July
30
Tarantino Outs Variety as "Ain't It Cooler News"
[Posted by Peter Debruge]
In this teaser for the new Inglorious Bastards DVD (which I review here), Quentin Tarantino recalls, "The first time I heard about Inglorious Bastards was the Variety review":
Ah, those were the days, when film lovers turned to us for their first morsel of information about exploitation and genre films. We're still tops when it comes to casting news, but the fanboys deserve credit for leading the charge on fringe cinema scoops online (let's hear it for Twitch, baby!). Personally, I can't imagine having to sit through all the pornos that Variety crix were expected to review in decades past.
As you've surely heard by now, Tarantino's cooking up his own in-name-only tribute, a men-on-a-mission WWII epic likely to end up as two separate films (cuz the guy's just that inspired). L.A. fans can catch a screening of the restored print tonight at the New Beverly Cinema, assuming you can get tickets. Everyone else will be served just fine by Severin Films' 3-disc DVD.
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Variety reviewers used to regularly cover films that went straight to New York's 42nd Street and they used to describe the audience reaction, too. Stuart Byron was one of those reviewers. He gave a favorable review to Mario Bava's "Kill, Baby, Kill," when it played there, calling attention to Bava's style and helping to spur on a cult audience for Bava in the U.S.
Posted by: Brian | July 31, 2008 at 08:01 AM
Hey, thanks for the shout-out Peter, very much appreciated.
Posted by: Todd Brown | July 31, 2008 at 09:41 AM
With "JCVD" surfacing in Toronto, some of us think the time is right for Jean Claude to get the Tarantino comeback treatment--as a French resistance fighter with a Gitane and a beret.
Posted by: David C | July 31, 2008 at 01:50 PM