Films this week 3/8 to 3/10/2024
by Gary Palmucci | 7th March 2024 | Gary's Corner
New Plaza Cinema is serving up a busy Oscar weekend menu including two 2024 nominees and a pair of previous winners, one of them a legendary classic. But first up, on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon we’ll be visited by beloved actress Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Shoot the Moon, Starman, In the Bedroom), as we join in the NY premiere of her new film A Stage of Twilight, chronicling a married couple in their seventies who reach a turning point in their lives. Other key members of the production will join Karen for a Q&A after each screening. Check out the heartfelt trailer online, and get your tickets early. Two very different films which played to sellout crowds last weekend will return for encores: the delightfully manic, one-of-a-kind Hundreds of Beavers (profiled in this week’s NY Times) and the ebullient documentary on the New Orleans music scene, Up From the Streets. You’ll have one more chance to research your Oscar night ballots with our screenings of Best International Feature nominees The Teachers’ Lounge (Germany) and Io Capitano (Italy). Our two previous winners on the schedule include the more-powerful-than-ever Navalny (2023 Best Documentary) also encoring from last weekend’s near-full house, and Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, the 1952 winner for Best Foreign Film. Max Alvarez and I will be on hand to discuss that endlessly-debatable classic on Oscar afternoon. Returning this weekend is one of our most exuberant recent crowd-pleasers, Francois Ozon’s The Crime Is Mine. We’re also presenting on Sunday Joan Micklin Silver’s Crossing Delancey, hosted by its screenwriter Susan Sandler and indie filmmaker Jenny Slate. That screening is completely sold out, but we’ll be doing another one in the coming weeks. And next weekend, direct from the recent NY Jewish Film Festival, a new documentary on another beloved actor: Remembering Gene Wilder.
Gary Palmucci. Film Curator
New Plaza Cinema