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Uma Thurman: Quentin Tarantino’s muse who played two iconic roles in his films: Mia Wallace in “Cheap Literature” (above) and the bride in “Kill Bill”. The director and the actress had a falling out after filming “Kill Bill”, during which Thurman was injured in an accident because Tarantino demanded that she perform a dangerous stunt herself. Since then the two have had time to make up.
Uma Thurman in “Cheap Literature” (photo: courtesy of yes)
Uma Thurman in “Kill Bill” (photo: courtesy of yes)
Oscar: Tarantino holds two Oscar statuettes which he won for the scripts of “Cheap Literature” (1994) and the revisionist western “Django Unstoppable” (2012), in which he avenged the revenge of the black slaves.
Exes: Before Danielle Peek, his wife, the director’s name was associated with a series of celebrities, starting with comedians Margaret Cho and Kathy Griffin, through actress Mira Sorvino and director Sofia Coppola.
Bruce Lee (photo: courtesy of yes)
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recorders: A genre of black crime films from the 1970s that Tarantino adores. His greatest tribute to the blaxploitation genre is his third film, “Jackie Brown” (1997), starring Pam Greer, star of the original blaxploitation films.
“The Golden Girls”: Tarantino’s first television role, if you can call it that, in which he played an Elvis impersonator, was in an episode of “The Golden Girls” in 1988.
Bruce Lee: One of the people who influenced Tarantino. Bruce Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee really didn’t like how Tarantino portrayed her father in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).
Theaters: Tarantino bought two movie theaters in Los Angeles, where he makes sure to screen only movies shot with 35mm film cameras.
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age: Tarantino, who is celebrating his 60th birthday, is almost 20 years older than his wife Daniela Peake, who will be celebrating her 40th birthday this November.
Quentin Tarantino and Danielle Peake (Photo: Reuters)
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blood: Tarantino’s films are known for the amount of fake blood spilled in them, which could probably fill the Pacific Ocean.
Daniela Pick: Israeli singer and daughter of the late Zvika Pick. Pick and Tarantino met in 2009, when the director came to visit Israel as part of the promotion of his film “Dishonorable Bastards”. In 2017 they renewed the relationship. Today they live part of the time in Israel.
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The Hebrew University: In June 2022, the director received an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Harvey Weinstein (Photo: Reuters)
Harvey Weinstein: The well-known film producer convicted of sex crimes is largely responsible for Tarantino’s phenomenal success. All of Tarantino’s films, except the last one, were distributed by Weinstein. Tarantino previously said in an interview, among other things, that he knew Weinstein had sexually harassed his ex-girlfriend Mira Sorvino and Uma Thurman.
He claims he confronted Weinstein, but said he did not know the extent of his sexual misconduct and regretted not confronting him more seriously. In 2017, after the affair blew up, Tarantino cut contact with him and looked for a new distributor. His latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, was distributed by Sony.
“There was a time in Hollywood”: Tarantino’s latest film (so far), starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, is a comedy drama set in Hollywood at the end of the sixties against the backdrop of the Manson family murders.
Once upon a time in Hollywood (Photo: Courtesy of Forum Film)
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Video: Like any serious film buff, Tarantino worked in a video library in his youth.
Viral: The video of a sweaty Tarantino sitting in an Israeli garden at a toddler’s birthday party together with his little son became very popular on the networks and made many feel that he was one of our own.
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Zoe Bell: The New Zealand stuntwoman who acted as Uma Thurman’s double in “Kill Bill”. Belle worked as a stuntman in other Tarantino films and impressed him so much that he gave her a major role as an actress in his film Immortal. Belle played herself in it and of course performed her own stunts.
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Marriage: In November 2018, Tarantino married the choice of his heart, Daniela Peake, daughter of the late Zvika Peake, in an intimate ceremony held at their home in Beverly Hills. The event included a canopy and a reformed rabbi and the director broke a glass while leaning on his head. Family members and friends were present, including Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth.
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Tony Tarantino: Quentin’s father, a failed actor of Italian origin who left his mother before the birth of his son.
TV: Tarantino is not only a director and screenwriter on the big screen, but also participated in the TV series “False Identity” and directed an episode of “ER”.
Trash: Tarantino is in love with popular culture and is influenced by the aesthetics of many trashy genres, from the cheap and sensational pulp fiction books to countless cinematic subgenres from the 50s, 60s and 70s that were considered poor in real time, but inspired a postmodern creator like him .
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“My best friend’s birthday”: Tarantino’s first film, which he made in 1987. This is an amateur film in black and white that he directed, was among its writers and producers, and also played the lead role in it. The film was never completed, and only about half an hour of it was edited.
Children: Tarantino and Peake have two children: 3-year-old Leo and eight-month-old Adriana.
Shelter dogs (photo: courtesy of yes)
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“Shelter dogs”: Tarantino’s debut film released in 1992 is a witty and funny crime thriller with a lot of blood and a great ensemble of actors that included Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen and Chris Penn.
Of money: Tarantino’s fortune is estimated at about 120 million dollars.
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Studies: Tarantino dropped out of high school at age 15. He never formally studied film.
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Salient features of Tarantino’s works: Graphic but stylish violence, black humor, quotes from the history of cinema, long dialogues in which the characters chatter about popular culture matters, and a retro-iconic soundtrack.
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Nazis: Tarantino “revenge” on them in his film “Dishonorable Bastards”, which takes place in France occupied by the Nazis, during the Second World War, and deals with two plot lines related to the overthrow of the Nazi regime.
Knoxville: Tarantino’s hometown in the state of Tennessee. He grew up mostly in Los Angeles.
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Cinephilia: Tarantino is known as a director who directs from the love of cinema, constantly quoting and referencing the films he loves.
Samuel L. Jackson: The actor who participated in the most Tarantino films. His big break was in the film “Cheap Literature”, and in total he participated in seven of the director’s films.
“pulp Fiction”: Tarantino’s second film released in 1994 and considered his masterpiece. The film revolutionized American cinema by bringing independent cinema into the mainstream. John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and Bruce Willis star in this comedic crime drama, full of cultural references, nineties wit and an unforgettable soundtrack.
Books: Tarantino has two books under his belt: the first, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel”, was released in 2021. The second book will be a reference book called Cinema Speculation and will include articles, reviews and writing in a personal tone.
Sergio Leone: Director Sergio Leone’s classic spaghetti western, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, starring Clint Eastwood, is Tarantino’s favorite film.
Martial arts movies: Another cinematic genre that Tarantino particularly likes. “Kill Bill” is his version of the genre, with Uma Thurman dressed as Bruce Lee in “Game of Death”.
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Ten movies: Tarantino previously stated that he intends to make ten films and then retire, in order to maintain high quality and not end his career with a series of bad films as usual. Some would say that he has already made ten films, but he considers “Kill Bill” 1 and 2 as one film, so he has one more left.
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Podcast: Tarantino creates a podcast with filmmaker Roger Avery called The Video Archives after the video library they both worked at in their youth.
Pauline Kyle: According to the “Hollywood Reporter”, Tarantino’s next film will be a biopic about the legendary film critic Pauline Kyle, who passed away in 2001, and will be called “The Film Critic”.
sound track: Tarantino’s films are known for great songs that have been pulled from the mothballs and have since been ground to perfection, including Stealers Wheel’s Stuck in the Middle with You, Nancy Sinatra’s “Bang Bang” and Urge Overkill’s cover of Neil Diamond’s Girl, You’ll be a Woman Soon.
Zvika Peak (Photo: Zohar Shetrit)
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Zvika Pick: The singer, composer, musician and one of the greatest creators in Israel, is also Tarantino’s late father-in-law. Died in August 2022 at the age of 72.
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buy zestofil: Tarantino’s mother who became pregnant with him when she was 16. According to Tarantino, his mother did not support him when he started writing screenplays and he vowed at the time that he would not share his fortune with her if he was successful. In the end, he did succeed and said that apart from one time when he helped her when she got into trouble with the IRS, he did not support her financially.
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Robert Rodriguez: An American director of Mexican origin, Tarantino collaborated with him many times: Tarantino wrote the script for Rodriguez’s film “Finding the Heat until the Disappearance of the Soul” and also starred in it. Also, Tarantino and Rodriguez shared the direction of the two parts in the double feature “Grindhouse” (Tarantino directed “Immune to Death” and Rodriguez directed “Planet Terror”). Tarantino also served as a guest director on Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s neo-noir crime thriller Sin City.
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Regular players: Like many directors, Tarantino has a list of actors he likes to work with. Besides Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson, the list also includes Harvey Keitel, Kurt Russell, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth and Brad Pitt. Leonardo DiCaprio meanwhile managed to participate in two of his films.
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Tel Aviv: Tarantino’s city of residence in Israel.
scripter: Tarantino wrote screenplays for several famous films that he did not direct, such as “True Romance”. Oliver Stone’s film Born Killers is also based on Tarantino’s script, although it was rewritten and changed, and Tarantino does not approve of the final version.