{"id":14630,"date":"2023-07-29T00:37:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T00:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/?p=14630"},"modified":"2023-07-29T00:47:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T00:47:43","slug":"films-this-week-7-28-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/films-this-week-7-28-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Films this week 7\/28 &#8211; 7\/30\/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\/28 &#8211; 7\/30\/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; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n\n<p><em><strong>The Miracle Club<\/strong><\/em>, our surprise hit with a trio of poignant performers\u00a0&#8212; Maggie Smith, Laura Linney, and Kathy Bates &#8212; continues its run with additional screenings this weekend.\u00a0And the raucous &#8220;downtown art scene&#8221;\u00a0documentary <em><strong>Make Me Famous <\/strong><\/em>will, on Saturday afternoon, be screening for a sixth weekend, accompanied as always by a Q&amp;A with its inexhaustible creators &#8212; director Brian Vincent and producer Heather Spore.<\/p>\n<p>Four new films will be joining our program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Umberto Eco: A Library of the World<\/strong><\/em> &#8212; This portrait of the late bestselling author, now also enjoying a lengthy downtown engagement, reveals him as both a world class literary collector and pungent wit on the vicissitudes of modern life.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The League<\/strong><\/em> &#8212;\u00a0Sam Pollard, a Spike Lee collaborator in the early years of both mens&#8217; careers,\u00a0has more recently built a remarkable body of work as a documentarian, including <em>MLK\/FBI <\/em>and <em>Sammy Davis Jr: I&#8217;ve Gotta Be Me<\/em>.\u00a0Here he tells the tragic\/heroic story of the Negro baseball leagues of the first half of the 20th century, which left a still-underappreciated social, political, and athletic legacy.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Five Demands<\/strong><\/em> &#8212;\u00a0A famous student strike at City College in spring 1969 that led to watershed changes in higher education across NYC campuses is recounted in this new documentary, which takes on added timeliness in the wake of the Supreme Court&#8217;s recent decision rejecting affirmative action.\u00a0It&#8217;s been crafted by longtime CUNY filmmaker-professors Andrea Weiss and Greta Schiller, the latter of whom will join us for Q&amp;A after both weekend screenings.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Tiger Within<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0&#8212; Edward Asner&#8217;s final film appearance chronicles an unlikely friendship between a homeless teen and a Holocaust survivor, sparking larger questions of fear, forgiveness and healing. 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