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The pair previously won an Oscar for their work on ‘Pulp Fiction’.

Quentin Tarantino has announced his new podcast, to be co-hosted alongside the director’s ‘Pulp Fiction’ co-writer, Roger Avary. Titled, The Video Archives, the podcast will be released later this month, and will take a deep dive into the pair’s old place of employment, the since-defunct video rental store in California where they worked in 1983. 

Tarantino, who acquired over 8,000 cult tapes and videos from the store upon its closure in 1995, will also discuss the films that have inspired his career while touching on the highlights of his multi-Oscar nominated filmography. In a joint statement released by the filmmakers, Tarantino and Avary said “We never imagined that 30 years after we worked together, we would be together again doing the exact same thing.”

“Watching movies was what originally brought us together and made us friends, and it’s our love of movies that still brings us together today,” they said. The podcast will see the pair trawl through cult classics, as well as rewatch controversial flicks, to ultimately “expose listeners to movies they didn’t know they’d love, give awards to their favorites, and of course, rate the quality of the video transfer.” 

The news comes ahead of what will be Tarantino’s next film, the follow-up to 2021’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and which will mark the director’s final film. In the meantime, he’s set to release a nonfiction book, titled Cinema Speculation, which traces the history of cinema and will hit bookshelves in October this year. 

The Video Archives will premiere on July 19.  

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