A black-clad Quentin Tarantino strode into the Cannes Film Festival Friday to declare “the death of cinema as I know it” as celluloid finally succumbs to digital projection.
The outspoken U.S. director, at Cannes to celebrate the 20th anniversary his Palme d’Or win for Pulp Fiction and also the 50th anniversary of Sergio Leone’s “spaghetti western” genre innovations, began a press conference with an impassioned lament for traditional celluloid.