Quentin TarantinoQuentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s he was an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization of violence. His films have earned him a variety of Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Palme d'Or Awards and he has been nominated for Emmy and Grammy Awards. In 2007, Total Film named him the 12th-greatest director of all time.

Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Connie McHugh Tarantino Zastoupil, a health care executive and nurse born in Knoxville, and Tony Tarantino, an actor and amateur musician born in Queens, New York.

Tarantino's mother allowed him to quit school at age 17, to attend an acting class full time. Tarantino gave up acting while attending the acting school, saying that he admired directors more than actors. Tarantino a

User Comments You must Log in or Register to post comments. dings I'm not passionate about his work before but this feels brainy. And very authentic. And gorgeous. It seems to me Tarantino spent some time in the 00s in Berlin's now lost in tourism but then thriving 'anti-german' underground culture. And made a film out of it. He captured its feel and self-criticism almost too well. Maybe the tad bit sympathy for the nazis was too much of it but as a form of entertainment and not art for arts sake I wouldn't know what more to ask for. (Except atrocities undone) Timmmm Fantastic. Tarantino's best film yet. Not sure I entirely liked the ending, but it was pretty awesome, and The Jew Hunter is amazing. wolfnotes Technically polished, always entertaining, and Waltz's performance is impeccable; but the revenge story isn't as compelling as Kill Bill's for instance, characters like Shosanna seem underdeveloped, and at times it feels a bit like Tarantino aping himself. FitFortDanga Perhaps his most "straightforward" movie, with more effort devoted to developing a plot than crafting scenes. While it's nice to see Tarantino stretch in a different direction, I both expected and wished for more scenes of the Basterds raising hell. They're the wittiest parts of the film, and the most conducive to his style. Pitt takes on the role with an oddball glee. But the lengthy parts without the Basterds are good, too, and I really have no complaints. It's a clever, entertaining script. emtilt Very good. Nothing extremely new from Tarantino, but very well made and very fun. The building of suspense was absolutely perfect. One might read some comments about violence in cinema into the film.