Critic's Notebook: In OnceUponATimeInHollywood, Quentin Tarantino creates an indelible time capsule
on the other. Standing tall at number 12 for the year was a somber black-and-white Swedish film with hard-core sex,Plunged into this heady mix at a very early age was a kid named Quentin Tarantino, who as a precocious sprig was often driven up from the South Bay on weekends by his step-father to take in a bunch of movies on Hollywood Boulevard.
At the time, Hollywood Boulevard itself was well on the way down its slippery slide toward seediness and utter disreputability; as I recall from my early visits around this time, there was little to do or see other than to take a look at the footprints and signatures in front of Grauman's Chinese , pop into Larry Edmunds Bookshop and grab a meal at Musso & Frank .
But Hollywood Boulevard was still the main place to see new movies. During the summer of '69 period, played the Pantages before it was transformed from a movie palace into a legit theater. was the attraction at the Pix on Hollywood near Vine and a far less remembered Western, Midnight CowboyAs we have very recently been reminded, the summer of '69 marked the extraordinary achievement of men landing on the moon, an event not mentioned in , while Woodstock took place in mid-August.
What I will say is that his new film for me was total bliss, a fabulous full immersion in Hollywood life and lore, and of how things both were and should have been. It's a re-adjustment of real life that represents wish fulfillment in a way that's clear-headed and unsentimental, realistic in some ways, fantastical in others.
Some charter member Tarantino fans, of whom I am one, might complain that he's gone a bit soft. I say he's maturing. I also suggest that he should abandon his announced plans to soon call it a career. Real artists are driven to create and almost never retire. Out to pasture is one place I don't want to imagine Quentin Tarantino.
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