Films this week 05/09/2025 to 05/15/2025
by Gary Palmucci | 9th May 2025 | Gary's Corner, Uncategorized
New Plaza Cinema will be on ‘partial hiatus’ this weekend, as CUNY graduation celebrations continue, with screenings only on Sunday, May 11. We’ll be back on our regular schedule next weekend.
Holding over will be Francois Ozon’s When Fall Is Coming, the crowd-pleaser Penguin Lessons with Steve Coogan and Jonathan Pryce, and a final screening of Oscar-winner No Other Land.
Our new addition, direct from its sellout downtown premiere, is the documentary Drop Dead City, chronicling a saga many of us remember – New York City’s brush with bankruptcy and myriad other municipal disasters in the mid-1970s. In The New Yorker last month, Richard Brody wrote:
“At a time when the very function of government is being destroyed from within, an extraordinary historical documentary, “Drop Dead City,” puts the workings and responsibilities of government front and center, in a meticulous reconstruction of New York City’s fiscal crisis of the mid-nineteen-seventies. Tracing the causes of the crisis, its short-term effects, and the complexity of its resolution, the film brings to the fore the situation’s philosophical implications—the social ideals that put the city in a financial hole and the political forces that very nearly prevented rescue.”
And coming soon
- May 18 – Bananas & Did You Know My Husband? – Louise Lasser will return to present her unique ‘double feature’ ; just a few tickets remaining.
- The Wrong Man – Alfred Hitchcock’s rigorous 1957 drama will be dissected by Christopher McKittrick, author of a new bio of its co-star, Vera Miles.
- May 22-28 Rebel With A Clause – special one-week engagement of a delightful new documentary that follows a husband and wife’s 50-state ‘road trip’ in search of punctuational and verbal veritas. The filmmakers will appear at most shows.
- May 23 – Big Night – screening of the 1996 culinary classic starring Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub, with a special guest speaker, author Deborah Geis.
- May 30 – Bad Shabbos -our premiere weekend of a raucous NYC Jewish family comedy featuring Kyra Sedgwick, David Paymer and Method Man.
In June
- Our Sunday afternoon classics will return on June 8 and 22 – this month’s motif: 1950s icons James Dean (East of Eden) and Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun).
- June 22- Make Me Famous – the downtown ’80s art scene doc celebrates the second year of its New Plaza Cinema residency.
- Late June – A Photographic Memory- An intimate, genre bending portrait of the late journalist/photographer Sheila Turner Seed, constructed by her daughter Rachel, and hailed by the NY Times’ Alissa Wilkinson as “Reaching far beyond personal narrative, blooming into a moving meditation on memory, interpretation and the nature of photography itself. ” Filmmaker will be present.