The Hateful Eight: the big picture

Quentin Tarantino continues to direct as if he’s the son of Gloria Swanson. “I am big,” she said in Sunset Boulevard, “it’s the picture that got small.” QT doesn’t do small. The Hateful Eight, his new western, opens this week in 70mm at selected locations, after a few weeks of 70mm projection in 100 specially outfitted theatres in the US. The Weinstein Company paid for this, as part of its deal with Tarantino. It’s not unprecedented, but almost. Shooting and projecting on 35mm film is now rare; doing it in 70mm is like returning to cars with running boards. In this case, the car would be a Rolls Royce, because there is nothing more beautiful, detailed and breathtaking than 70mm. Not even Imax.

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