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Quentin Tarantino: Christoph Waltz just comes out of my pen
KAREN BUTLER || United Press International
NEW YORK, April 19 (UPI) — Oscar-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino says after working with Christoph Waltz on 2009’s “Inglourious Basterds,” he found himself writing a role specifically for Austrian actor in “Django Unchained.”
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Tarantino adjusts 'Django' blood color for China release
BEIJING, April 10 (UPI) — Sony Pictures says some of the gore in Quentin Tarantino‘s blood-soaked, 19th century epic “Django Unchained” is to be toned down for its release in China.
Win RZA Headphones With His Debut Movie
Presented by Quentin Tarantino and directed by RZA of Wu-Tang Clan, The Man With The Iron Fists is a kung fu action adventure that tells the story of a lone outsider hero in 19th-century China who must team up with warriors and assassins to destroy a clan traitor.
The Man With The Iron Fists hits Blu-ray and DVD on April 1st, and to celebrate we’ve got a pair of cool WeSC headphones (designed by RZA himself), plus Blu-rays and soundtracks to give away to our UK readers.
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Movie Review: Django Unchained, by The Weinstein Co.
By David Lauterborn Django earns the handle “fastest gun in the South,” even if director Quentin Tarantino spends too long in the saddle getting him there.
The 50 Greatest Quentin Tarantino Characters
Oscar-winning screenwriter, foot fetishist and shutter-down of butts, Quentin Tarantino turns 50 this week; a birthday that ages all who remember him being labelled “the hottest young director in Hollywood”. Tarantino has gifted cinema dozens of classic characters in his half century, from Reservoir Dogs through Django Unchained – plus, of course, via movies he wrote, like True Romance and Natural Born Killers. It’s easy to forget the wealth of talent that has at some point agreed to be QT‘s mouthpiece – Pitt! Clooney! Willis! De Niro! Oldman! – so whether or not the quality of Quentin’s output decreases as he begins the backslide into old age as he predicted, let’s just be grateful that for now, the Tarantino universe boasts an unforgettable cast of heroes, villains and everyone in between.
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies
Quentin Tarantino’s Birthday: 50 Movie Quotes To Celebrate Director’s 50th Birthday
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Famed director Quentin Tarantino turns the ripe old age of 50 on Wednesday, March 27. Tarantino made his name with bold, boundary-pushing films such as 1992’s “Reservoir Dogs,” 1994’s “Pulp Fiction,” and 1997’s “Jackie Brown.”
Tarantino was nominated for Best Director for “Pulp Fiction” at the 1995 Oscars, but he won the award for Best Original Screenplay at the ceremony. In 2010, “Inglourious Basterds” earned Tarantino Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director, while 2013’s Best Picture-nominee “Django Unchained” also won Tarantino the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
In celebration of Tarantino’s 50th birthday, we’ve compiled 50 of the best quotes from his films. Click through below and let us know your favorites in the comments.
Sam Mendes Lists His Movie Inspirations
Sam Mendes won the Inspiration Award at the Jameson Empire do last night, and the Skyfall director gave a fantastic speech in which he listed the films and scenes that have inspired him.
And as we thought it was such a great collection of movie moments, we’ve transcribed the speech for your reading pleasure:
“I want to thank Stanley Kubrick for the war room in Dr. Strangelove, Billy Wilder for C.C. Baxter in The Apartment, Kurosawa for the death of the king in Throne of Blood, Martin Scorsese for panning a camera down an empty corridor in Taxi Driver, Joel and Ethan Coen for the last scene between Marge and Norm in bed at the end of Fargo, Paul Thomas Anderson for the deafening of H.W. Plainview in There Will be Blood, Bergman for the visit of B.B. Anderson to Liv Ullman in the dead of night in Persona, Francis Coppola for the killing of Fredo Corleone in The Godfather II, David Fincher for the first scene of The Social Network, Bob Fosse for the audition sequence at the beginning of All That Jazz, Quentin Tarantino for Christopher Walken’s speech about the watch in Pulp Fiction, Woody Allen for the fireworks over Manhattan, Clint Eastwood for making it rain at the end of Unforgiven, Michael Powell for the moment Moira Shearer steps into the ballet of The Red Shoes, David Lynch for the car journey with Frank Booth in Blue Velvet, Mike Nichols for Benjamin in the swimming pool in The Graduate, Francois Truffaut for the moment the boy looks into the lens at the end of 400 Blows, and Wim Wenders for the moment Harry Dean Stanton sees Nastassja Kinski after all those years at the end of Paris, Texas.”
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies
Quentin Tarantino Films: The Zoom Ins (MASHUP)
By The Huffington Post News Editors
We all know Quentin Tarantino has a penchant for drama. His vision often plays out in vomit-inducing, absolutely glorious blood bath — or spraying — scenes. And while the scalping in “Inglorious Basterds” showcases this aspect of his directorial flair, Tarantino has a subtler, though nonetheless effective and characteristically his, technique — the camera zoom. Some of the zooms are swift and kitschy, like most used in the sick sword scenes in “Kill Bill Vol. 1″ and “Kill Bill Vol. 2.” Others crawl at an agonizing pace, like in the last scene of “Reservoir Dogs” (SPOILER ALERT) where Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) is cradling the maimed body of Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) before he puts a shotgun to his friend’s head to blow his brains and put him out of misery. As an ode to the Tarantino zoom in, HuffPost made a mashup of a handful of the best.
Video produced by Amber Genuske.
‘Don’t Call Me Oscar’ Tumblr: Mom Recreates 2013 Best Picture Nominees With Babies (PHOTOS)
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Oscar nominee “Django Unchained” has been called “ferociously profane” and “disturbing,” but the movie has certainly never been considered “cute.” Until now, that is. A shot of 2-and-a-half-year-old Sophia Storino posed as Quentin Tarantino is so adorable that it’s easy to forget this is a film filled with the actor/writer/director’s trademark profanity and gore.
The image was made by mom of two Maggie Storino for her Tumblr “Don’t Call Me Oscar” which went live last year with parody stills from all the best picture nominees. Now, Maggie is back with the 2013 versions, starring Sophia, Sophia’s 1-year-old little sister Sadie, and their 2-year-old friend Hudson. The results are delightful — even if you have no idea what any of the films are about because you haven’t been to the movies since you had kids yourself. (Not that we know anything about that.)
Click through the slideshow below to see what “Argo”, “Lincoln”, and the like would look like with babies and toddlers in the lead roles. And make sure to check out last year’s shots right here!
SNL's Fake Tarantino Movie
Oscar winner Christoph Waltz hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend where the show parodied the films of his Django Unchained and Inglourious Basterds director Quentin Tarantino in the short below:
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies
How Many Characters Has Tarantino Killed?
Ever wonder just how many characters director Quentin Tarantino has killed off in his movies? Well, now it’s all been broken down for you in simple infographic form thanks to the image below from Vanity Fair:
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies
Affleck's Argo Wins Big at BAFTAs
Argo won big at this year’s BAFTAs, with the political thriller picking up both best picture, and best director for Ben Affleck’s work behind the camera.
Skyfall was named best British film, the first major award that the Bond series has won in more than 50 years.
Quentin Tarantino picked up the original screenplay award for Django Unchained, with Christoph Waltz winning best supporting actor for his turn in the hugely successful western.
And as expected, Daniel Day-Lewis was named best actor for his performance in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln.
Full list of winners…
Best Film: Argo
Director: Ben Affleck – Argo
Leading Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies
Will the NFL Fine Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco For On-Camera Profanity?
By Jeff Bercovici, Forbes Staff Football players aren’t kindergarten teachers, and the kinds of things they say to each other after the whistle would curl Quentin Tarantino‘s hair. But they’re not supposed to do it on camera — a rule Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco broke shortly after his team’s victory in Super Bowl XLVII.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
Did You Spot Amber Tamblyn in Django?
If you blinked you might have missed her, but Joan of Arcadia star Amber Tamblyn did in fact make a brief appearance in Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained. She played “Daughter of a Son of a Gunfighter,” while her dad, Son of a Gunfighter star Russ Tamblyn, played — you guessed it — “Son of a Gunfighter.” But how exactly did this father-daughter duo end up on screen for Tarantino’s western?
“Quentin’s a good friend of mine,” Amber Tamblyn told Vulture. “And he lost a drinking bet, and the drinking bet was, if I could out-drink him in whiskey, I could play a cameo. I can out-drink twenty Quentin Tarantino impersonators at the same time with whiskey,” she joked. “I’m Scottish.”
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies
Pinning The $500 Tail On The Apple
By JJ Kinahan, Contributor Last Friday, on expiration day, we had one of the greatest nightmares for options buyers come to fruition. Whether you were long Calls or Puts, it was as traumatic as a fight scene from a Quentin Tarantino movie. The situation I am referring to is known in the options world as being “pinned”, and it did not mean that you were on your way to a 300 perfect score à la the late, great bowler Earl Anthony. In fact, this pin is more like rolling a gutter ball, as it refers to a situation in which a stock closes at a strike price on expiration day. The good part is that it represents a teachable moment for buyers and sellers of options.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
Connecting the Tarantino Universe
Some directors are so unique, you can flip to one of their films out of the blue and instinctively know who made it. Sometimes it’s down to distinctive dialogue; other times it’s visual flair you identify; and if Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are starring, there are no prizes for guessing you’re watching a Tim Burton movie. Quentin Tarantino, however, has spent the 20 years between Reservoir Dogs and Django Unchained crafting an intricate, instantly recognisable movie universe – one which boasts a family tree of miscreants that overlap between movies in weird and wonderful ways.
These connections – however subtle they may be – bear little effect on the plots of Tarantino’s movies. Instead, they’re like Easter Eggs that reward observant onlookers: in-jokes that might mean nothing to us, but mean the world to their creator. They say a good tactic in screenwriting is to imagine a back story for everyone, including the incidental characters. You suspect Quentin Tarantino could easily write a two-part epic for even his most ancillary players.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies
N-Word Uttered Twice at Globes
By Evann Gastaldo 
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Newser – Home
Tarantino, asked about violent movies: 'I refuse your question'
LONDON, Jan. 11 (UPI) — U.S. director Quentin Tarantino says he still sees no connection between film and real-life violence, but heatedly refused to tell a British TV journalist why.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at UPI Entertainment
Quentin Tarantino yells at interviewer when asked about movie violence
“You can’t make me dance to your tune. I’m not a monkey?.I refuse,” the director fumed.
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