Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood will premiere at Cannes, after all
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25 years after winning the Palme D’Or for Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino is returning to the Cannes Film Festival with Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. The film, a tragicomic panorama of Los Angeles in 1969, was deemed not ready for screening when Cannes announced its initial lineup last month, but, per Cannes executive Thierry Frémaux, Tarantino has “not left the editing room in four months.”
“We were afraid the film would not be ready, as it wouldn’t be released until late July, but Quentin Tarantino, who has not left the editing room in four months, is a real, loyal and punctual child of Cannes,” Frémaux said in a statement. “Like for Inglourious Basterds, he’ll definitely be there—25 years after the Palme d’Or for Pulp Fiction—with a finished film screened in 35mm and his cast in tow.”
That cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie, who plays doomed actress Sharon Tate, a victim of the Manson family. “His film is a love letter to the Hollywood of his childhood, a rock music tour of 1969, and an ode to cinema as a whole,” Frémaux said of the film. which will be in competition at the festival.
“I can’t wait for the world to see Brad’s performance in this,” Tarantino producer Shannon McIntosh told Entertainment Weekly. “He’s so wonderful and charismatic and I think he is the Brad that people fell in love with years ago. Especially when he’s going toe-to-toe with Leo, his performance is amazing, he looks great and I think people will be reminded why he is the movie star that we know he is.”
Other new additions include Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo, the latest film from Blue Is The Warmest Color’s Abdellatif Kechiche, as well as non-competition offerings like Lux Æterna, a 50-minute essay film by Climax’s Gaspar Noé, and Gael García Bernal’s Chicuarote, a “deep dive into Mexican society” through the eyes of teenagers.
Cannes begins on May 14, and Hollywood hits theaters officially on July 26.
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I doubt that is a screen shot from the movie because I can’t see those womens feet
Ha! Tarantino! Feet! What a funny observation!
Thank you!
But the easiest Tarantino joke is about his chin.
What’s next on the bingo card? Ah, yes: “A Tarantino movie? What’s his cameo, ‘Guy who screams the N-word a lot?”
I just need “talks with an Australian accent” to hit bingo.
OMG you should post how you think he talks now, alright?That’s ALWAYS funny 25 years ago.
Hmm 25 years go he had just made Pulp Fiction, so I don’t feel like we really knew about his foot fetish yet, I think that came out more around the Kill Bill days.
The cast also includes Emile Hirsch. I am 99% sure I am going to see this movie, but I feel conflicted about it. In some sense, I can separate the art from the artist, but in another sense that feels like a cop out.It’s easy for me to not listen to Chris Brown, because f*** that guy and I don’t like his music. This has me messed up.
I think you should look into the history of everyone involved in every movie you think about watching. If any of them have ever committed a misdemeanor crime, you should boycott the movie. It’s the only sensible thing to do.
If you stopped enjoying art made by terrible people, you would legitimately have almost no art to enjoy.
What I can tell is that his role is very small, and he doesn’t even appear in the trailer. I get what you feel though, I mean I thought that dude had a lot of potential, I loved his role in Into The Wild… But after reading all of the accounts of the assault he was guilty of, and apologizing about it as if it was just a drunken screw up really made me lose my interest in him as an actor. I mean, dude, you can be drunk af but there is nothing in alcohol that would make you choke out a woman you don’t know, it doesn’t mean you are a drunken run of the mill asshole, it means you are a misogynist asshole who is also a drunk.
Where does history stand on Pulp Fiction winning the Palme D’Or? Right call? In hindsight, I think Three Colors: Red was more deserving.
I watched Pulp Fiction the other day and now my Facebook has ads for gimp suits. I am not joking. This is very serious.
You’re saying that like it’s a bad thing.
I know. Mother’s Day is only about a week away.
FB knows what you like.It KNOWS.
I think history stands as saying Pulp fiction was one of the most important and best movies of the 90’s…so I’m pretty sure it’s still fine with this win.
Three Colors: Red, is a great movie. I would rather re-watch Pulp Fiction though (and I have, several times). I also think that Pulp Fiction has been the more influential film (for better and worse).
It’s also possible that Three Colors: Blue is my favorite of the trilogy.
Pretty sure history will stand that most everything to do with Tarantino was not a right call.Pulp Fiction never deserved the Palme D’Or
Mr. Kieślowski, I thought you were dead!
Oh I’m not Kieślowski. I’m Kesselmann, his German double.
Red was good but pretty much by-the-numbers early 90’s art cinema fare. Pulp Fiction was the right choice.
That quote from QT about Brad Pitt makes it sound like Pitt’s not a movie star anymore, and that this role is going to be a “comeback” on the level of Travolta after Pulp Fiction.Then I looked at Brad’s recent filmography and thought…maybe there’s something to that.
The quote was from the producer, but I thought similarly that she’s really going out of her way to tell us Pitt’s a movie star. His movies lately haven’t really showcased how good he can be, but I like his work as a producer. Admittedly, I know very little about what it takes to produce a film, but his producer credits are really stellar. I’m fine if he’s not seen as one of the biggest stars anymore.
I really want to see this but I have a feeling the Mason family stuff that may end this movie will make me vomit. I can see him going full last house on the left (original) with it. I can’t sit through that.
What else happens in this imaginary movie that exists only in your head?
They have mentioned the Mason Family and Sharon Tate a ton, so I was worried that’s the ending we will get. Hey if they don’t touch on it at all and it’s just about the 1960’s great. But It’s Tarantino, so I’m scared there will be over the top violence about something that really happened and was awful.
Your worry rock just exploded. Go smoke a joint or something.
I’m here for the QT hot takes
Amazed that a hack filmmaker get a free pass for his shitty past behavior. Just because “Pulp Fiction” was great.