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Thu
Mar
4
- Check out this treat! Jerry Seinfeld does a 5 minute set on Letterman. Always on the top of his game. NEWMAN!
Sat
Feb
13
- Funny Or Die has it’s new HBO show premiering this Friday at Midnight! Check out this exclusive preview!
Fri
Feb
12
Inglourious Basterds
Joy. Complete joy. It’s weird but that’s the feeling I had once the final credits began to roll for this fantastic film. I have not cared for a movie this much in quite some time, actually. It wasn’t the abundance of gore (a Tarantino staple) or the creepy foot fetish (another QT must have) but it had more to do with the seamless plot and extraordinarily interesting characters that reeled me in from the first scene of the movie.
Once you put the DVD in your player, you pretty much know this is a movie that deals with Nazis and some perverse story of obtaining quasi revenge. But never have we seen such a villain who is charming, eloquent, polite, multi-lingual and somewhat of a metro-sexual, yet at the same a brutal killer who toys with people’s lives. Well, except for the wonderful Dr. Hannibal Lector. (Couldn’t you just see Christoph Waltz appreciate a glass of Chianti?) He is utterly mesmerizing at any point he is on screen and it all becomes perfectly clear in that very first scene I alluded to. This is where we meet the ruthless yet sophisticated Colonel Hans Landa. He is chilling (and possibly being courteous) when yelling out to an escaped girl, “Au revoir, Shosanna!” (I actually discovered him when Aceman had him as a guest, as the film was premiering in LA, and just by listening to him I could feel the mammoth presence he carries.)
Quentin Tarantino is a phenomenal director and has never made something I haven’t liked. (I mean, Jackie Brown was OK, but Kill Bill was just plain great!) Each one treks down a singular path, usually in an inventive way that somehow influences cinema as a whole. This work is a dramatic, disturbing, imaginative delight. But there are a few key elements that I feel allow it to most resemble, possibly my favorite Quentin film, Pulp Fiction as opposed to any of his other movies. First of all, the dialogue is simply outstanding. (QT Never ceases to amaze with catchy free-flowing lingo that supports the movie’s pace). Mainly, the underlying humor is something to behold. You don’t normally see many WWII films with as many smiles or laughter as this one, but that is what enables Tarentino to be a cut above.
Also, and not a lesser reason by any means, the perfect cast of actors bring this whole comic book together. Brad Pitt and Eli Roth are incredible. Pitt’s Lt. Aldo Raine exudes confidence from others all while cracking jokes with a sinister smirk on his pretty face. His introductory speech to his men was Grade A: “Each and every man under my command owes me one hundred Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps.” - UNREAL!) Director/actor Eli Roth is awesome as the absurd Sgt. Donny Donowitz, er, I mean “The Bear Jew”. (Who knew that baseball was such a global sport back then?) On down the line of the remainder of misfits in their crew, each brings his own flair to the posse and it pays off big time!
Each chapter of this movie builds upon another beautifully and produces a masterpiece. There are so many tense moments that have you feeling super anxious but seconds later you could be giggling along with Aldo as he feeds the artist within himself with his knife as a brush and a forehead as his canvas. Let’s not forget the suprising ending and how remarkable it seems to conclude the film. All in all, I absolutely adored this movie and therefore it receives the highest honor I can offer; to quote Col. Landa, “Monsieur LaPadite, to both your family and your cows I say: Bravo.”
Sun
Feb
7
- Great piece in New York Magazine about real-life married couple Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally: http://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/63637/
Wed
Jan
13
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