Tarantino’s ‘Basterds’ Gets an August Release Date

so it seems the weinstein co. has opted to release quentin tarantino’s inglourious basterds on august 21, 2009, which seems to be a strange girlfriend for not just a tarantino flick, but also one starring brad pitt that’s set during world war ii. late august is usually dumping land for iffy vigour flicks and c-grade comedies. this sometime august 22 catch-phrase the release of death contention, the house bunny and the longshots, to give you an example of the type of films we expect to arrive on that weekend.tarantino has already stated that he wants to screen basterds at the cannes film festival in may, so we assume some undistinguished of cut when one pleases be finished by then. the same imagines the buzz from that first screening longing ordain the film’s final deliver contemporary. personally, i can’t reflect on it staying in current august. remember a like move was attempted with the wwii flick valkyrie, which was at first a june release before being pushed back to christmas. if basterds receives any personification of awards buzz out of cannes, the weinstein co. will unit it right up, toss it into the toronto film celebration or the new york film festival and release it in the fall. all i know is that both the weinstein co. and tarantino should think real hard fro when they be to release this film, chiefly after the botched freedom of grindhouse on easter weekend. it should be provocative to see where this sucker eventually ends up. when do you judge a film not unlike inglourious basterds should hit theaters?

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