Quentin Tarantino has declared “cinema is dead” at the Cannes film festival, where he argued screening films in digital is simply forcing an audience to watch television in public and lambasted established film makers for turning their back on 35 mm film.
Speaking at the festival where the director won the Palme d’Or prize in 1994 for his cult film Pulp Fiction, Tarantino condemned digital projections as a poor substitute for the “real thing”.
Tarantino joined Uma Thurman and John Travolta for the 20th anniversary celebration of Pulp Fiction, shortly before a 35mm screening of his hit on the beach on Friday night.
The 51-year-old filmmaker told journalists and critics: “As far as I’m concerned, digital projection and DCPs is the death of cinema as I know it.”
“The fact that most films now are not presented in 35 mm means that the war is lost. Digital projections, that’s just television in public. And apparently the whole world is OK with television in public, but what I knew as cinema is dead”, Independent informs.
