Gary's Corner

We were very encouraged by the audience response to two new additions to last week’s schedule: the Dardenne Brothers’ riveting Tori and Lokita and the French-Cambodian drama Return to Seoul, both highlights of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Each film will have additional screenings this weekend.  

New Plaza‘s survey — both in our Talk Backs and in the cinema — of the fascinating movie year 1973 continues with a very rare theatrical screening of perhaps the best Harold PInter film adaptation: The Homecoming. In his roundup of that year’s best films, the NY Times’ venerable Vincent Canby wrote, “…the American Film Theatre‘s screen version of PInter’s play, directed by Peter Hall, proves that Pinter, even when he writes for the stage, is one of the best film writers around.  All of the performances are fine, but Vivien Merchant and Ian Holm are outstanding.” 

After last weekend’s attendance we decided to bring back The Sorrow and the Pity for yet another encore…perfect for this rainy Saturday. Bill Nighy in Living will on Friday evening play the final screening of its epic four-month Macaulay engagement, and Turn Every Page will be with us for this, and one more weekend.  

On April 21 we’ll be debuting a new, propulsive film version of Bizet’s legendary Carmen, directed by dancer-choreographer Benjamin Millepied; Everything Went Fine, from French provocateur Francois Ozon starring Sophie Marceau, Andre Dussollier, Charlotte Rampling and Hanna Schygulla; as well as a premiere collection of short films from NYC filmmakers — ticket are now on sale for that one…