In today's dose of Hollywood News Actually Worth Paying Attention To, word comes from the left coast that Gothamist favorite Quentin Tarantino has a new project in the works, and it sounds, unsurprisingly, totally epic. Tarantino's been pretty quiet since the release of 2009's Inglourious Basterds, but some superfans have done a little digging and come up with the details on his latest, a spaghetti Western/ slavery revenge tale called Django Unchained.
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Tarantino's Back With A Slavery Spaghetti Western Called Django Unchained
Quentin Vs. Coen Art Show: This Is What Happens When You Dig On Swine
Mark your calendars for April 7th, because Spoke Art finally got the venue they wanted for their new art show (their cycle): "Quentin vs. Coen: An Art Show Tribute to Tarantino and the Brothers." This is the same crew that gave us "Bad Dads: A Tribute to Wes Anderson" last year. Their new show features over 100 world artists from the new contemporary art scene, who were asked to reinterpret their favorite scenes, characters and films from Tarantino and Coen brothers movies. Here's the highbrow explanation:
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Pick: Extravagant Exploitation Edition
. The running time is longer than a usual Hollywood blockbuster but the steady stream of oozing fake blood, rapid fire witty details and laughs at movie clichés are never boring.
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Kooky Families edition
Billy Bob Thorton sets aside his raunchy also comes to big screens this weekend.
Pencil This In
EVENT: NYC Photobloggers will take over the Apple Store again tonight, for the 7th of their events there. The A-list...um, list, of past photographers is a long one. Six more will join the ranks tonight, as they are the centerpieces for this event. They are:
Video Jerks
- Annoyed in Brooklyn
Kickoff of the 42nd New York Film Festival
This weekend begins the 42nd New York Film Festival presented by the Film Society at Lincoln Center and it's 17 days of international films, new pictures from old favorites and introductions to unsung artists.
Kill in Translation
Gawker on the Sofia-n-Quentin matchup: It's Officialish and The Plot Thickens. And we still love Lost in Translation.
Cannes Do
This year's competition jury has three Americans: Novelist Edwidge Danticat, Kathleen Turner, and Quentin Tarantino, who is the chair and has already been on a Cannes panel about piracy: "I would be a liar if I was to say, across the board, no piracy."
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Hey, everybody, a little independent film called Kill Bill, Volume 2, is coming out this Friday. Apparently there's a DVD of DVD of Kill Bill, Volume 1 out there and it really is about killing a guy named Bill - go check out first! Actually, don't bother buying the DVD - there will probably be a souped up version of it later down the road. Yes, Gothamist is a little tired of all the Kill Bill buzz - we're still smarting over the decision to break it up into two movies. This past weekend's Dave Kehr piece about other movie influences in Kill Bill was nice, though.
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Top Movies About Music
Gothamist agrees with many (but not Moulin Rouge - meh), but would have to consider many others, like Almost Famous, A Star is Born, Amadeus, Hard Day's Night, A Mighty Wind, The School of Rock, plus the genre of movie musicals (Annie, The Muppet Movie, Kiss Me Kate, The Sound of Music) if we came up with our own list. And then there are the movies and filmmakers that aren't about music but their soundtracks change that: Anything by Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Cameron Crowe, John Hughes, Woody Allen, Spike Lee, and Quentin Tarantino, plus Trainspotting, Brown Sugar, Dazed and Confused, Ocean's Eleven (the remake)...what are we missing?
Italian Business' Taratanio–isms
Tarantino's "Mr. Wolf" is really based on the clean up character played by Jean Reno in Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita; Harvey Keitel actually played this character in the 1993 John Badham directed US remake of LFN, Point of No Return, starring Bridget Fonda, who would later star in Jackie Brown, directed by Tarantino.
Quentin Tarantino Know-It-Some
Gothamist doesn't know how to take the 8/10 score we got on the Guardian's Quentin Tarantino quiz. On the one hand, we thought we knew our QT. On the other hand, why the hell should we know the QT, it's embarrassing we knew that much to break 5.
The Championship Vinyl of Video Stores
Sometimes, Netflix, as great as it is, is just not the same as heading to the video store, where you can browse through various titles and be inspired to watch something you weren't thinking about. It doesn't deliver on the instant gratification that sometimes a movie needs to bring you. Gothamist's favorite video stores are Movie Place on West 105th Street (237 West 105th Street/ 212-864-4620), Kim's Video (various locations), and the Cinematheque on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope (100B 7th Ave/ 718 399 0860) - places where you're told "We don't carry Day for Night because the only version on VHS is dubbed in English and [insert pained expression] we won't carry it." (This was 1997, mind you; Day for Night is on DVD now.) However, the downfall of having a well-stocked video store can sometimes be the staff. Think about it - Quentin Tarantino used to work at a video store. While our experiences at Movie Place and other stores have been good, some video store staffs bring the trial of deciding on a movie to watch on Friday night to a new level. Our best friend/twin sister Molly tells us about her experience at another Park Slope video store, Reel Life:
Killing Bill Twice
The Times reports that Quentin Tarantino's eagerly awaited film, Kill Bill, will be released in two parts, versus one. Kill Bill's press machine has been in overdrive, ever since it was Tarantino, after a five-year break, directing Uma Thurman in China, with lots of kung fu and wire work...yeah, you know the story.
Gawker stalker
Apparently the definition of celebrity for the Gawker stalker has finally been expanded to include people we know. Witness, a mention of James Tung's friend Genevieve, the extremely attractive designer on Trading Spaces.
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