Quentin Tarantino

60 years old today, Quentin Tarantino very recently announced his tenth – and possibly last – major feature film. But can he really quit making movies? Or is our doubt merely a reflection of our deep appreciation for his art?31 years ago, an up-and-coming young director rolled into the Sundance festival with one of the most unique films anyone had ever seen.

They were both young, ambitious and the world of Hollywood was their oyster: 30 years ago today Quentin Tarantino made his directorial debut with Reservoir Dogs and Lawrence Bender was his producer. Here, Bender reminisces about that time and their premieres at the 1992 Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals.

One of the key powers of Cannes is its ability to create a brand new talent for the world to see. In 1994, this talent was Quentin Tarantino.

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Quentin Tarantino's much anticipated ninth film Once Upon A Time … in Hollywood is set in the nostalgic summer of 1969 Los Angeles where counter-culture, Hollywood, violence, and tragedy collide.  Leonardo DiCaprio plays down on his luck actor Rick Dalton, Brad Pitt plays Cliff Booth, his sometime stunt double, and Australian actress Margot Robbie plays Sharon Tate.

“To me (this (film) is as much of a memory piece as, say, Roma was for Alfonso (Cuarón)” Quentin Tarantino recently told HFPA journalists about Once Upon a Time.

As we gear up for Cannes, the HFPA’s Elisabeth Sereda takes a look at previous festival misbehaviour and expects more to come. The line-up was announced by festival programmer Thierry Fremaux and Cannes president Gilles Jacob With Berlin and Sundance over and as we gear up for Cannes, the talk among the international press is not so much what films are going to be shown (we can look that up) as to who is going to misbehave in the most entertaining way.

Harvey Weinstein HFPA members attending the film festival were among the international press invited to the Majestic Hotel in Cannes to  see previews of three of Harvey Weinstein’s movies he hopes will be Oscar contenders. Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, David O.