Quentin Tarantino's Next Film: "It's a Western"

Quentin Tarantino has revealed on Jay Leno's The Tonight Show that his next film will be another Western. He didn't give much more detail, other than that it won't be a sequel to Django Unchained. With that announcement we can also probably rule out that it will be the trilogy-capping Killer Crow project that he had mentioned last year. I'm not disappointed he's doing another Western, but given his recent talk of retirement, I would prefer to see him branch out and tackle other genres -- especially horror -- or even return to a more restrained and emotionally mature mode of a film like Jackie Brown. Here's the Jay Leno interview:

Quentin Tarantino's Top 10 Films of 2013... So Far

The Tarantino Archives have published the Django Unchained filmmaker's fave films of 2013 so far, and I have to say, it looks like the guy hasn't been eating his "cultural vegetables" lately. Again, as with recent years, it's a rather middle-of-the-road, American-centric bunch of films that speaks to QT's populist leanings rather than the cinematic eclecticism that's influenced his work. That's not to say there aren't any good films in there, but I always seem to expect something more adventurous from Tarantino...
 
1. Afternoon Delight
2. Before Midnight
3. Blue Jasmine
4. The Conjuring
5. Drinking Buddies
6. Frances Ha
7. Gravity
8. Kick Ass 2
9. The Lone Ranger
10. This is The End

More Tarantino/Django Unchained Bits

I'm probably risking Tarantino/Django Unchained fatigue on this blog after the last post, but what the heck, it's a new year, and Tarantino may not be making movies anymore very soon so let's just bask in this stuff while we can. Also, next week we're giving away tickets to see the movie, so in the spirit of generating buzz, here are some clips for your viewing pleasure:

• QT on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson - he tells us what he thinks of Prometheus and talks about kids movies.
• Interview with Jake Hamilton - if you don't have time to watch the whole thing, fast forward to around 13:57 for the best segment of the interview.
• Every Pop Culture Reference from Tarantino Movies in Chronological order - 'nuff said.

Django Unchained Reviews Are In! + Tarantino stuff

There's only one thing causing more noise in film news than The Hobbit this month and it's The New Film by Quentin Tarantino. Django Unchained, the 49-year-old director's 7th feature, has been screened for critics stateside and the reviews are now starting to pop up on the web. Anne Thompson over at Indiewire has this mostly positive round-up, although she isn't as crazy about the film as some of other critics. Also: reviews from The Guardian, Badass Digest, Slant Magazine.

Recently the Hollywood Reporter held a Director Roundtable featuring Tarantino, Ben Affleck, Tom Hooper, Ang Lee, David O. Russell and Gus Van Sant. I didn't get around to posting it last week but here are a couple of Tarantino highlights from that session:
And last but not least, the following is a great interview Tarantino did with Howard Stern. The interview is very frank, revealing (he doesn't like Owen Wilson!) and often hilarious. Listen to its 75-minute entirety here:

Trailer: Django Unchained

The new trailer for Quentin Tarnatino's western Django Unchained has arrived, featuring more footage of everything, like Jamie Foxx twirling pistols, DiCaprio relishing in some lip-licking, scene-chewing Southern villainry and Jonah Hill as a Ku Klux Klan member?? As with the release of any new Tarantino film, I'm excited, especially with this being his first all-out western, but I'm also a bit more cautious this time with the knowledge that there have been production troubles, from constant casting shuffles to a protracted shooting schedule. Let's hope none of this will show in the final film or matter when it's released on Christmas day (just over 2 months away!!).

Podcast: "Writing for Tony Scott", Q & A with Quentin Tarantino & Richard Kelly

Just had a listen to this great podcast conducted by Jeff Goldsmith (Backstory magazine) with filmmakers Richard Kelly and Quentin Tarantino, who paid tribute to the late Tony Scott at a double feature screening of True Romance and Domino at the Los Angeles Film School last week. A really entertaining, candid listen if you have an hour or so to spare, packed with anecdotes where the directors talk about everything from script development to their personal and working relationship with Scott. What's especially interesting is how Scott figures in the generational gap between Tarantino and Kelly - the latter was only in high school when True Romance came out! The infectiousness of this Q+A is almost enough to make me want to revisit Domino...

Tarantino's Next Film Confirmed

A few details of Quentin Tarantino's next film have emerged: he's set to direct a full-blown Western called Django Unchained and it's said to be inspired by Franco Nero's 1966 spaghetti western classic Django as well as Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django (which QT had a bit part in). This is pretty exciting (what new Tarantino film announcement isn't??) since he's talked about doing a western for so long now. Many of his films - notably Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds - have flirted with spaghetti western conventions in one way or another, so it'll be interesting to see his take on the genre. Online reports yesterday mentioned that Basterds star Christoph Waltz was attached to the project, but this MTV piece says that may not be the case yet. Here's hoping though...

Trailers for Django and Sukiyaki Western Django: