Jerusalem film fest screening with Tarantino sells out in hours
Organizers announce July 18 screening of ‘The Hateful Eight’ featuring lead actress Jennifer Jason Leigh and director Tarantino, ahead of opening event
Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center
This year’s Jerusalem Film Festival special guest, actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, will screen “The Hateful Eight” with director Quentin Tarantino, a familiar face at the annual summer event.
The July 18 afternoon screening, ahead of that evening’s opening event of the festival, was announced on Sunday — four days before the event — and sold out within hours, according to a festival representative.
There will be another screening of the film on July 21, at 7 p.m. in the Cinematheque.
Leigh was nominated for an Oscar for her 2015 “The Hateful Eight” role of “Crazy” Daisy Domergue, a fugitive and one of eight strangers seeking refuge from a blizzard in a stagecoach inn, after the US Civil War.
The American Western film was written and directed by Tarantino, and stars Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Bruce Dern.
Leigh told The Guardian in 2016 that Tarantino is an exceptional director, who “looks at your whole body of work. He just sees you and what you’re capable of.”
The actress will be hosted and honored at the festival’s July 18 opening event, and four of her films will be screened during the ten-day festival.
Tarantino, who in 2018 married Israeli singer and model Daniella Pick, splits his time between Tel Aviv and Hollywood, and has spoken fondly of living in Israel. Pick is the daughter of the late Israeli songwriter and performer Svika Pick.
