For the record: the 6th QT fest 


Almost every September, Tarantino goes to Austin, Texas, to mount the Tarantino Film Festival. Held in the apparently mammoth Drafthouse , the festival comprises seven nights of Tarantino in person introducing, discussing, and showing films from his personal print collection. The line up for what was called QT6, held in mid-September, included the following films:






Secret Agent Night, Friday

THE SPY WITH MY FACE
1965. Directed by John Newland and starring Robert Vaughn, David McCallum and Senta Berger.

THE VENETIAN AFFAIR
1967. Directed by Jerry Thorpe and starring Robert Vaughn, Elke Sommer and Boris Karloff.

SHAME OF THE JUNGLE 35mm, 79min.
1975. Directed by Picha and Boris Szulzinger. Animated, featuring the voices of: John Belushi and Bill Murray (Austin Film Society)

All Night 80s Horror Marathon (Saturday)

The films were unannounced, but it appears that they turned out to be Australian horror films.

Australian Night (Sunday)

BMX Bandits, 35mm
1983. Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and starring Nicole Kidman.

Four Desperate Men, 16mm
1959. Directed by Harry Watt.

“Riptide” 16mm TV show
1969. Directed by Quentin Lawrence, Peter Maxwell and Jeremy Summers and starring Ty Hardin.

“Dark Age” 35mm
1987. Directed by Arch Nicholson and starring John Jarratt.

Documentary Night (Monday)

A Cry In The Wild 16mm
1973. Directed by Bill Mason.

Blue Water, White Death 35mm
1971. Directed by Peter Gimbel and James Lipscomb.

Italian War Epic II Night (Tuesday)

Five For Hell
35mm
1969. Directed by Gianfranco Parolini and starring John Garko, Klaus Kinski and Margaret Lee.

From Hell To Victory
35mm
1979. Directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring George Peppard, George Hamilton and Horst Buchhol.

Italian Crime Films Of The 70s (Wednesday)

DEATH RAGE
1976. Directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Yul Brynner and Barbara Bouchet.

NO WAY OUT aka BIG GUNS
1973. Directed by Duccio Tessari and starring Alain Delon, Richard Conte and Rosalba Neri.

THE SELL-OUT
1976. Directed by Peter Collinson and starring Oliver Reed, Richard Widmark and Gayle Hunnicutt.

Sexploitation Night (Thursday)

HAY COUNTRY SWINGERS
1971. Directed by Alois Brummer.

TEENAGE HITCHHIKERS
1975. Directed by Gerri Sedley.

HOT SUMMER IN THE CITY
35mm
1976. Directed by Gail Palmer. XXX Rated.

The pub also offered a Grindhouse Triple Feature
CRACK HOUSE
1976. Directed by Micheal Fischa and starring Jim Brown and Richard Roundtree.

THE DIRTY OUTLAWS
1967. Directed by Franco Rossetti.

FISTFUL OF TALONS
1983. Directed by Chung Sun and starring Billy Chong.

The illustration above comes from one of the websites advertising the festival and shows Tarantino chatting with Robert Rodriguez and Richard Linklater.

The festival is a key form of entree into Tarantino's aesthetic. He often shows films that have formed part of his research for forthcoming movies, so the two Italian war films from Tuesday are especially interesting as possible harbingers of his Dirty Dozen film, and the Grindhouse night may announce some of the themes or elements from his collaboration with Rodriguez of the same name.

At some point in the future hope to provide a complete list of all six festival entries.  

 

Posted: Mon - October 10, 2005 at 12:09 PM          

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