Quentin Tarantino has promised to introduce a lineup comprised exclusively of movies shot on film after taking over programming duties at a historic Los Angeles cinema. Tarantino, who purchased the New Beverly Cinema in 2007, told Deadline that his first move as curator had been to remove the digital projection system installed by a previous owner. He plans to use the site to showcase his own collection of celluloid prints when it reopens in October. "The big thing about what's going to change now that I'm taking the theatre over is, from here on in the New Beverly is only showing film," Tarantino said. "That's it. No digital. If something's playing at the New Beverly … it's on film."

The New Beverly, once known for screening pornographic movies, is being refurbished prior to reopening. The venue has long been close to Tarantino's heart: in the mid-2000s, he paid the cinema's then owners $5,000 a month to stay open.

"Since I'm a print collector and I screen movies at my home, I heard from other collectors and projectionists that [they] might have to close down," Tarantino told the Hollywood Reporter in 2010. "So, I just started paying [them] that per month. I considered it a contribution to cinema."

The cinema was built in 1929 as a vaudeville theatre, and between the 50s and 70s was used to screen erotic films and grindhouse fare, latterly with nude dancers accompanying the screenings. It was later transformed into a 200-seat venue for classic, independent and foreign films.

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