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Tarantino Adds 17 Unexpected Minutes to AFI Fest
· New York time
Quentin Tarantino surprised an AFI Fest audience in Los Angeles by screening the first 17 minutes of The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. The preview followed a Friday-night Q&A and screening of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the 10-time Oscar-nominated film to which it is a follow-up. Deadline describes the footage as the first public look at the sequel. The surprise gave attendees something beyond the advertised pleasure of revisiting an established film and hearing its filmmaker discuss it. A retrospective-style evening abruptly acquired a forward-looking component. Seventeen minutes is enough to provide an opening encounter without being remotely equivalent to screening the completed feature for the public. For film promotion, that creates a distinctive kind of anticipation: an audience has actually seen material, but most prospective viewers still have only the knowledge that the reveal happened. The festival becomes the setting for both cinema appreciation and an unexpected preview. People who stayed through the discussion received a substantial reward for not checking the parking clock too early. It is a pleasing reversal of the usual post-screening experience, in which the extra material consists mostly of watching strangers search the floor for a dropped phone.
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