American Cinematographer - November 1992 - 64
Photos
From
by Linda R. Chen
Rags to
Reservoir
Dogs
by Stephen Pizzello
Cinema history has seen its share of
toiled for five years as a minimum-
more or
successful collaborations between
wage clerk at Video Archives in
Manhattan Beach. While enjoying
the perk of free rentals as only a film
buff could, the transplanted Ten¬
nessean decided to
get some hands-
project
directors and cinematographers,
but none may have been as unlikely
in its genesis as that of first-time
feature-film partners
Quentin
Tarantino and
Andrzej Sekula.
Currently being touted as
the most promising young director
attending
budding
auteur spent "six or seven thousand
a great education for a rela¬
tively modest sum of money."
Unruffled by his project7s
lack of polish, Tarantino began
scheming along traditional
dollars
of three
Tinseltownian lines. "I started writ¬
notoriety at the humblest of levels:
after adjusting his life's ambition
from acting to filmmaking, he
years," but describes the results as
"not much of anything.
"I just wasn't as good as I
thought I was going to be, and I
ing a script to do, figuring I would
raise the money through a limited
partnership, like the Coen brothers
did with Blood Simple or Sam Raimi
American
November 1992
in Hollywood
(and with an appear¬
ance in the September '92 issue of
Esquire to prove it), the 29-year-old
Tarantino began his rise to filmic
62
experience by shooting his own
Scamming equipment
less decided to look at the
as a learning experience,"
Tarantino says now. "That was my
film school, and to tell you the truth
I think it was the best training I
could have gotten. I wound up get¬
Cinematographer
on
16mm film.
from friends who were
area film schools, the
over
the
course
ting
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