If you’ve ever felt bad about loving "low-brow" cinema or worried that your script was too weird for the mainstream, let Quentin Tarantino be your guide.The filmmaker recently appeared on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast to drop his personal list of the best films of the 21st century.We only have 11-20 now, so we'll look at them and eagerly wait for him to release his top 10.As always with QT, the list is a masterclass in genre appreciation, unpretentious film criticism, and a reminder that filmmaking rules are meant to be broken.Let's dive in.Tarantino's Best Films of the 21st CenturyWe're still waiting for Tarantino's top 10, but this is his ranking of 11-20. I included a few quotes from him about some of the tiles as well. 11. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku) 12. Big Bad Wolves (Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado) “This has got a fantastic script and a similar storyline to Prisoners […] they handle it with guts and balls — you know the American movie wouldn’t do that […]”13. Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine) “I laughed the most at these last 20 years. I don’t remember laughing beginning to the end like this since Richard Pryor… As I was making ‘Kill Bill’ I thought this movie was so fucking funny I had to show it to the crew, so we found a print, and we watched the movie and just died.”14. School of Rock (Richard Linklater) 15. The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson) “I was laughing a lot...
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