“You are marked for death… wherever you go! You cannot escape the… Shogun!”
SHOGUN ASSASSIN screens Wednesday, September 7th at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143) as part of Webster University’s Award-WinningStrange Brew Film Series.
“Send Your Ninjas! I’ll Kill Them All!!! And so he does!! SHOGUN ASSASSIN (1980) is a bizarre and amazing cult classic samurai film that is apparently pieced together from two longer films in the “Lone Wolf and Cub” Series. From my point of view the viewer would never know this was a composite film and it stands alone as an amazing and strangely hypnotic piece of violent film history. SHOGUN ASSASSIN has some of the best sword fights ever shot on film. The plot has Lone Wolf (Tomisaburo Wakayama) travelling the countryside, pushing his son, Daigero, ahead of him in a baby cart. The only time he stops is to battle the seemingly infinite number of ninja the Shogun sends out to kill him. The film has blood spurting every few minutes but is not meant to be realistic. It’s more a bloody dance. Bodies take seconds to fall over, defeated swordsmen spurt blood up in the air for seconds before falling over, and blood spurts up in front of (and sometimes onto) the camera. This extremely violent, yet aesthetically impressive film was directed originally by Kenji Misumi. The sword fighting in SHOGUN ASSASSIN is unreal and stunning. I recommend this to fans of action but also to serious film fans, as there is something going on here you might not expect. In conclusion, If you don’t see it next Wednesday night at Schlafly Bottleworks, you will pay……WITH RIVERS OF BLOOD!!!”
SHOGUN ASSASSIN is dubbed into English and features a Moog-heavy soundtrack, which was later heavily sampled on Wu Tang Clan rapper GZA’s solo album “Liquid Swords,” helping introduce the film to a whole new generation of fans. Scenes from SHOGUN ASSASSIN are also featured in KILL BILL VOL.2 and the film was a major inspiration for director Quentin Tarantino.
Don’t miss SHOGUN ASSASSIN when it screens Wednesday, September 7th at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143) as part of their Strange Brew film series .The movie starts at 8pm and admission is $5. A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed beer.
“That’s thirty minutes away. I’ll be there in ten.”
PULP FICTION plays midnights this weekend (May 27th and 28th) at the Tivoli (6350 Delmar Blvd, St. Louis, MO) as part of theirReel Late at the TivoliMidnight series.
I watch PULP FICTION every couple of years and it just gets better. The icy wit, the connoisseur soundtrack, the violence , the extended dialogue riffing, the trance-like unreality, the inspired karmic balance of the heroin scene and the adrenalin scene, the narrative switchbacks that allow John Travolta to finish the film both alive and dead, the spectacle of him being made to dance badly, but also sort of brilliantly …and above all else, the sheer excitement that Tarantino managed to conjure up in 1994. Today this touchstone of cool seems to extend its dangerous influence everywhere: movies, fiction, journalism, media, fashion, restaurants, you name it. Everyone has been trying to do irony and incorrectness since, but without Tarantino’s brilliance. Experience PULP FICTION on the big screen again when it plays this Friday and Saturday (May 27th and 28th).
Reel Late at the Tivoli takes place every Friday and Saturday night andWe Are Movie Geeksown Tom Stockman (that’s me!) will be there with custom trivia questions about the film and always has DVDs, posters, and other cool stuff to give away. Ticket prices are $8
Check out We Are Movie Geeks later this week for the new Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight schedule or hear us announce it on this week’s We Are Movie Geeks podcast!
Even though it takes place in the post-Civil War wintery West, THE HATEFUL EIGHT discusses many issues we as a society are coming to terms with as we step into 2016. Quentin Tarantino’s third foray into revisionist history (following INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS and DJANGO UNCHAINED) is his most biting and politically-charged film yet. Mirroring the racial issues that are unfortunately (still) far too common in today’s society feels appropriate and worthy of applause – especially in a major film coming from such a popular director. Samuel L. Jackson’s character Major Marquise Warren brings to light racial tension in an early scene with a former Confederate soldier turned lawman. Feeling squeamish about the direction of the conversation, the hate-fueled soon-to-be sheriff dismisses this talk by saying, “you were the one that started talking politics.” Hearing him describe it as “politics” feels almost too real. Dismissing a human rights issue as a political issue hits extremely close to home, especially as someone who lives about 15 minutes from Ferguson, MO. Not to mention, considering Tarantino has made the news recently for protesting police brutality against black lives. Marquise even states at what point, “a n—– only feels safe when the white man is disarmed.” One doesn’t have to look back at the news’ headlines from this year to understand the significance that that line carries.
But for all the goodwill that THE HATEFUL EIGHT does in addressing the violent hatred a man can have for his fellow man simply because of the color of their skin, Quentin Tarantino seems to forget another major problem that continues to plague our lives. A recurring joke is at the expense of another group that is as equally mistreated and not given the respect they deserve in society: women. And the joke isn’t just a joke about female stereotypes or something as hackneyed like a throwaway punchline that you’d hear on a rerun of Everybody Loves Raymond or TheKing of Queens. In fact, it’s a recurring joke about a very real issue that actually isn’t a joke in the slightest: violence towards women.
Spousal abuse and violence towards women is never appropriate, never the answer, and never funny. And yet, Tarantino uses the act of punching a woman in the face over and over and over again as a literal punchline. Everytime Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character Daisy speaks out of turn, Kurt Russell’s character John Ruth is there to “put her in her place” (for lack of a better phrase) by punching her in the face, slapping her, and other forms of physical abuse. And it doesn’t just happen once or twice; it is repeated several times to the point of excess. At one point John Ruth even throws a piping hot bowl of soup in her face.
Before the film begins, we are left to believe that Daisy is a bad woman. We never see her do anything necessarily wrong, aside from her calling Jackson’s character a “n—–“ during a couple of quick verbal jabs. So seeing her get hit and become bloodier every 15 minutes or so is not entirely justified, but it’s used as a running joke, just the same. As Tarantino repeats the action over and over again, the audience I saw it with laughed harder and harder. This same repetition occurs with another sight gag with the hammering of a broken door. In order to stop it from blowing open, characters yell at others to hammer the door and remind newcomers that “you need two boards!” It’s an overused joke in my opinion but again, the audience laughed louder with each swing of the hammer.
Sadly this also happened with each bloody nose and missing tooth. What adds insult to injury is that she’s the only real female character in the film. Of course, she’s one of the supposed “hateful” from the title, but punching the one woman in the mouth just because she spoke when she shouldn’t have, rubbed me the wrong way instantly. I don’t think I’m reading into this more than I should be, but at the same time, it’s telling that the audience didn’t seem to have the same repulsed reaction that I did.
Tarantino is a self-proclaimed film geek – this is nothing new. What is also nothing new if you have read about Tarantino or listened to interviews with him over the years, is that he’s a huge Brian De Palma fan. Later in the film, Jennifer Jason Leigh gets blood splattered all over her face. And then (of course) it happens again, drenching her face even more. Her blood-dripped face looks surprisingly like another iconic, mistreated woman in film history. Knowing of Tarantino’s love of De Palma, I immediately thought of Sissy Spacek in CARRIE. The character of Carrie White is verbally abused and made fun of throughout the film by her peers, and verbally and physically abused by her mother. It’s a character that you feel terrible for. You witness her struggle and feel her pain. So the fact that Leigh’s character is abused just as much and then made to resemble Carrie seems more than just an empty nod coming from a fan-turned-director, it actually treats Carrie’s abuse as just an exploitative form of entertainment. Treating Daisy’s abuse for laughs and then seemingly making a connection to Carrie’s emotional and physical pain, undermines the power of De Palma’s story while making light of violence inflicted upon women for other’s amusement.
THE HATEFUL EIGHT does a lot right. It brings to light dark issues that America would rather bury beneath the ice and snow than confront face to face. In a recent Entertainment Weekly interview the auteur stated,
“I think me dealing with race in America is one of the things I have to offer to cinema. That is one part of my interest in American society, and so the fact that it bleeds into my work makes perfect sense. In particular, it’s what I have to offer the Western genre, because it’s really not been dealt with [there] in any meaningful way.”
Ignoring the delusions of grandeur associated with that statement, I have to still applaud him for making a movie with a message. He doesn’t edit himself to appeal to the masses. He doesn’t tone down the violence to meet acceptable standards. He doesn’t make a movie without standing 100% behind it. His every action seems so specific and intentional that there is no question to me that Tarantino is aware of what he is presenting. Humor is always subjective. You may laugh at more bawdy humor while your parents might laugh more at irony. However, there are accepted forms of humor and unacceptable forms. With consistent news stories centered around a professional athlete (Dallas Cowboys Greg Hardy), a “feminist” porn actor (James Deen), and a legendary comedian (Bill Cosby) involved in forms of abuse towards women, never has there ever been a more inappropriate time to giggle at a man showcasing a physical dominance over a woman. With all the talk about Tarantino’s use of the “n-word” and the geysers of blood in his newest film, no one seems to be noticing a major issue at the center of the film. And sitting with a full theater comprised of jovial critics and fans alike only highlights the fact that they aren’t just laughing off an issue… they (along with the director) are failing to even see it. My only hope is that enough people take note so that the issue doesn’t get buried beneath the bloody snow and ice.
Director Quentin Tarantino’s THE HATEFUL EIGHT is now playing in select theaters in “glorious 70mm” (including St. Louis) and will open nationwide on December 31, 2015.
Of this ensemble cast, which includes Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Walton Goggins, Demian Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern and Channing Tatum, the one standout is the performance by Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Leigh comments on her character’s place among the eight: “Daisy is a gutsy girl, and she’s a bit of an animal in her own way. But all of these people have their values, and they all have their soft spots.”
“Jennifer Jason Leigh is fearless,” producer Stacey Sher says. “She’ll go anywhere, she’ll try anything, she’ll push it all the way, and as a result her character is constantly surprising throughout the entire journey.”
In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice.
Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass.
When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…
In his review, Jim Batts says the film is “enthralling, outrageous, and ambitious.”
For the last couple of decades film fans have been bemoaning the lack of flicks set in the old wild West. Many even remarked that the “horse opera” or “oater” was a dead genre, that its heydays were nearly twenty five years ago (Clint Eastwood’s UNFORGIVEN took Oscar gold in 1992). At the end of 2015, the corpse of the Western, seems to have been revived. And who are the “mad scientists”, well “mad movie makers” perhaps, shocking this corpse back to life via their electrifying talents? Well, Oscar winner Alejandro Inarritu, fresh off his BIRDMAN triumph, puts Leonardo DiCaprio through the wringer (emotional and physical) in THE REVENANT, which we’ll discuss in length when it gallops into theatres in a couple of weeks. The film that’s out on Christmas Day (in a very special limited release) comes from the ultimate movie fanatic turned film maker Quentin Tarantino. Now it was almost three years ago to the day that he first tried on his Stetson with DJANGO UNCHAINED, an ode to one of his beloved “grindhouse” staples, the “blackspoitation” action flick mixed with the old-fashioned “sagebrush” story. Now QT is hitting the trail once more, this time attempting to recreate the “road show” film releases of the 1950’s and 60’s with a “saddle saga” more epic in scope, eschewing digital projection and presenting it in select theatres in 70 mm (excuse me, Super Panavision 70 mm), even filming it with the same lenses that created many of those revered 60’s spectacles. And to give it the proper 60’s Western polish, he’s actually recruited the man responsible for the signature scores of that genre in that era, Ennio Morricone, to provide the music (including an overture prior to the opening titles). All this to accompany the thundering hoofbeats and exploding six guns of THE HATEFUL EIGHT. Giddyup!
As the strains of the “maestro’s” theme builds, the film opens up on the cold, snowy trails of Wyoming, not long after the end of the Civil War. A solitary figure waves down a lone stagecoach. Only two passengers are inside: bounty hunter John “the Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his prisoner, the notorious Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh). After reminding Ruth of a previous meeting, the man who flagged them down, another bounty hunter, Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L Jackson), is allowed to join them (after lots of negotiations). Soon the coach is full when Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins) emerges from the woods and pleads for the last seat, telling the men that he is also headed to Red Rock to become the town’s new Sheriff (the men are very skeptical of this “wild card”). The coach’s driver soon realizes that they won’t outrun the approaching blizzard and must wait it out at the nearby “stage stop”, Minnie’s Haberdashery. Ruth and Warren are surprised to discover that owners Minnie and “Sweet Dave” are nowhere to be found. According to one of their new staff, Bob (Demian Bichir), the couple are visiting relatives, over the ridge. Once again, the bounty hunters are skeptical. But they’re not the only ones stranded. Trying to keep warm are the stoic cowboy Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), gregarious Englishman Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), and former Confederate officer General Sandy Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm rages, Ruth and Warren soon believe that these men are not who they say they are. Could one of them, or all of them, be in “cahoots” with the dangerous, desperate Daisy?
Pretty impressive octet, eh? Actually there’s a few more cast members (including a very hot, young Hollywood hunk not seen ij the film’s ads) who are also very impressive. As you see, the majority of the eight are QT vets. The most frequent member, Jackson, really becomes the story’s main protagonist, deducing and dishing out justice. There’s more than a touch of Jules (his breakout role in PULP FICTION) in Warren, the man who must deftly manuever through the still wounded by war America. Jackson still projects that fierce determination and intelligence we’ve seen in his very best work, making him a most memorable Western hero. Closer to the usual “oater” lead “buckeroo” is Russell (nearly hidden beneath that walrus,Yosemite Sam ‘stache) as the swaggering man of action (said swagger almost channeling Western icon John Wayne), who and often succeeds at being the alpha male among this “wolf pack”. His boisterous performance at times turns Minnie’s into a private concert hall, entertaining and intimidating us with his outrageous bluster and behavior. Part of that behavior is his brutal treatment of Daisy, somewhat shifting our sympathies to her. That’s until her true, sinister nature kicks in. Leigh (making her astounding arrival into the “Tarantino-verse”) is a sullen, feral she-demon, spewing obscenities and racial epithets like a spitting cobra. With Leigh’s silent glare she tells us that she’s just as savage, if not more so, than any hombre.
Just as watchable is Goggins, who had a small role in DJANGO, as Mannix. His body language conveys a very malleable misfit, whose loyalties can switch in seconds, even as his somewhat think skull struggles to process each new curve thrown at him. After racking up a terrific TV career (from “The Shield” to “Justified”), he proves to be a great screen presence. Another vet from that earlier flick has been a screen star before the birth of Mr. Goggins. Dern as Smithers seems to be the stereotyped, docile old “coot” in a rocking chair, but when he’s verbally poked, he shows us that seething stare, warning his tormentor like a rattlesnake, that his fury will be unleashed. It’s a great follow-up to Dern’s award-worthy work a couple of years ago in NEBRASKA. Roth has a unique spin on the old cliché of the smiling, refined English “dandy” whose effete manners hides his motives. Madsen is surly and sullen as the tight-lipped, close-to-the-vest cowpoke, who is all squint-eyed, laid-back menace. Bichir gives a toned-down performance as the deferential Bob, who suffers ethnic slurs without blinking while trying to keep his “customers’ comfortable.
Much as with his earlier “horse opera”, Tarantino’s new film is a bit of a hybrid. His original screenplay and story is almost equal parts Zane Grey and Agatha Christie, reminiscent of her oft-filmed “Ten Little Indians” (some have even called it a “cowboy CLUE”). It’s a drama of observed looks and gestures that can suddenly erupt in bloody violence (often as over-the-top as any of George Romero’s zombie classics). Since so much of the story is set in Minnie’s roomy general store, many have speculated that this may have been conceived as a stage play. That’s not to infer that Tarantino has treated it as such. His camera swoops in to capture the gunplay, while his edits and cuts direct us right to the most drama and conflict. He even makes the weather a character, as the blizzard, like a howling beast, presses in the cracked door. This is particularly true with the visuals used during a flashback tale. You can almost feel the frigid air cutting through you right to the bone. It may seem an odd choice to shoot a mostly indoor story with “old school” 70mm, but the results are never “stagey” or claustrophobic. The superb, sweeping score by Morricone certainly aides in opening things up. Best of all may be that Tarantino dialogue, though peppered with “f-bombs’ and “n-words”, is gloriously “un-PC”, and often close to poetic. We can see the delight in the cast’s eyes has they savor each syllable like a fine wine. He’s been threatening a retirement from films, but hopefully this true cinema lover (it truly oozes out of every frame) will continue to keep us entertained with work as enthralling, outrageous, and ambitious as THE HATEFUL EIGHT. Whoa!
4.5 Out of 5
THE HATEFUL EIGHT opens in Super Panavision 70mm in select theatres (including Wehrenberg’s Ronnies 20 Cine in St. Louis) on Christmas Day. It opens in wide release on New Year’s Eve
The Weinstein Company announced today that Academy Award winning writer/director Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming feature THE HATEFUL EIGHT, will premiere in 70mm on December 25, 2015 exclusively for a 1-week roadshow opening that will be featured in glorious 70mm in 100 theaters nationwide. Following the 1-week engagement, the film will open with a theatrical digital release nationwide on December 31, 2015, while continuing to be shown in 70mm as well. The film premieres tonight in New York in 70mm at the Ziegfeld theater.
Starting today, moviegoers can purchase tickets for the 70mm roadshow showings at tickets.thehatefuleight.com.
To mark the occasion, Quentin and TWC are commemorating the opening with the “12 Days of HATEFUL EIGHT Giveaways”, where each day a different HATEFUL EIGHT prize, memorabilia or once-in-a-lifetime experience will be given away to moviegoers who buy roadshow tickets in advance leading up to the Christmas day opening.
The exclusive roadshow engagement that THE HATEFUL EIGHT is embarking on will replicate the special event releases that films used to receive in the early and mid-twentieth century. They screened a longer version of the film than would have been shown in wide release, including a musical overture to start the show and an intermission between acts, and moviegoers received a special souvenir program. THE HATEFUL EIGHT roadshow experience will offer moviegoers all three special features. Roadshows were the gold standard for exhibiting pictures like LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, GONE WITH THE WIND, CLEOPATRA, BATTLE OF THE BULGE, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS and BEN HUR.
TWC and Tarantino’s presentation of THE HATEFUL EIGHT will mark the widest 70mm release that the industry has seen in over twenty years. The film will open in 44 markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Washington DC, Houston, Detroit, Phoenix, Seattle, Tampa, Minneapolis, Denver, Miami, Cleveland, Orlando, Sacramento, St. Louis, Portland, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Baltimore, San Diego, Nashville, Kansas City, San Antonio, West Palm Beach, Birmingham, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Oklahoma City, Austin, New Orleans, Providence, Knoxville, Santa Barbara, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver.
Quentin and cast members from THE HATEFUL EIGHT will be touring the country making surprise appearances in select cities at 70mm roadshow showings.
Not since the 1966 film Khartoum starring Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier has a film been shot in Ultra Panavision 70 format.In 2012, TWC distributed Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed film THE MASTER in a similar 70mm format. Beloved by filmmakers and cinephiles for its wide-scope and high-resolution image quality, Ultra Panavision70mm stock captures nearly twice the landscape of the more common 35mm and digital styles. Because of its unique quality and its importance to the art of filmmaking, Quentin, TWC, and a number of other major Hollywood directors and studios have negotiated deals with Kodak to continue production of 70mm and other film formats despite their higher costs and complexity of use.
The lead cast for THE HATEFUL EIGHT will include: Samuel L. Jackson (DJANGO UNCHAINED), Kurt Russell (ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK), Jennifer Jason Leigh (MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE), Walton Goggins (Justified), Demian Bichir (A BETTER LIFE), Tim Roth (RESERVOIR DOGS), Michael Madsen (RESERVOIR DOGS), and Bruce Dern (NEBRASKA). Written and directed by Tarantino, THE HATEFUL EIGHT is produced by Richard N. Gladstein, Stacey Sher and Shannon McIntosh. Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein and Georgia Kacandes are executive producing, and Coco Francini and William Paul Clark are associate producing.
In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…
THE HATEFUL EIGHT marks a continuation of the long-standing relationship between the celebrated filmmaker and the Weinsteins, who have collaborated on all of Tarantino’s films from RESERVOIR DOGS through DJANGO UNCHAINED.
The Weinstein Company has released a brand new, seven plus minute featurette for their highly anticipated film, THE HATEFUL EIGHT, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
THE HATEFUL EIGHT will have a 70 mm roadshow release in select theaters starting on Christmas Day.
Not sure what a roadshow is? Watch below to hear all about it, straight from Quentin Tarantino and the cast members.
In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff.
Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern).
As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all… (Trailer)
THE HATEFUL EIGHT hits theaters on December 25, 2015 (70 mm release), January 8, 2016 (nationwide).
The Weinstein Company has released a brand new poster for their highly anticipated film, THE HATEFUL EIGHT, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
The new TV Spot will air during Sunday’s showing of “The Walking Dead.” (via EW)
(ew.com)
In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff.
Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…
Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demian Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Channing Tatum and more, THE HATEFUL EIGHT hits theaters on December 25, 2015 in special 70mm release, and on January 8, 2016 nationwide.
The Weinstein Company has released a new trailer for their highly anticipated film, THE HATEFUL EIGHT, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
In post-Civil War Wyoming, eight travelers try to find shelter during a blizzard but get involved in a plot of betrayal and deception. Will they survive?
Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Demian Bichir, Channing Tatum and more, find out on December 25, 2015 in special 70mm release, and on January 8, 2016 nationwide.
In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff.
Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…
Kurt Russell, stuck in the snow with eight strangers, uttering the line “One of them fellas is not what he says he is.” But it’s not THE THING – it’s the trailer for THE HATEFUL EIGHT and it had me at “Got room for one more?” This long-awaited trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film is exactly how a trailer should be cut, showing us just a basic synopsis of the movie and who’s in it. It’s not like so many others that show us the best parts of the movie, then show what happens at the end so we really don’t need to bother seeing the film. THE HATEFUL EIGHT looks to have eight unique and interesting characters and I can’t wait until Christmas!
In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice.
Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff.
Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern).
As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…
Ennio Morricone will be composing an original score for the film – his first Western score in 40 years.
THE HATEFUL EIGHT will be released on Christmas Day in 70MM, for two weeks, and will expand on January 8, 2015.
