The New Beverly Cinema presents the Pure Cinema podcast.

This is a very special episode, Eric.

Oh, yeah.

Well, it's always an honor to have a guest, especially one who's a real cinephile,

with those credentials.

You can see it in the movies and the work.

And like I told you after I saw it,

I was smiling ear to ear when I saw Knives Out.

It's just anything that's clever, funny,

has amazing cast and is always just slightly ahead of me.

I like to surrender to that.

It's a good feeling.

Same here.

So we are thrilled to honor

a longtime New Bev patron, Ryan Johnson. Yeah. Thank you guys for having me on here. Thank you for

coming. You're very kind. I guess that's a good place to start there because I have known, you know,

Noah Sagan a little bit, and I know he's always been a big new Bev regular but what was your first when did that first get on your radar as a theater so I came to L.A. to go to college I went to

USC and I actually didn't get into the film school but I went undeclared and just kind of snuck into

film classes. Nice. That worked out. And so when I landed there, I forget how I first.

I mean, somebody had a new Bev calendar on their fridge, you know.

And so...

It's intoxicating, right?

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