Tarantino: A Retrospective

Quentin Tarantino has made ten films, and each of them is as immediately recognisable as a fingerprint — the music, the dialogue, the violence, the movie references, the complete confidence that cinema can absorb everything and make it new. From Reservoir Dogs through Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, the Kill Bill volumes, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, he has been one of the defining forces in American cinema for three decades.

Tom Shone’s retrospective combines rigorous analysis with exceptional visual material — stills, production photographs, behind-the-scenes images, and design documents from the Tarantino archive — to produce the most comprehensive account of a filmmaking career that has polarised critics and captivated audiences simultaneously.

Essential for any Tarantino devotee — and a serious engagement with the question of what cinema is for. Published by Thames & Hudson.