Quentin Tarantino will preside over the Jury of the 57th Festival de Cannes, to be held May 12-23, 2004. Selected for the first time in 1992 with Reservoir Dogs, he's back in Cannes 10 years after receiving the Palme d'Or for Pulp Fiction (1994).

Quentin Tarantino stated : “For a filmmaker and film lover there's no greater honour than to be on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival. To be President is both a magnificent honour and a magnificent responsibility. And also the crowning achievement of a lifetime spent in cinematic obsession: a Magnificent Obsession”.

Kill Bill Volume 2 - Quentin's 5th film after Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994) and Jackie Brown (1998)- is expected to screen at Cannes along with SHREK 2.

Tarantino is sure to take to the task with relish. But whatever happened to Jodie Foster, who was 'mortified' two years ago that she had to cancel being the head of the jury in order to be in "Panic Room: by David Fincher?