Films this week 03/7/2025 to 03/13/2025
by Gary Palmucci | 7th March 2025 | Gary's Corner, Uncategorized
New Plaza Cinema will be on an abbreviated schedule for the next two weekends, with no screenings on Saturday March 8 and 15. We will be squeezing in some extra shows on Sundays, along with several very special events in the second half of the month.
As I – and many other pundits – predicted, the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature went to No Other Land, which has sold out every one of our screenings to date. The filmmakers’ moving acceptance speeches were a highlight of the broadcast.
And in a completely different emotional ‘key,’ so was Kieran Culkin’s; we couldn’t resist a victory lap show of A Real Pain.
Elsewhere on this weekend’s calendar, our monthly first-Friday series on social justice issues, both current and historical, continues with the 2012 documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, chronicling our still-active articulator of resistance, Angela Davis, and her passionate, fearless life’s work. Those of you who attended our previous screening in this series, Ava DuVernay’s Origin, were treated to riveting remarks from our guest speakers both before and after the film, and we expect no less this Friday night. Thanks to Lions Gate Films for accessing this title from its archives.
On Sunday afternoon we’ll offer a sneak preview of a new Italian comedy-drama that’s been moving arthouse audiences around the globe, There’s Still Tomorrow
(C’e Ancora Domani) as well as capturing 6 Italian Film Academy awards. Check out the trailer online from Greenwich Entertainment.
Encoring this weekend will be the sui generis Universal Language, a wintry intersection of Canadian and Persian comic melancholy, and Griffin Dunne, James Norton and Richard Benjamin in the rueful, beautifully scripted Ex-Husbands.
Coming soon:
- on March 22, a free screening of Martin Scorsese’s epic documentary No Direction Home – Bob Dylan (check our website for special details); later that day, one of our ‘residency’ docs, Heaven Stood Still-The Incarnations of Willy DeVille will return, with filmmaker Larry Locke and some ‘live’ musical guests
- on March 28-29 we’ll be joined by film historian and author Steven C. Smith, a regular guest on our classic film webcasts and author of A Heart at Fire’s Center, the definitive biography of Hollywood composer Bernard Herrmann.
Renowned for his classic suspense scores for Alfred Hitchcock, Herrmann also did rapturous work for other auteurs, two of which we’ll be presenting: Joseph L. Mankiewicz’ The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Nicholas Ray’s On Dangerous Ground.
Showtimes and full details soon on our website!