Films this week 12/23/22 – 1/2/2023
by admin | 19th December 2022 | Gary's Corner
This holiday season New Plaza Cinema has been presented with an extraordinary opportunity, to both premiere an exceptional new film and in doing so, vividly summon up the memory of our venerated Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.
The film is titled Living and starring the beloved Bill Nighy in an adaptation of the Kurosawa classic Ikiru, by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro. Many of you may remember that 1952 original, about a repressed Tokyo bureaucrat who learns that he has only a few months left to live, and sets out to do so with a renewed, mournful exuberance.
The story has been transposed to early 50s London and beautifully “inhabited” by Bill Nighy in a performance that’s already won him Best Actor from the LA Film Critics Association, a Golden Globe nod and also put him squarely in the running for an Oscar nomination — it would be his first!
It’s the sort of movie that many of us would’ve flocked to see during this holiday week at the Lincoln Plaza, in what may now seem like a receding era in cinema-going, but one that we’re ardently trying to keep alive here at Macaulay Honors College.
We’re grateful to distributor Sony PIctures Classics — a key supplier for decades to Lincoln Plaza — for this Upper West Side premiere, as well as for Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb, coming in January.
This “only in theatres” engagement will commence on Friday December 23, with daily shows through January 2 at 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7 and 9 pm, with the exceptions of Christmas and New Year’s Eve when won’t have a 9 pm showing.
We urge you to purchase tickets online in advance, and to please tell your friends about this special presentation. We’ll need all of your continued support to ensure that we can do more of them. My colleagues and I will be on hand to introduce each screening and for a few remarks afterwards…and we may also have some special guests…
Gary Palmucci, Film Curator
New Plaza Cinema