Reservoir Dogs

Reservoir Dogs (1991) is a twelve-minute proof-of-concept short you can watch online on iFILM. Quentin Tarantino made it with backing from the Sundance Film Institute as a dry run for the full-length feature that arrived the following year.

Steve Buscemi appears alongside the director himself in this rough sketch, already built around charged dialogue rather than action. For anyone who knows the 1992 feature, this is the seed it grew from — a glimpse at what a filmmaker does before he gets the budget to commit. Watch Reservoir Dogs online on iFILM.