Hello! I’m Mark Olsen . Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. It has been an incredible time for going to the movies in Los Angeles, but the revitalized scene took a hit this week with the closing of the Westwood Village and Bruin theaters.
The Westwood Village has long been a location for glitzy movie premieres, while the Bruin may be best remembered for its indelible appearance in Quentin Tarantino’s ”Once Upon a Time ...
in Hollywood” when Margot Robbie’s Sharon Tate goes there to see a movie starring herself. Meg James reported that Thursday was the last day for both venues. Regency Theaters, which has managed the two houses for the last 14 years, saw their contracts come to an end on July 25.
The Village Theatre which opened in 1931, is expected to reopen under the ownership of a consortium of filmmakers spearheaded by Jason Reitman. The exact timeline and details of that reopening are uncertain. “We have an exciting vision that includes dining, drinking, moviegoing, gallery viewing and programming of new and old films, and we cannot wait to share that with everybody,” Reitman said in a February interview with The Times.
The fate of the Bruin, which opened in 1937, is unknown. Summertime in Italy, a visit with ‘Vera’ This time of year, most everyone longs to get away, to put life on hold and just travel somewhere else. Not everyone can actually make such a luxury happen and so the American Cinematheque ha.