The theater doors blast open, and Quentin Tarantino’s band of Jewish soldiers bursts in with fury, guns first. Showering the audience—once their oppressors—in a rain of bullets, the gunmen stand triumphantly on a balcony that deteriorates as it is licked by flames. The viewers fall to their knees at the sight of the screen’s collapse. [...]
Quentin Tarantino’s controversial revisionist’s WWII saga, “Inglourious Basterds” has had fans cheering and moralizers crying foul. Does it really deny the holocaust? Is it as boring as some have said? And how many freaking references to classic cinema can a guy fit into a single movie?! To find out you’ll have to listen to the [...]
To say that Quentin Tarantino is a movie fan is a bit like saying Paris Hilton likes attention — it’s not only obvious but a gross understatement. Whether you like his work or not, this high school dropout-turned video clerk-turned cinéaste-turned auteur makes wholly unique films. But the paradox is that virtually every scene he [...]
Director, author, playwright, essayist, and producer, David Mamet, will write and direct a new version of “The Diary of Anne Frank” for Disney. Variety reports that Mamet, with Andrew Braunsberg, will produce. The film will be Mamet’s take on the diary itself combined with elements from the stage adaptation by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich. [...]
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