Quentin Tarantino brought a lot of cinematographic love – and some micro micro – at the Cannes Film Festival this week, as a guest of honor in the Cannes classics section. True to the form, the legendary filmmaker did not retain by celebrating his last obsession, George Sherman, the unknown hero of the westerns at a budget.
By taking the stage at the Buñuel crowded theater, Tarantino radiated with gratitude.
“Well, I would like to thank the Cannes festival for having set up a double feature of George Sherman Westerns and having an audience with closed counters, about the standing square,” he said.
“That’s very, very well my heart.”
Tarantino sorted on the Sherman aspect Red canyon (1949) and Comanche territory (1950) for the screening, and he came ready with the film Geek Knowledge and Wisdom.
After Red canyon rolled, the pulp Fiction The director plunged into a passionate ventilation of the expertise of director of Sherman – in particular at what speed he worked. But, noted Tarantino, the speed is only impressive if it produces something that is worth watching.
“They did not know how quickly he was able to manage his sets,” he told the first days of Sherman to Universal Pictures.
“Being fast is nice and being fast is great – especially for boys from the Front Office – but how good the images are?”
Then came the answer, directly from the man himself.
“Well, you can see how good the images are. The fact that this guy can work faster than all the other directors under contract, and his images are so good and he has a lot of sense of history and actors like him a lot.”
“Even Shelley Winters did not give him a hard time,” he added.
Tarantino, never to miss an opportunity to mentor the next generation, had real discussions for budding filmmakers in the crowd.
“He had no more time than any of these other fucking directors,” he said.
“But that is what he did with this time that was important, and that’s what I want to transmit to you young filmmakers here: you will only have a lot of time during the day when you make a film.”
He didn’t stop there either.
“Look: we all want to shoot what we want. We all want to get the best we want to get. But it only counts if you do it inside the circle in which you are supposed to work. And how you spend this time; how you use this time, which will define you.”
As if all this was not enough, Tarantino also appeared during the festival opening ceremony on Tuesday evening with his own surprise.
“It’s my honor to declare the 78th open festival!” He shouted – then, in the real Flair Tarantino, dropped the microphone.
