These pictures of Quentin Tarantino demonstrating Big Gerry on Eli Roth have Caption Me written all over them, so go ahead do it!
Don't forget you can see QT's WWII masterpiece Inglourious Basterds starring the multi-talented Eli Roth next Friday, August 21st!
Here is a plea to my Canadian readers, can one of my neighbors to the North please upload the MTV Live segment those pictures are from and let me know when you do?
The cast of Inglourious Basterds took over Hollywood Blvd for their big premiere of The Weinstein Company movie and boy did they look glourious!!! Quentin Tarantino and his Basterds Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Melanie Laurent, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, BJ Novak, Omar Doom and Michael Fassenbender all worked the blood colored carpet last night!
I just love those pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Joilie looking so in love, seriously they are the sweetest couple in Hollywood. Another thing I adored from the carpet is that even though Cloris Leachman was cut from the movie, she still came out to the premiere and was greeted by QT!!!
Inglourious Basterds is out on August 21st and after seeing the WWII epic on Saturday, all I can say is "Holy f*cking sh!t wow! I so loved this movie!!!" Seriously I think this is Quentin Tarantino's best work to date and I can totally see why Christoph Waltz won the acting honor at Cannes because his performance will blow you away! Next week I will write a much much longer review of the phenomenal movie and post interviews with Michael Fassenbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz and BJ Novak! So cancel whatever you planned from next Friday, cancel it and go see Inglourious Basterds. It's the movie everyone will be talking about for months to and you don't want to miss out on the conversation about this movie that changes history!
But before then I will leave you with one quote from Christoph Waltz, when I asked him about him how he is dealing with all the international interest in him he told us, "I said this after Cannes. Ten flashbulbs bother you; 10,000 are fantastic!" By the look of his face below from last night's premiere you can tell he had a fantastic time!!!
Yesterday Eli Roth showed his director’s cut of Cabin Fever at the HollyShorts Film Festival, where he was honored the night beforehand for the accomplishments he has done for Independent film making. This is the first time the movie has been seen in its entirety in the United States since before it was sold at the Toronto Film Festival because Lionsgate made him cut about 4 minutes of little things from the version that was the talk of film festivals around the world. So what other way to show the movie, but for Eli himself to introduce it and tell the audience little tidbits about the movie.
Before the movie started, there was a long line to get into the theater and Eli stopped and greeted everyone who came out to see his first movie. Then we went inside and it was time for the event to begin. Eli starts out by telling us that he showed a shorter version of the movie in the same theater that we watched last night back in 2002. Tarantino was also there then watching the movie and loved it! So much so he offered Eli the role of Dov in Death Proof that eventually lead to Donny Dononwitz in Inglourious Basterds. How cool is that? In the audience last night were the people who helped with the production of Cabin Fever including Rider Strong and Eli gave us little tidbits about them and the importance of them being part of the production of the movie.
Eli also answered questions from people in the audience and the first one was how do you make it as a filmmaker. He told them work on a set and told stories about his past experience. Including how he technically worked with Brad Pitt before IB in Meet Joe Black, I say that because he was fired from the movies 10 minutes after he started playing Medium’s Jake Weber’s stand in.
He also talked about filming the movie in North Carolina and the problems he had with some of the dogs that were such an important part of the movie. He also shared with us about how the guy who gets stabbed in the ear with a screwdriver in the movie was in a mental institution and how the actor was obsessed with Boy Meets World and Rider Strong.
The sweetest part of the night came when Eli was wrapping up and he told the story about how his dad gave him $100,000 to fund Cabin Fever and that was a lot of money for him at the time. As we know Cabin Fever was such a huge hit that Eli paid him back with much more than he gave them. Last night was his parents 49th wedding anniversary and they were in the audience. What an awesome way for his parents to celebrate such a milestone. I wonder what Eli give them for their big one next year???
Now even though Eli said he was going to bolt during the credits, he stayed to find out what we thought of the added scenes that were missing from the movie we have been forced to see. And those scenes really made the difference. He asked us to plead with Lionsgate to release a BluRay version of a Director’s Cut of the DVD and I am so going to ask them to do that and you should to! We need to have this cult classic that has influenced so many filmmakers to be released as it should’ve been! So call Lionsgate at 310-449-9200 and ask for Joe Drake and/or Steve Beeks and tell we need the Director’s cut of Cabin Fever now!
Some of you might think I post a little too much on Eli Roth and the reason for that is my admiration for what he did with Cabin Fever. Years ago I was working for a horror movie director that was on the down and down, and whenever I was ready to quit Hollywood because I was beginning to think that everyone was like him, I would put in Cabin Fever and my faith was restored. What Eli did with this movie and the special features on the DVD blew me away so much so that it was the movie that kept me from not walking away from the industry all together. Eventually I stopped working for that guy, but I have not turned by my back on the biz. I just learned to respect those who honor this business (like Eli) and the rest well… So thank you El Roth for creating a movie that was so inspirational to me and so many others! After last night’s screening, I saw I wasn’t the only who felt the same way there are many more like me.
On August 21st Nation’s Pride, the biggest Nazi proupaganda film in ouver 65 years will premiere at the Le Gamarr Theatre. Stolz Der Nation stars the extremely gourgeous German actor Fredrick Zoller and it is directed by the glourious Alois von Eichberg. There is so much poustive buzz about this mouvie that I read somewhere that Adoulf Hitler himself will even be at the big event!
OuK as you can tell by spelling errours, Nation’s Pride is the film within a film that is part of the Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic Inglourious Basterds although he did not direct it, Eli Roth, who plays Donnie Donnowitz did. I have read in several interviews that he went crazy when he filmed it. Here is what the Jewish director, writer and actor told the MTV Movie Blog about it…
“Quentin had two shots that were very specific that he wanted to do – but he was like, “For the rest of it, I need footage of people shooting. It’s a guy in a bell-tower shooting 260 Americans. I need footage of people shooting!’ So I said okay,†Roth remembered. “We got a second camera, and in 2 days we did like 130 shots and Quentin was so happy he gave me a third day. We shot with the actor Daniel Bruhl, and put together this Nazi propaganda film…[as we shot] I was thinking ‘God, I didn’t think I could be more offensive after ‘Hostel 2,’ but how can I upset people more than that?’â€
Remembering his direction techniques, Roth laughed. “I was going, ‘More swastikas! More swastikas!’
But as ironically over-the-top as the whole experience may have been, Roth has been wondering lately if he did too good a job on the mini-movie. “The first time we showed it to an audience [the actors] were in character, but the Germans were screaming ‘Heil Hitler!’ and ‘Kill the Jews!’ and it was terrifying,†he remembered. “We watched it over and over, and we were all friends and joking around by the end of it. But there was still something very powerful about that. I looked at Quentin and said, ‘What have I done?’â€
What he did was just genius! I love the little featurettes that Eli has done in two of Tarantino’s flicks like this one and Thanksgiving that was featured before Death Proof. I can’t wait to see more of the propoganda film when Inglourious Basterds and Nation’s Pride come out on August 21st!
BTW am the only one who couldn’t take her eyes off of Daniel Bruhl even though he is playing a Nazi killing Americans? He so needs to have his own movie that is more than just a film within a film!
Back to Eli Roth, he will be on my favorite late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight on ABC at 12:05a and on Friday he will be screening his personal copy of Cabin Fever at HollyShorts. Tickets are still available for the cheap price of $10 at the HollyShorts site. BTW also on Friday and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Quentin Tarantino will be on the show and I will be watching it in the green room downing some wine and good food!
Inglourious Basterds won’t be out until August 21st, but until then you can pretend you are Donnie Donowitz aka The Bear Jew and kill some Nazis with his infamous bat! Eli Roth leaked the game on his MySpace blog that goes live tomorrow and I am so glad that he is giving us the chance to practice. Why? Well because The Weinstein Company is giving the high scorer of the game a chance to go to the Hollywood premiere of the Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic on August 10th that will be attended by QT, Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth and the rest of those Basterds. I am so getting my ’86 Mets on so I can be the high scorer. Now back to game not only I am enjoying this “Kosher Porn” of a video game, I am also having fun hearing Eli talk in his native Bostonian as you swat the Nazis to death. Seriously I love listening to him saying “Suck my schnitzel”, “You shoot like my grandmother” and “Out of Fenway Pawk.”
On a non-IB note, Eli Roth will be screening his personal copy of Cabin Fever that is 4 minutes longer than anything we have seen at the HollyShorts Film Festival where he is getting the Indie Film Visionary Award!!! Tickets for the screening are an extremely affordable $10 and you can get them at the HollyShort’s site!
