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Motherhood didn’t quite work out for Uma Thurman when she was Quentin Tarantino??s yellow-suited Bride in “Kill Bill.” But in writer-director Katherine Dieckmann’s latest low-budget undertaking, Thurman finally gets a shot at The Bride’s fiercest unfulfilled dream: to give birth to and raise a child...
...lanie Laurent particularly shines as Shosanna Dreyfus, the only survivor of the opening massacre, convincingly alternating between terror at the prospect of encountering Landa and extraordinary bitterness at the way she has been treated by the Germans. As much as the characters contribute, the small details and Tarantino??s directorial vision are what make “Inglourious Basterds” so enjoyable. Samuel L. Jackson’s voiceover on the flammability of nitrate films, the brash and always entertaining soundtrack—highlighted by David Bowie’s “Cat People (Putting...
...seen many of the best and worst films of the last two decades, I have little to no knowledge of B-movies or older exploitation films. To be honest, I hadn’t even heard the word “grindhouse” until Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino??s spoof of the genre—which I also never saw—came out in 2007. So when I found out that the Brattle Theatre was showing a series called “Return to the Grindhouse,” I was intrigued, not only because...
...radiant as the imagined originals while remaining conscious of cost. According to Keun Jung Cho, a costume designer who is also a first-year student at the Graduate School of Design, the flowing robes and bright colors are inspired by both traditional Chinese dance and films like Quentin Tarantino??s “Kill Bill” and Zhang Yimou’s “Curse of the Golden Flower.”The two dresses created for Princess Turandot are by far the most elaborate. The first, a brilliant white lace nightgown, only appears...
...Grindhouse” isn’t meant to be a movie, it’s meant to be an experience. Envisioned as a tribute to the grimy heyday of grindhouse cinema in the ’60s and ’70s, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino??s double feature B-movie extravaganza screens as two separate flicks: Rodriguez’s zombie spectacular “Planet Terror” and Tarantino??s slasher/souped-up car ride “Death Proof.”The two are even separated by a series of faux...