Peter Weller Introduces "Buckaroo Banzai" Screening at New Beverly Cinema - Reported by Ben Kenber

Looking back at some of the articles I have written regarding screenings at New Beverly Cinema, I kept saying or implying that you could never expect any double features showing over there to sell out. But now it looks like that’s becoming less and less the case. Ever since Quentin Tarantino bought the space where the theater is at and saved it from becoming just another corporate barber shop, more and more movie geeks have been making their way out to the last standing movie reparatory theater in Los Angeles, let alone in America. Jason Reitman did his movie program which featured “Shampoo,” “Boogie Nights,” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” among other movies, and it brought out huge crowds of people. Torgan and company ended up having to do something they almost never do; they had to turn people away!

Well, the line around the New Beverly once again snaked around the corner even further than ever before a few days ago as actor Peter Weller was scheduled to introduce a screening there of the 1984 cult classic he starred in, “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.” Every single seat in the theater was taken, and the screening got delayed because the line at concessions threatened to snake itself around the theater as well. Peter ended up not coming by himself as he also brought along two other players from Buckaroo’s crew; Billy Vera who played the bass guitarist for Banzai’s rock band the Blue Blaze Irregulars, and Gerald Peterson who played Rug Sucker.

The Q&A was moderated by Jeremy Smith, better known as Mr. Beaks from Ain’t It Cool News, and he proclaimed this to be “the nerdiest movie ever made.” Upon saying that, he got a huge applause from the audience.

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