Quentin Tarantino

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2007

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Writer-director Quentin Tarantino works when he wants to on what he wants. Reserve Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, the Kill Bill films and, now, his newest part of a double bill, Death Proof.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.
0:15.4	Welcome to the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:18.3	Our old friend Quentin Tarantino, you may know from his film Pulp Fiction celebrates his 20th anniversary this year.
0:23.6	Yeah, boy.
0:24.6	Yeah, boy.
0:25.2	Oh, my God.
0:25.8	Certainly flavor, flay sitting across from me.
0:27.6	And in 2007, he took ownership with the New Beverly Theater and once famously said,
0:33.1	as long as I'm alive and as long as I'm rich, the new Beverly will show films in 35mm.
0:38.7	As of this month, October, he's taking over the programming of the new Beverly.
0:43.5	First of all, it's always good to have you back here. Thanks a much you're doing this.
0:46.1	That's good to be here, mate.
0:47.2	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,
0:57.2	an idea I could easily program it and screen it there.
1:01.7	But my association with the New Beverly pretty much starts about 10 years ago when I realized
1:09.3	through some, because the New Beverly has been around, Sherman Torgon
1:12.8	ran it. Since 78, basically. Yeah, 78. And it was a staple. It was a staple of my teenage
1:19.4	years in my early 20s. I think most Los Angeles can remember, especially a lot of like the special
1:25.1	art films or foreign film directors, a lot of times
1:27.8	the first films we ever saw of them was at the New Beverly. So then all of a sudden I started
1:32.0	hearing through the grapevine that it was looking like the theater might have to close down.
1:36.9	So I started thinking about it and I go, well, you know, as a lover of film, a lover of small
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