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Film director breaking into a frenzied bombast (9)

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I believe the answer is:

tarantino

'film director' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'breaking into a frenzied bombast' is the wordplay.
'breaking' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'frenzied' indicates an anagram.
'bombast' becomes 'rant' (synonyms).
'into'+'a'='intoa'
'intoa' with letters rearranged gives 'taino'.
'taino' going around 'rant' is 'TARANTINO'.

(Other definitions for tarantino that I've seen before include "He makes films" , "Quentin ... film maker" , "Quentin -, American film director" , "Quentin -, US director" , "Who in tarnation is this US film-maker?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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