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"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

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