Films 5/27 – 5/30/2022
by Gary Palmucci | 26th May 2022 | Gary's Corner
On this Memorial Day weekend we’ll be operating on a Friday through Monday schedule as we did on our opening Presidents’ Day stanza in February, which now seems like many, many screenings and Q&As ago…
Friday will be a special $10 admission for all shows.
This will be a transitional weekend as we prepare for various new films and special-event screenings in June.
- Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen and the Oscar-winners Drive My Car and Belfast will each be having their final showings.
- Both Belfast and The Duke (which we’ll be offering five screenings due to last weekend’s demand) will be presented in “open caption” versions, both for hearing-impaired viewers and for overall better clarity of their impassioned UK and Irish accents!
- Sunday afternoon’s 2:45 pm screening of The Automat will feature a Q&A with its indefatigable director, Lisa Hurwitz.
And along with an encore projection of Francis Coppola’s masterful, recently restored The Conversation we’ll be adding three shows of another indisputable American classic, Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas. His 1990 epic spanning three decades of NYC’s “criminal element” seems to me to have endless repeat-viewing capacity across a wide swath of movie lovers. This is a great chance to experience it again (or for the first time!) on the big screen and in five-speaker stereo at New Plaza Cinema’s @ West End Theatre.
Coming up in June:
- On Thursday June 2 at 7 pm, we’ll be reprising the documentary The Last Laugh, a sellout at our recent Goddard Arts Festival, with Q&A hosted by director Ferne Pearlstein and her very special guest Dara Gottfried, widow of Gilbert Gottfried who appears in the film.
- On Friday June 3 we will commence a run of the acclaimed documentary Jazz Fest – A New Orleans Story, direct from its downtown premiere engagement.
- Sunday June 5 is World Environment Day. We’ll be featuring documentaries on food justice, climate and related issues including our recent, popular attraction Breaking Bread.
- On the weekend of June 11-12 we’ll present back to back, separate admission screenings of the 1961 and 2021 versions of West Side Story on our big, ultra-wide stereo screen, reversing the sequence on each day. This is a great opportunity to compare, contrast and re-experience…
Tickets for each of these special attractions will go on sale on our website on Tuesday, May 31.
Gary Palmucci, Film Curator
New Plaza Cinema