Quentin Tarantino’s next project has been confirmed and it’s not a movie. He has focused his attention on a new book a nonfiction work, titled Cinema Speculation, which is described as being a mix of film theory, criticism, and personal history, framed by key US movies from the ’70s.
The book is being published by HarperCollins and here’s the synopsis:
In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with ‘Cinema Speculation,’ the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans — and all movie lovers — could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining. At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QT’s and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the artform ever.”
As a fan of Tarantino and a cinephile, I’m excited to read this book. It sounds like something I’d enjoy, and something from Tarantino to tide us over until he steps back into the director’s chair to give us another movie. Cinema Speculation will be released on October 25th.
