Out on DVD This Week:
– The original swinging London, 1967 “Bedazzled,” starring Peter Cook and sans Elizabeth Hurley
– Robbed in the Foreign Oscar category and by robbed we mean, not even nominated, Pedro Almodovar’s amazing, “Volver,” with its incredibly evocative Hitchockian-score by, Alberto Iglesias — cited by heavy weights like Hans Zimmer “(The Thin Red Line”), Howard Shore (“LOTR”) and this year’s original score winner, 2-time Oscar fave Gustavo Santaolalla (“Brokeback Mountain”) as being one of the year’s best.
– Twin Peaks Season 2. Lynch’s spooky and obtuse tv drama had jumped the shark by the end of the first season, but some devotees will buy this nonetheless.
Tarantino And Dylan: Sparring Partners?
In the new issue of GQ, Tarantino says he delivered the “Grindhouse” script to Bob Dylan, yeah, that Bob. Why? He thought he would appreciate the “wordplay.” Apparently QT (sorry, trying to be brief) and Dylan are friends and met at Dylan’s private L.A. boxing gym 6 years ago. And they even traded jabs to the chin (how can you miss Tarantino’s?)
GQ: Weren’t you scared of hitting Bob Dylan?
No, it was cool. He wanted me to, like everybody else, he wanted to play hard.
GQ: What’s his punching like?
Actually he nailed me with a really good one. We were sparring and he got in a good one when I wasn’t paying attention…I let my guard down for a second and he just thumped it. It was a good punch. But i hadn’t talked to him in a long time, and so I gave him a call and he just happened to be there, and so we talked a little bit and he was, “Oh, I’d love to read it, send it over.”
Then Tarantino goes on to say how Dylan influenced him and typically, compares his work to Zimmys.
Tarantino: I just found myself listening to his work on the way to work [and back]. And I even fell in love with Self Portrait [ed note. wow, congratulations]. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that this film is my John Wesley Harding, but it accomplished some of the same things to me that John Wesley Harding did. I turned a corner with this script … and I think that it’s going to lead to other interesting things down the line.
Like films that aren’t made for 16-year-olds? How about a return to some mature fare like “Jackie Brown.” Now that would be nice. I am now going to link to my excellent imaginary Quentin Tarantino soundtrack that you should all download. It kinda rules.