Here’s the short and sweet Quentin Tarantino news of the past week: Inglourious Basterds’ wild success, both with audiences and critics, has given the director the breathing room to admit he wants to revisit Uma Thurman and the Kill Bill franchise. Two caveats:
1. (Spoiler) Bill is dead.
2. With the exception of Basterds, Tarantino yaks about [...]
The Bear Jew himself, Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) has finally pushed through the media madness that followed Inglourious Basterds and is now showcasing the two simultaneous projects he’s been talking up for a while.
He’s wrapping up the script for his sci-fi flick Endangered Species while he gets ready for his Louisiana exorcism movie Cotton, [...]
Basterds on the other hand — it’s a film about wounded people, angry people, lashing out at each other with all of their talents, as diverse as they may be. For Hugo, this equates to a bloodbath. Shoshanna is fire and smoke and theatrics. For Col. HansLanda, words are enough to pierce to the bone, and he knows it.
Normally when a film leaves me cold, I tend to shy away from thinking about said picture. If I must, I’ll ponder the film and realize that I’d just seen a film I wanted to like, but had ultimately witnessed something mediocre or worse. Walking out of Inglourious Basterds, I recalled the same feeling as [...]
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Atomic Popcorn: So, can we talk about working with Tarantino and stepping into a project like this?
Fassbender: Well, I suppose it’s sort of [pause] first thing’s that it was very surreal for me, and because the first thing I did when I was starting to get into the business was [...]
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Atomic Popcorn: What is it like working with Tarantino?
Diane Kruger: Well, it’s everything you would imagine for a Tarantino movie, he’s a little larger then life, he’s very exuberant, and mad and running around. It’s nearly a childlike quality, he sits next to a camera and gets so excited about the scene [...]
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Atomic Popcorn: What was your favorite part about working on a Tarantino set?
B.J. Novak: Quentin Tarantino, watching him direct – which is a performance in and of itself, wondering how it did, I have always been fascinated by how Tarantino makes his movies. You kind of see the authorship in the [...]
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Atomic Popcorn: So, how honored did you feel when you read in the script that you were going to be the man to blow away Hitler?
Roth: Oh, it was an incredible honor! It certainly was an honor that I took very seriously, that was actually not originally in the the script. [...]
Quentin Tarantino’s interesting take on World War II through his latest film, Inglourious Basterds, has already been generating a great deal of buzz. Not only because of the alleged cult status director’s huge group of fans who will flock to theaters, but because of the all star cast that joins in. With the likes of people [...]
Finally. Something else I can add to my wall.
The new international poster for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds has hit grandma’s interwebs and we are lucky enough to find it. Maintaining the true international poster style, this one-sheet is mostly lame with a side of a haunting Eli Roth. But, with that said, it appears Brad [...]
Sure, all the controversy is around Antichrist, but all the fun is definitely centered on Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds which debuted last night at Cannes. In honor of the festivities, here are a few clips from the movie which is due out August 21st.
Tarantino’s Basterds acts as a re-envisioning of Enzo G. Castellari’s The Inglorious [...]
Inglourious Basterds — Through the Lens of Literature
Note: The following essay, which is obviously being published months after the release of Inglourious Basterds, was written for a literary criticism class that explores theory behind literary criticism and focuses on analyzing textual works from a variety of perspectives. This assignment involved using these tools of literature to explore a work outside of the [...]