Before the digital age, there was AM radio and disc jockeys who broke the hits on stations like KHJ. In director Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, not only do the sets, wardrobe, and street transformations create an authentic setting, so does the music. We are treated to Toy Head & […]
These Images of L.A. in 1969 Capture a Mythical Moment in History
No other American city was so utterly remade by the 1960s as Los Angeles. Famously cavalier about torpedoing its past to make way for a fuzzily conceived future, L.A. was the perfect conquest for thousands of rampaging baby boomers wresting the cultural agenda through sheer preemption. During its golden rock and roll era of the […]
Take a Tour of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s Filming Locations
Our friends at Fandango shared this fun (if not exactly true to life) map of the filming locations from Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with the help of location manager Rick Schuler. Now you can lounge, dine, and party from Paramount to Malibu like the stars playing the stars before the film opens […]
In “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” Tarantino Recreates the Lost L.A. of His Imagination
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood takes place over the course of three days in 1969. Recalling the director’s breakthrough Pulp Fiction a quarter of a century ago, with its interweaving and linearity-defying plotlines, these three days aren’t sequential by the standards of the calendar or dramatic storytelling. The climactic evening is the […]
Quentin Tarantino Fields Questions About Roman Polanski, Violence Against Women at Cannes
Although Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, opened to rave reviews at Cannes on Monday, things got a bit tense during yesterday’s follow-up press conference when questions touched on Tarantino’s feelings toward fellow director Roman Polanski, as well as the topic of “violence against women.” The film takes place during the […]