Diary

Daniella Shreir: What happens at Cannes, 10 July 2025

... to fine him for riding on the pavement. He was apparently on his way to pay a late-night visit to Quentin Tarantino at the Carlton. Born in 1960, Frémaux comes from the ‘old cinephilia’, which seems to be one of the things people like about him: ‘He didn’t have the training people in these positions have now. He is not a son of . . . He ...

At the Movies

Michael Wood: ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood’, 12 September 2019

... from Cielo Drive, Los Angeles. At least this is what ‘one of the killers would later say’. In Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, we not only hear the ice, we see a drunken Leonardo DiCaprio making his margaritas with it, and taking a sip from the ice-cruncher as he berates a group of intruders in a car (he calls them ...

Never use your own car

J. Robert Lennon: Elmore Leonard’s Superpower, 25 September 2025

Swag 
by Elmore Leonard.
Penguin, 226 pp., £9.99, June, 978 0 241 75541 9
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The Switch 
by Elmore Leonard.
Penguin, 199 pp., £9.99, June, 978 0 241 75542 6
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Rum Punch 
by Elmore Leonard.
Penguin, 263 pp., £9.99, June, 978 0 241 75540 2
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... good book, probably Leonard’s most popular, and easy to market to new readers, who may have seen Quentin Tarantino’s reasonably faithful film adaptation. I say ‘reasonably’ because, although Tarantino’s streamlined version of the story follows the novel closely, it replaces Jackie Burke, the book’s white ...