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Cinema has a wondrous, unmatched ability to take the dreams, fantasies, fears, and so forth of the artists who make movies and translate them into a medium where they can be shared by millions. Putting a lid on that ability is something one does not want to advocate for. Yet the film industry is a business, so naturally, some restrictions will occur. Fortunately, some of the greatest art of all time has been born of restriction; necessity is the mother of invention, as it were.

However, we are at a point in our cultural and economic status where everything has fallen out of balance. Things feel more restrictive than ever, and while financial backers are squeezing harder, creatives are pushing back and demanding more freedom, not less. A byproduct of this situation is the rise of the multi-part movie.

While the format (which is similar yet notably distinct from a sequel) is not new,...

Twenty years ago, David Carradine shot his baby down, kicking off a roaring rampage of revenge for Uma Thurman’s The Bride. Now, to mark the occasion, Lionsgate has announced they will give Kill Bill the 4K treatment. And baby, we ain’t kidding.

In a statement issued on Thursday, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said in part, “This afternoon, I am pleased to announce that Lionsgate has partnered with master filmmaker Quentin Tarantino for distribution rights to three of his most iconic films: Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2 and Jackie Brown…In addition to the movies we just picked up, we look forward to collaborating with the Tarantino team on a celebration of Kill Bill‘s 20th anniversary later this year with a new and remastered 4K edition.”

Most will notice that the wording for the Kill Bill 4K announcement specifically notes Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. This would mean that, despite all...

This might be a controversial Face Off. Kill Bill is – unquestionably – one movie. Yet, it wasn’t released that way, with Quentin Tarantino’s epic being released in two feature-length halves. In October 2003, we got Kill Bill: Volume 1 and then Volume 2 in April 2004. The wait between the two films felt eternal. Still, both were well-rounded enough that you had a satisfying cinematic experience after watching each movie on its own, even if (technically) it was only half a film.

Ultimately, the decision to split it into two films was brilliant, with the first movie making $180 million worldwide and Volume 2 earning $152 million. Together that added up to a pretty hefty grosser for the early 2000s, and one must imagine that the DVD sales of each were huge. While we never got the long-promised Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, if you watch one of the movies, chances are you’ll watch the other.

It doesn’t seem like much coincidence Quentin Tarantino’s tenth and final film is being preceded by, let’s say, literally anything else he can do. Last year brought his (fantastic) novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and word of: a new podcast with Roger Avary; directing duties on a Justified revival; a two-hour Bounty Law series (one episode of which you can read in the Hollywood hardcover); a Rick Dalton book; and let’s not forget odds and ends such as his narrating duties on the Showtime series Super Pumped, or word of a play he’s written.

When a constellation of possibilities isn’t remotely concrete with Tarantino—speaking as someone who’s waited since middle school for a Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair release—we’re especially to get confirmation of Cinema Speculation, which joined Hollywood in his two-book deal for HarperCollins and...

Is Quentin Tarantino becoming the new Francis Ford Coppola, and could we see the filmmaker tinkering with his films on end for years? The director already recut “The Hateful Eight” as a series on Netflix. It’s largely the same, but it’s chaptered up, and there are a lot of subtle new things to it. He also still has a “Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair” with a new animated sequence in it to eventually release.

Continue reading Quentin Tarantino Says We Could See A 4-Hour ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Cut Next Year at The Playlist.

Now that Quentin Tarantino has been cut loose from disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, he has been proclaiming that his two-part martial arts saga, “Kill Bill: Volume 1” and “Kill Bill: Volume 2.” should be considered a single four-hour film. Hey, the trailer for his fairy-tale ode to Los Angeles circa 1969, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” even says it is his ninth film, not his 10th. That’s in spite of the titles being released separately in 2003 and 2004. It was Weinstein who forced him to cut the film in two, the better to boost ticket sales receipts.

As the the whiz at violent cinematic mayhem said recently while doing publicity for his latest film the stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, “I made it as one movie and I wrote it as one movie.”

However, what do you, the ticket-buying public, believe? Most Tarantino fans — 28% to be exact — support their idol...

Now that cutting-edge filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is out of the clutches of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, whose now-defunct companies released his previous releases, he seems intent on correcting some long-held perceptions about his oeuvre now that “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” has arrived.

Basically, the one-time video-store clerk has been calling his latest release, which gave the “Pulp Fiction” auteur his biggest opening ever with $40 million, his ninth film. In fact, even the “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” trailer makes that claim.

But, sometimes, it is hard to change the minds of diehard cineastes who believe otherwise, based on the fact that they believe that Tarantino’s martial arts saga “Kill Bill” that was released in two parts in 2003 and 2004 is, indeed, two films. Yes, Weinstein, made him slice the samurai-inspired tale in half – the better to pad his own pockets. But Tarantino clearly wants to right...

Were he only a distinct player in some of Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone’s best films, Robert Richardson would have one of the most solid foundations of any working cinematographer. Arguably the most fruitful relationship, though, is with Quentin Tarantino, for whom he’s been an essential partner over most of the director’s career. Their collaboration reaches new heights with Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. Practically exploding color and light, the movie does less to evoke old-time Tinseltown than create a living memory of homes, bars, cars, streets, faces, landscapes, and, of course, movie theaters.

With one of the year’s best films (about which I wrote some here) opening today, I was immensely fortunate to interview Richardson about this dazzlingly complex production’s mix of stocks, grades, and long takes, as well as those elements you can’t control once it’s out of your hands–most essentially the presentation,...

Last week, Quentin Tarantino’s 2015 western The Hateful Eight was re-released on Netflix in the form of a re-edited four-episode miniseries subtitled the “Extended Version.” Subsequently, Chris Evangelista of /Film reached out to the director, who clarified that he was personally involved in overseeing this new cut.

Now, since Tarantino is in the habit of revisiting and tweaking his old works, some of you may be wondering if we can expect to see Kill Bill get a similar treatment. Specifically, many fans are still waiting for a proper release of the extended cut, titled Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. First screened in 2011, the cut edits the two volumes together into a single, complete work, and among the lucky few who’ve seen it, many still regard it as the definitive version of the Uma Thurman revenge saga.

From the sound of things, however, Tarantino considers his re-edit of The Hateful Eight...

We recently reported that director Quentin Tarantino’s movie The Hateful Eight is getting a four-part extended release on Netflix, and today we have good news about another one of his films.

Django Unchained, which happens to be my favorite Tarantino flick, is his highest grossing film, as well as his most acclaimed, winning him the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for one of the film’s stars, Christoph Waltz. The movie clocks in at a hefty 165 minutes already, but here’s what the director had to say about the director’s cut he has been working on for the movie:

“But for instance like take Django [Unchained], I’ve actually cut a director’s cut of Django. That’s about like three hours and 15 minutes, or three hours and 20 minutes, something like that. That’s one I wouldn’t do as a mini-series because...