New Plaza Cinema audiences have in recent weeks enthusiastically embraced a wide variety of recent releases, including Close to Vermeer, It Ain’t Over, Chile ’76, and Other People’s Children. We holding these over for at least one more weekend to give those of you who haven’t yet “caught up” another chance.
Of course we’re also adding some new titles:
- In The Night of the 12th, this year’s winner of the Cesar (or French Oscar) for Best Picture, the NY Times‘ Nicolas Rapold writes, “a French investigator labors away at a murder case before reluctantly abandoning it. This is a refreshingly grounded, deceptively plain picture of crime-fighting…the movie (based on a nonfiction book by Pauline Guena) matter-of-factly avoids the magical thinking we’ve absorbed from decades of macho crime-fighting yarns.”
- Director Vadim Perelman is best known for his 2003 Ben Kingsley-Jennifer Connelly drama House of Sand and Fog. In his new film Persian Lessons, a French Jew facing a concentration camp firing squad manages to dodge death by fabricating his identity as a Persian, which draws the attention of the camp’s prima donna commandant. The vertiginous dark comedy that ensues has made the film a hit on this year’s Jewish Film Festival circuit.
- And on Sunday New Plaza Cinema’s resident film historian Max Alvarez will host our second Marlene Dietrich-Josef von Sternberg screening, the delirious Shanghai Express. Perhaps those uber-knowledgeable fans of the legendary duo who attended Morocco will return to regale us.
Next weekend another iconic actress, Jacqueline Bisset, will join us on Saturday for a Q&A following the 12:15 screening of her new drama Loren and Rose.
There will also be a feast of documentary screenings: Make Me Famous, a vivid portrait of downtown Manhattan’s 1970-80s art scene (filmmakers present); We Are Many, the 2014 documentary about international resistance to the Iraq War, screening on the 20th anniversary of that tragic event (with guest speakers); and Lynch/Oz, pondering a certain legendary American filmmaker’s seeming fascination with a 1939 Hollywood classic…
Gary Palmucci, Film Curator
New Plaza Cinema
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