Speed, for example, once seemed like a brain-dead blockbuster but now stands as a classic of Los Angeles cinema. But watched thirteen years later, this video also suggests a certain cinematic prescience on his part. It comes as no surprise that Tarantino names movies by his peers in the “Indiewood” generation like Anderson, Linklater, and Coppola.

And he seems to have even more for Bruce Willis’ work in Unbreakable, which contains his “best performance on film” - better, evidently, than the not-inconsiderable one he gave in a nineteen-nineties hit called Pulp Fiction. Night Shamalamadingdong,” but he clearly has a good deal of respect for the man’s films.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Team America: World Police.Jan de Bont, Speed (there have been “few exhilaration movies quite like it”).Stanley Tong, Police Story 3/ Supercop (contains “the greatest stunts ever filmed in any movie”).The Wachowskis, The Matrix (though its sequels “ruined the mythology for me”).Richard Linklater, Dazed and Confused (“the greatest hangout movie ever made”).Woody Allen, Anything Else (“the Jason Biggs one”).After giving pride of place to Battle Royale - a Japanese comedic thriller of high-school ultraviolence that set off a wave of transgressive thrill through a worldwide “cult” audience - he presents his choices in alphabetical rather than preferential order. In six minutes Tarantino runs down the list of his twenty favorite movies between 1992, when he became a director, and 2009. But he’s also remained a sufficiently honest cinephile to admit that other directors have made films he would have wanted to make: Fukasaku Kinji, for instance, whose Battle Royale he praises in just such personal terms in the video above. Throughout the three decades since he hit it big, there can be no doubt that Tarantino has consistently made just the films he himself has most wanted to see. But even then he had been working toward auteurhood for quite some time, a period characterized by projects like My Best Friend’s Birthday, previously featured here on Open Culture. Quentin Tarantino’s filmmaking career began thirty years ago - at least if you place its starting point at his first feature Reservoir Dogs in 1992.

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