Films this week 7/24/2026 to 7/31/2026
by Gary Palmucci | 24th July 2026 | Gary's Corner
With Christopher Nolan’s latest epic The Odyssey generating a seemingly endless whirlpool of publicity, this seemed like a good weekend to revisit one of his earlier efforts. We chose his 2006 The Prestige, a headlong drama set in Victorian England, following two bitterly competitive, master magicians who risk careers and lives in attempting to perfect an ‘ultimate disappearing trick.’ The incredible cast includes Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, David Bowie, Ricky Jay and Rebecca Hall.
Keep an eye out for a quartet of 60s and 70s classics which will grace our final MAD programs – one per weekend – in August.
The documentary Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World, a world-of-mouth hit at arthouses around the country, is back on the New Plaza Cinema schedule this weekend, joined by the ever-popular holdovers Reading Lolita in Tehran and Peter Asher: Everywhere Man.
Next month will feature two special encores: on August 1, Rebel With a Clause, with the customary Q&A from director Brandt Johnson and his leading lady, peripatetic parser of past participles, Ellen Jovin.
On August 15, Make Me Famous, the scrappy downtown ’80s art scene doc, which recently celebrated the third anniversary of its debut New Plaza screening; this time, filmmakers Brian Vincent and Heather Spore will be joined by a very special guest from that ‘era,’ appearing for the first time at an MMF Q&A.
Tickets are now on sale for both of those shows.