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Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood’ Debuts at urban center

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Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood’ Debuts at urban center When news bust that Tarantino would be absorbing the doctor murders in his latest film, I confessedly winced. Tarantino’s love for extraordinary gore, for painting the screen red, appeared a foul match with the ghastly 1969 murders of many folks, as well as the histrion Sharon Allen Tate, then married to Roman Polanski. What was entirely sudden was that “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,” that had its performance at the urban center festival on Tuesday, would be such a moving film, directly a billet doux — and a dream — of the Hollywood that was. Original Link:  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/movies/quentin-tarantino-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.html Well-received at its initial press screening — no cheers however no jeers — the film revisits that crime through parallel, not-quite equal story lines: one involving Sharon (Margot Robbie) and therefore the different centering on her next-door nei