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The death of the original screenplay...?
Wed, Nov 4 2009 8:07 AM

This week's favorite Oscar topic, besides last night's announcement that Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin will be co-hosting the awards, is where all the original screenplays have gone. The Hollywood Reporter's Steven Zeitchik points out the a dearth of obvious candidates for the "Best Original Screenplay" category. If "Up," "Inglourious... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Up, The Hurt Locker, Awards, Where the Wild Things Are, Inglourious Basterds, (500) Days Of Summer, Star Trek, The Hangover, Away We Go, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Oscars 2010

"Inglourious Basterds" promotes English language domination.
Tue, Aug 25 2009 9:20 AM

Over the weekend, "Inglourious Basterds" went from a film with a mixed Cannes reputation as Tarantino's least-productively talky to being a box office conqueror. If critics are still split, the general public seems surprisingly united in loving it. As Sharon Waxman reports, the Weinsteins marketed a kick-ass action movie, and somehow, remarkably... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Quentin Tarantino, Biz, Diane Kruger, Inglourious Basterds, Christoph Waltz, Funny People, Weinstein Company, CinemaScore

A few of Quentin's favorite things.
Tue, Aug 18 2009 7:00 PM

So far over this press tour, we've learned about his 20 favorite recent films (including Woody Allen's "Anything Else"!) and 20 favorite movie posters, but Quentin Tarantino still saved plenty of his top fetishes for the film itself, finding unexpected ways to insert Samuel L. Jackson's baritone narration and linger on Diane Kruger's... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Quentin Tarantino, Odds, Inglourious Basterds, Michael Fassbender, Rod Taylor, Dark of the Sun

Quentin Tarantino makes war fun again.
Fri, Aug 14 2009 11:15 AM

Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" comes out next Friday, but the deluge of negative advance press seems to indicate we should be bored already. Quentin! Always with the talking and the self-indulgence and the references. He doesn't make it easy on himself; unlike Wes Anderson, who went from bad-haircut-geek to styled-out, blazer-wearing... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Quentin Tarantino, Cannes 2009, Inglourious Basterds, Coming attractions, The Dirty Dozen, Paul Verhoeven, Black Book, Adam Sandler

Cannes 2009: "Inglourious Basterds."
Wed, May 20 2009 5:08 AM

Quentin Tarantino's a great writer of dialogue, and no one's more convinced of the fact than Quentin Tarantino. The ratio of talk to action -- not gun fights or explosions, but just people doing stuff -- in "Inglourious Basterds" is, generously, nine to one. Again and again, characters sit down over drinks (whiskey, champagne, milk), and the... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Quentin Tarantino, Cannes 2009, Mike Myers, Diane Kruger, Inglourious Basterds, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz

Cannes do.
Thu, Apr 23 2009 6:17 AM

The competition line-up for this year's Cannes Film Festival has been announced! A fair amount of Euro provocateurs -- Lars von Trier, Gaspar Noé, Michael Haneke -- and France in general, and only two American films, the expected Tarantino and the unexpected Ang Lee comedy, which hopefully has more to it than its trailer would indicate. New films from Jane... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Quentin Tarantino, Cannes 2009, Ang Lee, Terry Gilliam, Antichrist, Lars von Trier, Johnnie To, Park Chan-wook, Gaspar Noé, Michael Haneke, Jane Campion, Pedro Almodóvar, Taking Woodstock, Inglourious Basterds