will be changed for the better by the experience.”

After listening to Gerwig’s heartfelt six-minute introduction, a welled-up Tarantino said he was on the verge of tears.

“She literally said about me how I can only imagine somebody could ever talk about me in my wildest self-possessed dreams,” he said. “Thank you. I mean my god, thank you so much. I joke that when people are going to talk about me, I say, ‘Speak about me as if I were dead.’ And they never do. And you did!”

Tarantino, who was awarded for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” was one of 12 honored Thursday. The gala, with attendance of some 2,500, raised nearly $2.5 million for the festival, according to its chairman Harold Matzner.
While the ceremony’s purpose is ostensibly to kick off the 12-day festival, the gala is watched closely for another reason: its sterling track record for predicting Oscar nominees.

Source: Indiewire.com

Dimanche: Golden Globes

It's true! Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt will be presenters at the 77th Golden Globe® Awards this Sunday, January 5, 2020 airing at 8pmET/5pmPT live on NBC

Quentin Tarantino Says Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’ Is His #2 Film Of The Decade

I’m late to Rewatchables, a podcast on The Ringer podcast. As far as I can tell, it’s a throwback podcast where the hosts and sometimes a guest consider an old, often classic film, rewatch it and discuss that rewatch in a very specific format—how the film holds up, what’s best about it, what’s worst about it, who stands out the most on a new, updated viewing, etc. On one of the most recent episodes of Rewatchable, none other than Quentin Tarantino stopped by to discuss Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk.”

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Entretien avec Deadline: QT (Vidéo)

Nearly 30 years after he burst onto the movie scene with Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino remains one of the few breakout directors from the 1990s to still be working at the top end of the studio system. After a brief wobble in the late 2000s with Grindhouse, his recent films have been his most successful yet. Although it has yet to catch up with his Blaxploitation spaghetti Western Django Unchained, his ninth film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, gave him the biggest opening weekend of his career when it was released in July.

Set in 1969 and starring Leonardo DiCaprio as TV Western star Rick Dalton, Brad Pitt as his stuntman Cliff Booth, and Margot Robbie as actress Sharon Tate, the film follows two days in the life of all three before fast-forwarding to the fateful weekend of August 8-9, when Tate’s home was invaded by a murderous hippie cult later known as the Manson family.

At Deadline’s recent The Contenders New York awards-season event, Tarantino explained that, although the film dealt with a lot of his favorite themes, it was no more personal than his previous films. “I think all my movies are personal,” he said. “Even the more genre ones — deep inside of it, there’s a personal skeleton. But this one, I’d had this idea in my mind for a while. It was the longest I’d worked on something since Inglorious Basterds. I think sometime around Death Proof is where I came up with the initial starting point of who these characters could possibly be. And then, in between projects, I would work on it and I would push the rock up the hill a little bit until I’d get to a certain spot and then I would stop it and then do the next thing.”
Regarding the character of Dalton, Tarantino spoke of his interest in faded stars. “I’ve always been kind of fascinated by actors that had, y’know, had their day,” he said. “Who either had a hit TV show or a good supporting role in a movie that made them pop. And then for a while it looked like they could transfer that into becoming a leading man and even maybe a movie star. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, and then you see where the career ends up settling down. Some of them went back to television in a big way — they were able to get another big series. Some of them, though, couldn’t really land a series of their own, or they did and it didn’t last long, and so they were playing the guest stars. I always thought that would be interesting to explore.”

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