After Pulp Fiction hit international cinemas like a bombshell in 1994, the whole world was waiting for new material from directorial prodigy Quentin Tarantino. It arrived the following year in the form of the episodic film Four Rooms, which Tarantino directed together with his long-time collaborator Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn) and independent filmmakers Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging) and Alexandre Rockwell (In the Soup). The wild genre mix between the slapstick comedy of Jerry Lewis and the black-humored gangster cinema that made Tarantino famous follows a hotel bellboy (Tim Roth) through a wild night in which he has to deal with, among other things, a coven of witches and a crazy Hollywood director played by Tarantino himself. Star-studded down to the smallest role, “Four Rooms” is largely forgotten today, but we now have the rare opportunity to rediscover it in analog 35mm projection.

Print from the collection of Kino im Blauen Salon (HfG KA)