Cannes 2009: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds
Richard Corliss/Mary Corliss in Time:
"… Inglourious Basterds — first word as in "glower," second as in "turds" — is an alternative history of World War II from the writer-director of Pulp Fiction, the Palme d’Or winner 15 years ago. As with all of his recent work — the two Kill Bill movies and Death Proof — Basterds draws portraits of strong women facing down evil men; and in Shoshanna (Mélanie Laurent) and Third Reich screen star Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) he’s created two of his fullest female portraits. But Basterds is long and, for the hypercharged auteur, surprisingly wan. It has to be declared a misfire."
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J. Hoberman in The Village Voice:
"So what is [...]
by Massimo David | May 20, 2009
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Tags: Brad Pitt, Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, David Bowie, Diane Kruger, Ennio Morricone, Film Festivals, Geoffrey Macnab, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill, Mélanie Laurent, Nazis, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Rod Taylor, The Independent, Total Film, Uma Thurman, Winston Churchill, World War II
THE RAPE OF EUROPA, OCHBERG’S ORPHANS Screening
Ochberg’s Orphans (right) and The Rape of Europa will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 27th annual "Contemporary Documentaries" series on Wednesday, April 1, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.
Directed by Jon Blair and produced by Blair, Paul Goldin and Georgina Townsley, Ochberg’s Orphans tells the story of a South African businessman’s efforts to save 300,000 Jewish Russian children who had been orphaned in anti-Semitic attacks during the Russian Revolution and ensuing civil war.
Directed and produced by Richard Berge, Nicole Newnham and Bonni Cohen, The Rape of Europa depicts the theft and destruction — [...]
by Andre Soares | March 24, 2009
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Tags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Anti-Semitism, Bonni Cohen, Contemporary Documentaries, Documentaries, Jon Blair, Los Angeles Screenings, Nicole Newnham, Ochberg's Orphans, Political Movies, Richard Berge, The Rape of Europa, World War II
