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Short Cuts
BY MARC SAVLOV

August 24, 2001:

Ich Bin Ein Scheisskopf Dept.: QT5 is in full swing over at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (409 Colorado) and continues through this coming Sunday, Aug. 26. This year's fest, during which indie hipster über alles Quentin Tarantino drops into town with 30 or so prints from his personal exploitation film collection, has been, unsurprisingly, a rousing success, selling out nightly (although those precious walk-up tix are still sometimes available, especially for the later shows) and generating considerable goodwill toward the man who hasn't graced theatre screens with his own films in several years. If this is how QT wants to spend his summers, hey, fine by us. Friday's kickoff Spaghetti Western triple feature got off to a decidedly Tarantino-esque start when, according to Alamo co-owner Karrie League, a disgruntled lunatic fringer wandered into the theatre's downstairs lobby and demanded entrance while shouting neo-Nazi epithets and yelling "I am king of all Germans!" Okaaay. The offending party was quickly ejected from the premises, allowing the assembled queue to resume geeking out. Tarantino later enthused over the number of Cinemascope IB prints on hand for the fest, as well as making a point to (finally) screen a Lee Van Cleef film (or two, or three) during the SpagWest triple threat.