Quentin Tarantino a legendary director received the Kirk Douglas award for excellence in Film Thursday at the Coral Casino, on the waterfront that share Butterfly beach. He brought along a gaggle of actors, and his producer from his latest successful film Inglorious Basterds. In a red-carpet interview Tarantino explained how he keeps us so entranced.
Proceeded by Diane Kruger, and Samm Levine (Inglourious Basterds), they both explained how what it was like to work with the genius Tarantino, and how they got the parts.
Also, Kirk Douglas brought up the rear with his wife Ann. Ann Douglas who won the Mother of the Year award from the Visiting Nurses and Hospice Care of Santa Barbara a couple of years ago was quick to give credit to the woman who backed Kirk Douglas throughout his career.
Kirk Douglas, presented the award to Tarantino, one of the most celebrated filmmakers of his generation. Since his writing/directing debut with the critically acclaimed Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino went on to receive an Academy Award® and Golden Globe Award for his groundbreaking original screenplay, Pulp Fiction. He has since created such works as the screenplay for Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers (1994); directed the fourth segment of the film Four Rooms; wrote and directed Jackie Brown (1997); wrote and directed Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (2004); in 2005 he was credited as “special guest director” with Robert Rodriguez and writer-director Frank Miller of Sin City, and teamed up again with Robert Rodriguez to direct Grindhouse (2007).
His recent feature film, Inglourious Basterds, is the World War II epic which he wrote and directed and stars Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Bruhl, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. Throughout the picture, Tarantino kept his audience on edge by challenging them throughout the movie to suspend disbelief. Always keeping them on the precipice between being completely engulfed in a film, and the obvious fact that you are watching film. Tarantino re-writes history with style and grit.
The 25th Santa Barbara International Film Festival, set to run February 4 through February 14, 2010, is a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching local culture and raising consciousness of film as an art form