Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, film programmer, and cinema owner.
His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture and a wide variety of other films, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, alternate history, and features of neo-noir film.
Killers Of The Flower Moon, Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, and Asteroid City are among the high-profile movies in contention for a Cannes splash this year.
The titles currently being bandied about for the 76th Cannes Film Festival give encouragement that the festival will once again be a launch pad both for commercial films with global aspirations and films that might be the buzz titles for the next awards season on both sides of the Atlantic.
The studio movies in the mix also offer a study in how studios and filmmakers are eyeing past successes as a template for how best to use the exposure of the world’s most fabled festival.
Start with the Martin Scorsese-directed Killers of the Flower Moon, which teams two of the director’s favorite collaborators, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, in a fact based drama about the murders of members of the Osage Nation and the birth of the FBI.
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