In January of 1991 a film titled Reservoir Dogs (1992)
hit the
Sundance Film festival. The writer-director was a first-timer by the
name of
Quentin Tarantino. The film garnered critical
acclaim and the director became a legend in the
England,
UK and the
cult film circuit. Three years later he followed up 'Dogs' with the film
Pulp Fiction (1994). 'Pulp' premiered at the
Cannes film festival, where it won the coveted 'Palme D'Or' the virtual equal of the
Best Picture at the
Academy Awards. At the '93 Academy Awards, 'Pulp' was nominated for the
best Picture Oscar, in addition Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, among others.
Tarantino and writing partner
Roger Avary came away with the award only for Best Original Screenplay. (Where
Roger uttered his now
famous line, "I've
gotta go pee".) In 1995, Tarantino directed
one fourth of the Anthology
Four Rooms (1995) with
friends and fellow auteurs
Alexandre Rockwell,
Robert Rodriguez, and
Allison Anders. That film was released on December 25th in the
United States to very weak reviews. This is mainly
due to the heavy
cutting of the first two segments and the introduction which make much of the plotline unintelligible, and creates a complete mess out of the second segment, directed by
Alexandre Rockwell. The best two segments of the film are
Robert Rodriguez's and Tarantino's. Tarantino's
next film was From Dusk Till
Dawn (1996), a crime/vampire film which he wrote and co-starred with
George Clooney. The film did fairly well theatrically.
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