‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’: Jason Reitman Pays Tribute to Tarantino’s ‘Los Angeles Masterpiece’
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A city deserves an auteur. A director laureate. New York has Scorsese. Paris has Truffaut. Madrid has Almodovar. I mean, Omaha has Alexander Payne.
Los Angeles has Tarantino.
The birth of “Reservoir Dogs,” “Pulp Fiction” and “Jackie Brown” marked more than the arrival of rock ’n’ roll cinema. Each film was a picture of L.A. as seen through the windshield of an Angeleno who grew up on freeways and was born from the racks of VHS tapes. If examined under a microscope, we can only presume that the strands of Tarantino’s DNA would have film sprockets.
With “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” he has crafted a Los Angeles masterpiece. Like all of his work, it is somehow both languid and electric. Hilarious and terrifying. Formalist and completely inventive.
A city deserves an auteur. A director laureate. New York has Scorsese. Paris has Truffaut. Madrid has Almodovar. I mean, Omaha has Alexander Payne.
Los Angeles has Tarantino.
The birth of “Reservoir Dogs,” “Pulp Fiction” and “Jackie Brown” marked more than the arrival of rock ’n’ roll cinema. Each film was a picture of L.A. as seen through the windshield of an Angeleno who grew up on freeways and was born from the racks of VHS tapes. If examined under a microscope, we can only presume that the strands of Tarantino’s DNA would have film sprockets.
With “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” he has crafted a Los Angeles masterpiece. Like all of his work, it is somehow both languid and electric. Hilarious and terrifying. Formalist and completely inventive.
- 12/18/2019
- by Jason Reitman
- Variety Film + TV
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