Eli Roth is receiving a huge honor at the 5th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival on August 7th, they are giving him the Indie Film Visionary Award for his contribution to independent cinema!!! Here is what he posted on his MySpace blog about the well deserved honor, “Many people don’t realize that everything I’ve done has been independently made and later distributed by a studio, and from beginning I set out to redefine the perception of what an “indie” movie could be, so it really means a lot to me they’re recognizing me this way.” Besides accepting the award he will be introducing and showing his personal copy of Cabin Fever that is 4 minutes longer and those 240 extra seconds have not been seen since he did the film festival circuit back in 2002 and 2003 and is not available anywhere. He told me, “I’ll be there to introduce the film and to watch it with the crowd to see if it was necessary to cut those 4 minutes or not! ” (I’m sure after seeing it, it wouldn’t have been necessary.) Eli made that movie and the Hostels as independents and then sold them to the studios. He made Cabin Fever for less that $2 million and Hostel for less the $5 million and both movies grossed more than 50 times that. He was also credited with starting a new genre of horror with his movies. If that is not worthy of Indie Film Visionary Award, I am not sure what is!
Cabin Fever is one of my favorite films, and what he did with it and the DVD special features makes me respect him so much. I am a huge admirer of his work and I can’t wait to see Cabin Fever with him telling his stories about it in person. The price to see him and the movie is a mere $10 and you can get tickets at the HollyShorts site to see it on August 7th at 9:30p at the Laemmle Sunset 5.
August is going to be an awesome month for him! Not only will he getting this huge honor, but on August 21st he will make his lead role debut in Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic Inglourious Basterds with Brad Pitt! On the IB note, how freaking awesome is that poster of him as Donnie “The Bear Jew” Donowitz!!! Below is the newest TV spot for the movie!
Way to go Eli, look at the career you have had that started with making a film for just $1.5 million!!!
Brad Pitt is on the cover of August's Wired and he is answering your tech questions. I know Brad and technology go together like, well heck as he said in the mag we can find nude pictures of him on the internet! So to answer the question for the picture above, he brought along his Inglourious Basterds co-star Eli Roth, and seriously how hot do they look as slackers in band that hasn't made it out of garage. I would totally be like all Dawn Wiener in Welcome to the Dollhouse if they really had band!
So what is the question for the above picture?
Our Rock Band bassist sucks. Am I a total jerk if I kick him out? Who cares? You shred, he doesn't. Fire his ass. Bonus: It'll put the others on notice. Anyone who doesn't keep up can hit the road. Even if that means firing the whole band. Remember: All great artists go solo eventually. Just think of Ronnie James Frickin' Dio.
Wow, Brad is a Dio fan? Never saw that coming. You can read what other knowledge he shares with us when Wired comes out on July 21, a month before Inglourious Basterds on August 21st!!!
Wired also posted this picture of Brad Pitt taking a whiz and it reminded of a TMI interview that Eli Roth recently did with MTV Movies Blog.
“I was wondering: ‘You’re at a baseball game and you have to take a p-ss,” Roth said with a laugh, remembering his query on the set of “Inglourious Basterds.” “What do you do?”’
Credit Mr. Angelina Jolie with an open-book answer, as Pitt told Roth that it happens to him all the time. “It’s a real problem,” Roth recalled Pitt's response. “[He told me] 'you go into a bathroom at Dodger Stadium, and everyone is looking at you. It’s kind of weird… you have to wait until the Dodgers are up, and it thins out – and then you find an empty stall.'”
Now thanks to Wired we can picture why everyone is looking at him when he is trying to do his business.
Want to know the question to this photo?
Can I talk on the phone while taking a whiz? No, you can't talk on the phone! Do you want the guy next to you to hear your entire conversation? That's why you should only text in the bathroom. Just be sure you don't hit the wrong button and end up putting a photo of your junk on Twitter. Trust me, you don't want those followers.
Hey, I say you can never have enough pictures of Brad Pitt's junk, what do you think?
xoxo Justin!!!
UPDATE: Wired just posted a picture of Lt Aldo Raine and the biggest Basterd of them all, Quentin Tarantino (looking the best I have ever seen him) at movie theater answering this question…
Can I answer my cell during a movie if it seems urgent? Never. It may be a brief interruption—just a few seconds—but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called "emergency." Don't be so damn selfish.
That is my favorite answer yet! BTW I so wonder what movie they are watching that the kid is freaked out like that???
Quentin Tarantino, an obvious non-Jew, was almost finished writing a movie that will re-write a chapter in Jewish history, so how does he capture the emotion that the Jewish people will feel when they see his WWII epic Inglourious Basterds? Well he went to his Jewish BFF and future star of the movie, Eli Roth for some advice. Here is what the The Bear Jew told Black Book Magazine about how QT and him broke unleavened bread aka matzah to make what looks like a powerful film even more impactful.
Did you teach Quentin anything about gore and how to make things look more gruesome?
Quentin knows everything about gore. We have the same effects guys. What I did teach Quentin about was, while he was writing it, I sort of became the Jewish technical advisor.
How so?
There were just certain psychological things that he would kind of gut check with me. Would a Jew do this? Or do you think this way? Before he wrote the last chapter, I came over in April of 2008 and said if you want real insight into Jewish psychology, you should come over to my Passover Seder at my house in Los Angeles. I’m not very religious, but my family celebrates Passover. He had never seen that side of me, because truthfully, I rarely let it out. So, he’s never really seen me as a Jew.
Wow. So how did Quentin do?
He did Great! My father is a psychoanalyst, and he really loves Quentin, and they really get along. It was my parents, my brothers, and very close friends. There was like 20 of us and Quentin. Half of it we were joking and doing it in our Boston accents, and half of it turned into this very intense philosophical discussion. After the Seder he was like, I’m gonna go home and finish the script.
Did Quentin read from the Haggadah?
Oh yeah, we all did. I make everyone read. They don’t have to read it in Hebrew. We do it in Boston accents, Jewish accents, we have fun with it. But it always turns into real serious discussions about the Holocaust. Quentin was talking about absolution and the concept of absolution, and I said to him, you know, absolution really is a Christian concept. So the Jews, I was like, we collect interest. We just get angrier about stuff over the years. We don’t just forgive, and we don’t forget anything. I was like, I would kill every one of these motherfuckers. I wouldn’t forgive any of them.
So in that spirit was it cathartic for you, as a Jew, to be able to beat shit out of fake Nazis?
What I realized was not only was it cathartic for me, it was cathartic for them [the German actors]. They’re this whole generation of people who have nothing to do with it. They are burdened by what their grandparents did—this horrible, unthinkable thing, and they’re getting stuck with the blame for it. So all of us wanted to kill it. And the guy playing Hitler, and girls, they were like let’s fucking kill these guys. Let’s just do it. Kill them. They all had fantasies about killing these guys. So they wanted the deaths to be as violent as possible. It was like, let’s go kill them together and make a great scene.
After reading this interview with Eli, you can see how much Quentin Tarantino cared to make sure that this movie was done right and respectfully. I admire that about him.
What I also thought was extremely interesting in his interview is when he said the German actors felt the same way he did about killing Nazis. That is something I never heard before. It really sounds like Inglourious Basterds is going to change the way that a lot of people feel in modern day towards some people for something that happened in the past. Really really interesting.
BTW Eli also talked to Black Book Magazine about his experience at Cannes during the premiere of the movie in May and you can really feel what a powerful moment it was for everyone involved with the film.
I seriously can’t wait until August 21st to see Inglourious Basterds!
Inglourious Basterds is less than two months away, and now with the debut of the full trailer we are finally getting more insight into Quentin Tarantino’s WWII Epic starring Brad Pitt, Eli Roth and Diane Kruger. In the full trailer we are finally seeing the plot that the Basterds have to take down the Third Reich and Hitler. How thrilling does that explosive plot look! I so can’t wait for this movie on August 21st.
Sadly though I read over the weekend in NYMag that Cloris Leachman’s scene got cut from the movie.
Did your part really get cut out of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds?
I have heard that, and I would suspect that that’s true, because it’s very long and my thing isn’t woven into the plot. It would be a very good scene to cut, in the sense that it wouldn’t hurt the picture. It’s a wonderful little scene. I love doing it and he loved it, too, but it’s not going to make or break the film.
What happens in the scene?
I’m an old Jewish woman in Brooklyn — we shot it in Berlin, but it’s supposed to be in Brooklyn — and I open the door and this young man [Eli Roth] is standing there and he asks me to sign his bat. He’s heard about these Germans, what they’re doing to Jews and he asks, “Is there anybody who’s been affected by the Nazis?†and I look at him and start signing my sister’s name. And you know that they’re just going to take the bat and just kill some Nazis.
We were hoping you’d reprise your role as the German grandma from Beerfest.
No. It’s a very serious movie. A thrilling script. Oh my goodness. I’m sorry. I wish it would be in because it’s a very good scene with a marvelous writer. But you can’t be upset about these things. It’s part of the business. I always think a better bus will come along that I’ll catch.
How can they cut out Cloris? There is always time for Miss Leachman. Plus that scene where Eli Roth goes to the families of people who are affected by the Nazis and has them sign the bat he will use to collect his scalps sounds so powerful. Hopefully since Quentin is rumored to be re-editing the movie that debuted last month at Cannes, he will add that scene to film.
UPDATE: The above trailer was only a TV spot, here is the full trauler that is :18 seconds longer!
