For his eighth film, Tarantino resurrected the super wide-screen 70mm Ultra Panavision format, which was last used in 1966 for the epic Charlton Heston/Laurence Olivier adventure Khartoum.

Quentin Tarantino’s new spaghetti western in the antebellum South is perhaps his most divisive film to date, but cinematic literacy demands that his films be seen.

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino has been talking about making a World War II movie for a good ten years now. If you know anything about the director, you know that amounts to a lot of talking. And I hope, for his sake, that it’s good; after multiple scripts, claims that it’s some of the best writing…

Night of the Living Theater…by Dead Playwrights largely presents exactly what you’d expect to happen if notable writers from the ages were asked to take their scripts to modern-day producers and pitch them for Hollywood treatment. But while the five works highlighted in the piece may frequently lack surprises, the work as a whole still adds up to enjoyable, briefly-diverting entertainment. The best of the short skits is “A Lot of Talking”, which smartly echoes…

The sprawling anthology—wherein we follow a large number of characters as their lives overlap but rarely intersect directly—has been a constant presence at the movies for years. Although the genre was once an exclusive territory to which Robert Altman seemed to own the only set of keys, since the mid-90s, Quentin Tarantino, P.T. Anderson, and Alejandro González Iñárritu have all followed this loose pattern to big success—the producers of 2004’s Crash even got a Best…

Once upon a time, in a dirty and slightly sticky corner of the motion picture industry, there were films produced purely for the sake of feeding audiences’ seemingly endless appetite for gaudy sex and near pornographic violence, often slathered with buckets of unnaturally red viscera and always with a splashy title and equally eye-catching poster. The rise of independent cinema in the 1970s made for an explosion of these low-budget features, and audiences hungry for…

Punk rockers the Dresden Dolls hit the Black Cat. Count Zero opens. 8:30 p.m. $10. “Grace,” a dark comedy from “Six Feet Under” writer Craig Wright, is now being performed by the Wooly Mammoth theater company at the Warehouse Theater on Seventh Street NW. 8 p.m. $24-32. Nick Swardson of “Reno 911” is at the DC Improv. 8:30 p.m. $15. The International Washington Horse Show has galloped into town. (Ha ha. Look at us. We…