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Tarantino 1979 Retrospective
🕑 Added 2022-05-24 21:00:54 +0000 UTCWhether you love this guy or not, his enthusiasm for his art is infectious and joyful. I just love hearing him talk about all these movies. Brings me back to a time where I wasn't even alive...but I certainly wish I was at times. Enjoy! Tell me what you think. I was quite surprised he was such a fan of The Deer Hunter.
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Deepfocuslens
XD that's fantastic. I don't want to even think about how many times I used to listen to that Dragula remix when I was a kid. -_-
Deepfocuslens
absolutely :)
Deepfocuslens
lol same
Deepfocuslens
yeah I agree. I'm a big fan of the beginning.
Bennett Oliver
I love the first act of The Deer Hunter, the wedding and the hunting trip. It was very audacious of Cimino to stretch it out as long as he did. It feels almost like real time. He basically made a hangout film before he kicked off the story. By the time the film gets to Vietnam, you really feel like a part of the group and their world. It makes the rest of the film that much more effective in its tragedy.
jared Clarke
He makes me wanna revisit Rocky 2
jared Clarke
No matter what things about him I struggle with, I’ll always have a special place in my heart for him for being my gateway into being a full fledged film junkie and changing the way I look at movies and how the connect and reference each other.
Stephen
Ok this cracked me up, so I have to share. Tarantino channeling his inner Tom Cruise in Alias. https://twitter.com/strangeharbors/status/1529126507238543361
Stephen
That was fun. He could literally do that as a podcast for any year he wants and I'd listen. I already knew he loved The Deer Hunter from other interviews but I understand your surprise given his taste which is largely influenced by Pauline Kael who as he mentioned was mixed on it. I was surprised he was as dismissive of Phantasm as I am, given his love of the horror genre. The Brood as his favorite Cronenberg film makes sense in retrospect but for me its nowhere near as good as The Fly or Videodrome. Despite the ending, Hardcore is a pretty good movie, as Schrader's way of re-doing Taxi Driver but with the idea of Jodie Foster's father being the protagonist. There is one iconic scene in this movie that George C. Scott masterfully carries, where the camera stays on his face as he views something off-camera that is absolutely gut-wrenching. Also Peter Boyle has a great supporting performance as a sleazy private investigator that Scott hires.
Wolfman Brandon
One of the last great years of cinema before it got too corporate. Kramer vs. Kramer, Apocalypse Now, Alien, Breaking Away, Being There, The Black Stallion, The China Syndrome, The Brood, Manhattan, Mad Max, Norma Rae, My Brilliant Career, Nosferatu the Vampyre by Werner Herzog. What a list.
