Films this week 01/03/2025 to 01/09/2025
by Gary Palmucci | 3rd January 2025 | Gary's Corner, Uncategorized
As we’re now looking over our shoulder at 2024, we at New Plaza Cinema would like to thank all our patrons for your support in this past year. Our attendance was up significantly from 2023, and the number and diversity of new customers discovering our programs was particularly evident over this holiday season, notably at packed screenings of Conclave, Flow and Soundtrack to a Coup d’etat. All three of these films will be back later this month following the January 17 Oscar nominations announcement.
I very much enjoyed – as perhaps you did, too- the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. We’re working on a special Bob Dylan screening of our own, and hope to have full details soon.
And, since Monday January 20, 2025 is both Martin Luther King Day and the date of certain events in Washington DC, we’re planning some relevant ‘counter-programming’ to mark that coincidence.
But first of all, front and center at New Plaza Cinema on Thursday afternoon Jan 2, we’ll commence an extended engagement of an exhilarating new French rendition of The Count of Monte Cristo, adapted from Alexandre Dumas’ immortal novel. In her NY Times Critic’s Pick review, Jeanette Catsoulis wrote,
“Adapting The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas’s voluminous adventure yarn, is not for the fainthearted. But the French filmmakers Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière prove lacking in neither heart nor style: Refusing to pander to restless derrières, they’ve given this big, bounding, beautifully cinematic swashbuckler almost three hours to breathe. Yet their pacing is so frisky — and the film’s editing so elegant — your derrière is unlikely to complain….stirringly acted and gorgeously filmed, this swashbuckler leaves the many previous versions in the dust.”
Since some customers have asked us…the film will play without an intermission, but as one Conclave patron who saw ‘The Count’ in France reported to me today, “It moves like a musket shot!”
Hope to see you this weekend….