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21 August 2009 6:02 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

Quentin Tarantino does it again. Again.

Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds"

Photo: Universal Pictures

Quentin Tarantino is such an overflowingly talented maker of films that you wonder when he's going to grow up into a real filmmaker. Tarantino's new World War II movie, "Inglourious Basterds," brings with it the usual avalanche of insider film-geek references: A character named Aldo Raine is a reference to the late Aldo Ray, star of the 1955 war movie "Battle Cry"; the name of another character — Hugo Stiglitz — refers to a Mexican horror-film star. The most instructive of these little allusions, though, deals with two 1940s films by the French director Henri-Georges Clouzot. The title of one of these, "Le Corbeau," is glimpsed here on a movie-theatre marquee. A poster for the other, "L'Assassin Habite au 21," is seen on the wall in another shot. The star of both of those pictures was Pierre Fresnay, who also »

1 article from 2009