Tarantino's Italian Fall out
American director Quentin Tarantino has angered the Italian movie industry after calling the country's contemporary cinema "depressing".The Kill Bill filmmaker is a well-known admirer of Italian cinema in the '60s and '70s, with a particular love of 'spaghetti' westerns and the giallo thriller genre.Tarantino, whose favourite movie is Sergio Leone's 1969 classic The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, said, "New Italian cinema is just depressing. "Recent films I've seen are all the same. They talk about boys growing up, or girls growing up, or couples having a crisis, or vacations of the mentally impaired."Veteran actress Sophia Loren has reportedly hit back, "How dare he talk about Italian cinema when he doesn't know anything about American cinema?" Elsewhere, daily newspaper L'Unita has called Tarantino "mentally impaired" and not the Italian film industry.Tarantino burst on to the movie scene 15 years ago with his critically acclaimed movie Reservoir Dogs and has since gone on to help shape American cinema. He followed up his debut with Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and his two parter Kill Bill which has led to become a cult icon with any movie associated with him being highly anticipated. Most recently he has struck up a partnership with fellow director Robert Rodriguez assisting him on last year's adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novels Sin City. A second collaberationsees the pair share directorial duties for new movie Grindhouse two full length horror movies penned by the pair and put together as a two film feature. Despite not doing well at the box office the movie was loved by the critics.Tagged in Quentin Tarantino