Tarantino presents at film festival

Quentin Tarantino is in Venice to present a retrospective of Italian films, but don't look for masterpieces from the likes of Federico Fellini or Luchino Visconti in the line-up.

Instead, Cannibal Holocaust, Orgasm and The Big Gundown take the honours as some 20 action flicks, erotica and horror B-movies unspool in the new Italian Kings of the Bs section of the Venice Film Festival.

"To actually see them all in Italian, restored and in their original form, it's a movie geek dream," Tarantino gushed at a news conference.

Indeed, many inspired the films such as Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill that have given Tarantino a cult following and idol status in the cinematic world.