I have to agree. I'll certainly watch Tarantino's film, but the Italian b-movies that inspire him are ultimately more interesting to me.
In addition to The Inglorious Bastards, Castellari directed a number of highly enjoyable hardboiled crime films back in the day-- The Big Racket and Street Law are both well worth watching and available on DVD.
He also directed Kill Them All and Come Back Alone, an absurdly delicious spaghetti western Dirty Dozen knockoff that's basically one long, ultra-stylized action scene set to a magnificent, blaring score.
Tarantino's work is fine but sometimes seems to draw too much energy from pastiche. And these Italian grindhouse classics have a wild-eyed, low-budget vigor that still feels fresh to me.
John
--- On Fri, 8/7/09, Sean Shapiro <ssshapir@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Sean Shapiro <ssshapir@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Taratino's Inglorious Bastards
To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, August 7, 2009, 5:02 AM
You’re absolutely right, Mark. ‘Interest’ is subjective. I guess I’m more interested in an Italian exploitation knockoff of the ‘Dirty Dozen’ than I am in whatever it is Tarantino has made. One thing about Tarantino, though, is that he has helped preserve and bring into prominence the works of di Leo and Castalleri and other Italian crime movie makers.
http://www.independ ent.co.uk/ arts-entertainme nt/films/ features/ italian-bmovies- tarantinos- inspiration- 525386.html
Sean Shapiro
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From: Mark Sullivan <DJ-Anonyme@webtv. net>
To: rara-avis <rara-avis-l@ yahoogroups. com>
Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2009 11:25:30 PM
Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: Re: Taratino's Inglorious Bastards
For the record, Castaellari' s film was titled Inglorious Bastards in the US. And Tarantino's is titled Inglorious Basterds (sic).
And how can you know Castaellari' s is "more interesting" ? Have you seen Tarantino's? Judging from the new trailer alone, Tarantino's does not seem to be a remake at all, but has a completely different plot.
Mark
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> --- In rara-avis-l@ yahoogroups. com, Ed Lynskey <e_lynskey@. ..> wrote:
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> > I've seen trailers for Taratino's new film, Inglorious Bastards, with Brad Pitt. It might be of some interest here...
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> More interesting than that is the original `Glorious Bastards' by Enzo Castaellari and more interesting than that are Castellari's `polizias' (crime flicks) and more interesting than those are Fernando di Leo's `polizias' which are, in fact, noirs.
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