Quentin Tarantino & Rachel Maddow

If there’s been a better brief interview with Tarantino this season, I haven’t seen it yet. With her typical surgical precision Rachel Maddow carves out the observation that Inglourious Basterds “is not just a revenge fantasy about World War II; it’s a torture and terrorism fantasy.” Tarantino rephrases the Basterd’s brand of psychological warfare in his own terms, as “the Apache resistance.” Swerving from silly to serious in the space of a few minutes, it’s the kind of tightly dovetailing brain-tickling exchange we might see in one of Q’s movies.