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Quentin Tarantino new film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Cannes Film Festival later this year.
The director’s film Pulp Fiction debuted at the same festival 25 years ago, on 21 May, and went on to win the coveted Palme d’Or.
With no Netflix titles being shown at the festival, organisers have been hoping to bring on board some other big-name films.
Starring a bustling ensemble that includes Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie , a trailer for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was released yesterday (20 March).
The film will explore hippie culture and the Hollywood studio system in late 1960s Los Angeles, around the time of the infamous Manson Family Murders.
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The 10 best Leonardo DiCaprio films 10. The Revenant (2015) The film DiCaprio finally won an Oscar for. Is it his best role? No. But there's no denying DiCaprio's commitment to the cause: as Hugh Glass, the legendary explorer who was attacked by a bear and left for dead, he literally eats a raw bison liver. Ravishingly shot, Alejandro González Iñárritu's 19th-century tale is not only a brutal story of revenge and determination, but a profound meditation on man and nature.
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The 10 best Leonardo DiCaprio films 9. Titanic (1997) Titanic may be one of the most successful films of all time, but it’s also become a lightning rod for critical opprobrium in recent years. That's unfair. James Cameron’s big-screen retelling of the ill-fated ship’s sinking – anchored by the love affair between Jack (DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet) – is the perfect blockbuster and an all-round technical marvel.
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The 10 best Leonardo DiCaprio films 8. What's Eating Gilbert Grape? DiCaprio’s first Oscar nomination came with this slice-of-life drama following a young man (Johnny Depp) who cares for his mother and mentally impaired brother. Its themes of loneliness and desperation may not make Lasse Hallström’s film a heartwarming affair, but its breezy screenplay – brought to life by Depp and DiCaprio’s exceptional performances – makes it a compulsory one.
The 10 best Leonardo DiCaprio films 7. The Departed (2006) It may lack the grit of Infernal Affairs , the Hong Kong film it’s based on, but The Departed is still a thrilling crime drama that fizzes with chutzpah from its opening scene. Its plot, following two moles – one within the Boston police force, the other as part of a fearsome mob boss’s crew – keeps viewers on their toes right through to its bullet-ridden final act.
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The 10 best Leonardo DiCaprio films 6. Django Unchained (2012) Save for its flabby climax, Quentin Tarantino’s revisionist take on the western genre is up there with his best. As violent as it is sublimely silly, it casts DiCaprio as the villainous slaveowner Calvin Candie – a role the actor, fake teeth and all, embraces with relish.
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The 10 best Leonardo DiCaprio films 5. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) DiCaprio’s performance in The Wolf of Wall Street could well be the role of his career. As real-life stockbroker Jordan Belfort, he covers the whole gamut of emotions: charm (the workplace speeches), slapstick comedy (the quaalude stair-plummet) and horror (the domestic abuse). The Wolf of Wall Street slips alongside Mean Streets and Goodfellas as one of Martin Scorsese’s most re-watchable films.
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The 10 best Leonardo DiCaprio films 4. Shutter Island (2010) DiCaprio’s fourth film with Martin Scorsese is their only collaboration to be completely shunned by awards voters (it received a grand total of zero Oscar nominations). The mist-shrouded landscape of Shutter Island is a tribute to Sam Fuller’s 1963 cult film, Shock Corridor , and is a shining example of Scorsese succeeding in whatever he turns his hand to.
The 10 best Leonardo DiCaprio films 3. Catch Me If You Can (2002) Bouncy and gently amusing, Steven Spielberg's light drama stars DiCaprio as Frank Abergnale, a charming con artist whose life collides with that of FBI agent, Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks). There’s excitement to be had in Abergnale’s illicit escapades, as well as pathos when the circle eventually closes in.
The 10 best Leonardo DiCaprio films 2. Inception (2010) To call Inception a Leonardo DiCaprio film is to do a disservice to its writer-director Christopher Nolan, whose mind-bending blockbuster remains a staggering, if divisive, achievement. DiCaprio could have easily rested on his laurels, knowing the audience would be dazzled by the director’s visuals, but his performance as Dom Cobb is genuinely affecting: his reaction to wife Mal (Marion Cotillard) throwing herself from a window is a devastating high point.
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The 10 best Leonardo DiCaprio films 1. Romeo + Juliet (1996) Baz Luhrmann once described his update of Shakespeare's classic tragedy as "funky". That it is, and so much more. From the psychedelic tunes to the Hawaiian shirts, it's Romeo and Juliet by way of MTV: a heady, relentlessly innovative dive into the seedy metropolis of Verona Beach, Florida. This was the moment the then 21-year-old DiCaprio went stratospheric.
Tarantino, whose most recent film was The Hateful Eight , worked on the film’s script for five years.
Other stars to appear in the film include Al Pacino , Dakota Fanning, Damien Lewis, Lena Dunham and Bruce Dern. Burt Reynolds and Luke Perry will appear in the film posthumously.
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