CINEmelma: inglorious basterds

Non che sia privo di pecche, ma se non altro Inglourious Basterds mi ha riconciliato con Quentin Tarantino, dopo la delusione di Death Proof.

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:

"Un amore di strega" (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
"Per una notte d'amore" (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
Hostel: Part II (2007) .... Art Class Professor [attrice]
La stella dei re (2007) (TV) .... (producer) [produttore]
Angela (2005) (TV) .... (producer) [produttore]
Lucia (2005) (TV) .... (producer) [produttore]
Matilde (2005) (TV) .... (producer) [produttore]
"La omicidi" (2004) .... (producer) [produttore]
Part Time (2004) (TV) .... (producer) [produttore]
The Merchant of Venice (2004) .... (co-producer) [produttore]

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.

Roth, Eli

Nome di battesimo: Roth, Eli Raphael
Data di nascita: 18 April 1972
Altezza: 6' (1.83 m)

Ultimi lavori:

Piranha 3-D (2010) .... Wet t-shirt contest emcee [attore]
Cotton (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
Inglourious Basterds (2009) .... Sgt. Donny Donowitz [attore]
Death Proof (2007) .... Dov [attore]
Grindhouse (2007) .... (producer) (fake trailer segment) [produttore]
Hostel: Part II (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
Southland Tales (2006) .... Man who gets shot on Toilet (uncredited) (unconfirmed) [attore]
2001 Maniacs (2005) .... (producer) [produttore]
Disaster! (2005) .... Lumberjack (voice) [attore]
Hostel (2005) .... (producer) [produttore]

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.

Tarantino, Quentin

Nome di battesimo: Tarantino, Quentin Jerome
Data di nascita: 27 March 1963
Altezza: 6' 1" (1.85 m)

Ultimi lavori:

Machete (2010) .... (producer) [produttore]
Inglourious Basterds (2009) .... (written by) [scrittore]
Hell Ride (2008) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
Death Proof (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
Diary of the Dead (2007) .... Newsreader (voice) (uncredited) [attore]
Grindhouse (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
Hostel: Part II (2007) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
Planet Terror (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) .... Ringo [attore]
Freedom's Fury (2006) .... (executive producer) [produttore]

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.

3 commenti:

Seconda serata ha detto...: Nazisti, Brad Pitt, Quentin Tarantino, Hitler che (...) sono tutte cose che porterebbero a 50 km da qui, al cinema più vicino...
Il Torneo degli Oscar è arrivato alle nomination del 1981, vota quando vuoi...; 05 ottobre, 2009 09:32
SOLO FILM ha detto...: Quando Tarantino è dietro la macchina da presa, davanti è grande cinema.; 09 ottobre, 2009 21:30
Seconda serata ha detto...: E ne stanno tutti parlando benissimo, supera quasi Pulp Fiction...; 10 ottobre, 2009 12:37

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domenica 4 ottobre 2009

inglorious basterds

Fenech, Edwige

Pitt, Brad

Roth, Eli

Waltz, Christoph

Tarantino, Quentin

Margheriti, Antonio

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Castellari, Enzo G.

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