Archive for September, 2003
Video of Kill Bill Premiere
Sep 30th
The article is just another general Kill Bill piece, this one focused on the four main female characters in the film – Uma Thurman, Daryl Hannah, Vivica Fox and Lucy Liu. But the video of the LA premiere is worth watching.
The Village Voice also has a long article/interview with Tarantino.
“It’s a sad cliche that most every director ends their career with a whimper,” says Tarantino, who was friends with Fukasaku over the last 10 years of his life. “You know, it’s like, ‘The sex drive goes, great! Now I can devote myself to my art.’ They didn’t realize the dick drive is connected to the art drive.” He’s either about to break into “Dem Bones” or embarrass himself, so he stops. For the moment.
They also get into Quentin’s foot fetish:
The small thing
Tarantino Gets Shot At TV
Sep 30th
I originally mentioned this back in June, but Valerie from TRIO was nice enough to send me a reminder that Tarantino’s weekend of programming the cable network starts this Sunday, October 5th.
MY TR!O: QUENTIN TARANTINO is a 9-day (Sunday 10/5-Monday 10/13) deep genre festival featuring favorite films from Quentin’s personal library. For six nights – Sunday through Friday – we’ll run a drive-in-movie-style themed double feature, complete with vintage movie trailers. These films, which Quentin considers hidden gems, will begin and end with commentary from the master himself as he talks about violence in film and much more!
If you don’t have TRIO on your cable system (like me), you can check out how to get it here. If you are lucky enough to already have TRIO, the whole Tarantino week schedule can be had here. Plan your whole week around Quentin!
Kill Bill Premiere Photos
Sep 30th
Here they are. I’ll have some better quality shots of this later.
Kill Bill Article in Entertainment Weekly
Sep 29th
Uma Thurman is on the cover of the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, and since their website is restricted to AOL members and subscribers, you’ll just have to make do with scans of the article. Thanks to Erik for the heads up and the scans.
Kill Bill Review Thread
Sep 29th
I’ll try to post as many reviews of Kill Bill v1 here as possible. So far, nearly everything I’ve seen has been overwhelmingly positive. Here we go:
Harry Knowles (cream-your-pants positive)
AICN Readers (very positive, 1 exception)
TNMC (negative)
Jeffrey Wells rips Kill Bill – then actually sees the movie.
I’m under a review-embargo agreement, but have you ever read and heard so much negative stuff about a movie you’ve started to believe it’s your own negative stuff, and on top of this you’ve allowed your cynicism about the editing and selling of a film to affect your view of what this film may actually turn out to be? But then you finally see the film and you come out staggering and amazed and resolved never to let advance hype affect your expectations again? I’m not referring to anything specific, of course, but you know what I mean.
Thats quite a turn around.
Dark Horizons review (positive)
Daryl Hannah In November 2003 Playboy
Sep 29th
Daryl Hannah is 
cashing in on her Kill Bill rejuvinated career by posing nude in the November 2003 issue of Playboy magazine (more here). Apparently, she only got the gig after Playboy ditched Heidi Klum because she demanded all her photos be published in black and white.
For the curious, some previous nude shots of Daryl can be found here.
Deadly Viper Dispatch
Sep 26th
The time has come to issue furious justice upon your enemies. The world famous Deadly Viper Assassins are here to carry out your will. Commission an assassin to destroy those who oppose you or stab your best friend in the back.
Kill Bill Media Player
Sep 26th
Maverick Records – the label that the Kill Bill Soundtrack is on has a Kill Bill Media Player on its site where you can get previews of some of the tracks from the soundtrack.
