A Band Apart
A Band Apart is an American film production company that is run by director Quentin Tarantino and 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 movie title Bande à part by French director Jean -Luc Godard, which may be translated as the "outsider gang".
Foundation
The cooperation between the two filmmakers began in 1992 with the movie Reservoir Dogs. From a scene of this film, the logo of the company, which is four gangsters on the way to an attack comes. The company name Tarantino chose based on Jean -Luc Godard's movie The Outsiders gang (French: Bande à part ).
In September of 1995, founded Quentin Tarantino, Lawrence Bender and advertising producer Michael Bodnarchek company A Band Apart Commercials. Bender compared the cooperation between the two parts of the company with the U.S. film company United Artists: "A Band Apart Commercials and A Band Apart Films are housed under one roof, so that the directors of both divisions can exchange ideas with each other. We see it as a creative greenhouse, similar to the old United Artists, where directors supported and worked together. "
Movies
The company previously produced the following films in which Tarantino has directed:
- Reservoir Dogs
- Pulp Fiction
- Four Rooms
- Jackie Brown
- Kill Bill Vol 1 and Vol 2
- Death Proof - Grindhouse
- Inglourious Basterds
- Django Unchained
In addition to the production of Quentin Tarantino movies other movies works were created. Here, the company trades as A Band Apart Productions. The most famous non-rotated by Tarantino movie is the horror road movie From Dusk Till Dawn. More produced from A Band Apart Productions films are:
- 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
- Stark Raving Mad
- Voces Inocentes
- Build Or Bust
In addition, the company engaged intensively in the production of commercials (A Band Apart Commercials ) and music videos (A Band Apart Music Videos ) and 1997 the record label A Band Apart Records was established to evaluate the soundtracks of the films produced by A Band Apart.