If there is one thing aspiring filmmakers can learn from Quentin Tarantino, it’s that you should never apologize for what you love. Whether he’s singing the praises of 70s exploitation flicks or high-art foreign cinema, Tarantino’s taste is famously distinct.Now, appearing on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, the director has finalized his list of the best films of the 21st century.We covered movies 11-20 in a previous post; now we're doing the tops. Let's dive in. Tarantino's Top 20 Films of the 21st Century1. Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott)“I liked it when I first saw it, but I actually think it was so intense that it stopped working for me, and I didn’t carry it with me the way that I should’ve […] Since then, I’ve seen it a couple of times, not a bunch of times, but I think it’s a masterwork, and one of the things I love so much about it is […] this is the only movie that actually goes completely for an ‘Apocalypse Now’ sense of purpose and visual effect and feeling, and I think it achieves it. It keeps up the intensity for 2 hours 45 minutes, or whatever it is, and I watched it again recently, my heart was going through the entire runtime of the movie; it had me and never let me go, and I hadn’t seen it in a while. The feat of direction is beyond extraordinary.”2. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)“That last five minutes ripped my fucking heart out,...
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