Quentin Tarantino

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source: cinematographique (WordPress)

Since the Cannes premiere of Oldboy, the international acclaim that brought Park (박찬욱) into the Western lexicon has typically characterised his work as edgy, hip, graphic and violent. Finding a feature which doesn’t name-drop Tarantino is a tall order. Serious analysis has been sparse...

Published Mon, Oct 19

Opinion: Kill Bill The Whole Bloody Affair: New Anime Sequence At Last Completed, And More…

source: /FILM

The lack of talk about the once-touted anime spin-offs from Kill Bill suggest that even Tarantino isn’t thinking much about them any more. A real shame, frankly, because he’s still not making films fast enough, even with a knock-em out Grindhouse attitude or the ticking clock of Cannes ha...

Published Mon, Aug 10

Inglourious Basterds Getting Forty Minutes Shorter?

source: Screen Rant

The last time Screen Rant reported on Inglourious Basterds' runtime it was said that writer/director Quentin Tarantino was actually about twenty minutes under what he was contractually obligated to produce, with the cut showed at Cannes being 2 hours ...

Published Wed, Jun 10

Is Harvey Weinstein Asking Tarantino To Cut 40 Minutes From Inglourious Basterds?

source: /FILM

But that’s not quite true. The Cannes cut was 2′27″ (as pointed out by The Playlist) while the longest edit Tarantino could deliver while still retaining final cut (which he still has), is 2′48″. So he doesn’t have to give in to Harvey, and very well might not. Consider what Tarantino told The H...

Published Tue, Jun 9

Xavier Dolan: Quebec filmmaker kills at Cannes

source: nationalpost.com

 Canada Dolan never expected J'ai tué ma mère to create quite such a sensation given that he was competing for attention with the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino and Michael Haneke. But the openly autobiographical picture just took off at ...

Published Wed, Jun 3

Only in Hollywood It's sad Mendoza arrived home without fanfare

source: Inquirer.net

We asked Tikoy Aguiluz, Cinemanila International Film Festival director, to share his Cannes 2009 experience, especially about how Quentin Tarantino himself loved “Kinatay.” Below are excerpts from his e-mail: “I had coffee with QT (Tarantino) the day ...

Published Thu, May 28

Film Foam: Cannes, Tarantino, Drag Me To Hell

source: hecklerspray

The mass critical circle-jerk has begun for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds as it screened in Cannes this week. Being hailed as another triumph from QT, this WWII set drama stars Brad Pitt as a leader of a group of soldiers who go about ...

Published Thu, May 28

Basterds To Get More Work

source: Everything Tarantino

Tarantino talks about Basterds, post-Cannes. Apparently he's going to re-cut the film for its planned August 21, 2009 US release date....

Published Tue, May 26