Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France... Quentin Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS on Blu-ray and DVD (Dec 15) - Update: Cover Art added

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Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France...

If You Need Heroes, Send In The Basterds

"Quentin Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS is a big, bold audacious war movie... He's the real thing, a director of quixotic delights."
—Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)

"It immediately introduces us to its most polished, most successful character, Landa, beautifully played by German-born Waltz... Having just as much fun is Pitt, who seems more relaxed and comfortable in these comic character parts than in conventional leading man roles."
—Kenneth Turan (Los Angeles Times)

"Within the first frames of writer/director Quentin Tarantino's audacious dismantling of history, you may feel as if you took a hit of pure oxygen. His tale, with its tense and jangly pacing, is immediately riveting."
—Claudia Puig (USA Today)

"From the moment the charming, smiling, laughing Nazi in INGLORIOUS BASTERDS, Quentin Tarantino's latest cinematic happenings, sweeps onto the screen, he owns this film even more than its maker... Mr. Tarantino gives you a lot to chew on."
—Manohla Dargis (The New York Times)

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS — on Blu-ray & DVD »
(available December 15)

Quentin Tarantino's long-gestating (and much anticipated) World War II epic is sure to delight fans of his artful touch with dialogue and visuals. Brad Pitt stars as Lieutenant Aldo Raine, an American soldier who leads a band of Jewish-American troops in their brutal, violent revenge against the Nazis. National Treasure's Diane Kruger also stars as a German actress and double agent who is in on the group's biggest plan yet. Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Til Schweiger, and Mike Myers are also featured in INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS large cast.

On December 15, Universal Home Entertainmet releases Quentin Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS on Blu-ray and DVD (both with bonus Digital Copy). Suggested Retail price for the Blu-ray is $39.98, and $34.98 on Special Edition DVD. A standard DVD is also available for $29.98.

Bonus Features include: (both Blu-ray & DVD)
• Extended & Alternate Scenes
• Nation's Pride – The film within the film Inglourious Basterds can be seen it its entirety
• Domestic and International Trailers
• Roundtable Discussion with Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt and film historian/critic Elvis Mitchell
• The Making of Nation's Pride
• The Original Inglorious Bastards - a salute to the original 1978 film
• A Conversation with veteran actor Rod Taylor
• Rod Taylor on Victoria Bitters, the Australian beer
• Quentin Tarantino's Camera Angel
• Hi Sallys – Gag Reel
• Film Poster Gallery Tour with Elvis Mitchell
• Inglourious Basterds Poster Gallery
• Digital Copy of Inglourious Basterds (expires 12/31/2010 - 2nd disc)

(The Blu-ray edition is BD-Live enabled)

Standard DVD Bonus Features:
• Extended & Alternate Scenes
• Nation's Pride – The film within the film Inglourious Basterds can be seen it its entirety
• Domestic and International Trailers

Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and released in August 2009 by The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures. It was filmed in several locations, among them Germany and France, beginning in October 2008. The film, set in German-occupied France, tells the story of two plots to assassinate the Nazi political leadership, one planned by a young French Jewish cinema proprietress, the other by a team of American soldiers called the "Basterds".

Tarantino has said that despite it being a war film, Inglourious Basterds is a "spaghetti western but with World War II iconography". In addition to spaghetti westerns, the film also pays homage to the World War II "macaroni combat" sub-genre (itself heavily influenced by spaghetti-westerns).

Inglourious Basterds was accepted into the main selection at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in competition for the prestigious Palme d'Or and had its world premiere there in May. It was the only U.S. film to win an award at Cannes that year, earning a "Best Actor" award for Christoph Waltz.

The title of the film was inspired by director Enzo Castellari's 1978 Dirty Dozen-like war film The Inglorious Bastards. Though Tarantino acknowledges that both the former and the latter were inspirations for the film, and there are noticeable similarities, he stresses that Basterds is an original work and not a remake of the 1978 film.

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS — Explore further:
—> Visit the film's Official Site »
(from Universal and The Weinstein Company)

—> Trailers, clips and other videos from Inglourious Basterds »
(here on DVDTOWN)

—> THEATRICAL REVIEW (8/24/2009) »
(By Tim David Raynor -and- John J. Puccio)

"QUENTIN TARANTINO allows full reign to his boyish enthusiasm with INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, which takes an impish delight in sending up such Second World War adventures as The Dirty Dozen and Where Eagles Dare."
—Richard Mowe (Box Office)

"Tarantino builds his movie as a collage of interlocking set pieces — cinematically dazzling, to be sure, enhanced by a meticulously chosen retro soundtrack."
—Lisa Schwarzbaum (Entertainment Weekly)

Rated R for strong graphic violence, language and brief sexuality

Film Synopsis:
Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France...
If You Need Heroes, Send In The Basterds
In German-occupied France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...

In the first year of the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to perform swift, shocking acts of retribution. Later known to their enemy as "the basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget von Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Fates converge at the Paris cinema, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own.

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