Stars gather to celebrate winners of the 62nd edition of Cannes Film Festival.
After eleven days, hundreds of screenings and thousands of snaps from the paparazzi, there could only be one Palme d’Or winner. “The White Riband,” by Austrian director Michael Haneke, was awarded the prize for its depiction of the cruel punishments meted out at a rural German school before the First World War. The second-place grand prize went to French director Jacques Audiard’s prison drama “A Prophet.” The acting awards went to Charlotte Gainsbourg for Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist” and Christoph Waltz for Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds.”
Reviews of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is coming in from Cannes. Nice roundup posted on Nikki Finke’s site. Most of the buzz seems pretty good, although there’s definitely some critical opinions – not a shocker considering the film’s plot and Tarantino’s filmmaking sensibilities. Check them out.
“Today” Show anchor Ann Curry couldn’t keep her hands off the Hollywood hunk during an interview at the Cannes Film Festival, where Pitt is promoting his latest film, “Inglourious Basterds.” Curry, who has anchored NBC’s “Dateline” and “Nightly News,” playfully patted the actor on his chest and even grabbed his chin during the 7-minute interview, which aired Wednesday morning. “Women who watch the ‘Today’ show are really envious of me right now because I get to stand here in Cannes talking to you,” Curry said to the actor before asking him if he had anything to say to those said adoring female fans. – from NYDailynews
Quentin Tarantino has made an eye-catching return to the Cannes Film Festival with Inglourious Basterds, an epic World War II movie set in Nazi-occupied France. Tarantino swaps fact for pulp fiction in Inglourious Basterds, a comic revenge fantasy about Jewish freedom fighters bringing down the Nazis in 1944. Brad Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine, the leader of a gang of Jewish-American soldiers operating in occupied France whose self-proclaimed mission is “to kill as many Nazis as possible”. – from BBC
Empire has just seen Quentin Tarantino’s eagerly-awaited WWII flick, Inglourious Basterds, and it’s rather brilliant. Every bit as idiosyncratic as the spelling of its title, it’s a wonderfully-acted movie that subverts expectation at every turn. And it may represent the most confident, audacious writing and directing of QT’s career. – from Empire
“THIS ain’t your daddy’s World War II movie,” Quentin Tarantino said with a grin, standing on a street corner here that had been scrubbed of 21st-century signposts to become the set of “Inglourious Basterds,” his new film about a band of Jewish-American soldiers on a scalp-hunting revenge quest against the Nazis. Although it was mostly shot at Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam, Germany, the movie’s subtitle is “Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France.” So on a three-day sojourn in Paris in December, Mr. Tarantino and his bi-continental moviemaking coalition commandeered a 1904 bistro with peeling paint, Art Deco stained glass and a wall of windows overlooking an intersection of identifiably Parisian streets in the 18th Arrondissement. – From NY Times
Nobody seems too happy about Quentin Tarantino being a guest mentor on American Idol last night, but me – I’m absolutely ecstatic. I’m not in The States, so I didn’t have to see the show but I can reap the rewards remotely. This morning, Film School Rejects have posted an Inglourious Basterds video that was supposed to air on Idol last night and, sort of, did. A bit. Before getting cut off. Thanks to them, we have it for you below the break. The video contains new trailer-y shots, and the odd bit of behind the scenes footage. There’s more Brad Pitt, there’s more general Basterdry, there’s the first look at Mike Meyers in prosthetics-slash-character as Ed Fenech, a British General. You’ll see Tarantino and DP Robert Richardson before a shot is taken, and then afterward hear Tarantino leading the cast and crew in a bit of call and response. “Let’s do it one more time. Why?” he calls, and then they ‘all’ join in with a chorus of “Because we love making movies.” Hmmmm. – From SlashFilm
