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Here at New Plaza Cinema we’re eagerly awaiting next Tuesday morning’s Oscar nominations, and rooting for our “short listers,” The Teachers’ Lounge and Four Daughters to make the final five in their respective categories. Next weekend we may also bring some newly minted nominees to our schedule.
Fred Wiseman’s epic documentary Menus Plaisirs – Les Troisgros will have its final screening on Saturday. On the weekend of February 2 we’ll be featuring another mammoth doc, Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, which WILL have an intermission.
Also this weekend: Freud’s Last Session nears the end of its month-long run, and our “filmmakers-in-residence,” director Brian Vincent and producer Heather Spore will be back with their ever-popular Make Me Famous – its twenty-first NPC screening since we “tested” it last June!
Two new French comedies join our program this weekend:
- The Crime Is Mine from director Francois Ozon, whose multi-layered Everything Went Fine graced our schedule last spring. In her Critic’s Pick review the NY Times’ Beatrice Loayza wrote, “…this snappy showbiz screwball takes a feminist conceit and stardust and firecrackers to the mix. Ozon – known for his winking subversions of genre – puts a twist on the trope of the spotlight-seeking murderess: the women in the film WANT us to know they did it.” Check out the trailer to see an A-list cast — Fabrice Luchini, Isabelle Huppert, Rebecca Marder, Andre Dussolier — having a satiric blast.
- In Driving Madeleine, from helmer Christian Carion (Oscar-nominated Joyeux Noel and the recent Come What May), the beloved French chanteuse Line Renaud plays a woman who forms an unlikely bond with a cranky Parisian cabbie (Dany Boon), in what RogerEbert.com critic (and occasional New Plaza Cinema guest) Glenn Kenny calls “a lot more than a sentimental journey.” After strong box office in its downtown premiere, distributor Cohen Media is expanding the run to the upper west side.
And, coming to our screen on the weekend of January 26-28:
- Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal — after last Sunday’s near-full house for Smiles of a Summer Night, tickets are already selling fast for this stone Bergman classic…
- The Peasants — Poland’s 2023 Oscar submission, a turbulent 19th century drama from the animators of the acclaimed Loving Vincent.
- Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest — Producer / director Lisa Hurwitz (The Automat) will host this documentary portrait of Pasang Lharmu Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest. Q&As after each show!
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