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Many of you have heard, in my introductions to\u00a0The Miracle Club<\/strong><\/em>, now in its fourth robust week, \u00a0the story of how that movie abruptly came onto New Plaza’s schedule due to a certain local multiplex’s urgent need for more ‘Barbenheimer’ screens. \u00a0 A film that experienced a similar scenario, and is a sure Oscar contender this year along with those two July mega-busters, joins our program this weekend.<\/p>\n Past Lives<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0seems to me a shoo-in for a Best Picture nod, along with writing and directing nominations for its creator Celine Song, and a perfect film to revisit, or see for the first time, in the bittersweet-romantic month of August.<\/p>\n Aurora’s Sunrise<\/strong><\/em>, \u00a0one of our more unusual NY premieres, uses a mix of vivid animation, interviews and archival film and photos to recount the true story of Aurora Mardiganian, who fled Armenia in 1919 as a teenager after losing her family in that country’s genocide. \u00a0Incredibly, she landed in New York where her story became a media sensation and she starred as herself in a silent film, Auction of Souls, based on her published memoir. \u00a0Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history, and a lifelong advocate (she lived into the mid-1990s) for survivors of the Armenian genocide.<\/p>\n At press time we are expecting both the film’s director Inna Sahakyan and NYU history professor Paul Boghosian for Q&As on Friday and Saturday, but recommend that you check either our website, FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram\u00a0or Friday’s NYT directory ad for confirmation.<\/p>\n After last weekend’s sell-out performances of Luchino Visconti’s\u00a0The Leopard<\/em><\/strong>, we’ve scheduled an encore screening at 12:15 on Sunday afternoon, followed by some discussion with Max Alvarez and I.<\/p>\n And later that afternoon, we’ll again be joined by – to paraphrase James Brown – ‘the hardest working indie filmmakers in show biz,’ \u00a0director Brian Vincent and producer Heather Spore for a Q&A on their deep-dive documentary,\u00a0Make Me Famous<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Also reprising this weekend, \u00a0Umberto Eco- A Library of the World, \u00a0Return to Dust<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0from China, \u00a0and the aforementioned\u00a0Miracle Club<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Next weekend – more late summer classics, \u00a0Fellini’s immortal\u00a08 1 \/ 2<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and Jean Eustache’s intimate epic\u00a0The Mother and the Whore<\/em><\/strong>, along with the beloved Juliette Binoche’s latest,\u00a0Between Two Worlds<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Gary Palmucci, Film Curator Many of you have heard, in my introductions to\u00a0The Miracle Club, now in its fourth robust week, \u00a0the story of how that movie abruptly came onto New Plaza’s schedule due to a certain local multiplex’s urgent need for more ‘Barbenheimer’ screens. \u00a0 A film that experienced a similar scenario, and is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garys-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14954,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947\/revisions\/14954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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