A look into Quentin Tarantino

Bibliography
At the age of 16 Tarantino left school to join a full time acting class, he then gave up the acting class and said that he admired directors more than actors. He also worked in a video rental store before becoming a film maker, he paid close attention to the genres of films that people liked.
He was born on March 27, 1963, in Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.


Filmography
1987 My Best Friend's Birthday

1992 Reservoir Dogs

1994 Pulp Fiction

1995 Four Rooms

1997 Jackie Brown

2003 Kill Bill: Vol. 1

2004 Kill Bill: Vol. 2

2005 Sin City

2007 Death Proof

2009 Inglourious Basterds


TV series
1995 ER

2004 Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2005 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation


Reviews of Inglourious Basterds
It has an 88% rating
Audience rating: A brilliant rebound with a wonderfully complex story, a great cast, and a score that's really up to par with Tarantino's standards...

If you love Quentin, get ready for a hell of a ride!

Magnificent

By far the best World War II film I've ever seen.


Music used in the film.

• The Green Leaves of Summer – Nick Perito – From the movie The Alamo
• The Verdict – Ennio Morricone – From the movie The Big Gundown
• L’incontro Con La Figlia – Ennio Morricone – From the movie The Return of Ringo
• White Lightning – Charles Bernstein – From the movie White Lightning
• Il Mercenario (Reprisa) - Ennio Morricone – From the movie Il Mercenario
• Slaughter - Billy Preston – From the movie Slaughter
• Algiers, November 1954 – Ennio Morricone & Gillo Pontecorvo – From the movie The Battle of Algiers
• The Surrender (La resa) – Ennio Morricone – From the movie The Big Gundown
• One Silver Dollar (Un Dollaro Bucato) – Gianni Ferrio – From the movie Blood for a Silver Dollar
• Bath Attack – Charles Bernstein – From the movie The Entity
• Davon geht die Welt nicht unter – Zarah Leander – From the movie Die große Liebe
• The Man With The Big Sombrero – June Havoc – From the movie Hi Diddle Diddle
• Ich wollt ich wär ein Huhn – Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch – From the movie Glückskinder
• Main Theme From Dark of the Sun – Jacques Loussier – From the movie Dark of the Sun
• Cat People (Putting Out Fire) – David Bowie – From the movie Cat People
• Mystic and Severe – Ennio Morricone – From the movie Death Rides a Horse
• The Devil’s Rumble – Mike Curb and The Arrows – From the movie Devil’s Angels
• Zulus – Elmer Bernstein – From the movie Zulu Dawn
• Tiger Tank – Lalo Schifrin – From the movie Kelly’s Heroes
• Un Amico – Ennio Morricone – From the movie Revolver
• Eastern Condors – Sherman Chow Gam – Cheung – From the movie Eastern Condors
• Rabbia e Tarantella – Ennio Morricone – From the movie Allonsanfàn

From: http://reelsoundtrack.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/inglourious-basterds-soundtrack/

Description of Blaxploitation.
Blaxploitation is a film genre that emerged from the united states, 1971. Blaxploitation was aimed at the black, urban population. They were the first genre of films to feature sound tracks of funk and soul music. The stars in the main cast were either all or mainly black.


Description of Spaghetti Western and Western.
The spaghetti western genre of film is all about cowboys and Indians, the main set for a cowboy western is either in a desert or in Texas and the storyline is always about a treasure such as gold
Spaghetti Western, also known as Italo-western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most were produced and directed by Italians, usually in co-production with a Spanish partner and in some cases a German partner. The partners would insist some of their stars be cast in the film.
Originally, spaghetti westerns were characterized by their production in the Italian language, low budgets, and a recognizable highly fluid and minimalist cinematography which eschewed (even "demythologized") many of the conventions of earlier Westerns. This was partly intentional and partly the context of a different cultural background.


Ennio Morricone

Mini biography

A classmate of director Sergio Leone with whom he would form one of the great director/composer partnerships (right up there with Eisenstein & Prokofiev, Hitchcock & Herrmann, Fellini & Rota), Ennio Morricone studied at Rome's Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he specialized in trumpet. His first film scores were relatively undistinguished, but he was hired by Leone for A Fistful of Dollars (1964) on the strength of some of his song arrangements. His score for that film, with its sparse arrangements, unorthodox instrumentation (bells, electric guitars, harmonicas, the distinctive twang of the jew's harp) and memorable tunes, revolutionized the way music would be used in Westerns, and it is hard to think of a post-Morricone Western score that doesn't in some way reflect his influence. Although his name will always be synonymous with the spaghetti Western, Morricone has also contributed to a huge range of other film genres: comedies, dramas, thrillers, horror films, romances, art movies, exploitation movies -making him one of the film world's most versatile artists. He has written nearly 400 film scores, so a brief summary is impossible, but his most memorable work includes the Leone films, Gillo Pontecorvo 's The Battle of Algiers (1966) , Roland Joffé's The Mission (1986), Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987) and Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso (1988), plus a rare example of sung opening credits for Pier Paolo Pasolini's Uccellacci e uccellini (1966).

Prizes and awards:

• 1965 — Nastro d'Argento for A Fistful of Dollars
• 1967 — Diapason d'Or
• 1969 — Premio Spoleto Cinema
• 1970 — Nastro d'argento for Metti una sera a cena
• 1971 — Nastro d'argento for Sacco e Vanzetti
• 1972 — Cork Film International for La califfa
• 1979 — Oscar Nomination for Days of Heaven
• 1979 — Premio Vittorio de Sica
• 1981 — Premio della critica discografica for Il prato
• 1984 — Premio Zurlini
• 1985 — Nastro d'argento and BAFTA for Once Upon A Time In America
• 1986 — Oscar Nomination, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for The Mission
• 1986 — Premio Vittorio de Sica
• 1988 — Nastro d'argento, BAFTA, Grammy Award and Oscar Nomination for The Untouchables
• 1988 — David di Donatello for Gli occhiali d'oro
• 1989 — David di Donatello for Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
• 1989 — Ninth Annual Ace Winner for Il giorno prima
• 1989 — Pardo d'Oro alla carriera (Locarno Film Festival)
• 1990 — BAFTA, Prix Fondation Sacem del XLIII Cannes Film Festival and David di Donatello for Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
• 1991 — David di Donatello for Stanno tutti bene
• 1992 — Oscar Nomination for Bugsy
• 1992 — Pentagramma d'oro
• 1992 — Premio Michelangelo
• 1992 — Grolla d'oro alla carriera (Saint Vincent)
• 1993 — David di Donatello and Efebo d'Argento for Jonas che visse nella balena
• 1993 — Globo d'oro Stampa estera in Italia
• 1993 — Gran Premio SACEM audiovisivi
• 1994 — ASCAP Golden Soundtrack award (Los Angeles)
• 1995 — Premio Rota
• 1995 — Leone d'Oro Honorary award (Venice Film Festival)
• 1996 -- Premio citta' di Roma
• 1996 — Premio Cappelli
• 1996 — Premio Accademia di Santa Cecilia
• 1997 — Premio Flaiano
• 1998 — Columbus Prize
• 1999 — Erich Wolfgang Korngold Internationaler Preis für Film
• 1999 — Exsquibbidles Film Academy lifetime achievement award
• 2000 — Golden Globe Award for The Legend of 1900 (1998)
• 2000 — David di Donatello for Canorne inverso
• 2000 — Oscar nomination for M alèna
• 2002 — Honorary Degree by the "Seconda Università" of Rome
• 2003 — Golden Eagle Award for 72 Meters
• 2003 — Honorary Senator of the Filmscoring Class of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
• 2006 — Grand Officer award from President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
• 2007 — Honorary Academy Award for career achievement
• 2007 — The Film & TV Music Award for Lifetime Achievement
• 2008 — Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental, performed by Bruce Springsteen
• 2008 — Knight in the Order of the Legion of Honor
• 2009 — Medal of Merits for Macedonia
• 2009 — America Award of the Italy-USA Foundation
• 2010 — Polar Music Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of the Arts

A simple WW2 Timeline:

1939

• Hitler invades Poland on 1 September. Britain and France declare war on Germany two days later.

1940

• Rationing starts in the UK.
• German 'Blitzkrieg' overwhelms Belgium, Holland and France.
• Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain.
• British Expeditionary Force evacuated from Dunkirk.
• British victory in Battle of Britain forces Hitler to postpone invasion plans.

1941

• Hitler begins Operation Barbarossa - the invasion of Russia.
• The Blitz continues against Britain's major cities.
• Allies take Tobruk in North Africa, and resist German attacks.
• Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, and the US enters the war.

1942

• Germany suffers setbacks at Stalingrad and El Alamein.
• Singapore falls to the Japanese in February - around 25,000 prisoners taken.
• American naval victory at Battle of Midway, in June, marks turning point in Pacific War.
• Mass murder of Jewish people at Auschwitz begins.

1943

• Surrender at Stalingrad marks Germany's first major defeat.
• Allied victory in North Africa enables invasion of Italy to be launched.
• Italy surrenders, but Germany takes over the battle.
• British and Indian forces fight Japanese in Burma.

1944

• Allies land at Anzio and bomb monastery at Monte Cassino.
• Soviet offensive gathers pace in Eastern Europe.
• D Day: The Allied invasion of France. Paris is liberated in August.
• Guam liberated by the US Okinawa, and Iwo Jima bombed.

1945

• Auschwitz liberated by Soviet troops.
• Russians reach Berlin: Hitler commits suicide and Germany surrenders on 7 May.
• Truman becomes President of the US on Roosevelt's death, and Attlee replaces Churchill.
• After atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrenders on 14 August.