{"id":14329,"date":"2023-07-07T19:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/?p=14329"},"modified":"2023-07-20T15:59:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T15:59:38","slug":"films-this-week-7-07-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/films-this-week-7-07-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Films this week 7\/07 &#8211; 7\/09\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; specialty=&#8221;on&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;Post Layout&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; collapsed=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_4&#8243; specialty_columns=&#8221;3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=&#8221;3_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Gary&#8217;s Corner original text 7\/07- 7\/09\/2023&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; link_text_color=&#8221;#0c71c3&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; transform_scale_linked=&#8221;off&#8221; transform_translate_linked=&#8221;off&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>After a whirlwind, extended Fourth of July holiday weekend New Plaza Cinema is back with several sturdy holdovers and a couple of newcomers.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>We&#8217;re offering something special\u00a0in our first two screening slots on Friday &#8212; a single-admission David Lynch &#8220;double feature&#8221;: the documentary <em><strong>Lynch\/Oz<\/strong><\/em>, in which various actors and filmmakers muse on his apparent fascination with a certain 1939 Hollywood classic, and his own 2001 classic <em><strong>Mulholland Drive<\/strong><\/em>, voted Best Picture of that year by the NY Film Critics.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Friday night,\u00a0director Brian Vincent and producer Heather Spore will return for another generous Q&amp;A after their revelatory NYC-downtown-art-world doc,<strong><em> Make Me Famous<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Many of you may recall the 2019 Italian feature <em><strong>Martin Eden<\/strong><\/em>, audaciously adapted from Jack London&#8217;s novel by a rising young talent, writer-director Pietro Marcello. His new film <strong><em>Scarlet<\/em><\/strong> charts an equally idiosyncratic course,\u00a0following a widowed father and daughter across two post-World War I decades of tragedy and tumultuous change.\u00a0In her &#8220;Critic&#8217;s PIck&#8221;\u00a0review, the <em>NY Times&#8217; <\/em>Manohla Dargis writes:\u00a0 <em>&#8220;Over the passing years, things happen to our characters, gentle and kind things, but also shaming, rejection and violence.\u00a0They will persevere, fortified by their humanity, by their rooted sense of place and by the enduring strength of their affections.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This month our ongoing classics series delves headfirst into 1950&#8217;s widescreen Hollywood melodrama, starting with director Nicholas Ray&#8217;s <em><strong>Bigger Than Life<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0James Mason gives a tour-de-force,\u00a0high wire performance &#8212; one of his best &#8212; as a suburban school teacher who agrees to experimental doses of the hormone cortisone to combat a painful illness, creating a potentially tragic scenario of its own.\u00a0This lesser-known Ray classic is in a league with his <em>In a\u00a0Lonely Place, Rebel Without a Cause, <\/em>and <em>Johnny Guitar<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Coming July 23: Douglas Sirk&#8217;s,\u00a0<em>The Tarnished Angels<\/em>, starring Rock Hudson, Jack Carson, and Dorothy Malone.<\/p>\n<p>Our holdovers include the still-selling out <strong><em>Close to Vermeer<\/em><\/strong>, an All-Star week encore of <strong><em>It Ain&#8217;t Over<\/em><\/strong>, as well as the acclaimed <strong><em>Joyland<\/em><\/strong>, from Pakistan, and the hurtling rags-to-riches-to-rags saga, <strong><em>BlackBerry<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><em><strong>Gary Palmucci, Film Curator<br \/>New Plaza Cinema<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_sidebar orientation=&#8221;right&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  \u00a0 After a whirlwind, extended Fourth of July holiday weekend New Plaza Cinema is back with several sturdy holdovers and a couple of newcomers. 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