"Is there a film you can watch over and over? Oh yes, there are loads. To start with there’s Au Revoir les Enfants (Goodbye Children)."

On the surface the 1987 autobiographical film directed by Louis Malle might seem like an odd influence on Reservoir Dogs. As the story goes, Tarantino was working at Video Archives, a video rental store in Manhattan Beach, where he’d often recommend largely unknown films to customers. On one occasion he recommended Au Revoir Les Enfants which was mispronounced by the customer as ‘Reservoir Dogs’. The rest, as they say, is history.