15 Questions With Zio Baritaux

"my parents took me to see jurassic park and it blew my little wig back"

Name:

Zio Baritaux

Location: California
Occupation:  Writer, editor & publisher
Links: Strange Plants and Strange Pages on Substack & Zio’s IG

Note: Thanks Zio for providing these wonderful images to go with the responses!

1. What’s your favorite day & time to go to the movies?

I like early afternoons, around 1 or 2pm, when the theater’s still quiet. I love how stepping out of the bright daylight and into the dark theater feels like slipping into another world. Everything outside fades away, like putting the day on pause.

2. What’s your favorite movie theater?

One of my favorites was the Arclight in Hollywood, especially the Cinerama Dome. That place was iconic—it looked like a giant golf ball, and it had this cool, old-Hollywood vibe. I saw The Goonies on 35 mm there, and it was such a trip—the grainy film, the sound—it almost felt like watching it for the first time as a kid. That screening led to a whole adventure—a month later, my husband and I took a trip to Astoria and Cannon Beach, where the…