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Quentin Tarantino, who is this year’s guest of honor at the Cannes Film Festival’s Cannes Classics section, shared his passion for George Sherman — the prolific U.S. director of low-budget Westerns and other genre films — on Wednesday with a packed screening of two of his Universal Pictures movies.

“Well, I want to thank the Cannes Film Festival for setting up a double feature of George Sherman westerns and having a sold-out audience, pretty much standing room only,” Tarantino said when he took to the Salle Bunuel stage after being introduced by Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux. “This does my heart very, very good.”

The double bill comprised Sherman’s “Red Canyon,” from 1949, and “Comanche Territory” from 1950.

After “Red Canyon” screened, Tarantino delved into details of Sherman’s career and pointed out that when he was first hired by Universal, the studio had not realized just how fast he was at making films.

Once upon a time in Cannes … Quentin Tarantino had a night to remember.

The Oscar winning auteur turned up at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday night to attend the opening ceremony at the Grand Lumiére Theatre where he had official duties to proclaim the start of the 12-day event. “It’s my honor to declare the 78th festival open!” Tarantino shouted into the microphone.

With that, his only job was done. To put an exclamation point on what had been a politically-charged program — Robert De Niro accepted an honorary Palme d’Or from Leonardo DiCaprio, blasted President Donald Trump and delivered a call to action for artists in the room (“We have to act, and we have to act now,” he said) — Tarantino literally dropped his mic on the stage.

It seemed to be a fitting end for his enthusiastic proclamation as well as his night at the Palais...