Quentin Tarantino has confirmed stories from earlier this 12 months that his subsequent challenge is a movie titled The Film Critic. On the time the film’s existence was first revealed again in March there have been no specifics about its topic past what could possibly be inferred from its title. Some journalists really speculated that movie could possibly be a biopic of legendary New Yorker critic Pauline Kael.
It seems, based on Tarantino, that whereas Kael just isn’t the topic of The Film Critic, the movie is impressed indirectly on a real-life author. On the Cannes Movie Pageant this week, Tarantino instructed Deadline that The Film Critic is “primarily based on a man who actually lived, however was by no means actually well-known, and he used to jot down film critiques for a porno rag.” Tarantino claimed to have found this unnamed author (who labored for {a magazine} Tarantino additionally refused to call) as an adolescent whereas stocking porn journal merchandising machines (which apparently was a job within the Seventies?).
“He wrote about mainstream motion pictures and he was the second-string critic, ” Tarantino defined. “I feel he was an excellent critic. He was as cynical as hell. His critiques had been a cross between early Howard Stern and what Travis Bickle [Robert De Niro’s character in Taxi Driver] is perhaps if he had been a movie critic.” (Sleuthing followers consider the character relies on author Invoice Margold, who did certainly write film critiques within the Seventies for a porn journal titled Hollywood Press.)
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The Film Critic could be Tarantino’s second movie in a row about moviemaking and movie historical past, following 2019’s As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood. Aside from his work as a director, Tarantino has additionally proven growing curiosity in movie criticism in recent times. He now hosts his personal movie podcast, The Video Archives Podcast; late final 12 months, he printed his first e book of movie criticism, Cinema Hypothesis.
The Film Critic doesn’t but have a launch date or a confirmed star (Tarantino stated he expects to solid an actor he hasn’t labored with earlier than) however it’s anticipated to enter pre-production later this 12 months.
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