Forget about real-life movies. Sometimes, the best flicks are the mini movies-within-movies that audiences only get a tantalizingly short peek at. From the Bruce Willis/Julia Roberts thriller “Habeus Corpus” glimpsed in Robert Altman’s “The Player” to the serious-minded dramatization at the end of “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure” to the “Bowfinger” blockbuster “Chubby Rain,” I know I’d gladly fork over ten bucks if Hollywood ever got around to making them. And soon we’ll have a new one to enjoy, courtesy of Eli Roth and the “Inglourious Basterds.”
“There is this Nazi propaganda movie that is like a film-within-a-film,” explained the “Hostel” filmmaker when we spoke with him recently about the eagerly-anticipated Quentin Tarantino flick that will be premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. “And it’s like a whole other movie.” Read more...