Cinema Dissection: Inglourious Basterds

Cinema Dissection: Inglorious Basterds

November 1, 2025

In dark uncertain times, the power to reimagine history becomes a revolutionary act. With Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino fuses revenge fantasy with metafiction, asking us to reflect not just on history, but on how it’s told.

In this Cinema Dissection, local filmmaker and PBS producer Jeremy Cropf leads a detailed, shot-by-shot analysis of how the film’s formal elements—long takes, stylized violence, genre blending, and tonal shifts—reveal deeper truths about who controls the stories we inherit. From the iconic opening to the blazing finale, join us as we explore the film's layered commentary on mythmaking, propaganda, and cultural memory.

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Saturday, November 1, 2025

SIFF Film Center

10:00 AM

CLASS SPECIFICS
Saturday, November 1, 2025
10:00am–4:00pm PT
SIFF Film Center
$30 Sustainer | $25 Regular | $20 Member

ABOUT CINEMA DISSECTION
Cinema Dissection affords film lovers an exciting opportunity to dig deeper into the films that they love. Inspired by Roger Ebert's annual Cinema Interruptus in Boulder, CO, attendees will participate with a facilitator in a six-hour scene-by-scene, and sometimes shot-by-shot, deconstruction of the featured film. While the facilitator will certainly share their thoughts, anyone in the audience may call out "Stop" and either ask a question of the group or make an observation around a certain shot or moment in the film.

Jeremy Cropf

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Jeremy Cropf is a filmmaker and television producer, currently working at Cascade Public Media. A six-time regional Emmy®-award winning producer, Jeremy earned a BA in Film and Television production at NYU’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated with honors (’11). In 2009 Jeremy studied advanced television production with the BBC Academy in London, attached as an associate producer for the BAFTA-winning BBC Two factual series "The Virtual Revolution." He has produced and directed numerous films, documentaries, and commercials.and the seedy streets of film noir. He could quite happily live in a crumbling castle so long as it was within walking distance of a neon-lit diner on a rain-slicked city boulevard.