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Films this week 12/02 – to – 12/02/2022

by Gary Palmucci | 2nd December 2022 | Gary's Corner

This will be an abbreviated weekend for New Plaza Cinema — Friday screenings only — at Macaulay Honors College due to some previously scheduled student holiday events.

We will be reprising last month’s most popular titles, Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen – A Journey, A Song and the definitive WW2 Partisans documentary Four Winters, including a Q&A with filmmaker Julia Mintz and Holocaust survivor Eva Haller. Both of those films will continue on the weekend of December 10-11  with featured Q&As, as well as a final appearance by Dr Gabriel Sara with the French drama Peaceful (De son vivant).

We’ll also be packing the next two weekends with a variety of 2022’s most provocative features and docs, plus one beloved classic. Some of these are still subject to confirmation, but the final list will be drawn from:

• All That Breathes – Three Indian wildlife rescuers devote their lives to an unlikely species — Delhi’s black kites, birds of prey.  This Oscar-contending doc is an NYT Critic’s Pick.
• Casablanca – Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in the incandescent classic celebrating its 80th anniversary this season.
• Nanny – A Senegalese immigrant comes to work in NYC and finds herself in a world rich, violent, and strange in this year’s top prizewinner from Sundance.
• RRR – The Indian epic that’s been a worldwide hit — packed with action, passion and spectacular musical numbers — arrives at New Plaza Cinema.
• Tantura – a scorching new documentary revisits the conflicting accounts around an alleged massacre in 1948 of the residents of a Palestinian village by Israeli fighters.
• Utama –  Bolivia’s Oscar submission: “Extraordinary…gorgeously made.  Grabs you from the opening minutes and afterwards makes you want to tell your friends they’ve got a real treat to look forward to.” — Todd McCarthy, Deadline

And, as we revealed last week, our holiday attraction will be the acclaimed new British drama Living, starring the beloved Bill NIghy in an Oscar-touted performance, followed in January by Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb — a documentary portrait of America’s premier biographer, and his indefatigable editor.