By Wind(up)bird June 4, 2004 11:38 AM
Although the Croisette was crawling with press this year, few seemed to notice the wording on the final day?s screening schedule: ?Int?grale Kill Bill?. Perhaps they were bored of QT after 11 days of him, or perhaps they couldn?t face four hours indoors, but it seems there were few journalists there to see him introduce ?the first screening ever, ever, ever? of the FULL, RUN-ON KILL BILL.
Dressed in jeans and a black Kill Bill T-shirt that didn?t do much for his beer-belly, QT looked tanned and relaxed as he took the stage, bowing to a standing ovation. With simultaneous translation from festival head Thierry Fremaux, Tarantino explained that this was not simply one volume after another but the full deal, featuring the Asian cut of Volume One, with a few trims, and the standard Volume Two (minus the 'roaring rampage of revenge' driving sequence used in the trailer). This version, he revealed, will go out in a roadshow version in a year?s time, with a five-minute intermission - with music from the film - acting as a cigarette break for the restless.

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