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🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 167 minutes
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This May the New Beverly celebrates the 30th anniversary of Pulp Fiction’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where it would win the celebrated Palme d’Or before taking the world by storm. Plus, a special 50th anniversary screening of The Lords of Flatbush, Disney classics in stunning I.B. Technicolor, hard hitting Jimmy Wang Yu martial arts classics, and much more, all screening in glorious 35mm! Brian, Elric and Phil are joined by guest Dan Halsted - Head Programmer at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland to talk about all these movies!
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0:00.0 | Quentin Tarantino's New York Times best-selling book, Cinema Speculation, is now available in paperback. |
0:06.4 | This deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book is as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino. |
0:13.6 | The New York Times Book Review calls the book punchy, smart, and surprising. |
0:17.5 | And author Brady Sinalis Raves, it's a total delight from start to finish. |
0:21.2 | Yeah, I mean, we love the book. Obviously, we've talked about it on the show before. I think for me, |
0:25.9 | one of the most striking things about it is the personal asides that he has chosen to include in the |
0:33.3 | book about growing up and living with his mom and the movies he watched with her and her |
0:37.7 | boyfriends and also specifically his tribute to Floyd Ray Wilson and how that guy really helped |
0:44.5 | him find his way into screenwriting honestly. So there's a lot of really beautiful personal stuff |
0:49.0 | in addition to great selections of films and great criticism on top of that. And I think it's a |
0:54.0 | great antidote to like the hot takes out there in the world now that |
0:57.8 | Twitter and a lot of film criticism has been so reductive now to like the hot take that's like |
1:02.5 | four lines and it's so easy to make. |
1:04.2 | But he's having to write entire chapters and go through his history. |
1:06.9 | And I think it's a real exciting piece of kind of film journalism, film criticism. |
1:11.4 | For me, the inclusion of a, you know, a chapter on Toby Hooper, the what-if surrounding taxi |
1:16.4 | drive from Brian De Palma. And just, as you said, those early cinema-going experiences. So these |
1:20.9 | are just some of the reasons we highly recommend picking up this paperback. Absolutely. Really |
1:25.0 | unique book. And you can pick up cinema speculation now |
1:28.4 | in paperback available everywhere books are sold the new beverly cinema presents the pure |
1:42.5 | cinema podcast new beverly calendar edition may 24 my name's The New Beverly Cinema Presents, the Pure Cinema Podcast, New Beverly Calendar Edition, May |
1:46.3 | 2024. |
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