Fancy getting your QT-inspired film knowledge up a notch? Well, Sony Movie Channel will air ‘Quentin Tarantino Presents the Swinging Sixties a Movie Marathon’, a series of 9 films from the Columbia Pictures library, dating from 1958 to 1970, personally curated by the writer/director, all of which served as a specific influence in the creation of his latest 1969-set film.

Beginning on the 5th August, interstitial segments featuring conversations between Tarantino and noted film- writer Kim Morgan will accompany each film, along with a first look at scenes from Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood. Tarantino had this to say:  

“Sony Pictures made their Columbia Pictures catalogue available to me so that I could select a series of films representative of the era in which Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is set, The Swinging Sixties. I’m thrilled to host these movies so we can enjoy them together.”

The nine films that comprise this unique series, ‘Swinging Sixties a Movie Marathon’, are:

• Model Shop – Monday 5^th August, 11:30pm
• Getting Straight – Tuesday 6^th August, 11:30pm
• Arizona Raiders – Wednesday 7^th August, 11:30pm
• Gunman’s Walk – Thursday 8^th August, 11:30pm
• Hammerhead – Friday 9^th August, 11:30pm
• Easy Rider – Saturday 10^th August, 11:30pm
• Cactus Flower – Sunday 11^th August, 1:35am
• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice – Sunday 11^th August, 11:30pm
• The Wrecking Crew – Monday 12^th August, 1:45am

The series will premiere on Sony Movie Channel (Freeview 32, Sky 321, Virgin 425, Freesat 302) beginning Monday 5^th August, with the films airing nightly (either individually or as double features) as a lead up to the 14^th August theatrical release of Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, and films will air on Sony Pictures Television’s networks in over 60 territories worldwide. 

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