Films this week 6/19/2026 to 6/25/2026
by Gary Palmucci | 19th June 2026 | Gary's Corner
Welcome to New Plaza Cinema’s ‘summer residency’ at the Museum of Arts and Design at 2 Columbus Circle. For the next ten Saturdays, through August 22, we’ll be screening four films a day in the beautiful 143-seat theatre located in the museum’s basement level. All ticket sales will be online only, as no tickets will be available for purchase inside the museum.
We have a previous history with this venue. Way back in March 2020, we had signed a contract to screen films at MAD, after our previous location at 1871 Broadway was destroyed in a water main break (and, along with the original Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, is still vacant). But a few days later, the hammer of Covid-19 came down, and it would be two more years before we could screen again.
We’re delighted that the museum has agreed to host us this summer – with its cinema’s excellent picture and sound quality- while renovations proceed at CUNY.
This weekend will feature encore screenings of the Alec Guinness classic Kind Hearts and Coronets – a sellout in our previous show at Macaulay Honors College – and the French romantic drama Two Pianos, starring Charlotte Rampling, from acclaimed director Arnaud Desplechin.
We’ll also be joining the NYC premieres of two new films:
Peter Asher: Everywhere Man – from the press book of distributor Greenwich Pictures, one of our most generous suppliers,
“If you’ve ever loved a Beatles record, LInda Ronstadt album, a Carole King song or a James Taylor record, you already know Peter Asher’s work. You just might not know his name yet.
Asher produced some of the most iconic recordings of the last 60 years, and as a close friend and confidant of The Beatles, he had a front-row seat to one of music’s greatest stories. Now, for the first time, his extraordinary life takes center stage.”
Veteran doc makers Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller have assembled interviews, vintage and new, from the likes of Paul McCartney, Steve Martin, Eric Idle, Robin Willams, Marianne Faithfull and over a dozen other legends.
Unidentified – filmmakers from many corners of the Arab world have reached US audiences with indelible work, as we’ve seen recently at New Plaza Cinema with Palestine ’36, All That’s Left of You, Four Daughters and others. Director Haifaa Al-Mansour made a memorable debut feature– Wadjda, released over a decade ago by our friends at Sony PIctures Classics. They have now imported her latest work, in which a dedicated Saudi police bureaucrat launches her own investigation into the mysterious death of a teenage girl, to the consternation of her colleagues, and the girl’s school and family.
And coming next Saturday, a special third anniversary screening of the downtown NYC 1980s art scene documentary, Make Me Famous, which New Plaza Cinema first presented in June 2023, and many times since, to packed houses.
Filmmakers Brian Vincent and Heather Spore will be on hand to reminisce, and perhaps introduce a special guest or two….tickets are now on sale.