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Salle de Debussy ushers being booed by the crowd after they put up COMPLET (i.e., FULL) signs out of the fucking blue regarding the 2:30 pm Quentin Tarantino chit-chat session with Michel Ciment.

If you don't have at least a couple of these French adapteurs at all times you're dead in this town. If you're a computer-user, I mean, or if you need to recharge your phone (which everyone does).

comment #1

kino says ...

Quentin should just get back to writing and shooting instead of all these mediocre appearances for publicity. It all amounts to overexposure, especially without a new film. Gosh has he been on Oprah yet? to promote himself.

comment #2

corey3rd says ...

those adaptor plugs make good IUDs.

comment #3

MickTravis says ...

My assistant Brendan keeps me supplied with adapters.

Is this a reasonable place to mention that there's a pretty damn good trailer for "Benjamin Button" in front of the new Indy?

comment #4

Jeffrey Kunze says ...

The trailer for Benjamin Button was the best part of going to see Kingdom of the Alien Crystal Skulls of Death.

comment #5

Richard_Stone says ...

I just read an AFP brief about Tarantino's conference and it appears he just regurgitated the same self-satisfied notions he's been spewing in film magazines ever since the Pulp Fiction media hype.

I had high hopes for Tarantino's future movies when he won the Golden Ticket with Pulp Fiction. I thought he would turn out to be a film philosopher à la Godard blessed with Spielberg's spectacle savvy. I was wrong.

As it is, he's one of the saddest and most angering examples of arrested developement in american cinema.

comment #6

Richard_Stone says ...

AFP about Tarantino's conference:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j3gCjXINgNCgGNtI1ac-T4s8f33w

comment #7

Richard_Stone says ...

I can't wait for the eventual Saturday morning HE thread about Indy's BO numbers to share my 2 cents about the movie, so here goes: Crystal Skull is very much so a B movie and has a few entertaining moments, but Kaminski's cinematography failed big time, especially if he was trying to emulate Slocombe's style. My theater doesn't have the best projection standards, but the cold whites, overexposed edges and lens flares made it an ugly picture overall. There were perhaps a few nice shots in the desert and in the Atomic City, but the worst offender was one close-up of Blanchett where you couldn't see most of her face because of a bright light in the background.

There was also some pretty weird set designs going on. I'm no design historian, but a lot of sets looked right out of the 80's. I'm thinking of the two places where Indy was interrogated, first by the FBI and second by Blanchett in the camp.

OK, geek rant over.

comment #8

Mr. Blood Vessel says ...

Posted by kino at May 22, 2008 11:35 AM
Quentin should just get back to writing and shooting instead of all these mediocre appearances for publicity. It all amounts to overexposure, especially without a new film. Gosh has he been on Oprah yet? to promote himself.

yea, even though he mostly just makes original homages to other movies.
but,they're really fun.
and that's the big difference between him and every other director(including his buddy Robert) of his "fanboy generation"
-he actually has an original voice.

comment #9

filmfestivalgeek says ...

I'm ambivalent - I actually thought Jackie Brown was an underrated flic - at the same time, I don’t really think Q.T has really lived up to potential (overall).

comment #10

Geoff says ...

Jeffrey Kunze is right.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON--amazing trailer.

Even my younger sister, who didn't realize what it was, said she was enthralled by the imagery and tone.

Quicktime now!!!!!

comment #11

Mr. Blood Vessel says ...

Richard_Stone [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...
had high hopes for Tarantino's future movies when he won the Golden Ticket with Pulp Fiction. I thought he would turn out to be a film philosopher à la Godard blessed with Spielberg's spectacle savvy. I was wrong.

that is exactly what i felt but didn't know how to say it.
yea, he got real lazy.
but that's Quentin.

Richard_Stone [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...

I can't wait for the eventual Saturday morning HE thread about Indy's BO numbers to share my 2 cents about the movie, so here goes: Crystal Skull is very much so a B movie and has a few entertaining moments, but Kaminski's cinematography failed big time, especially if he was trying to emulate Slocombe's style. My theater doesn't have the best projection standards, but the cold whites, overexposed edges and lens flares made it an ugly picture overall. There were perhaps a few nice shots in the desert and in the Atomic City, but the worst offender was one close-up of Blanchett where you couldn't see most of her face because of a bright light in the background.

There was also some pretty weird set designs going on. I'm no design historian, but a lot of sets looked right out of the 80's. I'm thinking of the two places where Indy was interrogated, first by the FBI and second by Blanchett in the camp.

OK, geek rant over.

duude Richard-
that's EXACTLY(except better executed) what I was saying when Jeff
mentioned that Kaminski was going to be the cinematographer.

we should hang.

comment #12

nemo says ...

"If you don't have at least a couple of these French adapteurs at all times you're dead in this town."

As a friend of mine once said about not owning a car in Souther California, they can legally harvest your organs.

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