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QT3 SPY FILMS

Who's Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? by glitterstar180	Feb 25th, 1999 05:22:35 PM
I had forgotten how much I love that movie...thanks for mentioning it! What fun!
Tarantino Spy Flicks by Black Angus	Feb 25th, 1999 08:49:57 PM
This reminds me that a while ago it was rumored that Tarantino was working on a MAN FROM UNCLE movie to star himself and George Clooney. He was also supposed to be working on a MODESTY BLAISE movie (one of a series, that would also involve Neil Gaimen to write one of the scripts and Luc Besson to direct one). Anybody know if any of this is still happening?
Crappy movies I love by usagi	Feb 26th, 1999 08:32:36 AM
Harry's daily reports on Tarantino's film festival have been really enjoyable. I think it's great that someone is showing films that maybe weren't accepted when they were released or that are accessible to the average video store patron. These QT festival stories have gotten me thinking about movies that I love that were critically and popularly panned. Granted, these aren't as obscure as the films that QT is showing, but they are considered to be crap by the average person. POPEYE- The Robin Williams, Robert Altman musical. I love this damn movie. Everything from the set, to the songs to the acting is great. You have Robin Williams's muttered comments (hysterical), Shelly Duvall in the role she was born to play, and NYPD Blue's Dennis Franz in a small part as a salior tough. This really was one of the first live action movies based on a cartoon (can't swing a dead cat without hitting one now), and I think it was a little before its time in that respect. Roadhouse- Patrick Swayze classic homage to that mainstay of American folklore, the bouncer with a philospohy degree. Okay, granted the plot was out there (I mean, how many world famous bouncers do you know? Where is the Wheaties box with the bouncer on it? Excuse me, the cooler. Plus, how does this little honky tonk afford Dalton's high salary?). But there's a lot of good karate stuff, and Sam Elliot kicks ass (literally and figuratively). This is a movie you can just sit back and enjoy with very little thought. It was basically a western rip off, but it was a lot of fun. Plus you got to see Kelly Lynch (I think) naked. These are just two movies (they aren't films, they are movies) that are generally panned but which I enjoy.
The Quiller Memorandum by Sei Shonagon	Feb 26th, 1999 09:38:40 AM
One thing that I'm curious about with this movie: The screenplay is written by Harold Pinter, and it has Pinter's fingerprints ALL OVER THE PLACE: the laconic, seemingly innocuous dialogue; the profound silences; the syntax that's just not quite the way real people talk, but not so off as to be completely jarring. It's weird to see this kind of writing in a spy film, but I really liked it. Anyway, what I'm wondering is, how much of the quirkiness of the movie is Pinter's doing, and how much of it is in the original book? Same for what goes on in the scenes we don't see -- is that implied in the book as well? Enquiring minds want to know...
Pinter by encephalon	Feb 26th, 1999 05:16:56 PM
It's interesting to note that when Paul Schrader was in Austin last year, he seemed to want to talk about an "obscure" movie of his called The Comfort of Strangers, screenplay by Harold Pinter, from a short novel by Ian McEwan. Recently I got the book and it seems that Pinter changes the theme, or rather, "leaves the theme out" to a certain extent. His eliptical style it very effective with certain things. I directed a Pinter play back at UNT. It was called The Collection and was written for British TV. It was HARD as HELL to direct. No hiding behind plotline. You have to come up with a strong theory of what is going on, and it isn't just RIGHT THERE like in a conventional play. There's a relationship between this playwright and the New York School of poets, it think.
The Quiller books by Kurgan	Feb 27th, 1999 08:23:20 PM
The Quiller books by Adam Hall are simply amazing. Read'em if you can find'em. They are told in first person, which makes it all the more immediate, while narrowing the reader's perspective down. Hall also uses certain nifty tricks in his narrative, like jumping to the aftermath of a tight situation and then slowly revealing what had happened. The Quiller Memorandum movie sounds like it stays close to this style -- everything is from Quiller's perspective.
ATTENTION! ANYONE GOING TO QT3, PLEASE WAKE HARRY UP! by spike lee	Feb 28th, 1999 08:42:52 AM
Here it is Sunday morning, and we have not have an update since Thursday. Harry, your our only hope (looks around then bends over).
Hey Fat Boy quit screwin' around by cleo	Feb 28th, 1999 09:45:25 AM
Listen up fat man quit screwin around givin us info about movies we could CARE OR LESS about just concentrate on Episode 1 or I am going to have to remove this site from my bookmarks. No one here cares about Eyes Wide Shut or Wild Wild Something or Matrix or any of this other stinkin' BS. WE WANT STAR WARZ AND THATZ IT CAPICHE? And another thing quit winkin' at me you fat freak...
Harry!!! by DarkandTerrible	Feb 28th, 1999 12:42:39 PM
UPDATE YOUR FUCKING SITE, WHY DON'T YER!!!
ARGH!!! by Baked Spam	Feb 28th, 1999 01:57:04 PM
UPDATE YOUR DAMN SITE!!! Or at the very least change the name to "Ain't the QT Film Festival Cool?!" All of us who dont live in that stink town you call Austin could care less about a sucky film festival filled with jerks (said like Homer Simpson). C'mon Harry, you may be morbidly obese (I saw The Faculity and shudder every time I think of you walking across the room changing the water in the water cooler) but dont deprive us of news on UPCOMING movies, not this garbarge "QUENTIN" thinks is good. Stop sucking the giant cock of Hollywood and start shitting in their slimy faces. UPDATE YOUR SITE NOW!
bad ass by sandoz	Mar 1st, 1999 11:38:18 AM
QTIII rocked! After Sol Madrid, I have new respect for ol'Telly S. Throughout the evening, there were times when QT was the only one laughing. That was hilarous!
In the future, Harold Pinter wins the Nobel Lit. Prize. by Wolfpack	Jul 7th, 2006 02:42:32 PM

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