Quentin Tarantino returns this month to what he has described as his ‘spiritual home’, the Cannes Film Festival, to give a cinema master class to a specially invited audience, based on his experiences as a director and scriptwriter.

Tarantino acquired a cult following as a writer-director for his first film, Reservoir Dogs in 1992, which was selected for Cannes but not in time to enter for the main prizes. Two years later, however, Tarantino was back at Cannes with what many see as his greatest work, Pulp Fiction. It won the Palme d’Or, the French equivalent of an Oscar for best picture, from a jury chaired by Clint Eastwood.

Tarantino himself was jury president in 1994, thereby making it impossible for his own film of that year, the violent but hugely successful Kill Bill part 2, Uma Thurman’s quest for vengeance, to be considered for an award. 

From our May 2008 e-newsletter