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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...