I was a projectionist at a 31 screen theater and from 2001-2008 I saw every movie that came out. It was a wonderful time of my life I look back on fondly
@@aaryan8273 part of my job was to watch movies to make sure I built them up correctly. And sometimes it’s a double edged sword. Cause I had to watch terrible movies like “Pathfinder”. I even remember hating good movies at first, cause I had to watch them half asleep at 3am like Tropic Thunder. But my best experiences were watching great movies I had no idea going in what to expect , like “no country for old men”.
Did you ever handle a print for Attack Of The clones? I ask because it was shot on digital and transferred to film. I would love to see how the film stock looked.
@@silvervalleystudios2486 yes. If I remember they gave it the secret code name Daddy long legs so it wouldn’t get noticed and stolen cause it was a highly anticipated film.
@@jasonwilliams4159 ay man That sounds horrible lol Not able to enjoy good movies is really a bummer. But i can see that the cinephile in you enjoyed good movies no matter the situation. Kudos man., Also thanks for the response
@@David-nb3ex He doesn't have one yet, because it's not out. It's not an "industry secret"... He has been on the pure cinema podcast a bunch of times though
@@14AspenDrive No, he literally has been recording a podcast for the past several years, but he does it just for fun. No sponsors. He only has the occasional guest on, which is almost always a close friend. He drops an episode maybe 5 times a year, tops. It's kinda similar to Bill Burrs podcast in terms of presentation. The only way to listen to it is via an invitation from QT or someone close to him. Very exclusive.
@@David-nb3ex Any idea where someone might be able to find them? Ive literally listened to all his over 2 hour podcasts on RUclips for months now. I was actually really supprised to hear he liked Return of the Living dead 3 without having seen the first 2 because of boycotting. Such a weird thing to find out about a great director. Ive been watching so many B movies recently because of QT.
@@MrCREWCRUSHIN95 It's called a conversation. Two people sharing their point of views. Apparently, you likely suck at conversations if you only want to hear your own voice.
I wish Quentin would do one of these for every year of the 80s. I'd love to hear his favourites for 1980 and 1982 in particular as they were great years for movies.
@@dahan419lol - I know movies and movie details just like Tarantino, and people look at me like I'm a savant or there is something flat out wrong with me at times 😅😂 I've seen more than a few movies at least several hundred times, but rarely ever does anyone believe me. Then I'll talk about the minutiae of certain movies and that's when they start to believe me.
Biggest difference between Tarantino and myself wrt movie knowledge is that he's more into variety of movies. I prefer fewer movies (variety-wise) but like to watch them more frequently than he does. 'Butch and Sundance-the Early Years' was /is SO boring. I'm surprised he liked that one. My wife bought it on DVD years ago and I've yet to be able to sit through the whole thing. Dull af imo.
Hardcore was written by Paul Schraeder (Taxi Driver) and filmed in my hometown of Grand Rapids, MI. I remember the buzz of excitement that George C. Scott was in town.
i was born in 79. My dad was a big movie fan and he couldn't help himself and he started taking me to movies with him on Friday nights around 1988...and this continued until 2000. we averaged about 25 movies a year... topping out in 1993 at about 35 movies. and we saw all the big blockbusters and we saw them all on opening night... Batman, Independence Day, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Back to the future 2 and 3, outbreak, crimson tide, the rock... you name it. any movie that was anything in the late 80s through the 90s we saw it.
Born in 1979 too and I completely relate! My Dad and I went to a bunch of movies during that period and a lot of times we’d go to like the 9:55 show and most times I’d fall asleep but I’d always try to stay awake just so my Dad would think I wasn’t too young to see these movies so I’d fight every temptation to fall asleep. One of my fondest memories was going to see “The Last Starfighter” in Beaumont,TX while visiting my Grandmother and the theater was so packed that I watched this movie sitting Indian style on the disgusting floor in the second row. I also loved that my Dad is such a movie buff and many times after the movie I saw with him was over we would walk into another theater just to see the ending or 5 minutes of a different picture. Such a different time and I totally miss it!
I was a kid of divorce in the 80s and the weekends with dad regularly included movies, usually the bigger, popular, current ones (Big, Groundhog Day, Dances With Wolves, etc.). Locally we also had a small theater within walking/biking distance that had a dollar show for older movies, I saw so many movies there in the 80s and 90s. Saw Pulp Fiction there. It's wild to look back at releases in those years, every month something classic was coming out.
@@ianrobinson4200 And the 80s weren't anything like as interesting filmwise! (even though I was only four in 1980 - I'd later realize the 70s clearly had better movies)
He’s right about the Russian Roulette scene in “The Deer Hunter”. Nothing else like it . Such an abrupt change of pace in what is a very slow movie up to then . Just incredible.
This guy is so simultaneously dorky and a rock star, it’s an interesting phenomenon to behold. To remember every movie you’ve seen in 1979 and feel that the locations where you’ve even those films are interesting to someone else in conversation is really being socially aloof but somehow this guy manages to pull it off with such passion
@@davidbarton5587 You wanna talk about a comment that absolutely NO ONE cares about?!? Yours. It is yours, junior. Are you SO obtuse as to not see that, ffs?
I lived in Torrance, CA in the early '90s and I love how he keeps naming the local theatres in the area. I lived right down the road from Del Amo Mall. Good memories....
Man a lot of these movie posters are just fantastic, such great design and artistry, wish film studios today would put as much effort into them as they did back then
A lot of people think QT only saw what certain people perceive as "cool" films (kung fu, blaxplotaition, horror, spaghetti westerns, horror, HK films) , but the guy literally saw every kind of film from really bad ones, tv films, obscure foreign ones and the academy award darlings (the kind geeks hate cause Annie Hall won the Oscar and not Star Wars ), he seems to love all of them the same.
1. Take Down 2. Hardcore 3. Boulevard Nights 4. Buck Rogers 5. Norma Rae 6. Fast Break 7. Voices 8. The China Syndrome 9. Old Boyfriends 10. The Bell Jar 11. Hair 12. Love At First Bite 13. Manhattan 14. A Little Romance 15. Hurricane 16. The Champ 17. Last Embrace 18. Alien 19. Escape From Alcatraz 20. Butch Cassidy and Sundance The Early Days 21. The In-Laws 22. The Main Event 23. The Muppet Movie 24. North Dallas Forty 25. Rocky II 26. Dracula 27. Breaking Away 28. The Amityville Horror 29. The Wanderers 30. More American Graffiti 31. Apocalypse Now 32. Rich Kids 33. The Concorde Airport 1979 34. And Justice For All 35. Yanks 36. The Onion Field 37. Meteor 38. When A Stranger Calls 39. 10 40. The Black Stallion 41. Avalanche Express 42. Starting Over 43. The Runner Stumbles 44. The Rose 45. 1941 46. Being There 47. Star Trek The Motion Picture 48. The Black Hole 49. The Jerk 50. All That Jazz 51. Cuba 52. The Electric Horseman 53. Chapter Two 54. Circle of Iron 55. Richard Pryor: Live In Concert 56. The Bermuda Triangle 57. The Warriors 58. The Promise 59. Phantasm 60. Star Crash 61. California Dreaming 62. Dawn of the Dead 63. Ravagers 64. H.O.T.S. 65. Malibu High 66. Van Nuys Blvd. 67. Hot Stuff 68. Hometown USA 69. A Force of One 70. Game of Death 71. Nightwing 72. Prophecy 73. The Villain 74. The Frisco Kid 75. The Lady In Red 76. Rock N Roll High School 77. Americathon 78. Swap Meet 79. Seven 80. Sammy Stops The World 81. Skatetown USA 82. Jaguar Lives 83. Roller Boogie 84. Scavenger Hunt 85. Penitentiary 86. Wifemistress 87. L’Innocent 88. The Great Train Robbery 89. The Silent Partner 90. Nosferatu 91. La Cage Aux Folles 92. Hanover Street 93. Meatballs 94. Life of Brian 95. Soldier of Orange 96. Time After Time 97. Love and Bullets 98. Luna 99. The Europeans 100. Running 101. Quadrophenia 102. Beyond The Door 2 103. Winter Kills 104. The Kids Are Alright 105. The Brood 106. City On Fire 107. The Shape of Things To Come 108. Patrick 109. Shame of the Jungle 110. The 5th Musketeer 111. The Tattoo Connection
Being a Jaws fan I love how Tarantino seems to admire Roy Schieder and Robert Shaw, you can tell by how he throws out trivia about their lives and or careers when talking about their movies.
ive got 2 real Shaw autographs , hes heavily forged......theres a dealer who has a Avalanche Express sgd photo , totally fake as he died a yr before it came out
@@postersandstuff Very cool! Shaw is one of my favourite actors and Jaws is my favourite film. Would you ever part from one of the autographs and I'm not being rude but how do you know they are legit?
This is an incredible document. One in a kagillion piece of history. One of Quentin's personal history and of American movies in 1979. I'm relistening already to it and probably will the rest of my remaining days. This means more than you know. Thank you for this gift.
1979 undoubtedly was a phenomenal year for Cinema. All That Jazz was utterly amazing. The academy should have selected this one as best picture and Roy Scheider should have won best actor.
Agree! I work with young people and I was talking with a young girl about movies. She asked if I had any old movies she could borrow. I gave her All that Jazz. Wasn't sure if her generation would like it. She love it! Said it was one of the great movies she had ever seen.
. Best part is at the end when he and his interviewer go deep into the deer hunter. Fascinating insights also fascinating is how Tarantino is so self-absorbed he won't let the other person get a word in edgewise he either talks over her or cuts her off or brings the conversation totally back to himself. He's like a 10-year-old kid who's all excited and doesn't really know how to carry on a conversation. Still it's fun to listen to Tarantino talk about the movies he saw as young teenager
Schrader it’s hard to spell I’m not sure I’m spelling it right but it’s with a D not an F , not trying to be a dick , he’s just worth looking up on IMDb and seeing pretty much every movie he ever wrote or directed
This is awesome. I love hearing about movies people saw in the theater. Whenever I comment on a movie I always mention if I saw it in the theater and who I saw it with...as if people really care about my Sunday trips to the movies with my older sister.
this is F-ing great!! I shared quite a number of QT's sentiments on some of these movies..which I still do remember..tho not necessarily have watched it in the theater. man..I totally think Tarantino MUST do a podcast of his own already.
Absolutely fantastic video and thank you for posting! I’m shocked that he didn’t mention one of my favorite movies “Over The Edge” with Matt Dillon and a tremendous soundtrack! I was actually born in April of 1979 and have seen quite a few of these films but many of these I’ve never heard of. I definitely have a great list of movies to watch over the next few weeks!
Great movie, seems like one he would have seen. I'd never heard of it until hearing Kurt Cobain mention it in an interview. I was born a month after you but had I been 15 when it came out I'd have probably gone to see it multiple times.
I wish Quentin would do more of these! I saw the Deer Hunter as a breaking down and loss of the certainty that comes along with the traditional values, mores, beliefs, etc. typical of immigrant cultures, exemplified and symbolized by the wedding. All that is thrown into question in the larger culture, and also on the individual level from the things they experienced in the war. The famous DeNiro scene "This is this!" a clear attempt to assert a once-believed in certainty and connection to reality that was literally blown apart by the cataclysmic events they went through. Nothing was "this" anymore after that prison camp! And Russian roulette??? With the town being Russian? How perfect as a metaphor for that entire situation, with literally no certainty at all and the next move being one that could literally blow your head off.
Am I really going to listen to Tarantino talk about every movie he saw in theaters in 1979 for 71 minutes? Yes I think I am. And there’s nothing anyone can do to stop me.
His take on 'Annie Hall' is a perfect description of how it hit a lot of people, including me. No one really knew why but it was a movie that stuck in your mind. It took awhile to disseminate in your consciousness. 'All That Jazz' was also one of those films that took a moment, being neither a traditional drama nor a traditional musical. The 70's was a diverse and industry-changing decade. Fun to have been young and experienced all these things without references, without precedence, without decades of analysis following you in. Just going in unaware and taking from it what you could.
Had so much fun with this 79’ revisited!! Thank you Mr. Tarantino for your gift of recall!!! Love that you mentioned so many films that I love! “Fastbreak!!?” Really?? Who even remembers Gabe Kaplin?!!! And the “North Dallas Forty!” Love that opening scene! Pot, beer, tub… (movie opens)…. And please watch “Moonraker!” If only for Shirley Baseys song!!! One of her best! Many good parts of this film. Your passion is such a gift to the film world.
Listened to pass the time but found this quietly moving. Found myself wishing Q had commented on each and every film (maybe pioneer RUclips extras featurette?) Appreciated his offhanded affection for films like More American Graffiti which I figured I enjoyed only because of the anticipation and theater experience and now look forward to revisiting without shame. Brief Annie Hall recap: totally identify - that melancholy ending permeated my adolescence, still resonates with every passing happy-sadness. Thanks for this!
My family got hooked up for Cable TV in November of 1979. I watched just about all of those movies on HBO in 1980. It was a fantastic year for the Cinema.
Wow - he even remembers the dingy California multiplexes he saw the movies in. That's dedication. While I'm not a fan of every movie Quentin has made, I'm certainly a fan of Quentin himself. I think he's terrific. And he give great interviews.
High fives "I never saw the Hunger Games because I love Battle Royale and I'm offended it exists" comment. I really, really enjoyed this talk. More like this please.
One of my favorite films from 1979 was Jonathan Kaplan's Over The Edge. I'm surprised QT didn't see that in the theater, but I know Orion pulled it early from theaters.
It had a very limited release in '79, but became a big cult hit when it started playing on cable a few years later then when it was released on home video
I only know “Over The Edge” because Kurt Cobain said it was his favorite movie and if I’m not mistaken…the music video to Smells Like Teen Spirit was inspired by Over The Edge
@@brgreg8725 yeah, great soundtrack! I actually brought the album 30 years ago at a discount record shop in Pittsburgh! I played it constantly on my college radio show. Good times.
DUDE!!! THE PROMISE!! I'm 56 (born Dec 67). In 79/80 I watched The Promise and Yanks with my Mom. We used to watch movies together, then decide if my 3 younger brothers would be able to see them. My Dad was stationed in Korea that year.... And my Mom and I got very tight. The Promise and Yanks were our all time favorites! So good! I loved the majority of the films you mentioned (thank God for HBO back then) , but I saw Lady in Red alone cuz I crushed on PSM, also loved Silent Partner, but eventually my favorite from that year was The Great Santini.....BAR NONE!! It failed, they put it on HBO with a different title "The Ace," then rereleased it in theaters with the original title... and it garnered many nominations! I would love to talk movies with you!
I was 15 in 1979 and saw at least half the movies Quentin did. I actually talked my mother into taking a trip to LA to see Apocalypse Now, like Quentin, saw at the Cinerama Dome and it was in 70mm. I still have the program they handed out because the 70mm version did not have end credits. Also saw. The Deer Hunter on the big screen and I tell you the Russian roulette scene and when Christopher Walken shot himself, somehow had such an impact on me that I balled afterward. Definitely one of all time favorites. Quentin and I would talk for hours about movies, both of us being film buffs, I f we were in the same room. Really enjoyed hearing this podcast.
I think Quentin needs to do this very same thing for every single year up until 1992. The RUclips videos he makes could be an encyclopedic collection of movies, and would be the QT version "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies"
Being about year older than Tarantino I can totally relate to all of this...I've seen and heard of most of these films, but even NOW there are a few films mentioned here I've NEVER heard of until now haha...and I thought I was a fairly well-versed film buff, but Tarantino has me beat on that one by a country mile. He's a virtual walking encyclopedia kind of film going back to the earliest Hollywood movies INCLUDING foreign films.
An epic period for film, especially reflecting on it's effect on you during your childhood with your parents taking you to films beyond your comprehension, etc,...
His takes at the end on THE DEER HUNTER (when he first watched and when he watched again later) prompted me to rewatch the film. Personally I don't agree with either of his interpretations. Still that Tarantino just inspires me to watch more films is what I love about him. Thank you for posting and subscribed.
Not mine. I'm Gen-X and I always enjoy his films for what they are - but there's very little in the way of genuine feeling in them; they're exercises in genre and for the most part, very surface, visceral experiences. Even in his dialogue, which is always fun to listen to - he doesn't reveal himself at all. Don't get me wrong, I love his films - but for my money, Paul Thomas Anderson is the greatest filmmaker of my generation and is doing much deeper, more probing, artistically satisfying and emotional work. From "Punch Drunk Love" to "There Will Be Blood" to "The Master" to "Phantom Thread" to "Licorice Pizza" to whatever his new film will be - for my own taste, he has it over Tarantino and takes a lot more risks as a writer and director. Tarantino - for all of his talent - has basically been making the exact same movie since "Reservoir Dogs". Even "Inglorious Basterds", which I think was his best film, ended up copping out of the themes it teased at and ended up just being an action genre film in the end. He just can't stop winking. I keep waiting for him to grow up and get out of the video store - but he just never has. Again, not saying his films are bad at all - I love them - but they never rise above a certain level for me. To me, I see Tarantino as Hitchcock - he's a brilliant genre filmmaker - but Anderson is Kubrick. Both are terrific for what they do - but for my personal taste, I prefer Anderson's work.
I was ten years old and it was my birthday. I asked my mom to take me to see Richard Pryor: Live at Sunset Strip. My mom had no idea what it was but said okay and took me. I laughed forever. But, the next year I asked my mom it was The Dead Zone. The most amazing thing for me was how traumatized Chris Walken’s character was and how he portrayed that. I felt every unwanted handshake or knock at the door.
I was born in 88 so I don't know most of these movies. I've been watching a lot of old movies since I was 16 but watching this clarifies just how many movies are out there and how little I truly know about film.
So Tarantino was 16 years old in 1979, in High School I assume. He must have been taking the bus to see films every few nights, or staying in the theater all weekend, every weekend. It's amazing that there was some kind of outlet like this available where someone could sit in a theater and watch a new professionally produced film for a trivial amount of money. There's many great films being made today of course but watching them is a much more prosaic experience, and I don't find films as memorable. There's no other associated experience, it 's more like one long film that lasts years and years.
He said he often hopped on his bike to go see films, like the Annie Hall experience. Of course back then most of us kids referred to our transportation vehicle as a Superbike that could also fly.
Wow, thanks for putting in the work to finding amazing high quality posters and putting them when they're being discussed. I hope this channel really blows up soon, you deserve it.
I was in the audience at the same sneak preview for "Rich Kids" that Quentin Tarantino attended in 1979. I saw "The Rose" opening night at the Egyptian theater in 1979 in Hollywood. I remember it was in multichannel stereo sound. I think it was in 70MM too.
For me the continually diminishing importance of Claude and rising importance of Berger in Hair somehow signalled that the vastly different worlds of the two characters came to an understanding and shared values, akin to brothers in a sense, mixing together. That is why the ending felt so gutting.
Loved hearing all this! I saw so many of the same films in the theater when I was young as well! But why spend so little time on the gems? Phantasm, Dawn of the Dead, Time After Time, When a Stranger Calls, Life of Brian!
Hearing qt talk about the deer hunter is amazing its my favorite movie and literally the story of my family it was filmed in Cleveland where i live and the similarities dont end there between the steel mills and the Vietnam War 😢 its cinema at its finest
Kind of stunned that Quentin completely skipped over The Warriors that was one of the most controversial movies of that year with brawls and three murders in the opening weeks as different street gangs converged to the same theater to watch the film. There would also be protests and pickets at some theaters to stop the showings along with theater owners asking for police protection. Even the filming was a real adventures as Walter Hill shot on location in NYC neighbourhoods and they had to pay off and cajole each gang who's territory they were shooting in and avoid other places where the gangs were too unfriendly. I would think The Warriors would be the kind of exploitation and cult film that Tarantino would gush about endlessly.
@@Josh-pf9qx Yes he said he say it in the theatre and nothing else. That is called skipping over it but goes on looong minutes on the utterly forgettable The Promise with Stephen Collins. Seriously.
@@Josh-pf9qx The Warriors was controversial but not that popular as it was 31st in box office for the year. But here are reviews of The Promise from 1979 critics. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "is so awful you wonder how it ever got made. Quite unintentionally it works as an often hilarious parody of the women's pictures of the '40s, a melodramatic genre decidedly out of step with today's liberated heroines." Ruth McCormick wrote in Cineaste: "This is that great rarity-the silly film that takes itself so seriously that it's funny. It makes Love Story look like Now, Voyager. Yep very Quentin in bad taste in lousy films.
If you love The Deer Hunter as much as I do then make sure you listen all the way to the end as Quentin takes a fascinating side trip into both his passion for the film and his conversations with director Michael Cimino. Bonus: a cool De Niro story! What a wonderful listen this was.
@@spinnact ? LOL. It is war. Of course you're going to be racist against the Vietnamese as a US army soldier being made to play Russian roulette by them.
WOW so much passion and cinéphilie in this video !!!! It's really terrific !!! :) I'm french and I am a huge fan of mister Tarantino since his first film in 1992 that I saw in a theater so thank you for this amazing discussion ! :) By the way (and don't get me wrong, I'm a fan, like I said) he doesn't mention Interiors for Woody Allen and yet it came out in 1978 between Annie Hall in 1977 and Manhattan in 1979, so Manhattan was not actually the "follow-up" of Annie Hall, because first there was this very dark fillm (in which Woody does not play, he only writes and directs)... But anyway, great talk !!!!!!! :)
I think Patrick Swayze in a Tarantino film would have been stellar. Now I'd like to see him do something with Bill Murray... and Charles Barkely. I think he could get something special out of both. :)
A bit shocked that he didn't care for Don Coscarelli's horror/science fiction classic PHANTASM 😮 (Roger Avery sure loves it). Otherwise, this was a very enjoyable retrospective of a great year in cinema. I'd love to hear him go year by year like this, from the early 70's to the mid-80's.
@@citygirl5705 33:54 to 33:59 🙂...Phantasm is one of my top 5 all-time movies and it still suprises me that Quentin didn't immediately go crazy for it, like 10 year old me did back then. I'd like to hear him expand upon that, what in particular wasn't working for him. I think Phantasm 1979 is a genuine low budget classic and true cinematic work of art, and I believe it will endure in both the science fiction and horror genres for epochs to come...
I was a projectionist at a 31 screen theater and from 2001-2008 I saw every movie that came out. It was a wonderful time of my life I look back on fondly
Which are some of the movies that you still remember, like they were so good that you cannot forget the event
Name some if you can
@@aaryan8273 part of my job was to watch movies to make sure I built them up correctly. And sometimes it’s a double edged sword. Cause I had to watch terrible movies like “Pathfinder”. I even remember hating good movies at first, cause I had to watch them half asleep at 3am like Tropic Thunder. But my best experiences were watching great movies I had no idea going in what to expect , like “no country for old men”.
Did you ever handle a print for Attack Of The clones? I ask because it was shot on digital and transferred to film. I would love to see how the film stock looked.
@@silvervalleystudios2486 yes. If I remember they gave it the secret code name
Daddy long legs so it wouldn’t get noticed and stolen cause it was a highly anticipated film.
@@jasonwilliams4159 ay man
That sounds horrible lol
Not able to enjoy good movies is really a bummer.
But i can see that the cinephile in you enjoyed good movies no matter the situation.
Kudos man., Also thanks for the response
He should do a podcast, I could listen to him talk about movies all day
He actually already has one, but it's a bit of an industry secret
@@David-nb3ex He doesn't have one yet, because it's not out. It's not an "industry secret"... He has been on the pure cinema podcast a bunch of times though
@@14AspenDrive No, he literally has been recording a podcast for the past several years, but he does it just for fun. No sponsors. He only has the occasional guest on, which is almost always a close friend. He drops an episode maybe 5 times a year, tops. It's kinda similar to Bill Burrs podcast in terms of presentation. The only way to listen to it is via an invitation from QT or someone close to him. Very exclusive.
he did several with bill simmons on his the rewatchables podcast, they even talked about king of new york.
@@David-nb3ex Any idea where someone might be able to find them? Ive literally listened to all his over 2 hour podcasts on RUclips for months now. I was actually really supprised to hear he liked Return of the Living dead 3 without having seen the first 2 because of boycotting. Such a weird thing to find out about a great director. Ive been watching so many B movies recently because of QT.
Thanks so much for adding the movie posters that really enhances this experience
I am incredibly impressed by anyone who can even keep up with Quentin Tarantino about movies. She really knows her movies too!
She's actually annoying, interrupting all the time to prove she knows trivia.
@@MrCREWCRUSHIN95 It's called a conversation. Two people sharing their point of views.
Apparently, you likely suck at conversations if you only want to hear your own voice.
@@MrCREWCRUSHIN95 why you think quentin got so excited and talked for so long? cause she was responding and knew her stuff
@@dillinger445 spot on, this was a great conversation.
@@MrCREWCRUSHIN95 have you never, like, talked to a person? Had a two way conversation?
I wish Quentin would do one of these for every year of the 80s. I'd love to hear his favourites for 1980 and 1982 in particular as they were great years for movies.
His favorite 90s is The matrix
He hates the 80s cinema with a passion, except for a few films.
@@fernandomaron87 That might make it even more interesting 🤔 😆
@@fernandomaron87 I find that hard to believe.
@@LannieLord well its true, that guy is overblowing it a bit but he def is not fond of 80s films
His enthusiasm is so infectious.
It would be wonderful if he did this for every year that means a lot too him.
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Tarantino's memory is simply amazing. I can barely remember what I had for breakfast this morning.
I'm fairly certain he's borderline savant
Autism
@@dahan419lol - I know movies and movie details just like Tarantino, and people look at me like I'm a savant or there is something flat out wrong with me at times 😅😂
I've seen more than a few movies at least several hundred times, but rarely ever does anyone believe me. Then I'll talk about the minutiae of certain movies and that's when they start to believe me.
Biggest difference between Tarantino and myself wrt movie knowledge is that he's more into variety of movies. I prefer fewer movies (variety-wise) but like to watch them more frequently than he does.
'Butch and Sundance-the Early Years' was /is SO boring. I'm surprised he liked that one. My wife bought it on DVD years ago and I've yet to be able to sit through the whole thing. Dull af imo.
He’s not recalling all this from memory- he has a book full of the ticket stubs in front of him
Hardcore was written by Paul Schraeder (Taxi Driver) and filmed in my hometown of Grand Rapids, MI. I remember the buzz of excitement that George C. Scott was in town.
I vaguely remember Hardcore and I can see her returning home all right. I just can't see her staying for very long.
One of the greatest actors of them all.
i was born in 79. My dad was a big movie fan and he couldn't help himself and he started taking me to movies with him on Friday nights around 1988...and this continued until 2000. we averaged about 25 movies a year... topping out in 1993 at about 35 movies. and we saw all the big blockbusters and we saw them all on opening night... Batman, Independence Day, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Back to the future 2 and 3, outbreak, crimson tide, the rock... you name it. any movie that was anything in the late 80s through the 90s we saw it.
What happened in 2000? 1999 & 2000 were some of the best years for film in recent history
Born in 1979 too and I completely relate! My Dad and I went to a bunch of movies during that period and a lot of times we’d go to like the 9:55 show and most times I’d fall asleep but I’d always try to stay awake just so my Dad would think I wasn’t too young to see these movies so I’d fight every temptation to fall asleep.
One of my fondest memories was going to see “The Last Starfighter” in Beaumont,TX while visiting my Grandmother and the theater was so packed that I watched this movie sitting Indian style on the disgusting floor in the second row. I also loved that my Dad is such a movie buff and many times after the movie I saw with him was over we would walk into another theater just to see the ending or 5 minutes of a different picture. Such a different time and I totally miss it!
I was a kid of divorce in the 80s and the weekends with dad regularly included movies, usually the bigger, popular, current ones (Big, Groundhog Day, Dances With Wolves, etc.). Locally we also had a small theater within walking/biking distance that had a dollar show for older movies, I saw so many movies there in the 80s and 90s. Saw Pulp Fiction there. It's wild to look back at releases in those years, every month something classic was coming out.
Quentin explaining the plot of the Promise is gold.
This was an absolutely terrific clip! I'm sure QT could do one of these for every/any year from any decade, and I would love to see each!! Cheers👏🥃🍺😂
It wouldn't be as good for the early 70s because he wouldn't be watching more adult/mature movies at the cinema yet
@@ianrobinson4200 And the 80s weren't anything like as interesting filmwise! (even though I was only four in 1980 - I'd later realize the 70s clearly had better movies)
a clip? Bro, it's an hour and eleven minutes in duration 🥃🍺😂
@@antiochiaadtaurum3786 For Tarantino, length wise it's a clip.
He’s right about the Russian Roulette scene in “The Deer Hunter”. Nothing else like it . Such an abrupt change of pace in what is a very slow movie up to then . Just incredible.
Mow
Very jarring scene
It's like two movies in one.
This guy is so simultaneously dorky and a rock star, it’s an interesting phenomenon to behold. To remember every movie you’ve seen in 1979 and feel that the locations where you’ve even those films are interesting to someone else in conversation is really being socially aloof but somehow this guy manages to pull it off with such passion
Thanks for putting into words what I was pondering. He's an odd duck but mesmerizing. I want to know more about his childhood upbringing.
He doesn’t need to remember them, he has them all written down in a notebook. Think he has one for every year
@@infonut IIRC: free range parents, a bit of a loner, certainly not popular in school
You know a guy loves films when he tells the list of films he saw in one year and it takes about the length of a film.
When I was single, I used to borrow VHS videos from our library and write reviews for myself. Watched and reviewed 180 movies one year.
I wish I could tell Tarantino that I am a featured extra in THREE of these movies: 'Old Boyfriends', 'Rocky II', and '1941'.
That's wonderful. But you need to change your name to Joel Stevens.
@@MrEdWeirdoShow Why? It's not my name. Although I get called that a lot...
omg.... NOBODY cares... lol
@@davidbarton5587 assholesayswhat?
@@davidbarton5587 You wanna talk about a comment that absolutely NO ONE cares about?!? Yours. It is yours, junior. Are you SO obtuse as to not see that, ffs?
I lived in Torrance, CA in the early '90s and I love how he keeps naming the local theatres in the area. I lived right down the road from Del Amo Mall. Good memories....
Rare occurrence; I honestly enjoyed reading comments under this video, as much as I enjoyed Tarantino talking about movies. The complete experience.
Most of the films Tarantino saw as a 16 year old, you couldn't have paid me to see at that age. A true lover of cinema.
He's a self-made genius. He fell into his true self at a young age.
@@MargueriteFairProductionsHe's so full of it. You know movies are a team effort don't you?
Man a lot of these movie posters are just fantastic, such great design and artistry, wish film studios today would put as much effort into them as they did back then
A lot of people think QT only saw what certain people perceive as "cool" films (kung fu, blaxplotaition, horror, spaghetti westerns, horror, HK films) , but the guy literally saw every kind of film from really bad ones, tv films, obscure foreign ones and the academy award darlings (the kind geeks hate cause Annie Hall won the Oscar and not Star Wars ), he seems to love all of them the same.
Do people hate Annie hall? Easily woody Allen's best film
Annie Hall is definitely better than Star Wars
What else is there to do in 1979?
There was a lot more things to do in those days than there is today.
@@Football__Junkie"Should I go see three movies today, or sing to my d**k?"
1. Take Down
2. Hardcore
3. Boulevard Nights
4. Buck Rogers
5. Norma Rae
6. Fast Break
7. Voices
8. The China Syndrome
9. Old Boyfriends
10. The Bell Jar
11. Hair
12. Love At First Bite
13. Manhattan
14. A Little Romance
15. Hurricane
16. The Champ
17. Last Embrace
18. Alien
19. Escape From Alcatraz
20. Butch Cassidy and Sundance The Early Days
21. The In-Laws
22. The Main Event
23. The Muppet Movie
24. North Dallas Forty
25. Rocky II
26. Dracula
27. Breaking Away
28. The Amityville Horror
29. The Wanderers
30. More American Graffiti
31. Apocalypse Now
32. Rich Kids
33. The Concorde Airport 1979
34. And Justice For All
35. Yanks
36. The Onion Field
37. Meteor
38. When A Stranger Calls
39. 10
40. The Black Stallion
41. Avalanche Express
42. Starting Over
43. The Runner Stumbles
44. The Rose
45. 1941
46. Being There
47. Star Trek The Motion Picture
48. The Black Hole
49. The Jerk
50. All That Jazz
51. Cuba
52. The Electric Horseman
53. Chapter Two
54. Circle of Iron
55. Richard Pryor: Live In Concert
56. The Bermuda Triangle
57. The Warriors
58. The Promise
59. Phantasm
60. Star Crash
61. California Dreaming
62. Dawn of the Dead
63. Ravagers
64. H.O.T.S.
65. Malibu High
66. Van Nuys Blvd.
67. Hot Stuff
68. Hometown USA
69. A Force of One
70. Game of Death
71. Nightwing
72. Prophecy
73. The Villain
74. The Frisco Kid
75. The Lady In Red
76. Rock N Roll High School
77. Americathon
78. Swap Meet
79. Seven
80. Sammy Stops The World
81. Skatetown USA
82. Jaguar Lives
83. Roller Boogie
84. Scavenger Hunt
85. Penitentiary
86. Wifemistress
87. L’Innocent
88. The Great Train Robbery
89. The Silent Partner
90. Nosferatu
91. La Cage Aux Folles
92. Hanover Street
93. Meatballs
94. Life of Brian
95. Soldier of Orange
96. Time After Time
97. Love and Bullets
98. Luna
99. The Europeans
100. Running
101. Quadrophenia
102. Beyond The Door 2
103. Winter Kills
104. The Kids Are Alright
105. The Brood
106. City On Fire
107. The Shape of Things To Come
108. Patrick
109. Shame of the Jungle
110. The 5th Musketeer
111. The Tattoo Connection
Being a Jaws fan I love how Tarantino seems to admire Roy Schieder and Robert Shaw, you can tell by how he throws out trivia about their lives and or careers when talking about their movies.
ive got 2 real Shaw autographs , hes heavily forged......theres a dealer who has a Avalanche Express sgd photo , totally fake as he died a yr before it came out
@@postersandstuff Very cool! Shaw is one of my favourite actors and Jaws is my favourite film. Would you ever part from one of the autographs and I'm not being rude but how do you know they are legit?
This is an incredible document. One in a kagillion piece of history. One of Quentin's personal history and of American movies in 1979. I'm relistening already to it and probably will the rest of my remaining days. This means more than you know. Thank you for this gift.
I get the feeling he has a movie running in each one of his rooms at his house and just walks in and watches them at his leisure.
1979 undoubtedly was a phenomenal year for Cinema. All That Jazz was utterly amazing. The academy should have selected this one as best picture and Roy Scheider should have won best actor.
Agree! I work with young people and I was talking with a young girl about movies. She asked if I had any old movies she could borrow. I gave her All that Jazz. Wasn't sure if her generation would like it. She love it! Said it was one of the great movies she had ever seen.
Its fun to go back and look at what films the academy gave best picture to and how badly they have aged and what films they overlooked.
Apocalypse Now was the best film of 1979. I agree that Roy should have won the Best Actor Academy Award.
1979 and 1999 were two of the best years for film releases.
@@quentinkaasa47 Don't forget 1982 or 1989.
Love Tarantino, he saw more movies in one year than me in my whole life. 😂
Looking forward to watching these movies again with a new lens.
Really appreciative.
Really enjoyed this. I could listen to Quentin talk about every movie he saw for every year made.
. Best part is at the end when he and his interviewer go deep into the deer hunter. Fascinating insights also fascinating is how Tarantino is so self-absorbed he won't let the other person get a word in edgewise he either talks over her or cuts her off or brings the conversation totally back to himself. He's like a 10-year-old kid who's all excited and doesn't really know how to carry on a conversation. Still it's fun to listen to Tarantino talk about the movies he saw as young teenager
Possibly the greatest decade for cinema, and this year in particular (1979) just has a banger one after the other…
I remember seeing, "Hardcore" on TV for the first time in the 80s. I was speechless. Such a good movie with surprisingly funny parts.
Way way more people need to know about Hardcore. Its incredible. Paul schafer is brilliant
Schrader it’s hard to spell I’m not sure I’m spelling it right but it’s with a D not an F , not trying to be a dick , he’s just worth looking up on IMDb and seeing pretty much every movie he ever wrote or directed
@@kevinrhea7332 youre right it is schrader. My mistake
The suspense. We kept thinking the daughter was in a snuff film. I remember being so tense! What a movie
This is awesome. I love hearing about movies people saw in the theater. Whenever I comment on a movie I always mention if I saw it in the theater and who I saw it with...as if people really care about my Sunday trips to the movies with my older sister.
this is F-ing great!!
I shared quite a number of QT's sentiments on some of these movies..which I still do remember..tho not necessarily have watched it in the theater.
man..I totally think Tarantino MUST do a podcast of his own already.
It's sad how far Hollywood has fallen. That was an amazing list of movies.
Yeah, every year in the 70s was absolutely stacked with '70 probably being the weakest and '79 the strongest
You said it
Yet as he says he’s not sure he would like some of them now … like Hair … things change
There’s a lot of crap here and there’s still all sorts of great films being made.
Pop music is even worse!!
Absolutely fantastic video and thank you for posting!
I’m shocked that he didn’t mention one of my favorite movies “Over The Edge” with Matt Dillon and a tremendous soundtrack!
I was actually born in April of 1979 and have seen quite a few of these films but many of these I’ve never heard of. I definitely have a great list of movies to watch over the next few weeks!
Great movie, seems like one he would have seen. I'd never heard of it until hearing Kurt Cobain mention it in an interview. I was born a month after you but had I been 15 when it came out I'd have probably gone to see it multiple times.
Quentin remembers seeing Paradise Valley 3 times, an obsure movie from Stallone. This man is so passionate about movies, it’s nuts.
Paradise Alley.
I think I recall in some of Sly's stuff then there were some scripts from his cool brother Frank.
He so knowledgeable about movies, and how he remembers all the plots when it came out, who the actors are is truly incredible.
if you enjoyed this, 100% recommend finding the audiobook for cinema speculation and listening to the last chapter called "Floyd footnote".
Absolutely enjoyable.
One of the best sportd movies ever - North Dallas 40...classic.
Nolte in his early movies was fantastic.
That movie rules
I wish Quentin would do more of these!
I saw the Deer Hunter as a breaking down and loss of the certainty that comes along with the traditional values, mores, beliefs, etc. typical of immigrant cultures, exemplified and symbolized by the wedding. All that is thrown into question in the larger culture, and also on the individual level from the things they experienced in the war. The famous DeNiro scene "This is this!" a clear attempt to assert a once-believed in certainty and connection to reality that was literally blown apart by the cataclysmic events they went through. Nothing was "this" anymore after that prison camp! And Russian roulette??? With the town being Russian? How perfect as a metaphor for that entire situation, with literally no certainty at all and the next move being one that could literally blow your head off.
Viet Cong used russian weapons , ironic since these are russian-americans
Am I really going to listen to Tarantino talk about every movie he saw in theaters in 1979 for 71 minutes?
Yes I think I am.
And there’s nothing anyone can do to stop me.
I'd love to hear him do more of these
It's just so amazing to listen to someone talk about a topic that he's so passionate about.
His take on 'Annie Hall' is a perfect description of how it hit a lot of people, including me. No one really knew why but it was a movie that stuck in your mind. It took awhile to disseminate in your consciousness. 'All That Jazz' was also one of those films that took a moment, being neither a traditional drama nor a traditional musical. The 70's was a diverse and industry-changing decade. Fun to have been young and experienced all these things without references, without precedence, without decades of analysis following you in. Just going in unaware and taking from it what you could.
Quentin should do this for every year since 1979, such a knowledge of the history of cinema
I've seen 15 of these movies, heard of 3, and have never heard of any of the others. Quentin is the memory hole.
Had so much fun with this 79’ revisited!! Thank you Mr. Tarantino for your gift of recall!!! Love that you mentioned so many films that I love! “Fastbreak!!?” Really?? Who even remembers Gabe Kaplin?!!! And the “North Dallas Forty!” Love that opening scene! Pot, beer, tub… (movie opens)…. And please watch “Moonraker!” If only for Shirley Baseys song!!! One of her best! Many good parts of this film. Your passion is such a gift to the film world.
Listened to pass the time but found this quietly moving. Found myself wishing Q had commented on each and every film (maybe pioneer RUclips extras featurette?) Appreciated his offhanded affection for films like More American Graffiti which I figured I enjoyed only because of the anticipation and theater experience and now look forward to revisiting without shame. Brief Annie Hall recap: totally identify - that melancholy ending permeated my adolescence, still resonates with every passing happy-sadness. Thanks for this!
My family got hooked up for Cable TV in November of 1979. I watched just about all of those movies on HBO in 1980. It was a fantastic year for the Cinema.
This guy literally lived in a theatre basically
He must have hid after the performances and slept in there, lol.
And now he owns one. The New Beverly Cinema has long been famous for double features and QT bought it like 15 years ago.
His pale years.
@Max Powers lmao! I need to look that up. I couldn’t imagine
Which explains why he's so out of touch with real life and why his movies reflect that.
Wise Blood (1979) is my favorite movie. Wasn't sure if he mentioned it, I just listened while going between tasks in two rooms.
Great movie and great book.
Huston being modern. There's a little scene on the street that feels like the director had to be 25 years old and fresh.
Good or bad !! , Tarantino finds something to love in every movie ever made !!
he said it himself.. even in the most rotten c- movie he will find something to like
@@dillinger445 Has he seen anything by Neil Breen, one wonders...
Wow - he even remembers the dingy California multiplexes he saw the movies in. That's dedication. While I'm not a fan of every movie Quentin has made, I'm certainly a fan of Quentin himself. I think he's terrific. And he give great interviews.
High fives "I never saw the Hunger Games because I love Battle Royale and I'm offended it exists" comment. I really, really enjoyed this talk. More like this please.
Quentin's memory is something else.
Thank you for uploading this!
Awesome movie list , can’t wait to check these out, I love the 70’s.
Thank you for this video
One of my favorite films from 1979 was Jonathan Kaplan's Over The Edge. I'm surprised QT didn't see that in the theater, but I know Orion pulled it early from theaters.
It had a very limited release in '79, but became a big cult hit when it started playing on cable a few years later then when it was released on home video
I remember renting that in the 80’s , haven’t seen or heard of it in years!
I only know “Over The Edge” because Kurt Cobain said it was his favorite movie and if I’m not mistaken…the music video to Smells Like Teen Spirit was inspired by Over The Edge
One of my all time favorites. Loved the soundtrack and it still holds up. Watched it not long ago.
@@brgreg8725 yeah, great soundtrack! I actually brought the album 30 years ago at a discount record shop in Pittsburgh! I played it constantly on my college radio show. Good times.
DUDE!!! THE PROMISE!! I'm 56 (born Dec 67). In 79/80 I watched The Promise and Yanks with my Mom. We used to watch movies together, then decide if my 3 younger brothers would be able to see them. My Dad was stationed in Korea that year.... And my Mom and I got very tight. The Promise and Yanks were our all time favorites! So good! I loved the majority of the films you mentioned (thank God for HBO back then) , but I saw Lady in Red alone cuz I crushed on PSM, also loved Silent Partner, but eventually my favorite from that year was The Great Santini.....BAR NONE!! It failed, they put it on HBO with a different title "The Ace," then rereleased it in theaters with the original title... and it garnered many nominations! I would love to talk movies with you!
The next time I get asked who I most want to have dinner with my answer will be Quentin Tarantino!
I was 15 in 1979 and saw at least half the movies Quentin did. I actually talked my mother into taking a trip to LA to see Apocalypse Now, like Quentin, saw at the Cinerama Dome and it was in 70mm. I still have the program they handed out because the 70mm version did not have end credits. Also saw. The Deer Hunter on the big screen and I tell you the Russian roulette scene and when Christopher Walken shot himself, somehow had such an impact on me that I balled afterward. Definitely one of all time favorites. Quentin and I would talk for hours about movies, both of us being film buffs, I
f we were in the same room. Really enjoyed hearing this podcast.
I think Quentin needs to do this very same thing for every single year up until 1992. The RUclips videos he makes could be an encyclopedic collection of movies, and would be the QT version "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies"
FFFFFFFFFFFFFUCK I'm still waiting for that to get a Blu-ray release.
Being about year older than Tarantino I can totally relate to all of this...I've seen and heard of most of these films, but even NOW there are a few films mentioned here I've NEVER heard of until now haha...and I thought I was a fairly well-versed film buff, but Tarantino has me beat on that one by a country mile. He's a virtual walking encyclopedia kind of film going back to the earliest Hollywood movies INCLUDING foreign films.
It's always amazed me of the sheer number of movies that get made. Multiple productions going on every day of the year.
An epic period for film, especially reflecting on it's effect on you during your childhood with your parents taking you to films beyond your comprehension, etc,...
His takes at the end on THE DEER HUNTER (when he first watched and when he watched again later) prompted me to rewatch the film. Personally I don't agree with either of his interpretations. Still that Tarantino just inspires me to watch more films is what I love about him. Thank you for posting and subscribed.
Quentin Tarantino is my generation's favorite film maker.
Every movie is an EVENT
Not mine. I'm Gen-X and I always enjoy his films for what they are - but there's very little in the way of genuine feeling in them; they're exercises in genre and for the most part, very surface, visceral experiences. Even in his dialogue, which is always fun to listen to - he doesn't reveal himself at all. Don't get me wrong, I love his films - but for my money, Paul Thomas Anderson is the greatest filmmaker of my generation and is doing much deeper, more probing, artistically satisfying and emotional work. From "Punch Drunk Love" to "There Will Be Blood" to "The Master" to "Phantom Thread" to "Licorice Pizza" to whatever his new film will be - for my own taste, he has it over Tarantino and takes a lot more risks as a writer and director. Tarantino - for all of his talent - has basically been making the exact same movie since "Reservoir Dogs". Even "Inglorious Basterds", which I think was his best film, ended up copping out of the themes it teased at and ended up just being an action genre film in the end. He just can't stop winking. I keep waiting for him to grow up and get out of the video store - but he just never has. Again, not saying his films are bad at all - I love them - but they never rise above a certain level for me. To me, I see Tarantino as Hitchcock - he's a brilliant genre filmmaker - but Anderson is Kubrick. Both are terrific for what they do - but for my personal taste, I prefer Anderson's work.
I was ten years old and it was my birthday. I asked my mom to take me to see Richard Pryor: Live at Sunset Strip. My mom had no idea what it was but said okay and took me. I laughed forever.
But, the next year I asked my mom it was The Dead Zone. The most amazing thing for me was how traumatized Chris Walken’s character was and how he portrayed that. I felt every unwanted handshake or knock at the door.
Quentin talking about Annie Hall is really interesting.
Totally. Got chills. Totally related, saw it around the same time, same age. ("All That Jazz" too).
I thoroughly enjoyed watching (listening) to this and ended up buying a lot of these movies from Amazon. Great idea for a RUclips channel.
Quentin has an amazing memory.
I was born in 88 so I don't know most of these movies. I've been watching a lot of old movies since I was 16 but watching this clarifies just how many movies are out there and how little I truly know about film.
So Tarantino was 16 years old in 1979, in High School I assume. He must have been taking the bus to see films every few nights, or staying in the theater all weekend, every weekend. It's amazing that there was some kind of outlet like this available where someone could sit in a theater and watch a new professionally produced film for a trivial amount of money. There's many great films being made today of course but watching them is a much more prosaic experience, and I don't find films as memorable. There's no other associated experience, it 's more like one long film that lasts years and years.
You didn't listen at all. Lol
@@shadowofbosstown I didn’t know there’d be a test
He dropped out of middle school.
He said he often hopped on his bike to go see films, like the Annie Hall experience.
Of course back then most of us kids referred to our transportation vehicle as a Superbike that could also fly.
What talent to channel your love of cinema into great movies.Thank you Mr Tarantino.
I am sickened to learn that QT refuses to see return of the living dead…it is such an all time classic
Wow, thanks for putting in the work to finding amazing high quality posters and putting them when they're being discussed. I hope this channel really blows up soon, you deserve it.
Love hearing Quentin talk about older fliks!
I was in the audience at the same sneak preview for "Rich Kids" that Quentin Tarantino attended in 1979. I saw "The Rose" opening night at the Egyptian theater in 1979 in Hollywood. I remember it was in multichannel stereo sound. I think it was in 70MM too.
For me the continually diminishing importance of Claude and rising importance of Berger in Hair somehow signalled that the vastly different worlds of the two characters came to an understanding and shared values, akin to brothers in a sense, mixing together. That is why the ending felt so gutting.
I find it amazing Quentin remembers every movie him seen in 1979.
He didn't need film school...he was immersed into film...amazing education. Every movie in 1979 thats insane in a good way
Loved hearing all this! I saw so many of the same films in the theater when I was young as well!
But why spend so little time on the gems? Phantasm, Dawn of the Dead, Time After Time, When a Stranger Calls, Life of Brian!
So many great films from just one year..... we're really in a desert of creativity now
I like Star Trek the motion picture. The tone, the soundtrack, the visuals and the 70s aesthetic.
It had a certain 2001 classiness to it. Stately pace, great looking...Doug Trumbull and Richard Edlund doing the effects.
Great year for movies! I saw most of these
So glad to see MALIBU HIGH in the mix. Masterpiece.
The Wanderers!!! Thank you for giving it mention!!! Love Ken Whal! !
It's amazing to me how many good movies came out that year. We don't get a lot of good movies anymore.
The Promise recounting was EPIC!
He watched 116 movies in theaters that year. And there were a few he said he saw more than twice.
Hearing qt talk about the deer hunter is amazing its my favorite movie and literally the story of my family it was filmed in Cleveland where i live and the similarities dont end there between the steel mills and the Vietnam War 😢 its cinema at its finest
How were so many fantastic movies made in 1979? Amazing.
I think I've watched this whole thing 3 times now. What I would give for one of these for every year of the 80s.
Kind of stunned that Quentin completely skipped over The Warriors that was one of the most controversial movies of that year with brawls and three murders in the opening weeks as different street gangs converged to the same theater to watch the film. There would also be protests and pickets at some theaters to stop the showings along with theater owners asking for police protection. Even the filming was a real adventures as Walter Hill shot on location in NYC neighbourhoods and they had to pay off and cajole each gang who's territory they were shooting in and avoid other places where the gangs were too unfriendly. I would think The Warriors would be the kind of exploitation and cult film that Tarantino would gush about endlessly.
Maybe he didn’t catch it at the cinema that year.
They talked about it briefly at 27:40
@@Josh-pf9qx
Yes he said he say it in the theatre and nothing else. That is called skipping over it but goes on looong minutes on the utterly forgettable The Promise with Stephen Collins. Seriously.
@@raymondsmith6870 Skipping over a popular film to talk about a lesser known film sounds very Quentin to me
@@Josh-pf9qx
The Warriors was controversial but not that popular as it was 31st in box office for the year. But here are reviews of The Promise from 1979 critics. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "is so awful you wonder how it ever got made. Quite unintentionally it works as an often hilarious parody of the women's pictures of the '40s, a melodramatic genre decidedly out of step with today's liberated heroines." Ruth McCormick wrote in Cineaste: "This is that great rarity-the silly film that takes itself so seriously that it's funny. It makes Love Story look like Now, Voyager. Yep very Quentin in bad taste in lousy films.
I like listening to Quentin talk about films ,I can listen to him talk for 50 mins
If you love The Deer Hunter as much as I do then make sure you listen all the way to the end as Quentin takes a fascinating side trip into both his passion for the film and his conversations with director Michael Cimino. Bonus: a cool De Niro story! What a wonderful listen this was.
Not a mention of how racist it is...one thing I could never get past with The Deer Hunter.
@@spinnact ? LOL. It is war. Of course you're going to be racist against the Vietnamese as a US army soldier being made to play Russian roulette by them.
WOW so much passion and cinéphilie in this video !!!! It's really terrific !!! :) I'm french and I am a huge fan of mister Tarantino since his first film in 1992 that I saw in a theater so thank you for this amazing discussion ! :) By the way (and don't get me wrong, I'm a fan, like I said) he doesn't mention Interiors for Woody Allen and yet it came out in 1978 between Annie Hall in 1977 and Manhattan in 1979, so Manhattan was not actually the "follow-up" of Annie Hall, because first there was this very dark fillm (in which Woody does not play, he only writes and directs)... But anyway, great talk !!!!!!! :)
I think Patrick Swayze in a Tarantino film would have been stellar.
Now I'd like to see him do something with Bill Murray... and Charles Barkely. I think he could get something special out of both. :)
He’s gotta work with the greatest actor of all time Shaq
This is just brilliant,its such a enjoyment listening to this man,and also i kinda agree on Rocky 2 i liked it more than 1.
A bit shocked that he didn't care for Don Coscarelli's horror/science fiction classic PHANTASM 😮 (Roger Avery sure loves it). Otherwise, this was a very enjoyable retrospective of a great year in cinema. I'd love to hear him go year by year like this, from the early 70's to the mid-80's.
Did he mention "Phantasm?" I fast forwarded through the video again and didn't see it.
@@citygirl5705 33:54 to 33:59 🙂...Phantasm is one of my top 5 all-time movies and it still suprises me that Quentin didn't immediately go crazy for it, like 10 year old me did back then. I'd like to hear him expand upon that, what in particular wasn't working for him. I think Phantasm 1979 is a genuine low budget classic and true cinematic work of art, and I believe it will endure in both the science fiction and horror genres for epochs to come...
So glad he loved The Wanderers, my favourite movie
If you havent seen it, highly recommended