New Beverly Calendar: April 2025
Pure Cinema Podcast
Brian Saur & Elric Kane
4.8 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Throughout April the New Beverly Cinema proudly presents a collection of film treasures projected in glorious 35mm, including a stunning new film print of Richard Kelly’s cult classic Donnie Darko, a triple feature of rarities starring pioneering icon Anna May Wong, and a pair of Rosanna Arquette comedies celebrating their 40th anniversaries. Plus, ‘70s rock operas, Schrader & Spielberg, The Dead End Kids, world cinema favorites directed by Luchino Visconti and Catherine Breillat, midnights, matinees, and much, much more. Brian, Elric and Phil are here to talk about all of it!
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| 0:00.0 | The New Beverly Cinema presents the Pure Cinema podcast, New Beverly Calendar Edition, April 2025. |
| 0:16.1 | My name's Brian Sauer. I'm joined as always by the delightful Mr. Elric Kane and, of course, Mr. Phil Blankenship from the new Beverly. Hello, Phil. |
| 0:22.6 | Hi Brian, I'm excited to talk to Elric because he wasn't with us last month because he was on the road with a little film that he may have made. |
| 0:30.6 | Elric, how did the best starting place we could imagine. But thank you for that. But music box is really cool. Music box, we're in the smaller theater there. I didn't even know they could do 35 in all their theaters, but it's one of the most beautiful theaters in America. I used to live there, and they've just made it better and better because they've added a whole bar to the side of it and a kind of waiting area but mickey 17 invaded the main so there's 700 people |
| 0:58.8 | i was a little intimidated if i was in that room uh but it played really well and so it's it's been fun |
| 1:03.7 | it's kind of we're going to probably quiet in the print tour for a while until like later in the |
| 1:07.9 | year because there's a couple places uh on the east coast that are going to probably do something maybe closer to Halloween or something. |
| 1:13.7 | Nice. |
| 1:14.2 | And if anybody is out there in Chicago, you are very lucky because the music box is one of the very |
| 1:21.5 | nicest, very best programmed theaters in the whole world. |
| 1:26.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.5 | Very cool. |
| 1:27.2 | Very cool. Very cool. |
| 1:27.6 | Yeah, very happy to hear it went well. |
| 1:28.8 | And, of course, Mr. Patrick Romley was on the Q&A with you, and we love that. |
| 1:32.7 | Yeah, that was great. |
| 1:34.4 | Phil, what are we looking at for April? |
| 1:36.2 | What do we got? |
| 1:36.9 | Boom, we got a lot of movies. |
| 1:38.6 | We got a feast of a brand new print of a cult classic. We are going to showcase some vintage rarities, some other restoration, some beautiful archival prints. But we're going to start the month. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, April 1st, second and third, with two by Paul Schrader, Blue Collar from 1978, |
| 2:02.2 | more timely than ever, |
| 2:04.4 | paired with American Gigolo from 1980. |
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