If Top 10 lists tell us more about the person or persons making them than the films themselves, Quentin Tarantino’s favourite movies confirms he is the true nerd of modern cinema. He loves cult films that operate away from the mainstream and generally below the sort of critical appreciation offered by his contemporaries, and prefers niche genre tactics over classical Hollywood narrative (apart from his inclusion of “His Girl Friday”).
John Walker, who compiled a list of the greatest 1000 movies ever made, said of Tarantino’s choices, “he lives up to …