Quentin Tarantino - The man and his movies

[kannannn]

Adhe adhe..

[ajithfederer]

Despite the split reaction to the film, Christoph Waltz received the Cannes award for Best Leading Actor, for his critically praised performance as the poetic SS colonel, Hans Landa. As it turned out, it was the only U.S. film to win any award in Cannes for 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds

Woohooo :P.

[ajithfederer]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8059393.stm

By Emma Jones
BBC News reporter in Cannes


Quentin Tarantino has made an eye-catching return to the Cannes Film Festival with Inglourious Basterds, an epic World War II movie set in Nazi-occupied France.

Tarantino swaps fact for pulp fiction in Inglourious Basterds, a comic revenge fantasy about Jewish freedom fighters bringing down the Nazis in 1944.

Brad Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine, the leader of a gang of Jewish-American soldiers operating in occupied France whose self-proclaimed mission is "to kill as many Nazis as possible".

They succeed in Tarantino's usual grisly-comic fashion, carving swastikas into the foreheads of any German soldier they do not scalp.

The plot culminates with an attempt to incinerate the Nazi high command - including Hitler, Goebbels and Goering - at a film premiere in Paris.


It's western meets war movie, with David Bowie on the soundtrack

In the words of Tarantino, it's "the power of cinema bringing down the Third Reich".

Once again, the US director has blurred film genres. Essentially it's western meets war movie, with David Bowie on the soundtrack.

And it becomes positively camp-operatic in parts - particularly in its portrayal of a shrill, semi-hysterical Adolf Hitler and British generals who could have been lifted from 'Allo, 'Allo.

Pitt may get top billing, but he's not the star of the show.

That honour goes to Christoph Waltz, an Austrian TV star who plays SS officer Colonel Hans Landa.

Comedic menace

So important was this character to the film, says Tarantino, that he considered scrapping the movie if he couldn't find the perfect actor to play him.

Waltz carries off comedic menace with aplomb in a performance that makes him a strong contender for this year's best actor prize



The film runs almost three hours and has a large international cast
This is not an American movie. Rather, it's Tarantino's homage to the European cinema he adores.

Indeed, there are so many scenes shot in French and German that an English-speaking audience will spend a lot of the film reading subtitles.

Some will wish there were a few more, just so they can understand Pitt's Tennessee-born, almost incomprehensible character.

Inglourious Basterds clocks in at nearly three hours, and its director could certainly have trimmed more of its flab.

This, and Pitt's character not getting the screen time he deserves, are the main disappointments.

It still can't touch Pulp Fiction, which won the Palme D'Or in 1994, but the reaction here at Cannes is that Quentin Tarantino has made a glorious, silly, blood-spattered return.

He is royalty at this festival - and as long as you can suspend disbelief and offence, he remains the king of trashy cinema.

Inglourious Basterds is out in the UK on 21 August.

[ajithfederer]

Wednesday, June 10
Is the Studio Planning to Sell Inglourious Basterds Short?
Last we heard, Quentin Tarantino was headed back to the editing room with Inglourious Basterds to do "an audience pruning cut" and possibly even add a scene. Now comes the rumor that The Weinstein Company, convinced that American audiences won't sit still for more than two hours, is demanding that Tarantino cut as much as 40 minutes from the movie.

Basterds premiered to mixed reactions at Cannes last month, and some critics suggested that the film contained too much talk and not enough action. Tarantino seemed pretty much mystified by that line of criticism. The fact that he is considering adding a scene suggests that he is unlikely to be happy about making such deep cuts.

On the other hand, the studio has been under severe financial pressure lately and desperately needs Basterds to succeed at the box office. Die-hard Tarantino fans, unmoved by such considerations, have already begun to weigh in on the matter, with one journalist firing off a response titled "Don't cut Inglourious Basterds, you basterds!"

http://www.reelzchannel.com/movie-ne...basterds-short

[Nerd]

Watched Death Proof again. Liked it better than the first time. Pure, unadulterated, non-stop entertainment with some brilliant dialogues. The film has all the ingridients of a Tarantino film but lacks substance

[Vivasaayi]

Nerd,

But the movie was meant to be without any substance....isnt it ?

[Nerd]

Nerd,

But the movie was meant to be without any substance....isnt it ?

You are right. As a *Grindhouse* film it does justice to the genre. But not as a normal film, IMO. Its so not a conventional film.

[groucho070]

Also, a nice return to good old fashioned car chase. No blue screen, no CGI.

[ajithfederer]

Inglorious Basterds Trailer Premiere HD [True HD]

A new trailer -

[Nerd]

Aug 20 is just 11 days away