Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Leads 2020 Golden Globe Winners
Sam Mendes‘ World War I epic 1917 and Quentin Tarantino’s glorious Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood were two of the night’s big winners at your 2020 Golden Globes. With Oscar voting already underway, this year’s Globes are even more relevant than ever. Tarantino’s love letter to a bygone era of Hollywood scooped up three awards, including Best Picture (Musical ...
Best of 2019: Deconstructing Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s With his Cinematographer Robert Richardson
*We’re reposting some of our favorite interviews of 2019. Happy Holidays! When you dig past the humorous and unnerving storylines of Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, you’ll find a serious tale about friendship. Set in 1969, Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), a fading Western star trying to stay relevant in Tinseltown ...
Behold David Ehrlich’s Epic Supercut of 2019’s Best Films
As the end of the year draws near, the world is blanketed in Best Of lists. The best 10 films of the year. The best 20 films of the year. The best albums, the best TV shows, the best this and the best that. You can hardly do better than Slate‘s movie critic Dana Stevens’ ...
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood Returning to Theaters With Bonus Footage
It seems like a million years ago because time hasn’t behaved normally since around 2016, but, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood was a really interesting, fun film that came out this summer. “Fun” in the Tarantino sense; which means intense, complicated, and curious. Tarantino once again played with actual history—this time Hollywood in 1969 and ...
How Stunt Man Gary Kent Inspired Brad Pitt’s Character in Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood
Gary Kent broke all his ribs when he got run over by a cavalcade of motorcycles in The Vengeful Seven and cut his arm on a shattered shot glass a year earlier in 1967 during a Hell’s Angels on Wheels bar fight. “I wrapped my arm in a towel and on the way to the ...
Artist Steve Chorney on Crafting Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood‘s Poster & More
Movie poster artist Steve Chorney has been creating images for Hollywood films for decades, but he has rarely had his designs used as the key art. Also, traditionally illustrated movie posters are almost never commissioned anymore. For those reasons, Chorney was surprised and delighted to discover his hand-painted image has been used as the key ...
Creating the Look for Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood
It’s Quentin Tarantino’s dream vision of 1969 Hollywood. So it is only appropriate that working on Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood was a dream come true for makeup department head Heba Thorisdottir. “Every day of this movie was epic,” says Thorisdottir. “This was everything that I love about LA. When the actors were driving down ...
Meet the Caricaturist who Created Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood‘s Classic MAD Magazine Cover
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood takes place in 1969 and it is filled with meticulously researched and re-created period detail. Leonardo DiCaprio plays television star Rick Dalton, whose western series was once a big hit but whose career has faded. How bad is it for Rick? He’s relegated to doing guest shots on ...
Quentin Tarantino & Leonardo DiCaprio Reveal his Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood Character is Bi-Polar
Now that Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood has bowed, we’ve had a chance to speak to Tarantino’s longtime cinematographer Robert Richardson and do our level best to break down that wild ending. The film follows a few days in the life of several people—Leonardo DiCaprio’s fading western TV and film star Rick Dalton, his ...
Let’s Discuss Once Upon a Time in Hollywood‘s Ending
At long last, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino‘s 9th film, bowed this past weekend. Everyone knew that Tarantino’s star-studded ensemble film would deal, in some way, shape and form, with the gruesome murder of an 8-and-a-half-months-pregnant Sharon Tate (played by Margot Robbie) and four friends at the Hollywood Hills home she shared with ...
Deconstructing Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s With his Cinematographer Robert Richardson
When you dig past the humorous and unnerving storylines of Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, you’ll find a serious tale about friendship. Set in 1969, Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), a fading Western star trying to stay relevant in Tinseltown has one sure thing—his stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). Booth’s ...
Quentin Tarantino Discusses his Potential Star Trek Film
Quentin Tarantino has long said that his tenth film would be his last. That means his upcoming Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is his penultimate movie, and we’ll only have the auteur around for one final movie after that. That’s sort of depressing, is it not? It’s wonderful to be able to set the terms of ...
DiCaprio, Pitt, Robbie & Tarantino Talk Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
There has never, not once, been a Quentin Tarantino movie that had anything less than a stellar cast. Even his tightest, most claustrophobic films (The Hateful Eight took place almost entirely in a cabin) have had big, beautiful ensembles. When you think of a Tarantino cast, you often first think of Pulp Fiction, his 1994 game-changer that resurrected ...
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Drops a new TV Spot
We’re just about a month away from the release of Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Tarantino’s ninth film bowed at the Cannes Film Festival to some very enthusiastic reactions, with top critics like Manohla Dargis of the New York Times hailing it as “a moving film, at once a love letter — and a dream — ...
The Early Reactions to Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Any and every Quentin Tarantino film is an event movie. This is because Tarantino so reliably stirs up debate, from his 1994 game-changer Pulp Fiction to his historical epics, which gleefully rewrote or refocused history, beginning with Inglorious Basterds (2009) and through Django Unchained (2012) and The Hateful Eight (2015). When word spread that his ninth film, set ...
Behold the Killer new Trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Oh, happy Tuesday! We’ve got a fresh look at Quentin Tarantino‘s hotly anticipated ninth film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which delivers a bit more narrative bits and pieces than the first trailer. This new look has debuted ahead of the film’s Cannes premiere, one of the marquee films at this year’s festival. The ...
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Photos Highlight Robbie, DiCaprio & Pitt
We’ve got our first look at Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which boasts a phenomenally talented cast and a setting ripe for his particular talents. The story takes place in 1969 in Southern California and is centered on Leonardo DiCaprio‘s fading star Rick Dalton and his stunt double, Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth. The two performers ...
Groove to the First Trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The first glimpse at Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is here. While the trailer doesn’t deliver much by the way of the storyline, it does reveal a few of our key players. There are Leonardo DiCaprio‘s fading star Rick Dalton and his stunt double, Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth. There’s an especially fun sequence in which ...
Leonardo DiCaprio Shares Poster for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino‘s films are always events. The meticulous writer/director takes his time from one movie to the next, drafting his singular scripts and assembling his incredible casts over the course of years. His next film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, could be the auteur’s most perfect combination of era, story, and cast yet. The film is set in Los Angeles during the horrific ...
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Cinematographer Sheds a Little Light on the Film
Since we first heard about Quentin Tarantino’s next, and possibly last, film, we’ve been wondering, what exactly is it? Once Upon a Time in Hollywood pulls from the horrible 1969 Manson murders that rocked the LA hills. However, it also features completely fictional characters in presumably starring roles. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt will play ...
