Los Angeles’ legendary Vista Theatre is reopening this month with a special screening of True Romance before fully launching with Eli Roth’s seasonal slasher Thanksgiving.
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Quentin Tarantino bought the 100-year-old picture house in 2021 and refurbished it while keeping its interior design as intact as possible. Now, it opens its doors on Saturday with a special 30th anniversary screening of Tony Scott’s True Romance. A film Tarantino wrote.
In the movie, Clarence (Christian Slater) marries hooker Alabama (Patricia Arquette), steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
The connections don’t stop there either. The first public screening will be a 35mm showing of Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving, which began life as a fake trailer put between Robert Rodriquez’s Planet Terror and Tarantino’s Death Proof.
The story of Thanksgiving sees a Black Friday riot end in tragedy, and subsequently, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday.
Thanksgiving stars Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman, Gina Gershon, Tim Dillon, Gabriel Davenport, Tomaso Sanelli, and Jenna Warren. The story comes from Roth and Jeff Rendell, with Rendell writing the screenplay. Roth and Rendell are also producing the film alongside Roger Birnbaum.
Thanksgiving will begin showing at the Vista on November 17, 2023.
Following that will be Ridley Scott’s Napoleon on November 22, 2023, and will be presented in 70mm. Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix.
Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by legendary director Ridley Scott, the film captures Bonaparte’s relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine, showcasing his visionary military and political tactics against some of the most dynamic practical battle sequences ever filmed.
The Vista Theatre, closed for renovation since the start of the pandemic, has not only been refurbished, but given new additions such as an all-new state-of-the-art sound system and 70mm projection capability, the 400-seat Vista will now offer a 21-seat micro-screening room and café. The micro-screening room and café will open at a later date.
You can try for tickets to the True Romance screening at EventBrite.
