Posts Tagged ‘Quentin Tarantino’
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 47 – Million Dollar Podcast
The 47th Episode of The Filmdogs Podcast is taking a Dark Turn. That’s right, our Featured Topic of the Week is Films that take you to dark places... Also, discussed in the News is Jamie Foxx‘s casting in Tarantino’s Django Unchained, Warren Beatty and Christopher Nolan‘s “dueling” Howard Hughes projects, and the premiere episode of Falling Skies. Listen in to hear just how dark The Filmdogs Podcast is willing to go..
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Score Your Week | “Jackie Brown” Opening Credits Sequence
The 70s funk-fused soundtrack from 1997′s Jackie Brown is killer to say the least. One track sticks with me to this day and it’s from the opening sequence. Proceed to get your funk on!
Top Five Bruce Willis Performances
With Red opening this weekend, Bruce Willis is once again proving that being a middle aged bad ass is possible. For over two decades Willis has also shown that by bringing a substantial amount of his off screen persona to his characters, he can create iconic performances that film fans hold dear to their hearts. The past few years he has hit some rough patches with some really bad films (Cop Out, Surrogates, 16 Blocks, The Whole Ten Yards), but this list will have none of that. The following is my personal top five performances by Bruce Willis. Read on… the number one may surprise you. Read the rest of this entry »
Scene Stealer | “Band of Outsiders” The Madison Dance
If you are a film buff, odds are you are familiar with Jean-Luc Godard. Along with Francois Truffaut, Claude Charbol, and others, Godard was a film critic turned filmmaker and helped to launch the now legendary French New Wave. Best known for Breathless, Godard ushered in a sixties cool consisting of crime and romance. He has directed countless great films such as: the aforementioned Breathless, A Woman is a Woman, Contempt, and Made in U.S.A, but the film that has made a lasting impression on me is Band of Outsiders. Read the rest of this entry »
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 25 – Podcast ³
Episode 25 of the Filmdogs Podcast is up! This week we discuss the passing of Tarantino’s longtime editor Sally Menke, and the new True Grit trailer in the news. Then our focus turns to director of much hyped film The Social Network, Mr. David Fincher. We talk about his debut Alien 3 with In Defense of, and discuss the rest of his past and upcoming projects in our Featured Topic of the Week. We then end the show with some classic dialogue from his movie Fight Club in our One-Liner of the Week. So, listen in, you won’t regret it.
Email us with you podcast feedback or segment suggestions at filmdogspodcast@gmail.com. Subscribe to the podcast here, or listen in you browser. Also, you may download an enhanced AAC feed with chapter markers and artwork from iTunes on your computer or straight to your iPhone/iPod touches now! If you like what you hear be sure to write a quick review on iTunes as well. It helps us out. Thanks!
P.S. This Second Post is merely to rectify that the fact the this episode has yet to show up in iTunes. Thanks.
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 25 – Podcast ³
Episode 25 of the Filmdogs Podcast is up! This week we discuss the passing of Tarantino’s longtime editor Sally Menke, and the new True Grit trailer in the news. Then our focus turns to director of much hyped film The Social Network, Mr. David Fincher. We talk about his debut Alien 3 with In Defense of, and discuss the rest of his past and upcoming projects in our Featured Topic of the Week. We then end the show with some classic dialogue from his movie Fight Club in our One-Liner of the Week. So, listen in, you won’t regret it.
Email us with you podcast feedback or segment suggestions at filmdogspodcast@gmail.com. Subscribe to the podcast here, or listen in you browser. Also, you may download an enhanced AAC feed with chapter markers and artwork from iTunes on your computer or straight to your iPhone/iPod touches now! If you like what you hear be sure to write a quick review on iTunes as well. It helps us out. Thanks!
Sally Menke 1953 – 2010
Filmdogs has some very unfortunate news to report today. According to the Los Angeles times editor Sally Menke was found dead this morning at Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles. Menke was hiking and never returned, causing friends to notify authorities. Menke is best know for editing all of Quentin Tarantino‘s films, including his segments in Four Rooms and Grindhouse. She received Oscar nominations for her work on both Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds, and her artistic touch will be greatly missed.
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 19 – School’s Out
The 19th Episode of The Filmdogs Podcast is threaded and ready to roll. This week we chat about new projects from Chris Pine, Gulliermo Del Toro, Robert Rodziguez, and Spielberg in the News. Then we discuss the bearded ones’ 1991 film Hook for In Defense of. It’s our 5 favorite screenplays in our Featured Topic, and to close it out we have a famous convo from Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction in our The One Liner of the Week.
Email us with you podcast feedback or segment suggestions at filmdogspodcast@gmail.com. Subscribe to the podcast here, or listen in you browser. Also, you may download an enhanced AAC feed with chapter markers and artwork from iTunes on your computer or straight to your iPhone/iPod touches now! If you like what you hear be sure to write a quick review on iTunes as well. It helps us out. Thanks!
Score Your Week | Mission To Mars
Every Monday (or Tuesday, better late than never) here at Filmdogs, a member of the pack will be offering a recommendation for a soundtrack to help you speed up those never ending work days and (if possible) inspire you.
Ennio Morricone is one of the greatest composers to ever live thanks to scores he did for films like: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso, and The Untouchables. Quentin Tarantino and those wanting to be as hip as Quentin often sample his music for their films such as Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds and Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-ass. However, it may be his work for Brian DePalma‘s so-so Sci-fi guilty pleasure from 2000, Mission to Mars, that is my favorite. The film itself is DePalma’s ode to 2001: A Space Odyssey, yet despite some well done sequences and a great cast it never lives up to that name. Read the rest of this entry »
Comic Con Round Up | News & Trailers
Dr. McCoy himself Karl Urban has been confirmed to play Judge Dredd in an upcoming reboot. I know next to nothing about this character, but Urban is a fantastic actor and it will be great to see in him a lead role, sort of:
If anyone is familiar with Dredd, over the years there are many times when Dredd removes his helmet but you never fully see his face and that was construct by the creator, Mr. Wagner. He represents that faceless system of justice and law. I will say this, hypothetically if I went to a movie that was called “Judge Dredd” and the character or the actor who played Judge Dredd took the helmet and I would see his full face and features I would puke in my popcorn because that’s not Dredd. He’s mysterious and enigmatic. We’re going to do it right.
Here’s the trailer for Dexter season 5. I can’t wait! Read the rest of this entry »
