{"id":11664,"date":"2014-05-24T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=11664"},"modified":"2014-05-24T00:00:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T16:00:54","slug":"celebrating-20th-anniversary-of-pulp-fiction-tarantino-calls-digital-film-death-of-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/24\/celebrating-20th-anniversary-of-pulp-fiction-tarantino-calls-digital-film-death-of-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 20th anniversary of \u2018Pulp Fiction,\u2019 Tarantino calls digital film \u2018death of cinema\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CANNES, France\u2014When Quentin Tarantino won the Palme d\u2019Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994 for \u201cPulp Fiction,\u201d he showered his cast with high-fives, bounced to the stage where jury president Clint Eastwood awaited, and promptly answered a heckler with a middle finger.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPulp Fiction\u201d arrived in brash style in Cannes 20 years ago. On Friday, Tarantino returned to the scene of the crime.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWinning the Palme d\u2019Or to this day has still been, as far as laurels are concerned, my single absolutely positively greatest achievement,\u201d Tarantino told reporters. \u201cOf all the trophies that I have won, it\u2019s the one that has the biggest place of honour inside of my house. It\u2019s the one I want another one of some day before they turn out the lights.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Few films have ever sent the kind of shockwave \u201cPulp Fiction\u201d did 20 years ago. While he granted its revolutionary impact influenced movies for years, he said he was merely part of \u201ca movement in the air\u201d to upend the safer, lighter movies of the \u201880s.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Tarantino was more interested in talking about the present than the past.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned, digital projection and DCPs is the death of cinema as I know it,\u201d said Tarantino, referring to digital cinema packages. \u201cThe fact that most films now are not presented in 35 millimeter means that the war is lost. Digital projections, that\u2019s just television in public. And apparently the whole world is OK with television in public. But what I knew as cinema is dead.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tarantino was in Cannes to screen \u201cPulp Fiction\u201d in 35mm on the beach Friday night, as well as to introduce a 50th anniversary screening of Sergio Leone\u2019s \u201cA Fistful of Dollars,\u201d which will close the festival Saturday night. He called \u201cA Fistful of Dollars\u201d not only the birth of the Spaghetti Western, but \u201cthe birth of genre action cinema\u201d for fusing its action with its prominent Ennio Morricone score.<\/span><\/p>\n

The writer-director also commented on several projects. He said that after hosting a live-read of his script \u201cHatefield Eight\u201d in April, he\u2019s reconsidering his proclamation that he would never make it following its leak online. Tarantino filed a lawsuit against Gawker Media over the leak.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see. I\u2019m still writing the script right now,\u201d he said. \u201cI have calmed down a bit. The knife-in-the-back wound has started to scab.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He added: \u201cMaybe I\u2019ll shoot it. Maybe I\u2019ll publish it. Maybe I\u2019ll do it on the stage because I realized it could work very well. Maybe I\u2019ll do all three, but we\u2019ll find out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tarantino also said he has some 90 minutes of unused footage from his revenge Western \u201cDjango Unchained\u201d that he\u2019s considering to combine with the released film to create a four-hour miniseries for television.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike many directors, Tarantino said that he loves to re-watch his films (and does so anytime he catches them on TV) and feels sorry for filmmakers who don\u2019t get such pleasure out of their own work.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always made my movies for me, anyway,\u201d said Tarantino, grinning.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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