The New Beverly Cinema Presents, The Purest Cinema Podcast, July Calendar Edition.

I'm very pleased. This is a very exciting episode for us. As always, every month, we are

joined by Phil Blankenship, who's head of social media for the New Beverly.

Hello, everyone. And Jules McLean, who is the director of operations of the New Beverly.

Good evening. And, you know, we feel incredibly lucky to get to sit down with not only one of our

favorite filmmakers, but somebody who programs the cinema and has done a brilliant job of

introducing us to a lot of movies. Even before this job, I was personally interested filmmakers, but somebody who programs the cinema and has done a brilliant job of introducing

us to a lot of movies.

Even before this job, I was personally introduced through Rolling Thunder to the work of

Jack Hill, and I'd never heard of Chunking Express until I saw that release.

So I have a personal stake in thanking you.

Mr. Quentin Tarantino.

Hello, everybody.

Thanks so much for joining us.

I did want to ask you just at the start, because the only time I've heard you talk about

programming was briefly on Elvis Mitchell with a few years back.

But like, you know, obviously being a video store guy, originally, this is, I think all of

us kind of have that programming mentality at that point.

But at what point did you really start going all in with the programming and really

seeing this entire pattern with each calendar?

Oh, that's interesting.

Well, before I kind of took over the programming and the management of the theater,

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