A band apart
| A band apart | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1991 |
| Seat | Los Angeles , United States |
| management | Quentin Tarantino , Lawrence Bender |
| Branch | Film industry |
A Band Apart is an American film production company operated by director Quentin Tarantino and film producer Lawrence Bender . Subsidiaries are the production company A Band Apart Commercials , founded in 1995, and the record label A Band Apart Records , founded in 1997 .
The name goes back to the film title Bande à part by the French director Jean-Luc Godard , which translated means something like the " gang of outsiders".
founding
The collaboration between the two filmmakers began in 1992 with the movie Reservoir Dogs . The company's logo, which depicts four gangsters on their way to a robbery, comes from a scene in this film. Tarantino chose the company name based on Jean-Luc Godard's film The Outsiders Gang ( French : Bande à part ).
In September 1995, Quentin Tarantino, Lawrence Bender and advertising producer Michael Bodnarchek founded A Band Apart Commercials. Bender compared the cooperation between the two parts of the company with that of the US film company United Artists : “A Band Apart Commercials and A Band Apart Films are housed under one roof so that the directors of both branches can exchange ideas with each other. We see it as a creative greenhouse, similar to the old United Artists, where directors supported each other and worked together. "
Movies
The company has produced the following films, directed by Tarantino:
- Reservoir Dogs - Wild dogs
- pulp Fiction
- Four rooms
- Jackie Brown
- Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
- Death Proof
- Inglourious Basterds
- Django Unchained
In addition to the production of the Quentin Tarantino films, other cinema works were also created. Here the company operates as A Band Apart Productions . The best-known feature film not made by Tarantino is the horror road movie From Dusk Till Dawn . Other films produced by A Band Apart Productions include:
- Streets of vengeance
- Curdled - The madness
- From Dusk Till Dawn
- From Dusk Till Dawn 2 - Texas Blood Money
- From Dusk Till Dawn 3 - The Hangman's Daughter
- Dirty Dancing 2 : Havana Nights
- When Incubus Attacks
- Lost in Oz
- Heavily Raving Mad
- Voces Inocentes
- Build or Bust
In addition, the company is intensively involved in the production of commercials ( A Band Apart Commercials ) and music videos ( A Band Apart Music Videos ) and in 1997 the record label A Band Apart Records was founded to evaluate the soundtracks of the films produced by A Band Apart .
Web links
- A Band Apart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Scholtes: Reservoir Dog Days on citypages.com (2007)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quentin Tarantino. milestones. In: film.com. RealNetworks, archived from the original on May 30, 2008 ; accessed on July 6, 2013 .
- ^ Slide: The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry. 2nd Edition. The Scarecrow Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-57886-015-9 .
- ↑ abandapart.com ( Memento from February 2, 1999 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Death Proof in the Lexicon of International Films