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In his downtime from directing Brad Pitt to scalp nazis in Inglorious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino has been exec producing Writer, Director, Producer and star Larry Bishop’s HELL RIDE. And we have 3 copies to give away on DVD!In his downtime from directing Brad Pitt to scalp nazis in Inglorious Basterds,... more
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Inglorious Bastards skyrocketed to the top of the German charts and even charmed the country’s most discerning film critics. The public’s reaction tells us a lot about Germany today, about the Germans’ earnest attempts to atone for their past.Inglorious Bastards skyrocketed to the top of the German charts and even charmed the... more
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Compare and contrast. Tarantino seems to have cast a Stanley Kubrick look-a-like for the opening scene in 'Inglorious Basterds'.
But why?Compare and contrast. Tarantino seems to have cast a Stanley Kubrick look-a-like for... more
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Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" is here, and you know what that means -- tons of obscure film-geek references. Even the title itself is a play on a 1981 war film, the properly spelled Italian actioner "The Inglorious Bastards."
We noticed this pastiche of influences includes everything from sadistic Nazi beauties to Clint Eastwood comedies. So, like any good group of fan boys, we put together a guide to the films Tarantino stole, er, borrowed from for his latest action epic. You might just find a hidden gem. (And impress your pretentious film-geek friends.)Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" is here, and you know what that means --... more
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Leave us a video or text review of Inglorious Basterds out now in cinemas.
This is the place to leave YOUR reviews for inclusion in the Upstream show! Let us know what you loved, or what you hated about the film . For every one of your webcams or every three text reviews that gets picked for TV, we’ll give you a £10 HMV voucher!
Is this Tarantino's best work? What did you think of Brad Pitt's performance? Tell us what you thought about the plot, the acting, the special effects and anything else you want to talk about. Is it worth going to see in cinema or is it one to wait for DVD?
Whatever you want to say, however you want to say it.Leave us a video or text review of Inglorious Basterds out now in cinemas.
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"I got torched," Roth said solemnly.
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Well people summer is winding down and as a result so is your Summer Movie Season. With only a handful of movies left to impress you or worthy of your hard earned money. Here are a few suggestions on what this TvN3rD thinks you should check out.Well people summer is winding down and as a result so is your Summer Movie Season.... more
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Now, which moron at The Weinstein Company thinks this is an appropriate fake trailer to hawk Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds? People are being fooled by this abomination: a trailer for a Nazi propaganda film that went up on Apple today from "Arien Productions" glorifying a hero of the Third Reich. The film "Nation's Pride" is advertised as having an exclusive engagement in Paris (at the theater where Basterds has a plot point) and the opening line of the narration is "From Reich Minister Dr Joseph Goebbels..." This isn't clever marketing, folks. It's classless. (Nikke Finke)
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You've gotta love Nikke Finke, she isn't afraid to tell it like it is...Now, which moron at The Weinstein Company thinks this is an appropriate fake trailer... more
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Hey everyone, well looks like its Frank and Jimmy tonight. Dave is MIA (Actually at dinner with the family bah…) so looks like we are gonna do the two man show and believe me you are in for it :) That doesn’t mean its bad just less of Dave and more of Frank!
Our first subject is race and gaming. Is the video game industry purposefully pursing white middle class kids to the detriment of creating a more diverse landscape in the gaming community or are video game publishers simply creating games for the people who buy their products? How could the video game industry bring in more customers than rich white kids (hint- Frank is going to claim it is all about the price of games). Have things gotten better or worse over time?
http://kotaku.com/5325906/report-games-underserve-underrepresent-minorities
http://kotaku.com/5327940/npd-says-half-of-all-americans-are-gamers
Next we talk about trailers for some upcoming movies as a sample of a video podcast we are considering creating.
Movies discussed- Where the Wild Things Are, Shutter Island, The Time Travelers Wife, The Box, Jennifer’s Body, 2012, Zombieland, District 9, Inglorious Basterds, Gamer
http://www.overdos3.com/2009/07/prepare-for-next-weeks-overdos3-by-watching-these-movie-trailers/
With news of Ridley Scott taking the reigns of the ‘Alien’ franchise again, we debate if there is anything left to save of this series.
http://www.overdos3.com/2009/08/ridley-scott-returns-to-alien-series-for-a-prequel/
We run quickly through some tech news- namely the Microsoft/Yahoo deal. Do they have a chance of fighting of the Google behemoth?
http://www.overdos3.com/2009/07/microsoft-and-yahoo-partner-to-fight-google/
For our final segment, Jimmy gets to lead this week’s “Five Minute Run Down” with two of the stories he wrote for the site.
http://www.overdos3.com/2009/07/death-from-space/
http://www.overdos3.com/2009/07/this-could-only-happen-in-south-carolina/
This week’s awesomely bad demo from the Wowdemoblog.tumblr.com is “Bury Me With My Bong.”
icon for podpress Standard Podcast [76:08m]: Hide Player | Play in Popup | DownloadHey everyone, well looks like its Frank and Jimmy tonight. Dave is MIA (Actually at... more
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Oh, this mythic GQ interview just keeps getting grander and grander.
In the build-up to next month's release of Inglorious Basterds, Tarantino has decided to take the early buzz about his latest film (namely that people aren't bowled over or shocked by it. More apathetic) and decides to let loose his own film knowledge on him.
Of course, as legend goes, he worked at the iconic Kim's Video store in Manhattan's East Village, so he clearly has more knowledge than the average bear. He also can write better than you.
The best part? It's true!
Whenever he wants to do a webcam review for The Rotten Tomatoes Show, we totally will let him.Oh, this mythic GQ interview just keeps getting grander and grander.
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TRIUMPH OF HIS WILL
Only Quentin Tarantino could create ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ wherein Brad Pitt plays a redneck leading a band of tough Jews bent on going, well, medieval on Nazis. And that’s just one part of his new movie. Alex Pappademas follows the most ambitious director of his generation from Berlin to Cannes to Los Angeles as he struggles to finish what he hopes will be his new masterpiece
Quentin told me that all that fog-of-war-movie stuff was exaggerated. He wasn't lost. He just couldn't stop writing. He'd produced more story than a movie could hold. He thought about turning it into a novel. He came close to writing it up as a twelve-episode mini-series—his own gonzo Band of Brothers. He says director Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita) talked him out of that. "You're one of the only guys whose movies make me want to go out to a theater," Besson told him one night over drinks. This stuck with Quentin. In January 2008, he took one more shot at chopping his monster down to movie size.
He cut one major plotline—a story about a group of AWOL black soldiers making their way across occupied France, which he might turn into a Basterds sequel if this one does well. He focused in on the Basterds, a unit of Jewish American commandos using terrorist tactics against the Third Reich, and Shosanna Dreyfus, a French farm girl who flees to Paris and becomes the proprietress of a movie house after the Nazis murder her family. He wrote a new third act, bringing these two stories together, to bloody and historically inaccurate effect, at the gala premiere of ein film von Joseph Goebbels. He'd write all day; at night he'd listen to records or float in his pool, ruminating. He feels that the movie was really written between January and July of last year. "I've never written such a big thing so fast before," he says. "It just came tumbling out of me."
He finished the script on July 2 and sent it to his longtime producing partner, Lawrence Bender, the next day, telling him he wanted to shoot it in time for Cannes. "I was like, ‘Wow—really? You finished it? Shit!' " Bender says. "That was a wild moment." Tarantino flew to France to persuade Brad Pitt to play Lieutenant Aldo Raine, the leader of the Basterds. ("We talked about movies into the wee hours of the night," Pitt told reporters in May. "When I got up the next morning, I saw five empty bottles of wine lying on the floor—five!—and something that resembled a smoking apparatus.… And apparently I'd agreed to do the movie." When I ask Tarantino who supplied this apparatus, he says, "That was Brad. He did the fabrication. He can take a Coke can and make it—functional.")
When I ask Harvey Weinstein why Tarantino decided to make the movie on this scramble-the-fighters timetable, he brings up Grindhouse, the double-feature slasher-film tribute Tarantino co-directed with Robert Rodriguez in 2007. Weinstein doesn't believe that Grindhouse's poor box-office performance had anything to do with Quentin's decision to get moving on Basterds but believes Tarantino "wanted to get back in the saddle. He did his B movie, and I think it was time for him to go back and make his Quentin Tarantino movie."TRIUMPH OF HIS WILL
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Interesting...
"The Weinstein Co. is stepping into the ring.
The mini-major is making an unconventional marketing move for its upcoming period pic "Inglourious Basterds," partnering with the Ultimate Fighting Championship to promote the film.
The Quentin Tarantino movie will be featured at the mixed-martial-arts organization's UFC 100, a large-scale pay-per-view event set for Saturday in Las Vegas. "Basterds" will get an animated billboard and placement inside the fighting ring, aka the "octagon," and a trailer will be shown to about 11,000 fans in attendance at Mandalay Bay.
The move marks an interesting approach for TWC in seeking young males for "Basterds." The pic, set for an Aug. 21 domestic release, is set in Nazi-occupied France and features long stretches in non-English languages.
But TWC hopes to break the film out of the art house by highlighting its action sequences and star Brad Pitt. UFC, with its mainstream fan base, is seen as one of several keys to reaching a wider audience.
UFC 100, the centennial fight card for the increasingly popular sport, will feature a heavyweight battle between Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir, plus 10 undercard fights. The organization is touting the sponsorship as the first Weinstein promotion at one of its events. "Interesting...
"The Weinstein Co. is stepping into the ring.
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Apparently, the Weinstein Company is pushing all of its' 2009 slate further back due to a lack of funds. They're barely able to release Inglorious Basterds and the Halloween remake sequel, H2.
Yikes.
But not entirely surprising, since the Weinsteins were notorious for how they acquired films, hoarded them and then liquidated them to make a profit.Apparently, the Weinstein Company is pushing all of its' 2009 slate further back due... more
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After making the deadline for Cannes - or "cinema nirvana" - Tarantino is back in the editing room.After making the deadline for Cannes - or "cinema nirvana" - Tarantino is back in the... more
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Tarantino and Pitt were heckled horribly at the Cann film festival. But they cant understand it as its in French.Tarantino and Pitt were heckled horribly at the Cann film festival. But they cant... more
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Leave it to Quentin Tarantino to find a climax unique in the history of war movies. Also trust QT to get away with a war movie that consists largely of his unique dialog style, in which a great deal of action is replaced by talk about the possibilities of action. His "Inglourious Basterds," which premiered Wednesday morning here at Cannes, is a screenplay eight years in the writing, and you can't fill 148 minutes with descriptions of special effects. At least not if you're a motormouth like Tarantino.
"Inglorious Basterds" is, I believe, the only war movie with its climactic scene set in a movie theater. The only war movie with a critical last-minute confrontation in the projection booth. The only war movie with a lecture on the fire hazard of nitrate film stock. The only one that pays much attention to the names of such great directors as Pabst and Clouzot. Tarantino's hero, played by Brad Pitt, is named Lt. Aldo Raine, which is as close as you can get to Aldo Ray, the star of "Battle Cry" (1955), which co-starred Van Heflin, who also gets a shout-out in "Basterds."
More videos at link.Leave it to Quentin Tarantino to find a climax unique in the history of war movies.... more
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Mixed reviews! From “Gott-Awful”, to “Grisly-Comic”, through “Camp-Operatic”, and finally “Subverts Expectation”
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"Quentin Tarantino's wartime spaghetti western about a bunch of Nazi-hunting Americans is just Gott-awful..."
- Peter Bradshow, The Guardian
"... it becomes positively camp-operatic in parts..."
- BBC Website, Emma Jones.
"...not the former wunderkind director’s greatest achievement but should prove enough to resurrect his career...”
- The Times, Ben Hoyle
"it's rather brilliant. Every bit as idiosyncratic as the spelling of its title, it's a wonderfully-acted movie that subverts expectation at every turn. And it may represent the most confident, audacious writing and directing of QT's career... "
- Empire MagazineMixed reviews! From “Gott-Awful”, to “Grisly-Comic”, through... more
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And you can watch them at the link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/reelbasterd
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These three clips from Quentin Taratino's much anticipated WWII film have surfaced ahead of the film's premiere at the Cannes Film Festival today.These three clips from Quentin Taratino's much anticipated WWII film have surfaced... more
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"Quentin Tarantino cut it close for Cannes premiere
CANNES -- Everyone is on tenterhooks ahead of Wednesday's premiere of "Inglourious Basterds," not least the stars of Quentin Tarantino's Nazi-slaying epic.
The director's mad rush to finish the film in time for Cannes has meant that virtually no one, including "Basterds" headliners, has seen the movie.
"When I arrived in Cannes and saw the posters on the Carlton Hotel and I wasn't on them I thought, 'Oh no, they've cut me out,' " German star Daniel Bruhl, one of the film's leads, told The Hollywood Reporter. "I saw Quentin, and he said he hasn't cut a minute. But I won't know what's in or out until the premiere."
The version of "Basterds" that bows in Cannes, however, is unlikely to match the one that Universal and the Weinstein Co. roll out at a multiplex near you. Wednesday's screening clocks in at 2 hours and 40 minutes -- reassuringly long for cast members worried about ending up as cutting-room dross -- but a programming challenge for distributors.
So "Basterds" in Cannes could resemble a test screening, with a leaner, perhaps meaner cut going up in August. ""Quentin Tarantino cut it close for Cannes premiere
CANNES -- Everyone is on... more
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