Non che sia privo di pecche, ma se non altro
Inglourious Basterds mi ha riconciliato con
Quentin Tarantino, dopo la delusione di
Death Proof.
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Sicuramente troppo lungo coi suoi 153 minuti, con una parte centrale che meritava qualche potatura per risultare più scorrevole, mostra comunque molte della caratteristiche che hanno reso giustamente famoso Quentin.
Storia alternativa ambientata nella Francia occupata dai Nazisti, segue le vicende convergenti di un gruppo di soldati inviati a seminare il panico tra le linee nemiche con i loro metodi brutali, e di una ebrea che si è vista sterminare la famiglia, ora direttrice di un cinema parigino scelto come sede della premiere di un film di propaganda nazista.
Si parla davvero tantissimo, ma grazie al cielo i dialoghi sono quasi sempre di ottimo livello.
Davvero ottimi tutti gli interpreti a partire da
Brad Pitt, anche se ad onor del vero non lo si vede poi così spesso. Immenso
Christoph Waltz.
Perfette le musiche, così come la regia che - come d'abitudine - indugia sui suoi soliti feticismi; stavolta senza eccedere troppo, se non altro.
C'è relativamente poca azione, ma ogni episodio è una vera gioia sanguinaria per gli occhi: immediata, feroce e senza sconti. Si può chiedere più quantità, ma non più qualità.
Peccato solo che i vari
Basterds non abbiano ricevuto l'approfondimento che meritavano (a cominciare da
Eli Roth nei panni dell'
Orso Ebreo).
Oltre al film-nel-film, innumerevoli le citazioni cinematografiche sia d'epoca che moderne, inclusi riferimenti ad
Edwige Fenech ed
Antonio Margheriti (che nessuno in sala ha colto...) e la presenza di
Enzo G. Castellari.
Insomma: bello.
Voto: 8
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Fenech, Edwige
Nome di battesimo: Sfenek, Edwige
Data di nascita: 24 December 1948
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Stunningly gorgeous and charismatic brunette actress Edwige Fenech was born as Edwige Sfenek on December 24, 1948 in Bone, Constantine, France to a Maltese father and Italian mother. Edwige began her show business career as a participant in beauty contests (she won the title of "Miss Mannequin de la Cote d'Azur" at age 16 and even won a Miss France beauty contest) and worked as a photo model prior to making her film debut in the 1967 comedy "All Mad About Him." Fenech appeared in such saucy West German sex farces as "The Blonde and the Black Pussycat" and "Sexy Susan Sins Again" in the late 60's. With her lustrous long black hair, lovely, sensuous face, full, shapely figure, and smoldering screen presence, Edwige soon became a very popular and much sought after actress in a diverse array of European productions made in Italy, France, Spain, and West Germany. Fenech achieved her greatest enduring cult cinema popularity by starring in several superior Italian giallos for director Sergio Martino: "Next!," "Demons of the Dead," and "Your Vice Is a Closed Room and Only I Have the Key." (She was the onetime girlfriend of Martino's producer brother Luciano.) Edwige also acted for Martino in a handful of racy Italian sex comedies and the Italian mini-series "Delitti Privati." Other noted Italian film directors Fenech has acted in movies for are Mario Bava ("Five Dolls for an August Moon"), Guliano Carnimeo ("The Case of the Bloody Iris"), Andrea Bianchi ("Strip Nude for Your Killer"), Umberto Lenzi ("The Great Battle"), Steno ("Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot"), Dino Risi ("I'm Photogenic"), and Ruggero Deodato ("Phantom of Death"). She demonstrated her exceptional range and skill as an actress with enjoyably uninhibited performances in such amusingly bawdy Italian comedic romps as "The Naughty Nun," "Ubalda, All Naked and Warm," and "Sexy Schoolteacher." Edwige became a television personality in the 80's and made frequent appearances on an Italian chat show along with fellow giallo goddess Barbara Bouchet. Moreover, Fenech launched her own fashion line and founded her own film production company Immagine e Cinema S.r.l. with her son Edwin (she co-produced the 2004 movie "The Merchant of Venice" as well as various Italian TV mini-series and made-for-TV features). In the mid 90's Edwige was engaged to famous Italian industrialist Luca di Montezemolo. More recently Edwige Fenech made a welcome return to acting with a funny small part as an alluring art class professor in Eli Roth's "Hostel: Part II."
Trivia random: She has an entry in Jean Tulard's Dictionnaire du Cinéma/Les Acteurs, published in Paris in 2007 (page 47).
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Pitt, Brad
Nome di battesimo: Pitt, William Bradley
Data di nascita: 18 December 1963
Altezza: 5' 11" (1.80 m)
Coniuge: Jennifer Aniston::(29 July 2000 - 2 October 2005) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Brad Pitt was born in 1963 in Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri. His mother's name is Jane Etta Hillhouse. His father, William (Bill) Pitt, worked in management at a trucking firm in Springfield. He has a younger brother, Douglas (Doug) Pitt and a younger sister Julie Neal Pitt. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student government and school musicals. Pitt attended the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism with a focus on advertising. He occasionally acted in fraternity shows. He left college two credits short of graduating to move to California. Before he became successful at acting, Pitt supported himself by driving strippers in limos, moving refrigerators and dressing as a giant chicken while working for "el Pollo Loco."
Trivia random: Voted "Best Actor" by viewers of MTV's "The Big Picture" (1988) in 1995.
Citazione random: [US Weekly, 9/18/00] Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
Salario massimo: $30,000,000 ($10m salary + backend participations), per Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Roth, Eli
Nome di battesimo: Roth, Eli Raphael
Data di nascita: 18 April 1972
Altezza: 6' (1.83 m)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Eli Roth began shooting Super 8 films at the age of eight, after watching Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) and vomiting, and deciding he wanted to be a producer/director. With his brothers and friends, ketchup for blood and his father's power tools, he made over fifty short films before attending film school at N.Y.U., where he won a student Academy Award and graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1994. He worked in film and theater production in New York City for many years, doing every job from production assistant to assistant editor to assistant to the director. At the age of 20 Roth was development head for producer Fred Zollo, a position he soon left to write full time. To earn a living, Roth did budgets and schedules for the films A Price Above Rubies (1998) and Illuminata (1998) and often worked as a stand-in, where he could watch directors work with the actors. In 1995, Roth co-wrote the script that would eventually become Cabin Fever (2002) with friend Randy Pearlstein, and the two spent many years unsuccessfully trying to get the film financed. Roth left New York in 1999 to live in Los Angeles, and within four months got funding for his animation series "Chowdaheads" (1999). Roth and friend Noah Belson (Cabin Fever (2002)'s Guitar Man) wrote and voiced the episodes, which Roth produced, directed and designed. The episodes were due to run on W.C.W.'s #1 rated series "WCW Monday Nitro" (1995) but the C.E.O. was fired a day before they were scheduled to air, and the episodes never ran. Roth used the episodes to set up a stop motion series called The Rotten Fruit (2003) (V) which he produced, directed and animated, as well as co-wrote and voiced with friend Belson. Between the two animated series, Roth worked closely with director David Lynch, producing content for the website davidlynch.com. In 2001, Roth filmed Cabin Fever (2002) on a shoestring budget of $1.5 million, with private equity he and his producers raised from friends and family. The film was the subject of a bidding war at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival, eventually won by Lion's Gate, instantly doubling their investors' money. It went on to not only be the highest grossing film for Lion's Gate in 2003, but the most profitable horror film released that year, garnering critical acclaim from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Empire Magazine, and such filmmakers as Peter Jackson, Quentin Tarantino and Tobe Hooper . Roth used the film's success to launch a slew of projects, including Scavenger Hunt, a teen comedy he will write and direct for Universal Studios, and The Box, a horror thriller he is co-writing with Richard Kelly that Roth will also direct. In May of 2003, Roth joined forces with filmmakers Boaz Yakin, Scott Spiegel, and Greenestreet Films in New York to form Raw Nerve, LLC, a new production company that will produce 3-5 intense, scary, lower budget horror films annually.
Trivia random: Member of the unofficial Splat Pack, a term coined by film historian Alan Jones in Total Film magazine for the modern wave of directors making brutally violent horror films. The other Splat Pack members are Alexandre Aja, Darren Lynn Bousman, Neil Marshall, Greg Mclean, James Wan, Leigh Whannell and Rob Zombie.
Citazione random: I know your second film can make or break you, because you're either a bona fide director or a one hit wonder.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Waltz, Christoph
Data di nascita: 4 October 1956
Altezza: 5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Ultimi lavori: Trivia random: Is divorced from his first wife. They have three adult children.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Tarantino, Quentin
Nome di battesimo: Tarantino, Quentin Jerome
Data di nascita: 27 March 1963
Altezza: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:In January of 1992, Reservoir Dogs (1992) appeared at the Sundance Film Festival, by first-time writer-director Quentin Tarantino. The film garnered critical acclaim and the director became a legend immediately. Two years later, he followed up Dogs success with Pulp Fiction (1994) which premiered at the Cannes film festival, winning the coveted Palme D'Or Award. At the 1995 Academy Awards, it was nominated for the best picture, best director and best original screenplay. Tarantino and writing partner Roger Avary came away with the award only for best original screenplay. In 1995, Tarantino directed one fourth of the anthology Four Rooms (1995) with friends and fellow auteurs Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez and Allison Anders. The film opened on December 25th in the United States to very weak reviews. Tarantino's next film was From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), a vampire/crime story which he wrote and co-starred with George Clooney. The film did fairly well theatrically.
Trivia random: Six of his movies are mentioned in FHM's (DK) 100 Best Male Movies Ever (7 October 2004 issue): True Romance (1993) at #75, From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) at #73, Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) at #26, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) at #25, Reservoir Dogs (1992) at #11, and Pulp Fiction (1994) at #1.
Citazione random: When I first discovered Howard Hawks, I spent a year and a half reading the TV guide and they played about 80 percent of his entire oeuvre on Los Angeles TV. Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, Sergio Leone and Hawks were a huge influence on me.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Margheriti, Antonio
Data di nascita: 19 September 1930
Data di morte: 4 November 2002
Ultimi lavori: Trivia random: Father of Edoardo Margheriti and Antonella Margheriti.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Bastardi senza gloria
Regista: Quentin Tarantino Scrittore: Quentin Tarantino Genere: Drama, War
Valutazione: 8.6/10 (72464 voti) [#43 nella top250]
Durata: 153 min
Paese: USA, Germany
Lingua: English, German, French, Italian
Cast:Trama:In Nazi occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movie premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's plans are set in motion, their paths will cross for a fateful evening that will shake the very annals of history.
Trivia random: When asked about the misspelled title, director Quentin Tarantino gave the following answer: "Here's the thing. I'm never going to explain that. You do an artistic flourish like that, and to explain it would just take the piss out of it and invalidate the whole stroke in the first place."
Citazione random: Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz: Say "auf Wiedersehen" to your Nazi balls!
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Castellari, Enzo G.
Nome di battesimo: Girolami, Enzo
Data di nascita: 29 July 1938
Ultimi lavori: Trivia random: Was offered the opportunity to direct Zombi 2 (1979), but turned down because he thought he could not direct a horror movie. Lucio Fulci eventually directed it.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb. 
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