Films this week 2/17 – 2/20/2023
by Gary Palmucci | 17th February 2023 | Gary's Corner
We have a couple of special New Plaza Cinema guests on tap for this holiday weekend at Macaulay Honors College. Turn Every Page director Lizzie Gottlieb, who first joined us on MLK Day, will return for another ‘”insider” Q&A about her beguiling film, which has sold out virtually every screening here to date. Procure your tickets early!
Some of you may recall our well-attended December screenings of the tough, fascinating Delhi-set documentary All That Breathes. The film made this year’s “final five” of Oscar nominated docs, and its director Shaunak Sen will be here for a Q&A after Monday’s 4:45 show.
Joining Cinema Sabaya, which played to packed, enthusiastic houses last weekend will be another recent, Oscar-submitted Israeli movie, Let It Be Morning from director Eran Kolirin. I vividly recall seeing his debut feature, The Band’s Visit at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, which went on to arthouse success here and spawned both off- and on-Broadway award-winning adaptations. In this gently satiric new film, a young man inadvertently trapped with his family by a military blockade inside a tiny Arab village is compelled to re-examine his assumptions about both life and politics.
Continuing their various successful runs on this four-day weekend will be Bill Nighy in Living, the triumphant Andrea Riseborough in To Leslie and – celebrating the director’s recent release from prison – Jafar Panahi’s Iranian-art-imitating-life film, No Bears.
Gary Palmucci, Film Curator
New Plaza Cinema