Films 4/21 – 4/24/22
by Gary Palmucci | 22nd April 2022 | Gary's Corner
Another headlong week… Apple on Monday morning informed us that this coming weekend would be the final one for their post-Oscar “victory lap” theatrical re-release of CODA. Some of you may have overheard me asking, as our many full-house audiences exited the theatre, “Does that get your vote for the Oscar?” The answer almost uniformly was “yes.” So, just four more chances to see it with a rapt audience on the West End Theatre’s big screen…
The Automat continues its “boffo,” as Mel Brooks might say, run this weekend, including a Sunday night appearance at 7 pm by director Lisa Hurwitz, in conversation with Jay Shockley, Senior Historian at the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. Get your tickets online early! Last week’s screening with Lisa was a sell out.
Also this weekend, reprise screenings of the prescient 2018 Ukrainian film Donbass, which is front-and-center in our hearts and minds at this moment, with an after-discussion on Saturday at 2:45 and the equally bracing Serbian drama Father, which merits your support after the NY Times neglected to cover it. Also, there will be a screening of the multi-Oscar-nominated The Worst Person in the World, and a reprise of the Joseph Losey-Alain Delon classic Monsieur Klein, one of New Plaza Cinema’s biggest hits at NYIT. Finally, a recent French film just off its Angelika run, The Rose Maker, of which the NYT’s reviewer wrote:
“Horticulturists know it’s not easy to grow a perfect rose, and that principle will become the cornerstone of (the film’s) plot…it’s easy for characters to say they grow such a flower, and another achievement entirely for filmmakers to find one to display onscreen.”
Watch the trailer here.
Gary Palmucci, FIlm Curator
New Plaza Cinema