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Django Unchained director Quentin Tarantino has proclaimed at Cannes that digital projection is killing cinema and said he will never rely on digital technology for any of his pictures.
Quentin’s first movie blockbuster, 1994’s Pulp Fiction, was shown on traditional 35mm and he has continued to show all of his films using this medium.
The Kill Bill auteur feels with the rise in the dependence of digital film techniques and technology, the industry is doing irreparable damage to our experience of movies.
Quentin said: “Why would an established film-maker shoot on digital? I have no f*****g idea at all.
“Digital projection is death of cinema as I know it.
“It’s television in public. The fact that most films aren’t presented in 35mm means the war is already lost.”
He made his opinions known at an impromptu press conference at Cannes this year, where hosted an 50th anniversary screening of A Fistfull Of Dollars.
He also announced at the film festival announced that he is considering making a four part mini series based on his Oscar winning screenplay Django Unchained.
Quentin explained how he has 90 minutes of unseen footage from the movie and he wanted to use it for four one hour episodes of a TV series.
He said: “It would be a mini-series and people love those. You show people a four-hour movie and they roll their eyes. Show people a four-part mini-series and they’ll sit and watch it all in one sitting.”