There will always be blood, brilliance and controversy.
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scandalous fall in disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. A story about how to shoot eight great movies and become an icon of modern pop culture.
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- tmdb28039023on TMDB · Aug 20221/10
QT8: The First Eight is the wrong title for this documentary/hagiography of Quentin Tarantino. Never mind the cacophony of of having two 'eights' (even if it is, as I suspect, a reference to the Crazy 88, it’s still pretty lame); a more accurate title would be The First Three That Actually Matter and the Six (counting Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) Bloated, Masturbatory, Overrated Ego Trips that Followed. Like it or lump it, there is a 'before and after' Jackie Brown. Tarantino’s transition from genius to raving lunatic began with Kill Bill, and reached an apex with the pointless exercises in historic revisionism that are Inglorious Basterds and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Back to QT8, I would normally dismiss a documentary about a living person wherein that person is conspicuous by his absence as nothing more than a fucking waste of everybody’s time — in this case, however, I’ll file it under 'addition by subtraction.' Arguably the best thing about this movie is that Tarantino is nowhere to be seen or heard. The second best thing about about the film are the contributions of Michael Madsen, Sam Jackson, and Christoph Waltz (and, to a lesser extent, Tim Roth, Bruce Dern, Kurt Ru
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Cast
- Quentin TarantinoSelf (archive footage)
- Zoë BellSelf
- Louis BlackSelf
- Bruce DernSelf
- Robert ForsterSelf
- Jamie FoxxSelf
- Richard N. GladsteinSelf
- Jennifer Jason LeighSelf
- Diane KrugerSelf
- Lucy LiuSelf
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- Tara WoodDirector
- Tara WoodScreenplay
- Jake ZortmanDirector of Photography
- Doran DanoffOriginal Music Composer
- Tyler WenzelOriginal Music Composer
- Jeremy WardEditor
- Eric MyersonEditor
- Jake ZortmanProducer
- Tara WoodProducer
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