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Anticipating new interest in one of the most influential horror films of all time, Criterion gives George Romero’s zombie classic the boost to 4K. Pittsburghs’ most famous movie production returns American horror to its down-home roots, with excellent docu-drama direction and enthusiastic performances. It’s like a Disney film: every seven years a new generation will arrive to debate whether the besieged victims should have fought upstairs, or all retreated to the basement. It’s a 3-disc set, one 4K Uhd and two Blu-rays. Where’s the Bill ‘Chilly Billy’ Cardille theme song?
Night of the Living Dead 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 909
1968 / B&w / 1:37 Academy; should be widescreen / 96 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date October 4, 2022 / 49.95
Starring: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley, Kyra Schon.
Cinematography: George Romero
Film Editors: George Romero, John Russo
Written by John Russo,...
Night of the Living Dead 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 909
1968 / B&w / 1:37 Academy; should be widescreen / 96 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date October 4, 2022 / 49.95
Starring: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley, Kyra Schon.
Cinematography: George Romero
Film Editors: George Romero, John Russo
Written by John Russo,...
- 10/15/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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The beloved revival movie house New Beverly Cinema, owned by Quentin Tarantino since 2007, has set a reopening date of June 1. The theater, which is located on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, made the announcement via social media over the weekend. See below.
The theater, which seats 228 people, first opened in 1929. It was long subsidized by Tarantino before he took over in 2007 to keep the location open and screening classic movies on real celluloid film prints. Since 2014 Tarantino also served as head curator of the venue, mandating that only 16mm and 35mm prints be shown, and chucking out the digital project brought in by Torgan’s son Michael. Now, the theater regularly screens double bills of Tarantino films as well as many of his favorite classics.
The New Beverly had been closed since the spring of last year due to the pandemic, but the venue is no stranger to long-term closures:...
The theater, which seats 228 people, first opened in 1929. It was long subsidized by Tarantino before he took over in 2007 to keep the location open and screening classic movies on real celluloid film prints. Since 2014 Tarantino also served as head curator of the venue, mandating that only 16mm and 35mm prints be shown, and chucking out the digital project brought in by Torgan’s son Michael. Now, the theater regularly screens double bills of Tarantino films as well as many of his favorite classics.
The New Beverly had been closed since the spring of last year due to the pandemic, but the venue is no stranger to long-term closures:...
- 5/2/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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More good news for LA moviegoers: Revival house New Beverly Cinema has set a reopening date of June 1 per its Twitter account. No further details were provided about the cinema’s upcoming schedule.
The 300-seat theater opened in 1929 at Beverly Boulevard near Labrea Boulevard in Los Angeles. The two-time Oscar winner Quentin Tarantino subsidized New Beverly owner Sherman Torgan to the tune of $5K per month to keep the location open; Torgan, who passed away in 2007, owned the theater at 7165 Beverly Blvd since 1978. Tarantino became the new landlord in the wake of Torgan’s passing, holding the line on developers who yearned to turn the venue into a Supercuts. In 2014, Tarantino became head curator with a mandate that only 16Mm and 35Mm prints would be shown, and jettisoning the digital projector installed by Torgan’s son Michael. The cinema reopened in December 2018 after year long enhancements.
On July 25, 2019, double-features programming...
The 300-seat theater opened in 1929 at Beverly Boulevard near Labrea Boulevard in Los Angeles. The two-time Oscar winner Quentin Tarantino subsidized New Beverly owner Sherman Torgan to the tune of $5K per month to keep the location open; Torgan, who passed away in 2007, owned the theater at 7165 Beverly Blvd since 1978. Tarantino became the new landlord in the wake of Torgan’s passing, holding the line on developers who yearned to turn the venue into a Supercuts. In 2014, Tarantino became head curator with a mandate that only 16Mm and 35Mm prints would be shown, and jettisoning the digital projector installed by Torgan’s son Michael. The cinema reopened in December 2018 after year long enhancements.
On July 25, 2019, double-features programming...
- 5/2/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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Los Angeles’ New Beverly Cinema, which is owned and operated by Quentin Tarantino, has set a reopening.
In a post shared on its social media channels and website Saturday, the historic revival theater (located on 7165 Beverly Blvd.) announced plans to reopen on June 1. No further details were provided, but the theater teased that more information would be coming soon.
Built in 1929 as a first-run moviehouse, the late Sherman Torgan bought the theater in 1978, offering double feature pairings of classic, foreign, independent and arthouse cinema. After the unexpected passing of the family patriarch and the operator of the theater in 2007, Tarantino eventually ...
In a post shared on its social media channels and website Saturday, the historic revival theater (located on 7165 Beverly Blvd.) announced plans to reopen on June 1. No further details were provided, but the theater teased that more information would be coming soon.
Built in 1929 as a first-run moviehouse, the late Sherman Torgan bought the theater in 1978, offering double feature pairings of classic, foreign, independent and arthouse cinema. After the unexpected passing of the family patriarch and the operator of the theater in 2007, Tarantino eventually ...
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Los Angeles’ New Beverly Cinema, which is owned and operated by Quentin Tarantino, has set a reopening.
In a post shared on its social media channels and website Saturday, the historic revival theater (located on 7165 Beverly Blvd.) announced plans to reopen on June 1. No further details were provided, but the theater teased that more information would be coming soon.
Built in 1929 as a first-run moviehouse, the late Sherman Torgan bought the theater in 1978, offering double feature pairings of classic, foreign, independent and arthouse cinema. After the unexpected passing of the family patriarch and the operator of the theater in 2007, Tarantino eventually ...
In a post shared on its social media channels and website Saturday, the historic revival theater (located on 7165 Beverly Blvd.) announced plans to reopen on June 1. No further details were provided, but the theater teased that more information would be coming soon.
Built in 1929 as a first-run moviehouse, the late Sherman Torgan bought the theater in 1978, offering double feature pairings of classic, foreign, independent and arthouse cinema. After the unexpected passing of the family patriarch and the operator of the theater in 2007, Tarantino eventually ...
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As promised back in June, Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema revival house is throwing its doors open again December 1.
The theater was closed back in January for near-year long enhancements and upgrades.
First pics scheduled to play on the marquee is Tim Burton’s 1992 sequel Batman Returns, Richard Linklater’s 1993 comedy Dazed and Confused, and during the evening it’s Richard Lester’s Oscar-nominated 1979 title Butch and Sundance: The Early Years starring Tom Berenger as Butch Cassidy and William Katt as the Sundance Kid, and George Roy Hill’s 1969 four-time Oscar winner Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
On Christmas Day: The March of the Wooden Soldiers, the Marx Brothers’ Horse Feathers and Tarantino’s own The Hateful Eight is scheduled to play.
The 300-seat theater opened in 1929 at Beverly Boulevard near Labrea Boulevard in Los Angeles. The two-time Oscar winner Tarantino subsidized New Beverly owner Sherman Torgan to...
The theater was closed back in January for near-year long enhancements and upgrades.
First pics scheduled to play on the marquee is Tim Burton’s 1992 sequel Batman Returns, Richard Linklater’s 1993 comedy Dazed and Confused, and during the evening it’s Richard Lester’s Oscar-nominated 1979 title Butch and Sundance: The Early Years starring Tom Berenger as Butch Cassidy and William Katt as the Sundance Kid, and George Roy Hill’s 1969 four-time Oscar winner Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
On Christmas Day: The March of the Wooden Soldiers, the Marx Brothers’ Horse Feathers and Tarantino’s own The Hateful Eight is scheduled to play.
The 300-seat theater opened in 1929 at Beverly Boulevard near Labrea Boulevard in Los Angeles. The two-time Oscar winner Tarantino subsidized New Beverly owner Sherman Torgan to...
- 11/20/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema, which he bought in 2010, is targeting a re-opening by the end of this year after closing for upgrades and enhancements back in January.
“We would like to thank everyone for their patience while we have been working to get a target date for the re-opening of the New Beverly Cinema. If everything goes as planned, we are looking at a December 2018 re-opening. While we are doing a lot of behind the scenes work to upgrade the theater, rest assured when we re-open, you will find the vintage New Beverly Cinema that we all know and love. We look forward to sharing more with all of you as we continue this process. Again, thank you for your patience, loyalty, and support,” said the theater in a statement today released on Twitter.
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“We would like to thank everyone for their patience while we have been working to get a target date for the re-opening of the New Beverly Cinema. If everything goes as planned, we are looking at a December 2018 re-opening. While we are doing a lot of behind the scenes work to upgrade the theater, rest assured when we re-open, you will find the vintage New Beverly Cinema that we all know and love. We look forward to sharing more with all of you as we continue this process. Again, thank you for your patience, loyalty, and support,” said the theater in a statement today released on Twitter.
We would like to thank everyone for their patience while we have been working...
- 6/25/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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Dormant since commencing with “upgrades and enhancements” on New Year’s Day, the Quentin Tarantino-owned New Beverly Cinemahopes to welcome back customers this December. The Los Angeles theater shared the following statement via its Twitter account Monday:
“We would like to thank everyone for their patience while we have been working to get a target date for the re-opening of the New Beverly Cinema. If everything goes as planned, we are looking at a December 2018 re-opening. While we are doing a lot of behind the scenes work to upgrade the theater, rest assured when we re-open, you will find the vintage New Beverly Cinema that we all know and love. We look forward to sharing more with all of you as we continue this process. Again, thank you for your patience, loyalty, and support.”
Since 1929, 7165 Beverly Boulevard has variously served as a exhibition space for vaudevillains and pornographers, as...
“We would like to thank everyone for their patience while we have been working to get a target date for the re-opening of the New Beverly Cinema. If everything goes as planned, we are looking at a December 2018 re-opening. While we are doing a lot of behind the scenes work to upgrade the theater, rest assured when we re-open, you will find the vintage New Beverly Cinema that we all know and love. We look forward to sharing more with all of you as we continue this process. Again, thank you for your patience, loyalty, and support.”
Since 1929, 7165 Beverly Boulevard has variously served as a exhibition space for vaudevillains and pornographers, as...
- 6/25/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
The title of Julia Marchese’s testimonial documentary on the history of Los Angeles’ the New Beverly Cinema, Out of Print, began, as her film did, as a way of suggesting the dark future which lay in store for the prospect of 35mm film distribution and exhibition in the early stages of this decade’s industry switch-over to digital projection. Marchese’s movie sprung from efforts to rally behind not only the viability of the film format in the face of the movie business’s growing infatuation with all things ones-and-zeroes, but also the viability of theaters like the New Beverly Cinema, the city’s longest-surviving repertory theater, which in 2013, around the time the film began production, saw the availability of 35mm prints, the bread-and-butter of the few independent revival houses across the country still in business, dwindling. These theaters were given a simple, expensive choice: cough up perhaps hundreds...
- 3/24/2018
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
It’s a wonder movie from the 1930s, a political fantasy that imagines a Utopia of peace and kindness hidden away in a distant mountain range — or in our daydreams. Sony’s new restoration is indeed impressive. Ronald Colman is seduced by a vision of a non-sectarian Heaven on Earth, while Savant indulges his anti-Frank Capra grumblings in his admiring but hesitant review essay.
Lost Horizon (1937)
80th Anniversary Blu-ray + HD Digital
Sony
1937 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 133 min. / Street Date October 3, 2017 / 19.99
Starring: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Margo, Isabel Jewell, H.B. Warner, Sam Jaffe, Noble Johnson, Richard Loo.
Cinematography: Joseph Walker
Film Editors: Gene Havelick, Gene Milford
Art Direction: Stephen Goosson
Musical director: Max Steiner
Original Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Written by Robert Riskin from the novel by James Hilton
Produced and Directed by Frank Capra
Frank Capra had a way with actors and comedy...
Lost Horizon (1937)
80th Anniversary Blu-ray + HD Digital
Sony
1937 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 133 min. / Street Date October 3, 2017 / 19.99
Starring: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Margo, Isabel Jewell, H.B. Warner, Sam Jaffe, Noble Johnson, Richard Loo.
Cinematography: Joseph Walker
Film Editors: Gene Havelick, Gene Milford
Art Direction: Stephen Goosson
Musical director: Max Steiner
Original Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Written by Robert Riskin from the novel by James Hilton
Produced and Directed by Frank Capra
Frank Capra had a way with actors and comedy...
- 10/10/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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Not everyone is thrilled about Quentin Tarantino taking over the New Beverly Cinema. Longtime theater employee Julia Marchese says she was demoted and then forced to quit after she refused to sign a confidentiality agreement. Marchese posted about the situation on her blog Wednesday. Marchese, who has worked at the L.A.-based arthouse theater since previous owner Sherman Torgan hired her eight years ago, says she was informed in July that Tarantino would be taking over ownership, at which point she was told she would be promoted to manager. However, Marchese says she was asked to sign an agreement
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- 10/16/2014
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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A longtime employee of L.A.’s New Beverly Cinema says Quentin Tarantino’s new management has forced her out and is ruining the beloved repertory theater. Julia Marchese, one of a few staffers who stayed on through Tarantino’s takeover last month, was told she would be co-manager of the New Beverly when it re-opened this month after renovations. She says this week she was demoted and unceremoniously forced to quit by Tarantino’s longtime personal assistant Julie McLean, who is now acting as General Manager.
“I went through the last six weeks really thinking Quentin was going to make it better,” Marchese told me today. “The thing that’s most shocking to me is that he’s allowing it and I can’t even talk to him about it. To not even be allowed to state my case is unfair.” She says through the Tarantino-led renovations and October 1 re-opening,...
“I went through the last six weeks really thinking Quentin was going to make it better,” Marchese told me today. “The thing that’s most shocking to me is that he’s allowing it and I can’t even talk to him about it. To not even be allowed to state my case is unfair.” She says through the Tarantino-led renovations and October 1 re-opening,...
- 10/15/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
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Quentin Tarantino’s passion for the New Beverly Cinema began when he was just another kid showing up for the nightly double feature. It grew when he found success as a filmmaker and began to subsidize owner Sherman Torgan to the tune of $5,000 per month to keep the place open. Ultimately Tarantino bought the building and now he’s taking over the whole theater from Torgan’s son Michael. Tarantino has grand plans to curate a program of films he is confident will please fellow cinefiles and give him an excuse to showcase his voluminous collection of film prints and trailers.
His first move: Jettisoning the digital projector that Michael installed. When the L.A. institution reopens in October after three months of renovations and a thorough cleaning of the onetime porno palace, the New Beverly will have a unique mission: All 35mm prints, all the time. “The big thing...
His first move: Jettisoning the digital projector that Michael installed. When the L.A. institution reopens in October after three months of renovations and a thorough cleaning of the onetime porno palace, the New Beverly will have a unique mission: All 35mm prints, all the time. “The big thing...
- 9/7/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Quentin Tarantino.s film geek street cred is beyond reproach. The Django Unchained filmmaker owns 35mm original prints of movies that only the hardest of hardcore cinephiles have ever seen. It.s that extensive collection of rare prints, coupled with the director.s love of cinema, that has convinced Tarantino it.s time to take over as the chief programmer at his New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. The New Beverly is an La institution, a mecca for film lovers who still prefer their movies be shown on 35mm as opposed to the more standard digital formats the studios favor these days. It.s this dedication to the format that convinced Tarantino to step in and take command of the theater he acquired way back in 2007, according to an article published by The La Weekly. Tarantino became the owner of the theater back in 2007, after longtime proprietor Sherman Torgan passed...
- 9/6/2014
- cinemablend.com
For those who live in the Los Angeles are or have visited the home of Hollywood, we hope you've been lucky enough to pay a visit to the New Beverly Cinema. The niche revival house has a documentary looking at the unique theater's efforts to keep celluloid alive, showing prints of old movies all the time, traditionally in the form of double features. The programming for the theater has been in the hands of Michael Torgan, son of the theater's founder Sherman Torgan, but now La Weekly has confirmed that filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who actually owns the theater, is now taking over as full-time programmer. That's awesome! When asked why he's now taking on this responsibility, he says: "I want the New Beverly to be a bastion for 35 millimeter films. I want it to stand for something. When you see a film on the New Beverly calendar, you don’t...
- 9/5/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
When I moved to L.A. just over a year ago, there were only a handful of places I really wanted to live near. One of which was the New Beverly Cinema. New Beverly is hands down The place to go for repertory cinema in L.A.. Sure there are other venues that show classic films in and around the Los Angeles area, but nobody does it like New Bev. The entire experience of going to the New Bev from the $8 double features to the so-cheap-you-could-hardly-refuse concessions is like a trip back in time. And the folks that work there are not only passionate about cinema, they're also super cool. Times have been tough for the New Bev and the Torgan family that owns it. When Sherman Torgan passed away, the family took over the struggling...
- 2/19/2010
- FEARnet
It’s no surprise that Quentin Tarantino loves movies like spaghetti loves Westerns. What is less well known is that while he was busy blowing up a Nazi-occupied cinema in Inglourious Basterds, he was simultaneously saving the last full-time revival house in Southern California, The New Beverly Cinema Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles… Nestled away in L.A.’s Hassidic Fairfax district, a couple tax brackets down the road from high-class Asian fusion restaurants and trendy hair-salons, the New Beverly boasts an eclectic history as colorful as its atavistic interior design. Among other incarnations, the building has variously been a vaudeville theater, a night club owned by L.A. mob-legend Mickey Cohen, and, most notoriously, the Beverly Cinema, your friendly neighborhood porno joint showing adult films in glorious 35 millimeter. Then, on May 5, 1978, erstwhile location scout Sherman Torgan re-invented it as the “New” Beverly Cinema and ran a Marlon Brando...
- 2/19/2010
- Vanity Fair
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Tarantino Saves Los Angeles Cinema
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Quentin Tarantino has stepped in to save a Los Angeles movie house from closure - he's agreed to buy the cinema to keep it in business.
The Hollywood director has been watching films at the New Beverly Cinema since he was a teenager and several years ago he was devastated when he learned the family business was suffering financial difficulties.
He contacted the manager, Sherman Torgan, and offered to give the movie theatre $5,000 (£3,125) a month to keep the business running.
He tells Reuters, "It was going to be turned into a Super Cuts (hair salon). I'd been coming to the New Beverly ever since I was old enough to drive there from the South Bay - since about 1982. So, I couldn't let that happen.
"Since I'm a print collector and I screen movies at my home, I heard from other collectors and projectionists that Sherman might have to close down. So, I just started paying him ($5,000) per month. I considered it a contribution to cinema."
But after Torgan passed away in 2007, the landlord who rented the space to the family was determined to sell up and Torgan's son Michael contacted Tarantino - who stepped and bought the building in a bid to keep his beloved cinema open.
Tarantino adds, "I always considered the New Beverly my charity - an investment I never wanted back. I already had a good relationship with the family and the theatre, so it was a natural step (to buy the cinema). It is cool to have a theatre that I can use to show what I like. As long as I'm alive, and as long as I'm rich, the New Beverly will be there, showing double features in 35mm."...
The Hollywood director has been watching films at the New Beverly Cinema since he was a teenager and several years ago he was devastated when he learned the family business was suffering financial difficulties.
He contacted the manager, Sherman Torgan, and offered to give the movie theatre $5,000 (£3,125) a month to keep the business running.
He tells Reuters, "It was going to be turned into a Super Cuts (hair salon). I'd been coming to the New Beverly ever since I was old enough to drive there from the South Bay - since about 1982. So, I couldn't let that happen.
"Since I'm a print collector and I screen movies at my home, I heard from other collectors and projectionists that Sherman might have to close down. So, I just started paying him ($5,000) per month. I considered it a contribution to cinema."
But after Torgan passed away in 2007, the landlord who rented the space to the family was determined to sell up and Torgan's son Michael contacted Tarantino - who stepped and bought the building in a bid to keep his beloved cinema open.
Tarantino adds, "I always considered the New Beverly my charity - an investment I never wanted back. I already had a good relationship with the family and the theatre, so it was a natural step (to buy the cinema). It is cool to have a theatre that I can use to show what I like. As long as I'm alive, and as long as I'm rich, the New Beverly will be there, showing double features in 35mm."...
- 2/19/2010
- WENN
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Of those rooting for Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" on Oscar night, the Torgan family might be cheering the loudest.
As the proprietors of the New Beverly Cinema, the Torgans operate one of Los Angeles' last havens for classic movies. And, as of recently, Tarantino is their landlord.
The New Beverly has been the Torgan family business since 1978. But if not for the intervention of the director with the encyclopedic knowledge of film, it would be just another chain franchise.
"It was going to be turned into a Super Cuts," Tarantino said. "I'd been coming to the New Beverly ever since I was old enough to drive there from the South Bay -- since about 1982. So, I couldn't let that happen."
Built in 1929 as a first-run moviehouse, the Torgan family moved into the property and turned it into a 200-seat venue for classic, independent and foreign films. One glance at...
As the proprietors of the New Beverly Cinema, the Torgans operate one of Los Angeles' last havens for classic movies. And, as of recently, Tarantino is their landlord.
The New Beverly has been the Torgan family business since 1978. But if not for the intervention of the director with the encyclopedic knowledge of film, it would be just another chain franchise.
"It was going to be turned into a Super Cuts," Tarantino said. "I'd been coming to the New Beverly ever since I was old enough to drive there from the South Bay -- since about 1982. So, I couldn't let that happen."
Built in 1929 as a first-run moviehouse, the Torgan family moved into the property and turned it into a 200-seat venue for classic, independent and foreign films. One glance at...
- 2/18/2010
- by By John Scott Lewinski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New Beverly founder Sherman Torgan dies
Sherman Torgan, who founded and ran the last remaining full-time revival cinema in Los Angeles, died Wednesday of a heart attack while bicycling in Santa Monica. He was 63.
His New Beverly Cinema at 7165 Beverly Blvd. in Los Angeles has been screening repertory double bills continuously since it opened in 1978. Past, present and future filmmakers, actors and movie lovers have been drawn to the house, whose attractions run the gamut from old Hollywood classics, recent independent film and European and Asian favorites, to the occasional silent or animated feature.
Torgan opened the doors of the New Beverly on May 5, 1978, with a Marlon Brando double bill -- A Streetcar Named Desire and Last Tango in Paris, which was just then helping to bridge the gap between X-rated and mainstream entertainment.
On its recent 25th anniversary, the theater held no celebration. "Hooray! The Beverly Cinema has reached a milestone" read a notice in agate type on the theater's calendar. "This month marks 25 years of continuous repertory programming. . . . The struggle goes on."
After coming west from Philadelphia and graduating from UCLA in 1969, Torgan had relocated to the San Francisco area, where he worked as a location scout and spent a year negotiating the purchase of a theater with several partners.
His New Beverly Cinema at 7165 Beverly Blvd. in Los Angeles has been screening repertory double bills continuously since it opened in 1978. Past, present and future filmmakers, actors and movie lovers have been drawn to the house, whose attractions run the gamut from old Hollywood classics, recent independent film and European and Asian favorites, to the occasional silent or animated feature.
Torgan opened the doors of the New Beverly on May 5, 1978, with a Marlon Brando double bill -- A Streetcar Named Desire and Last Tango in Paris, which was just then helping to bridge the gap between X-rated and mainstream entertainment.
On its recent 25th anniversary, the theater held no celebration. "Hooray! The Beverly Cinema has reached a milestone" read a notice in agate type on the theater's calendar. "This month marks 25 years of continuous repertory programming. . . . The struggle goes on."
After coming west from Philadelphia and graduating from UCLA in 1969, Torgan had relocated to the San Francisco area, where he worked as a location scout and spent a year negotiating the purchase of a theater with several partners.
- 7/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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