Quentin Tarantino will head up the Venice Film Festival’s competition jury, where he’ll be judging movies that include Julian Schnabel’s Miral and Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere, which boasts the very Tarantino-esque casting of one Stephen Dorff. Festival organizers said they chose Tarantino, who chaired the Cannes jury that awarded the Palme d’Or to Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004, because, among other reasons, he “is perhaps the only American auteur to be adored worldwide like a rock star,†causing Wes Anderson to seriously consider adding a yellow tracksuit and/or baseball-bat beatdown to his next film. [Variety]