Quentin Tarantino’s LA cinema to show pornographic films again in celebration of its roots

Quentin Tarantino‘s Los Angeles cinema is set to celebrate its past by showing a season of pornographic films.

The Once Upon A Time In Hollywood director has owned the New Beverly Cinema in the California city since 2007, though it had a past life in the 1970s as an adult cinema – when it was then known as the Eros.

The establishment is paying tribute to that this month with programming focused on porno films, including the Nurse series, Wes Craven’s The Fireworks Woman, The Opening of Misty Beethoven, Emmanuelle, Black Emannuelle and Caligula, to name a few.

Tarantino became the cinema’s head programmer in 2014 after taking the establishment over seven years earlier, having long subsidised it years beforehand. The New Beverly was forced to close temporarily during COVID-19, before reopening in 2021.

Meanwhile, the director’s next big project is Once Upon A Time In Hollywood sequel The Adventures Of Cliff Booth, which he will write. However, he is handing over the directing reins of the Netflix project to David Fincher.

The film will see Brad Pitt return as the titular character, with a first trailer debuting during last night’s (February 8) Super Bowl.

Explaining why he won’t direct, Tarantino previously told The Church Of Tarantino podcast: “I think me and David Fincher are the two best directors. So the idea that David Fincher actually wants to adapt my work, to me, shows a level of seriousness towards my work that I think needs to be taken into account”.

In other news Paul Dano has responded to the director’s much-publicised comments about the actor, in which he called the There Will Be Blood star “weak sauce” and “the weakest actor in SAG” – the Screen Actors Guild.

After many actors came to Dano’s defence, including Ben Stiller and Simu Liu, the star himself told Variety: “That was really nice. I was also incredibly grateful that the world spoke up for me so I didn’t have to.”

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