Films 4/14 – 4/17/22
by Gary Palmucci | 14th April 2022 | Gary's Corner
We’re following up our phenomenally successful weekend at New Plaza Cinema at the West End Theatre (five sold-out shows!) with additional daily screenings of The Automat and Best Picture Oscar-winning CODA. Advance online ticket purchase is strongly recommended.
We’ll also be adding multiple Oscar nominee The Worst Person in the World to the program and reprising Almodovar’s 1999 classic All About My Mother, which I introduced last weekend. It has aged beautifully.
Two other hard hitting foreign films, Donbass from Ukraine and Ahed’s Knee from Israel, will return next weekend, with special guest speakers.
New Plaza Cinema @ The West End Theatre is also presenting a Saturday-Sunday exclusive NYC premiere, a recent, compelling Serbian drama titled Father. It’s director Srdan Golubovic has been building an international profile, with previous features premiering in Sundance, Berlin and Toronto.
A shocking opening scene sets the stage for an impoverished father (Goran Bogdan, from TV’s “Fargo”) making an epic cross-country trek on foot towards Belgrade, to regain custody of his children while struggling to retain some modicum of his own dignity. Check this one out.
New Plaza Cinema members who sampled our Virtual Cinema offerings in 2020-21 may recall some outstanding work from Eastern Europe and other sometimes “under the radar” corners of the movie world. We hope to regularly present more of that, this time on our big screen at the West End Theatre.
Gary Palmucci, Film Curator
New Plaza Cinema