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Biography
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Quentin Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was named after Burt Reynolds' character Quint in 'Gunsmoke'. His family moved to Los Angeles when Quentin was 2. There, his mother took him to the cinema from an early age, and Quentin fell in love and went whenever he could.
In 1985, at the age of 22, he landed a job in a video store in Manhattan Beach, where he spent all day watching and discussing videos. Two years later, he had written 'True Romance', and it sold in 1990 for $30,000. He used the money to make his next script 'Reservoir Dogs' on 16mm black and white with his friends in the leading roles. Quentin decided to leave the video store to go do rewrites for CineTel, and got to know Harvey Keitel from the Actors Studio. Keitel liked the script enough to raise more funding, act in the film, and help cast the main roles.
'Reservoir Dogs' finally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, in 1992, and was released in the US later the same year. Tarantino traveled around the various film festivals in '92 promoting his film and writing his next script, 'Pulp Fiction', which went on to win the Palme D'Or at Cannes in 1994 and to become one of the most highly acclaimed movies of 1994 making over $200 million worldwide and picking up 7 Academy Award nominations and winning an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
His latest film, 'Jackie Brown', opened to great success in December 1997, breaking even in the opening weekend in the shadow of James Cameron's 'Titanic'. It has been nominated for 2 Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress and Best Actor. |
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| 2002 Kill Bill |
| 1997 Jackie Brown |
| 1996 From Dusk Till Dawn |
| 1994 Pulp Fiction |
| 1994 Natural Born Killers |
| 1993 True Romance |
| 1992 Reservoir Dogs |
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| 1996 The Rock (uncredited) |
| 1995 Crimson Tide (uncredited) |
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James Cameron's Titanic
by Douglas Kirkland (Photographer), Ed W. Marsh, James Cameron
An illustrated book about the making of James Cameron's epic 'Titanic', from the initial dives to the ship wreck on the bottom of the Atlantic in 1995 (by James Cameron himself), to the recreation of the ship by thousands of artists and craftsmen for the filming of the movie in 1997. This book is filled with pictures and illustrations that will take you back to the movie, to Jack and Rose, and to the site where the drama was brought to life.
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