The Fascinating, Controversial History Of Quentin Tarantino's Revamped Vista Theater
Restored with care, Sunset Boulevard’s 120-year-old movie theater is now ready for its closeup.
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Restored with care, Sunset Boulevard’s 120-year-old movie theater is now ready for its closeup.
Restored with care, Sunset Boulevard’s 120-year-old movie theater is now ready for its closeup.
PopMatters has been avidly following Kino Lorber’s Blu-ray series called Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of Exploitation Films. The two latest additions qualify on one level as serious works of art, albeit applied to the purpose of exploitation. These films reward our attention and, at their best, impress and surprise us. Roland Price and Harry Reviers’ The Lash of the Penitentes (1936) Volume 9, The Lash of the Penitentes (1936), resurrects what’s basically an ethnographic documentary about the Penitentes, people who practice an Easter ritual in New Mexico villages. In a practice ...