Muriel picks the best picture of 2009 tomorrow, but over the last couple of days she’s racked up three picks in major categories that definitely go against conventional wisdom and are sure to bunch up more than a few pairs of undies. Though none of them received my first place vote, I like all the [...]
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Inglourious Basterds really has a pair
Say ‘auf wiedersehen” to your Nazi balls boys and girls. The Muriel Awards for Best Ensemble and Best Screenplay both went to Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
My votes:
Ensemble:
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox
3. Summer Hours
4. Me and Orson Welles
5. A Serious Man
Screenplay:
1. A Serious Man
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. Summer Hours
4. Everlasting Moments
5. [...]
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Muriel continues to spread the love for the best in cinema in the year that was 2009.
This time Christoph Waltz nabs the award for Best Cinematic Breakthrough honoring “a performer, filmmaker, or technician who made a notable debut in film, took his/her career to a higher level, or revealed unforeseen layers to his/her talent during [...]
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More Tarantino non-news about a Kill Bill sequel makes the rounds and we’re left to wonder why.
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The Internet became engorged a couple of days ago with new enthusiasm over a possible sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill when the notoriously chatty director spouted off on an Italian TV show about his desire to pick up the story of Beatrix Kiddo 10 years after the original – 2014 for those of you [...]
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Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France…
Inglourious Basterds is a rambunctious, revenge fueled, “what if” rewrite of history that could only have been made by a cinematic savant like Quentin Tarantino. Here is a man who views the world through a camera lens winning World War II with the power of sound and images. [...]
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I’m still mulling over Inglourious Basterds, but the good news is that it’s terrific. It’s much slower, talkier and in a way more serious than I expected, but damnit it works. I haven’t dug into the negative reviews yet, but its safe to say a certain movie blogger who was morally outraged by the movie [...]
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So, Jeff Wells hated Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Fair enough, but his reasoning is hypocritical nonsense.
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Melanie Laurent in Inglourious Basterds
I’ve grown weary of showing clips of movies before they come out, but I’ve been riding Inglourious Basterds pretty hard and you might be interested in a little more juice so… here apparently is a link to nine clips over at IESB. Don’t know what they entail because I refuse to [...]
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What’s fishy about this trailer for Nation’s Pride?
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