Films this week 12/16 – 12/18/2022
by Gary Palmucci | 16th December 2022 | Gary's Corner
This weekend New Plaza Cinema at Macaulay Honors College will be offering valedictory screenings of some of our most popular recent titles: Four Winters (with possible special guests to be announced) and Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen: A Journey, A Song. We’ll also be reprising recent additions including the serpentine Korean romantic drama Decision to Leave (with a talk-back after Saturday’s show by our resident expert on the film, house manager Andrew Lewis), the scorching Israeli documentary Tantura and the immortal Casablanca.
Our newcomer will be one of 2022’s most acclaimed documentaries, All That Breathes, the chronicle of three Indian wildlife rescuers who devote their lives to an unlikely species — Delhi’s black kites, birds of prey. This Oscar-contending doc, a prize-winner at Sundance, Cannes and other top festivals, made NY Times critic Tony Scott’s best films of the year list, along with many other critical accolades such as the LA Times’ “Maybe the most beautifully realized documentary in recent memory.”
The 15-title Best Documentary Feature Oscar “shortlist” will be announced next Wednesday. Several New Plaza Cinema favorites including The Automat, Four Winters, Breaking Bread, Hallelujah, Tantura, Three Minutes, and Fire of Love are in contention, and we wish them all the best of luck!
Speaking of Awards Season, the prestigious Los Angeles Film Critics Association last weekend gave Best Actor to Bill Nighy for his performance in Living, which we’ll be opening for an extended run next Friday, December 23, including continuous shows daily through January 2. Bill also received a Golden Globe nomination in what I think you’ll find to be a perfect film for end-of-the-year, holiday season reflection.
And Monday night I had the pleasure of attending at the NYPL a live discussion with Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb, subjects of the documentary Turn Every Page, which we’ll be screening in January. I spoke to one of the producers — a longtime friend — who was delighted that the film will have an Upper West Side engagement, the neighborhood of both its legendary subjects…
Gary Palmucci, Film Curator
New Plaza Cinema