Quentin Tarantino Retrospective
The Astor Theatre may be closing, but it's going out in style.
Overview
The Astor Theatre may be closing, but it's going out in style. The cinema's second-to-last calendar is one of its very best, with all sorts of special screenings and filmmaker retrospectives, including a comprehensive tribute to Mr Quentin Tarantino. Get ready for six weeks of stylised violence, awesome music, super obscure film references and fetishistic close-ups of women's feet.
The QT series starts on Thursday, October 9, with a double bill of Reservoir Dogs along with his underappreciated blaxploitation throwback Jackie Brown. Then the following week brings the film that really put the LA video store nerd on the map: the form of his badass, post-modernist crime pic Pulp Fiction. Two part vengeance epic Kill Bill makes for a no brainer of a double feature, as does Grindhouse, his B-movie double act with Robert Rodriguez. Inglourious Basterds on November 6 just might be his masterpiece, while his most recent flick, Django Unchained, brings the trip through the Tarantinoverse to a close.
