What can I say, it’s the holidays and reel news is slow. Here’s a video. Nation’s Pride is a fictional Nazi propaganda film that appeared in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (Top 250: #68..really?) The six-minute clip was released as a promotion for Basterds and was shot by Eli Roth, who played the baseball bat-wielding Bear Jew (and also makes his own shitty movies.)
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Reel: nation’s pride
Monday, December 28th, 2009tarantino’s top 8 movies of 2009, everyone’s a critic
Monday, December 14th, 2009The Hollywood Reporter had a chance to ask Quentin Tarantino about his favorite films of 2009, and the filmmaker responded with eight movies, yes sir – eight. He just had to be different!
Raise your hand if you have a masturbation mirror.
1. Star Trek
2. Drag Me To Hell
3. Funny People
4. Up in the Air
5. Chocolate
6. Observe and Report
7. Precious
8. An Education
Tarantino admitted that he has yet to Avatar, The Lovely Bones or Invictus, and that he needs to revisit films like Bright Star and District 9, so they might have the power to make the list. I like him, but he’s an easy target. I need to bring him down to my level of greatness. NOTE: CoF’s annual “Movies you should have seen in (insert year)” is coming soon. Three of his eight made the list. Dammit.
This bites.
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
I'm scared for the human race.
I hate this whole vampire craze that has caught on over the last couple of years. I just wanted to get that out there since a certain movie franchise and it’s fans (see the image to the right) are really getting on my nerves. In fact, Twilight is the inspiration for this very article. I don’t have any hate for the genre directly, as I was a fan of such shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel during their run. But it seems like any kind of slop with romance and dreamboat guys with messy hair and fangs can accumulate huge fanfare. While it would be very easy for me to discuss why the whole Twilight franchise is a nocturnal nugget of teenage angst, I don’t plan on doing that. Instead, I want to discuss some of the top vampire films made in recent years, each of which bring something a little bit different to the table. So without further ado, and in no particular order…
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uma thurman is up for kill bill 3, gullible
Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Quentin Tarantino has recently been talking (shocker) about making a third Kill Bill film, by telling an Italian TV station that, “The Bride will fight again!” (Video after the jump). So with his famous track record of saying he’s going to do something and then doing it over ten years later, this moviemight actually see the light of day. Let us look at the timeline of craziness:
next tarantino movie an homage to tarantino movies
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009Quentin Tarantino, love him or hate him? I just like him. The Onion has breaking faux news on his next project, a homage to the director’s favorite films from his own filmography. Here is an excerpt:
While attending a European press junket Monday for his film Inglourious Basterds, director Quentin Tarantino announced that his next project, Jack Rabbit Slim, will go into production this fall, and will be an homage to his favorite director and screenwriter of all time: Quentin Tarantino.
“I’ve been a Tarantino fan for as long as I can remember,” said Tarantino, who repeatedly referred to his hero as “The Master.” “Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown—those movies were basically my film school. I mean, the ability to take a genre or a subgenre, embrace it to its core, and then blow it up and make it your own is something that has to be admired.” “We’re talking about the quintessential writer-director of our time,” Tarantino added.
Read it all here. Jump for a great scene with Quentin Tarantino taking on Top Gun.
Review: Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
I don’t read many reviews; in fact I tend to stay away from reviews that are larger than a postcard size write up. Everyone sees something different. Some people could care less about lighting, sound and dialogue. For me what makes a movie special, what makes it art, is its effect on me. If in this review and others to come I come off as arrogant, please excuse me. It’s just that I have expectations when I see a film; I like it to be worth something. I will try and keep reviews short, sweet and spoiler free while trying to reach out to those who still love going to the movies. Not to be first in line or to eat; but to escape. Lights, camera, review!
tarantino’s Top 20
Monday, August 17th, 2009Quentin Tarantino lists his Top 20 movies since he started to direct in 1992. If you can’t stand his
Out promoting Inglourious Basterds in the UK, Quentin Tarantino was asked by Sky Movies to put together a Top 20 list. Tarantino didn’t want to do a Top 20 films of all time, so he came up with a list of his 20 favorite films since he’s been a filmmaker. He doesn’t list them in ranking (with the exception of #1).
More surprising than Lost In Translation making the list…he didn’t list any of his own films. Video after the jump.
superman’s contract expired
Monday, July 6th, 2009
Only two things will be certain after posting this news article, Brandon Routh may not be Superman again and I can’t speak Portuguese. I am a fan of Bryan Singers not so acclaimed SUPERMAN RETURNS, maybe not as big as Quentin Tarantino who still seems to be working on a 20 page review of the film but a fan none the less. So when MTV said that Brandon Routh’s contract had expired, it got me thinking that we may be in turn for that reboot Warner Bros. was talking about.
“The term of the contract expired,” Routh told Spanish-language entertainment site Omelete (an English translation is available via Google). “But if they call me again, [I'd go] back to the character without thinking twice!, “I do not know of anything,” Routh said of the film’s progress. “I’m sure that Warner Bros. is moving there, but everything is still uncertain. Really, I do not know anything.”
A reboot could mean a whole new look and style, which isn’t always a bad thing (see Batman Begins). The good news is that Routh isn’t hurting for work as he’s set to star in Dead of Night, an adaptation of the Dylan Dog comic book series. He’ll also appear in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World as Todd Ingram, Ramona Flowers’ third evil ex-boyfriend with vegan psychic powers. Sounds sexy.
Extra Tidbit: If not Brandon, who?
Source: MTV
weinstein on cutting ‘basterds’
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009In a recent interview with GQ magazine, Harvey Weinstein was asked about those rumors regarding him wanting Tarantino to take a knife to Inglourious Basterds. Here is what the nice mad had to say:
“Those stories are all untrue. There’s no f—ing way. Here, read my lips: That is nuts. Please don’t even write that, it’s insanity. There’s not even a question of that. Whatever you’re reading, it’s like some insane blogger. There’s no truth to any of this. He’s not gonna cut. What he’s doing is just reorganizing some scenes. I mean, the guy had six weeks to cut his movie [for Cannes]; most guys take six months. Most guys take a year. When I worked with Martin [Scorsese], we’d do 18 months in post-production.
inglourious basterds posters
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009EMPIRE brings us Inglourious goodness with the release of the teaser trailer and posters for Quentin Tarantino’s latest INGLOURIOUS BASTERS with which to whet your bloody appetite.
‘Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France’ reads the tagline along with a triumvirate of blood-soaked weaponry to be employed by Lt Aldo Raines’ band of German-stalking scalp-hunters. Whether bludgeoned, stabbed or shot through the head, Hitler’s henchmen have clearly got a fight on their hands and we have to say that the new art makes us more excited to see Inglourious Basterds than ever before. Check it out.
