From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell.

Our old friend Quentin Tarantino, you may know from his film Pulp Fiction celebrates his 20th anniversary this year. Yeah, boy. Yeah, boy. Oh, my God. Certainly flavor, flay sitting across from me. And in 2007, he took ownership with the New Beverly Theater and once famously said, as long as I'm alive and as long as I'm rich, the new Beverly will show films in 35mm.

As of this month, October, he's taking over the programming of the new Beverly. First of all, it's always good to have you back here. Thanks a much you're doing this. That's good to be here, mate. And tell me about doing this, because you've had a fairly active hand in the programming there anyway. Yeah, you know, from time to time.

Anything I wanted to do or any wild hair I got on, you know,

an idea I could easily program it and screen it there.

But my association with the New Beverly pretty much starts about 10 years ago when I realized

through some, because the New Beverly has been around, Sherman Torgon

ran it. Since 78, basically. Yeah, 78. And it was a staple. It was a staple of my teenage

years in my early 20s. I think most Los Angeles can remember, especially a lot of like the special

art films or foreign film directors, a lot of times

the first films we ever saw of them was at the New Beverly. So then all of a sudden I started

hearing through the grapevine that it was looking like the theater might have to close down.

So I started thinking about it and I go, well, you know, as a lover of film, a lover of small

businesses and the lover of Los Angeles as far as what we need and a lover of film businesses, and the lover of Los Angeles, as far as what we need,

and the lover of film culture inside of Los Angeles, my quality of life would be less in this town

if the new Beverly Close. So let me just do something about it. So I started supplementing

Sherman $5,000 every month, just to kind of just help them out, you know, help him pay people, help him get some things done. And just so he just wasn't working so under the gun. Covering his costs. Absolutely. And it just wasn't, you know, there's never any like pay it back or anything. I'm just sort of, I'm just investing in you. I just want to see the place stay alive. And he really could never believe

that I was doing it, but he was just, you know, really lovely dude. And at one point, he goes,

you know, Quinn, I can never pay this back. And that's okay, man, I can afford it. It's fine,

you know. And, and he was saying, well, I'll tell you what, when I eventually pack it in, I'd like my son to run it for a while.

But then after that, I'd like you to have the theater. And then you could keep it, you could keep it going after, you know, after I'm gone. And I go, oh, wow, that's, I love that idea. Well, thank you very much. Then unfortunately, Sherman passed on rather suddenly. Then I ended up through a situation

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