Something of a white-whale experience for many Gen X or Millennial cinephiles, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair screened every day, twice a day, for a week last September at Tarantino’s own newly rehabilitated cinema, in Los Angeles. This is Quentin Tarantino’s fourth film—starring Uma Thurman as the revenge-seeking “Bride”—and it’s presented as “a single unrated epic, complete with intermission, as originally intended.” (It was Miramax who balked at releasing a film running over four hours, and sliced the picture into two volumes released in 2003 and 2004.) In 2006, at Cannes, Tarantino finally got the chance to debut his blood-spattered martial arts extravaganza as one movie. Nearly 20 years later, that same 35-mm. print (containing French subtitles) will be unspooling for audiences in the U.K. and the U.S. for one day only. —Spike Carter
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Uma Thurman in Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.
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