Tarantino reçoit un Kodak Award

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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