{"id":15260,"date":"2023-09-01T06:20:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T06:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/?p=15260"},"modified":"2023-09-01T06:43:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T06:43:47","slug":"films-this-week-9-01-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/films-this-week-9-01-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Films this week 9\/01 to 9\/03\/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 Marybeth&#8217;s edit&#8221; _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<p style=\"#\">As summer 2023 begins its curtain call over this Labor Day weekend, New Plaza Cinema has packed the four days with a diverse dozen, including\u00a0European intimate epics and ingenious American indies, both feature and documentary, many of them making their final appearances on our program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"#\">I&#8217;d like to make a particular pitch for Jean Eustache&#8217;s 1973 <em><strong>The Mother and the Whore<\/strong><\/em>, with its indelible trio of Jean-Pierre Leaud,\u00a0 Bernadette Lafont, and Francoise Lebrun, screening Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"#\">The great French director\u00a0Olivier Assayas writes, it is <em>&#8220;the ultimate nouvelle vague film made ten years later, by someone who had been a marginal figure of the movement, and embodying\u00a0a city (Paris), a time, a culture now all gone.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"#\">New additions to the program include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Theatre Camp<\/em><\/strong>: In one of the most acclaimed titles of this year&#8217;s Sundance Film Festival, a team of\u00a0collaborators including Ben Platt (<em>Dear Evan Hansen<\/em>)\u00a0 and\u00a0 Molly Gordon (<em>The Bear<\/em>) concoct what the <em>NY Times&#8217;<\/em> Amy Nicholson in her Critic&#8217;s Pick review calls <em>&#8220;a fizzy mockumentary about growing up Gershwin&#8230;these former youth performers remember everything: desperate auditions, capricious rejections&#8230;but the camp counselors they&#8217;ve created&#8230;disregard the trauma they&#8217;ve endured and now, inflict on others.\u00a0 Call it summer Stockholm syndrome.\u00a0 And call their group therapy session a treat.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had numerous requests for this movie, including from one patron who called herself &#8220;one of three generations&#8221; of theatre campers!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Our Father, the Devil<\/strong><\/em>: In another <em>NY Times <\/em>Critic&#8217;s PIck, Beatrice Loayza hails <em>&#8220;not only an absorbing psychological thriller but a profound meditation on the ethics of immigration,&#8221;<\/em> as a Guinean refugee living in France is confronted by a menacing figure from her past.\u00a0Co-star Souleymane Sy Savane and writer-director Ellie Foumbi (a graduate of Columbia&#8217;s film program) will join us for Q&amp;As on Saturday and Monday, respectively.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Hester Street<\/strong><\/em>: We pay tribute this month to pioneering indie filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver, whose 1975 recreation (on a budget) of the late 19th century Russian Jewish Lower East Side yielded an Oscar nomination for Carol Kane, as a young, struggling-to-assimilate spouse. On Sept 17th we&#8217;ll present her 1988 crowd-pleaser <em>Crossing Delancey<\/em>, with leading man Peter Riegert joining us in person for a discussion after the film.\u00a0Tickets are going fast for that one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also holding over this weekend, many for &#8220;last calls,&#8221; Visconti&#8217;s <strong><em>The Leopard,\u00a0 Fellini&#8217;s 8 1\/2,\u00a0The Miracle Club, Past Lives <\/em><\/strong>(a frequent sell out),\u00a0<strong><em>Shortcomings,\u00a0Aurora&#8217;s Sunrise, Make Me Famous<\/em><\/strong> (with our usual producer- director Q&amp;A), and top Sundance documentary prize winner, <strong><em>The Eternal Memory<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"#\"><em><strong>Gary Palmucci, Film Curator<br \/>\nNew Plaza Cinema<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\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>  As summer 2023 begins its curtain call over this Labor Day weekend, New Plaza Cinema has packed the four days with a diverse dozen, including\u00a0European intimate epics and ingenious American indies, both feature and documentary, many of them making their final appearances on our program. 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