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There are two aspects to watching Quentin Tarantino’s post-modern patchwork pastiche pictures. One is taking in the movie itself, while the other is working out the visual and aural references, some of them so fleeting that they register for no more than a few seconds. Tarantino has perfected the art of paying homage to the numerous films that he has watched and loved over his lifetime, and every movie tests the cinephilia of his audiences, especially since Tarantino tends to quote from obscure films across languages and genres. To take just one example, theKill Bill films are packed with references to Chinese martial arts films, American Westerns and Italian horror films.

Here’s a montage of some of the brilliant ways in which Tarantino borrows, absorbs and re-imagines movies while making his own.

The montage has been split into screens and timed to reveal the reference by Jacob T Swinney, video essayist at the websites Indiewire and Slate.