In addition to serving as owner and head programmer for the New Beverly Cinema, Quentin Tarantino is now writing about the films he’s selected to showcase on the big screen. In a fresh piece for the New Beverly blog, he discusses how screenwriter Paul Schrader, director Sydney Pollack, and superstars Robert Mitchum & Ken Takakura created a Japanese gangster film for western consumption. Read the whole post here and then see a rare 35mm print of The Yakuza at the New Bev April 24th & 25th.
