Tarantino was among the honorees at the 2020 Kodak Film Awards, in his
case getting a Lifetime Achievement prize, along with life partners
Baumbach and Gerwig receiving the Auteur Awards, and many others that
were handed out Wednesday night at the ASC Clubhouse in Hollywood. QT is
known as a fierce proponent of film, not just shooting with it but also
showing it at his self-owned New Beverly Cinema, where he threw out the
digital projector when he bought the theater and
only projects
movies on film. Christopher Nolan, another very vocal advocate of film
presented the award to Tarantino, who praised the other awards winners
there by pointing out how he has helped them just by example. Because he
got Sony to strike several 35MM (and 70MM) prints of
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Gerwig was able to cite that to Sony to get the same filmic treatment for
Little Women. He also said the New Beverly has played film prints of numerous Baumbach movies including recently
Marriage Story in a specially struck film print from Netflix. Baumbach showed up for two nights of Q&As with it.
He also applauded Tim League (getting Theatre of the Year for Alamo
Drafthouse, just as New Beverly got last year) for inspiring him to
start his own theater, which depends on a few collectors around the
world, Tarantino’s own collection and the kindness of studio archive
departments that still have maybe one film print to loan out on their
titles. “If it is showing at the New Beverly, you
know it is on film,” he said. Tarantino even went further in an explanation that absolutely mirrors the current ad line for
Hollywood’s Oscar campaign that simply says, “Because You Love Movies.”
If you needed any proof that QT is the embodiment of that, and always
has been, the rest of his speech confirmed it. “Because the thing about
it is I need to like f*cked -up prints,” he said. “If you want
everything to look like it was struck straight from the negative and
everything is perfect, this isn’t it,
all right? If I am showing my 35MM print of
Junior Bonner that
was struck in 1971, it is a little faded and has just lost a little bit
of color, but I love that f*cking print. … If it could talk what could
it
tell me? How many
theaters did it play in? How many
audiences did it entertain? How many people have
laughed at that movie? How many people have
cried at that movie? From that
one print, how many different theaters — from the El Paso Drive-in to the Tennessee in Knoxville — how many times did it
play?
I have shown the f*cking thing at least six times with six different
audiences who have laughed and cried with that print. That
means something.
That’s something
. That’s
something.” Because we love movies indeed, QT.
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