Tarantino admits dislike for digital cinema

Quentin Tarantino has claimed that digital filmmaking is the "death rattle" for cinema.

The Inglourious Basterds helmer said that he dislikes the technological advances in the medium, believing that they lack the "magic" of celluloid.

"I actually think I am getting gypped when I go to a movie and I realise it has either been shot on digital or being projected in digital," Tarantino told Sir David Frost on Al Jazeera English. "Some people feel differently about this, but I think it is the death keel (sic), I think it is the death rattle.

"I also have even another whole aspect about it. I have always believed in the magic of movies, and to me the magic of movies is connected to 35 millimetre, because everyone thinks, you cannot help but think, that when you are filming something on film, that you are recording movement.

"You are not recording movement. You are just taking a series of still pictures... They are still pictures. But when shown at 24 frames a second, through a light bulb, it creates the illusion of movement, so thus as opposed to a recording device, when you are watching a movie, you are watching an illusion and to me that illusion is connected to the magic of movies."

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