Performer

Quentin Tarantino

Director in the Nutevio catalogue.

Born: 27 March 1963
Age: 63
Active: 1992 — present
Known for: Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Django Unchained

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The essay

Reading Quentin Tarantino

Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.

Why this filmmaker matters

Quentin Tarantino has 0 directed films in the Nutevio catalogue. A video-store encyclopedia turned auteur. Tarantino writes conversation as suspense and treats genre history as raw material.

Signature style

The recognisable elements are visual style, rewatchability, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.

Legacy

Tarantino set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.