Films this week 1/23/2026 to 1/29/26
by Gary Palmucci | 23rd January 2026 | Gary's Corner
It’s Oscar nominations week here at New Plaza Cinema. This weekend’s program includes three films in the running in various categories — Sentimental Value (Best PIcture, Actress, Supporting Actor, Intl Feature), All That’s Left of You (Intl Feature) and Nuremberg (Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay).
Sentimental Value’s distributor Neon has provided us with an augmented edition of the film, featuring a recent awards-season-centric Q&A with its scintillating cast, which we’ll be screening on Sunday afternoon.
Last weekend we presented the NYC theatrical premiere of Midas Man, a smart, rueful biopic on Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein, with its co-screenwriter Brigit Grant in from London for Q&As. Its strong attendance and word of mouth mandated a second-weekend encore, this time with Q&A led by my colleague Abbe Harris.
This weekend we’re also following up with an encore of an exceptional documentary — to commemorate next Tuesday’s Holocaust Remembrance Day –titled Here Lived, which we previewed here last spring. Thid film chronicles the work of Gunter Demnig, a conceptual artist who devised a simple but beautifully resonant commemorative stone to honor hundreds of thousands of European holocaust victims, laid into the pavement in front of each victim’s last voluntarily chosen residence. At press time we’re expecting key members of the production to join us at Sunday afternoon’s screening – please check our website for updated details.
Also this weekend, our long running hits The Choral with Ralph Fiennes: Rebel With a Clause, hosted by its gregarious grammarians , director Brandt Johnson and star Ellen Jovin; and the spellbinding SHTTL (well into a fourth month here) with Q&A from its protean leading man Moshe Lobel.
Coming next weekend, two titles on the classic film front–James Dean in 1955’s Rebel Without a Cause (which we carefully separated from the above paragraph!), followed by a very special after-discussion featuring Nicca Ray, daughter of Rebel’s legendary, kinetic director Nicholas Ray, and participation from Make Me Famous filmmakers Brian Vincent and Heather Spore, who are hard at work on a brand new documentary portrait of Dean.
The other classic is a personal favorite of mine and my colleagues Max Alvarez and Dan Cahill – The Manchurian Candidate (the 1962 original), which seems to grow more eerily prescient by the minute in 21st century America. They’ll both join us for some after-talk; Max, I understand, will offer some fascinating details about real-life 1950s and ’60s brainwashing techniques….