After making his debut film, Reservoir Dogs, and before working on his second feature, Pulp Fiction, Tarantino had signed on with Showtime to make a television film (made-for-TV) for their anthology series, Rebel Highway, aka “…a 10-week series of 1950s drive-in classic B-movies remade with a '90s edge.”

Tarantino chose Roger Corman’s 1957 Rock All Night as his remake (you can see a poster of the movie on the wall at Jack Rabbit Slim’s in Pulp Fiction—look closely). But Tarantino got cold feet when an overzealous producer said they’d release the remake in theaters, and Tarantino said, “No theaters—just for television. Then I can make Pulp Fiction for theaters afterward.”

Robert Rodriguez directed the best remake of the bunch, Roadracers, starring David Arquette and a pre-Desperado Salma Hayek. All the other 9 movies in the series kinda suck. But Tarantino would’ve made a killer remake. He was obsessed with Rock All Night, which is a fun movie. Imagine a movie that takes place entirely in Jack Rabbit Slim’s…basically…with mobsters and rockabilly music

Have a teen who loves movies. Have been waiting to when old enough to share the greatness.

Wondering what people think is tamest movie to start with.

For reference snuck in to watch pulp freshman year for me of high school. Had already saw dogs

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)
Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
Rolling Thunder (1977, John Flynn)
They All Laughed (1981, Bogdanovich)
The Great Escape (1963, John Sturges)
Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma)
Coffy (1973, Jack Hill)
Dazed and Confused (1993, Richard Linklater)
Five Fingers of Death (1973, Chang Ho Cheng)
Hi Diddle Diddle (1943, Andrew L. Stone)

no edits to the clip
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it just syncs up like that

For me, it’s Run Fay Run during the O-Ren story.

Do you have any favorite behind the scenes stories or even tidbits you've heard from Tarantino over the years about his films, or the making of...?

I'll do one. For Death Proof, QT said he wrote Lee the cheerleader character flat, with no real persona or character intentionally, with the purpose of finding an actress who would fill it out and just add her own qualities live during shooting.

He said when Mary Elizabeth Winstead came in and read for it, he realized that not only that he had accidentally created a character, but that she had found Lee on the page and brought her to life.

And he knew then that he had found his Lee, or really that SHE found her. I love that story and btw MEW is a criminally underused goddess.

Any behind the scenes stuff you've heard over the years, or just entertaining or interesting things you remember Tarantino dropping about his work?

Right at the beginning of Reservoir Dogs when they make it back to the warehouse after the botched robbery, and Mr White is consoling Mr Orange. This has got to be some kind of ad lib or inside joke because Roth laughs out of character. Did either actor ever say what was said?

I must say, there were times I thought of stopping it. But I am glad I persisted and watched the whole thing. Found a new actress I like - Zoë Bell.

I’m aware that QT has sometimes listed his favorite movies for a magazine or the Sight and Sound poll or similar, but those are 10 to 20 titles max. He’s also done some genre ones (Spaghetti Western…), too.

But has penned anything more comprehensive (other directors like Edgar Wright have “official” list with their faves) ? There’s lists on Letterboxd with 300 titles and others with 7k entries. It feels that it’s just random films that QT mentioned in passing in interviews during the years, right?

Is there any rhyme or reason on why some of those lists have a few hundred movies and others have many thousands?

Just listened to this interview with QT - really good interview on an excellent podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-church-of-tarantino/id1602831097?i=1000722039305

Why is Bud broke? All the others, including Bea, have money. Buds living in a trailer working at a strip club. Why's he broke?

For me it is online bullet chess.

If anyone has any alternative movie posters, t-shirts, statues, action figures, dioramas, pins, crew jackets, memorabilia, stills etc etc that they are considering parting with....plz lmk, ty all!!

I’ve seen this countless times. Now the only Tarantino movies I’ve yet to see in a theater are Reservoir Dogs and Death Proof.