The interview with Quentin Tarantino that is Sight & Sound‘s February 2016 cover story is not the first time my friend Kim Morgan interviewed the director. In 2009, she and Tarantino talked about Inglourious Basterds for her great site Sunset Gun. That one is an absolute feast for movie-fans, but the interview about Hateful Eight in Sight & Sound looks to be even better. It runs to 10 pages, first of all. The two have a great rapport as encyclopedic movie fans (both of them appear to have seen everything). Sight & Sound‘s new issue is out in print right now (look in your local bookstore with a good magazine rack). Another impetus to buy the print copy is that my friend Keith, who was my guide in all things X-Files, who binge-watched the entire series with me over 2015, has a piece in Sight & Sound as well about the relationship between Mulder and Scully. So although none of this is about me at all I honestly feel like I am sitting at the cool kids’ table.
As a teaser, Kim posted an excerpt on her site. Not to be missed and I can’t wait to read the whole thing.
One observation from Tarantino should be suffice to whet your whistle:
Brian Keith is excellent. I’m a big fan of Brian Keith in all of his Phil Karlson movies too. With the rise of the great 70s leading man, with the rise of Elliott Gould, Jack Nicholson, Donald Sutherland, Dustin Hoffman and George Segal, the one thing that took a hit were people like that Brian Keith leading man.
Yup.
Mr. Tarantino is so freaking weird. I love him but I can’t always watch his movies. Art is suppose to move you and his work certainly does. I like the way his mind works though I find his movies very intense which is probably what he wants. And rhe way he casts his movies is always fun. He’s sort of developing his own stable of actors like John Ford or Scorsese did. He directed a two part episode of CSI that absolutely gives me chills but it also very moving and emotional. Barnes and Noble usually carries the magazine so i’ll look for it.
Carolyn – I didn’t see that CSI episode! I need to!
I know, he’s very bizarre and he drives people crazy but I love that he’s this Madman Genius who does what he wants to do – good or bad, successful or not.
I was half-and-half on Hateful Eight – I saw it on 70mm in its “road show” tour – with the overture and the intermission and all the rest. I didn’t have the problems with it that a lot of people have – that it was misogynistic (don’t see that at ALL) or racist – It’s confrontational on both of those counts (which he obviously means it to be.)
I think some people might be forgetting the title. There are no heroes here. Everyone (male, female) is AWFUL.
Whether or not you want to spend 3 hours in one room with these eight despicable excuses for human beings … well, that’s everyone’s personal choice.