Quentin Tarantino and the Freedom of ’70s Cinema

Hollywood has largely run out of artists and doesn’t seem able or perhaps even interested in producing movies that can hold a candle to the great achievements of its 100-year history. America still dominates cinema, but it has debased it to “content” that people “stream.” One of the few people left in Hollywood who can be called an artist is Quentin Tarantino, and he has a book out, Cinema Speculation, an attempt to recapture the artistic daring of his childhood years, the ’70s, the triumph of the New Hollywood.