This is Tarantino’s best film of 2021, and it’s not Dune: ‘Right up there with Fury Road’

This is Tarantino’s best film of 2021, and it’s not Dune: ‘Right up there with Fury Road’

Quentin Tarantino is one of the most famous directors and his reviews are known to range from massive praise to complete rejection of an entire artistic movement.

Revealing his favorite films every year, he previously mentioned Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris in 2011 and Joy Soloway’s Afternoon Delight in 2013.

A recent guest on the “Bret Easton Ellis Podcast.” Quentin Tarantino He was excited, he said, about the best of 2021: and no, it wasn’t the first installment of Dune that caused a sensation that year, nor the other feature films competing for the Oscar for Best Picture in March 2022. It’s Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, starring Ansel Elgort (The Fault in Our Stars, Divergent, Baby Driver) and Rachel Zeegler (Disney’s upcoming live-action Snow White).

I loved West Side Story. Best movie of 2021, it should have won an Oscar and the guy who played Riff should have won an Oscar. This is the only movie I saw, alone, in the cinema, twice. It was beyond. It was right up there with Fury Road.

remind you west side story Tells us about the legendary love story that began in New York in 1957 against the background of a fight between rival gangs. The film is the second adaptation of the acclaimed 1957 musical of the same name, following Robert’s 1961 West Side Story Wise with Rita Moreno.

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When it was released in late 2021, Spielberg’s version received rave reviews and was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. However, that year CODA, the American remake of Sian Heder’s La Famille Bélier, won the coveted prize.

Mike Feist, whom Tarantino mentions, in turn, was nominated not for an Oscar, but for a BAFTA for best supporting actor – an award he lost to Troy Koczur. CODA.

Other feature films in the running for the 2022 Oscars include Jane Campion’s Power of the Dog, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, Adam McKay’s Don’t Look: Cosmic Denial Belfast by Kenneth Branagh, Drive My Car by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi , Williams Method by Reinaldo Marcus Green and finally Dune Author of Denis Villeneuve – who caused a sensation and whose second part (even better than the first) is currently in cinemas.

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Tarantino’s love for Fury Road

As for the announcement made by Mad Max: Fury Road Quentin TarantinoIt’s no secret: the director of Pulp Fiction – and the upcoming The Movie Critic, his long-awaited tenth and final film – is a huge fan of George Miller’s film with Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, which he once named the best. 2015 year.

I resisted seeing this for a while because I thought, “Is Max crazy? Without Mel Gibson? Forget it.’ In a world where Mel Gibson exists, how can you choose Tom Hardy? Then I saw the movie. “Okay, that’s great.” And he’s pretty good at it, I must admit.– said the director at the premiere that year.

Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is currently available on Disney+. Mad Max: Fury Road is available on VOD.

Source: Allocine

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