Non-linear narratives, blistering bursts of violence, kinetic tracking shots, pop-culture references, close-ups of feet, famous dance sequences, director cameos and fictional brands like Big Kahuna Burgers and Red Apple cigarettes: Tarantino movies are all individual tapestries, but they share many common threads. 'Once Upon a Time In Hollywood' to premiere at Cannes Film Festival 3. That's where he discovered his love for Hong Kong crime flicks (that he riffed on with Reservoir Dogs ), the French New Wave ( Pulp Fiction ), Blaxploitation ( Jackie Brown ), the Shaw Brothers' wuxia films ( Kill Bill ), grindhouse ( Death Proof ), men-on-a-mission movies ( Inglourious Basterds ), southern plantation dramas ( Django Unchained ), westerns ( The Hateful Eight ) and, well, the work of Kurt Russell (Tarantino has cast him in his last three movies). It's the stuff of legend that Tarantino learnt his trade working in a Los Angeles video store, spending his downtime absorbing every tape on the shelf. John Travolta as Vincent Vega and Samuel L Jackson as Jules Winnfield in ‘Pulp Fiction’. With his penultimate film this month wowing Cannes, the kid, you'd imagine, is happy so far. From Reservoir Dogs to Pulp Fiction and his ninth and latest movie, the director has crossed several genres but maintained a singular brilliance. But he is also one who has consistently counterbalanced that with a genuinely unmatched quality in his body of work. Tarantino, it's clear, is not a man who struggles with a lack of ego. “When he grows up, this kid will be a fan of mine, and I want that when he discovers my films, there won’t be a weak link among them.” Once upon a time, in Hollywood as it happens, Quentin Tarantino told me about a recurring dream that had been keeping him awake most nights. As this is apparently his penultimate film (he's always said he'd make only 10, then retire), it's time we reflected on why he's one of the best and most original directors of our generation. In Hollywood, wowed the super-secret crowd of journalists at the Cannes Film Festival last week. Q uentin Tarantino's ninth movie, Once Upon a Time.
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