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“Quentin Tarantino would not eat fish,” begins the Manila Inquirer article about the director’s appearance at Cinemanila International Film Festival in the Philippines, his first visit to Southeast Asia.

“He could hardly contain himself from raving over De Leon’s “soul-shattering, life-extinguishing” movies on vampires and female bondage, particularly Women in Cages,” says the Inquirer.

“It is just harsh, harsh, harsh,” Tarantino said, and described the final shot as one of “devastating despair.”

Tarantino finally got to meet his movie icons, Santiago and Eddie Romero, at a film forum. He also named the late National Artist Gerry de Leon as another of his icons. “I’m a huge, huge fan…” he told film students at a pre-dinner master class he conducted.

He’s now writing a book on Filipino B movies, called “Bamboo Gods, Iron Men and Wonder Women.” He also told the Inquirer he was taking home DVDs of the films of Brocka, Bernal et al.

“To further immerse myself in Philippine cinema,” he said. “I’m taking my lifetime master’s in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate.”

He is a “hearty eater and merry drinker,” who polished off a serving of pancit luglug (rice noodles with shrimp sauce and pork) and a steak (medium rare), pizza and gambas (shrimp with garlic) mixed with noodles. Tarantino said he had tapsilog for breakfast (eggs, fried rice and beef).

Tarantino is in Manila to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the festival, as well as premiering “Death Proof,” his latest film.

Next up is Elmore Leonard’s Killshot, his first film with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Hossein Amini (Wings of the Dove) . Tarantino is exec producer with creative control. Killshot will star Diane Lane as the beautiful Carmen Colson and her husband Wayne (Thomas Jane) who get mixed up with a small time psychopathic con man-killer (Joseph Gordon Levitt) and his aging hitman-partner, the Blackbird (Mickey Rourke). It should be released like, um, any minute.

Source: The Inquirer