Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” received critical acclaim last year and nabbed a flurry of Oscar nominations.
But its latest honor is a bit … incurious to use the director’s fractured spelling.
Tarantino took part in a panel discussion last Thursday in a special community event at the Museum of Tolerance, part of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The chat, led by Rabbi Abraham Cooper, opened with a screening of “Basterds,” about a band of Jewish soldiers who capture, torture and kill every Nazi they find.
Can’t we all just get along?
The crowd included Holocaust survivors and children of survivors and, reportedly, applauded the film’s revisionist history.
nominated on Tuesday morning for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Rabbi Marvin Hier said during the event the film gives audiences “a sense of release and satisfaction.”
“Basterds” producer Lawrence Bender said during the program, “I really felt like I reconnected with my Judaism in a way that I had never experienced before in my life.”
(Photo: “Inglorious Basterds” has earned eight Oscar nominations including Best Picture/The Weinstein Co.)
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February 9, 2010
Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” received critical acclaim last year and nabbed a flurry of Oscar nominations.
But its latest honor is a bit … incurious to use the director’s fractured spelling.
Tarantino took part in a panel discussion last Thursday in a special community event at the Museum of Tolerance, part of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The chat, led by Rabbi Abraham Cooper, opened with a screening of “Basterds,” about a band of Jewish soldiers who capture, torture and kill every Nazi they find.
Can’t we all just get along?
The crowd included Holocaust survivors and children of survivors and, reportedly, applauded the film’s revisionist history.
nominated on Tuesday morning for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Rabbi Marvin Hier said during the event the film gives audiences “a sense of release and satisfaction.”
“Basterds” producer Lawrence Bender said during the program, “I really felt like I reconnected with my Judaism in a way that I had never experienced before in my life.”
(Photo: “Inglorious Basterds” has earned eight Oscar nominations including Best Picture/The Weinstein Co.)
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