So I shuffled over Gateway Mall to meet Quentin Tarantino at the Cinemalaya FIlm Festival. The press had a “meet and greet” session after he gave a four hour seminar on film. Luckily a friend from one of the ABS-CBN magazines needed a photographer so she dragged me along, to my delight. I’d do anything to meet the pulp in the fiction.
Quentin Tarantino has always fascinated me because of his deep appreciation for Asian Cinema. Based on the comments of many of those who attended the four hour talk, they were all fascinated with Tarantino’s familiarity with the development of Filipino cinema, even from the era of the 60’s. Tarantino also stressed how he hates questions like “how was it like working with Uma in Kill Bill” which are things he usually gets in Hollywood. Filipino film students and industry folk were more intelligent throughout the four hour discourse, gladly 
I will say it now that I had a totally different experience!
After waiting in line for an hour, I noticed a minus one being set up in front of the line. After a few minutes one of the organizers started to speak and said “we apologize for the delay but Quentin is suffering from a headache due to the long talk and the jet lag. We’re sorry but we have to cancel this meet and greet session. Quentin will be back later after the next film showing” … which was several hours later.
$$%%%#$&##$@*&*%^!!!
Frustrated, disappointed and tired, we headed over to the Pink Kitchen Foodfest over at Rockwell as I had complimentary tickets courtesy of Enderun College’s publicist. The wine seminar, good food and good company were a trio of good vibes from the earlier upheaval.
Quentin Tarantino is a man after all. Always thought he was a god of some sort.
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Wow! You were that close to meeting Quentin Tarantino?! I wish I had the opportunity too. Oh well, hope never dies.
sobrang lucky. My daughters would have loved to meet him.
He was here ?! Never heard about it. Who cares about Uma, I want to know about what was in the golden briefcase!
Oh well. At least you did not ask him “Do you know why they call it a Royale with cheese?”
You see life evens out eventually
Whoooot??? No pictures??!!! I thought I’d see pictures after the jump. Really disappointing jayvs. Tsktsk.
You were at Pink Kitchen too? We were there last Sunday
great food
the food was great! i especialy enjoyed the P100.00 desserts at sweet bela.
i second that
I forgot this one! sigh. anyway, I also heard that they showed good films, like Control, which I also failed to see. Waaah.
Hi there,
I never thought Quentin would really be here. First of all, the Cinemanila Ads were not as informative as I expected. There was even one ad that didn’t mention where it was going to be held. It just said Cinema 1 or 2 but where?
Anyway, I’m sad that this visit wasn’t given enough publicity. By ‘enough’ poor ‘me’ wasn’t able to go see the guy because of lack of articles about his visit. Was it even on The Buzz?