![]() ![]() There was a reading of the script to an invited audience more than a year earlier. The idea, said Tarantino, “was to treat it like we take over, more like we’re Billy Joel coming to town for a concert and you’re retrofitting the theater for a concert.” Eventually found about 100 screens they could show the film on, including the Village East Cinema. Tarantino compared it to a big roadshow and that the Weinsteins were committed to finding theaters with the right projection equipment. ![]() So we are committing one way or another to those screens, and I’m all down with that.” But basically I thought, well, if I get Weinstein to pay to shoot it in 70 than they’re going to be committed to having it be shown in 70. “Not just making it but film projection and I thought it would work well with the movie. Tarantino has surpassed himself in the number of times the “N” word is thrown around.Īfter the screening, during the Q&A, Tarantino spoke passionately about why he wanted to make the film in 70 mm. While the movie is a Western there are also shades of “Reservoir Dogs,” since the action takes place in one place and the violence is intense. Quentin Tarantino is an omniscient narrator at one point during the story. But instead of Minnie and her staff they face four unfamiliar, tough guys played by Demian Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Bruce Dern.īefore the action gets going there’s a 12-minute intermission. Jackson, in an Oscar level performance), a former Union officer and Chris Mannix ( Walton Goggins) a Southerner who claims to be the new Sheriff of Red Rock, and they all journey together and journey together to Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover. Along the way Ruth encounters Major Marquis Warren ( Samuel L. The line, which snaked around the block, began forming hours before the screening.Īs Russell noted, the first hour and forty-five minutes of the more than three hour long film is about the journey to Red Rock with Daisy, who he hauls off and slugs every few minutes so her face is web of blood and bruises. One of the first screenings of “The Hateful Eight” took place that evening at the Village East Cinema on East Second Street for BAFTA and Producer Guild of America members. It’s one of the few movies I still remember my lines from,” he said, adding that he’d seen the film four times, “and it’s endlessly fun to watch.” He also called Ennio Morricone’s music “gripping.” We rehearsed for a month, so when we started shooting we were completely ready to go. He compared it to old movies adding, “It’s almost jarring sometimes,” but there’s “much more of an emotional payoff. “The movie has an overture and Intermission” said Russell, who may be up for a best supporting nomination. Daisy is played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, in a welcome comeback to big movies, who was also at the lunch. Ruth is taking a woman in chains, Daisy Domergue, to Red Rock, through a blizzard, for $10,000 bounty and the hangman’s noose. He was talking about the first hour and forty-five minutes of “The Hateful Eight,” most of which takes place in a stagecoach hurtling through a brutal snowy Wyoming landscape. “It’s an intricate story and in the beginning you don’t know why it’s taking so long” to get started. “It’s a straight forward Western, Sergio Leone-like Western,” Russell said. Her Weinstein movie this year was “Woman in Gold.”) (The lunch was also graced by Dame Helen Mirren, looking great in a sheath, grey fox fur collar and tiger print shoes. FIRST LOOK: At the holiday luncheon hosted by the Weinstein Company recently Kurt Russell talked about Quentin Tarantino’s new film “The Hateful Eight” in which he plays John “The Hangman” Ruth. ![]()
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