Quentin Tarantino has been warning for some time that after ten films he will retire from directing (at least for a time), and we have always seen it very far away… Until it has already become imminent. For a while there was talk that his final opus would be a version of ‘Star trek’ or the third part of ‘Kill Bill’, but in his own style, as always, everything indicates that it will be an original story entitled, how could it be otherwise, ‘The movie critic’.
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The fact that Tarantino has decided to stop directing films does not mean that he is not going to direct a series (he has an eight-episode series planned for this year), writing books like ‘Cinema Speculation’ or giving birth to scripts for other directors. In fact, based on what he commented in various interviews, he may decide to make another ten films in a few years. Do not cry for ‘The movie critic’, because the tears will prevent you from seeing that there is Quentin for a while.
The film, which at the moment does not have a home and whose existence has been known by The Hollywood Reporter, It could be about Pauline Kael, one of the most famous film critics of all time., of which the great Roger Ebert said that “he had a more positive influence on American cinema than anyone else in the last three decades.” He began in film criticism with ‘City Lights’ in 1952, and did not retire until Parkinson’s in 1991 made it impossible. Her critique was deeply personal, woven from her life, unique and precious.with a style that many would not dare to take for fear of what they will say.
It is normal that Quentin Tarantino is attracted to a figure as interesting and influential as Kael, who experienced the cinema of the 70s that he precisely portrays in his latest book. Obviously, ‘The movie critic’ has no producer, distributor or anyone tied to the project yet, but the director will find no problem in this regard. Tarantino has decided to leave on his own foot after thirty years dedicated to the industry… And he’s going to do it with his head held high.