The Gritty, Unflinching Film Quentin Tarantino Hails as “My best” Just Landed on Netflix
It’s got to be tricky for a filmmaker to objectively rank their own cinematic output. I imagine that’s kind of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. If you polled a sampling of parents, you’d probably get responses like, “They are all my favorites,” or “I couldn’t pick one over the other.”
Fortunately, Quentin Tarantino has no such misgivings about ranking his filmography. He previously revealed that he thinks his worst cinematic outing is Death Proof. But we’re not here to talk about that today. No, today, we are here to discuss the filmmaker’s pick for his “best” film. Additionally, we have intel on Tarantino’s favorite of his directorial credits, as well as what he considers the ultimate showcase of his creative vision.
In an interview with The Church of Tarantino podcast, the director offered the following insights: “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is my favorite, Inglourious Basterds is my best, but I think Kill Bill is the ultimate Quentin movie, like nobody else could have made it.”
How about that? Inglourious Basterds is the director‘s pick for his best film. That seems like a reasonable choice to me. The film received eight Oscar nominations and took home the statuette for Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz). He’s clearly not the only one who sees this as a career high point.
The setup for Inglourious Basterds is this:
It is the first year of Germany’s occupation of France. Allied officer Lt. Aldo Raine assembles a team of Jewish soldiers to commit violent acts of retribution against the Nazis, including the taking of their scalps. He and his men join forces with Bridget von Hammersmark, a German actress and undercover agent, to bring down the leaders of the Third Reich. Their fates converge with theater owner Shosanna Dreyfus, who seeks to avenge the Nazis’ execution of her family.
The film features a dynamite ensemble cast that includes Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Mélanie Laurent, Julie Dreyfus, and August Diehl.
If you’re keen to take in Tarantino’s “best” film, it’s streaming now on Netflix.
That’s just about all that we have for you, for the time being. Make sure to stay tuned to the site in the near future for more enticing updates from the streaming space. If you’d like to keep tabs on me in the meantime, you can always find me musing about movies and television on Threads. I am active on the platform as @FunWithHorror.
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