The wickedly brilliant filmography created by America’s most encyclopedically informed film-geek-turned-director arrives Tuesday in the form Tarantino XX: 8-Film Collection. The 10-disc boxed set packages 20 years’ worth of Quentin Tarantino movies, including Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vols. 1 and 2, Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds and True Romance (directed by Tony Scott).
As recapped in the Tarantino XX trailer, embedded below, the director’s gift for fusing brute violence with paint-peeling dialog fuels motion pictures that make audiences laugh, shriek and vomit in equal measure. Arriving in advance of Tarantino’s slavery-themed December release Django Unchained, Tarantino XX includes five hours of new bonus material featuring interviews with critics, cast and Tarantino himself, plus deleted scenes and audio commentary. The boxed set also comes with a fold-out poster, pictured above, by Mondo artist Ken Taylor.
Win a Copy of If You Like Quentin Tarantino …
Image courtesy Limelight EditionsHailed by critics for the originality of his dialog, Tarantino sometimes gets heckled for pilfering too many characters and storylines from genre movies that have come before. Yet the former video store clerk from Long Beach transforms those influences with so much twisted wit that his work stands on its own bloody feet.
The guy can’t help it if he’s got a photographic memory embedded with graphic sensations drawn from the history of cinema, as chronicled in new book If You Like Quentin Tarantino …
Wired is teaming with publisher Limelight Editions to give away one copy of the book, in which author Katherine Rife identifies the influences — ranging from Kinji Fukasaku to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — that found their way into Tarantino’s work.
To qualify for the giveaway, comment below on the following question: What’s your favorite Quentin Tarantino movie and why?
Deadline to enter is 12:01 a.m. Pacific on Nov. 29, 2012. One randomly selected winner will be notified by e-mail or Twitter. Winners must live in the United States.
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