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What Are Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary's Favorite Movies Right Now?
If you're like me, your top movies fluctuate depending on your mood and what you've watched recently. And it turns out, we're just like Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary, who feel the same way. In order to promote a special video episode of The Video Archives Podcast, Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary each shared the three movies they are obsessing over right now. Let's dive in. Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary's Favorite Movies See on Instagram Quentin Tarantino’s Top Three Movies:1. The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) Director: James Whale Writers: George Bruce (screenplay), Alexandre Dumas (novel "The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later") Cast: Louis Hayward (King Louis XIV / Philippe of Gascony), Joan Bennett (Princess Maria Theresa), Warren William (d'Artagnan), Joseph Schildkraut (Fouquet), Alan Hale Sr. (Porthos), Miles Mander (Aramis), Bert Roach (Athos), Walter Kingsford (Colbert), Marion Martin (Mademoiselle de la Valliere), Peter Cushing (in a minor role, his film debut). Logline: The despotic King Louis XIV of France has a secret twin brother who is hidden away and later becomes the focus of a plot by the musketeers to replace the cruel king. 2. The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) Director: Rowland V. Lee Writer: George Bruce Cast: Louis Hayward (Count of Monte Cristo), Joan Bennett (Grand Duchess Zona), George Sanders (Gen. Gurko Lanen), Florence Bates (Countess Mathilde), Lionel Royce (Col. Zimmerman), Montagu Love (Baron Von Neuhoff). Logline: In 1865, the son of the Count of Monte Cristo comes to the aid of a Grand Duchess whose country in the Balkans is under the thumb of a sinister dictator, using his wits and sword to fight for her freedom. 3. The Last of the Mohicans (1936) Director: George B. Seitz Writers: Philip Dunne (screenplay), John L. Balderston (adaptation), Paul Perez (adaptation), Daniel Moore (adaptation), James Fenimore Cooper (novel). Cast: Randolph Scott (Hawkeye), Binnie Barnes (Alice Munro), Henry Wilcoxon (Major Duncan Heyward), Bruce Cabot (Magua), Heather Angel (Cora Munro), Phillip Reed (Uncas), Robert Barrat (Chingachgook). Logline: During the French and Indian War, a skilled frontiersman named Hawkeye and his Mohican companions protect the two daughters of a British colonel as they journey through the dangerous wilderness to their father's fort, pursued by the vengeful Huron warrior Magua. Roger Avary’s Top Three Movies:1. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Director: Stanley Kubrick Writers: Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Anthony Burgess (novel). Cast: Malcolm McDowell (Alex DeLarge), Patrick Magee (Frank Alexander), Michael Bates (Chief Guard Barnes), Warren Clarke (Dim), Adrienne Corri (Mrs. Mary Alexander), Miriam Karlin (Catlady). Logline: In a dystopian near-future Britain, a charismatic and sociopathic delinquent, after a spree of "ultra-violence," is arrested and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government, which has dehumanizing consequences. 2. Sorcerer (1977) Director: William Friedkin Writers: Walon Green (screenplay), Georges Arnaud (novel "Le Salaire de la peur"). Cast: Roy Scheider (Jackie Scanlon / "Juan Dominguez"), Bruno Cremer (Victor Manzon / "Serrano"), Francisco Rabal (Nilo), Amidou (Kassem / "Martinez"), Ramon Bieri (Corlette). Logline: Four desperate men, exiled and hiding out in a remote South American village, are offered a chance at redemption and a way out by undertaking the perilous mission of transporting highly unstable nitroglycerin through miles of treacherous jungle terrain to extinguish an oil well fire. 3. M (1931) Director: Fritz Lang Writers: Thea von Harbou (screenplay), Fritz Lang (screenplay), Egon Jacobsohn (from an article). Cast: Peter Lorre (Hans Beckert), Otto Wernicke (Inspector Karl Lohmann), Gustaf Gründgens (Der Schränker/The Safecracker), Ellen Widmann (Frau Beckmann), Inge Landgut (Elsie Beckmann). Logline: In Berlin, both the police and the criminal underworld frantically hunt for a child murderer, whose heinous crimes disrupt the city and put pressure on all levels of society.Let me know what you think in the comments.
If you're like me, your top movies fluctuate depending on your mood and what you've watched recently. And it turns out, we're just like Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary, who feel the same way.
In order to promote a special video episode of The Video Archives Podcast, Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary each shared the three movies they are obsessing over right now.
Let's dive in.
Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary's Favorite Movies
Quentin Tarantino’s Top Three Movies:
1. The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
- Director: James Whale
- Writers: George Bruce (screenplay), Alexandre Dumas (novel "The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later")
- Cast: Louis Hayward (King Louis XIV / Philippe of Gascony), Joan Bennett (Princess Maria Theresa), Warren William (d'Artagnan), Joseph Schildkraut (Fouquet), Alan Hale Sr. (Porthos), Miles Mander (Aramis), Bert Roach (Athos), Walter Kingsford (Colbert), Marion Martin (Mademoiselle de la Valliere), Peter Cushing (in a minor role, his film debut).
- Logline: The despotic King Louis XIV of France has a secret twin brother who is hidden away and later becomes the focus of a plot by the musketeers to replace the cruel king.
2. The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
- Director: Rowland V. Lee
- Writer: George Bruce
- Cast: Louis Hayward (Count of Monte Cristo), Joan Bennett (Grand Duchess Zona), George Sanders (Gen. Gurko Lanen), Florence Bates (Countess Mathilde), Lionel Royce (Col. Zimmerman), Montagu Love (Baron Von Neuhoff).
- Logline: In 1865, the son of the Count of Monte Cristo comes to the aid of a Grand Duchess whose country in the Balkans is under the thumb of a sinister dictator, using his wits and sword to fight for her freedom.
3. The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
- Director: George B. Seitz
- Writers: Philip Dunne (screenplay), John L. Balderston (adaptation), Paul Perez (adaptation), Daniel Moore (adaptation), James Fenimore Cooper (novel).
- Cast: Randolph Scott (Hawkeye), Binnie Barnes (Alice Munro), Henry Wilcoxon (Major Duncan Heyward), Bruce Cabot (Magua), Heather Angel (Cora Munro), Phillip Reed (Uncas), Robert Barrat (Chingachgook).
- Logline: During the French and Indian War, a skilled frontiersman named Hawkeye and his Mohican companions protect the two daughters of a British colonel as they journey through the dangerous wilderness to their father's fort, pursued by the vengeful Huron warrior Magua.
Roger Avary’s Top Three Movies:
1. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Writers: Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Anthony Burgess (novel).
- Cast: Malcolm McDowell (Alex DeLarge), Patrick Magee (Frank Alexander), Michael Bates (Chief Guard Barnes), Warren Clarke (Dim), Adrienne Corri (Mrs. Mary Alexander), Miriam Karlin (Catlady).
- Logline: In a dystopian near-future Britain, a charismatic and sociopathic delinquent, after a spree of "ultra-violence," is arrested and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government, which has dehumanizing consequences.
2. Sorcerer (1977)
- Director: William Friedkin
- Writers: Walon Green (screenplay), Georges Arnaud (novel "Le Salaire de la peur").
- Cast: Roy Scheider (Jackie Scanlon / "Juan Dominguez"), Bruno Cremer (Victor Manzon / "Serrano"), Francisco Rabal (Nilo), Amidou (Kassem / "Martinez"), Ramon Bieri (Corlette).
- Logline: Four desperate men, exiled and hiding out in a remote South American village, are offered a chance at redemption and a way out by undertaking the perilous mission of transporting highly unstable nitroglycerin through miles of treacherous jungle terrain to extinguish an oil well fire.
3. M (1931)
- Director: Fritz Lang
- Writers: Thea von Harbou (screenplay), Fritz Lang (screenplay), Egon Jacobsohn (from an article).
- Cast: Peter Lorre (Hans Beckert), Otto Wernicke (Inspector Karl Lohmann), Gustaf Gründgens (Der Schränker/The Safecracker), Ellen Widmann (Frau Beckmann), Inge Landgut (Elsie Beckmann).
- Logline: In Berlin, both the police and the criminal underworld frantically hunt for a child murderer, whose heinous crimes disrupt the city and put pressure on all levels of society.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
