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As we move inexorably toward the 25th anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001, many Americans are also mindful of another fateful day in modern world history:\u00a0the violent overthrow on 9\/11\/1973 of the government of Chile and its president, Salvador Allende.<\/p>\n
To mark next week\u2019s 50th anniversary of the tragedy, New Plaza Cinema will showcase\u00a0four diverse films that examine from various angles both the events themselves and their ongoing, mournful reverberations.<\/p>\n
Costa-Gavras’ Missing<\/strong><\/em>, nominated for 4 Oscars including 1982\u2019s Best Picture,\u00a0has —\u00a0in its chronicle of a young American’s fate in the wake of the bloody Chilean military coup — lost none of its power to shock and outrage. In his original NY Times<\/em> review, Vincent Canby wrote,<\/p>\n “Costa-Gavras’ most beautifully achieved political melodrama to date, acted with immense authority by Jack Lemmon, as Charles Horman’s\u00a0 father Ed,\u00a0and Sissy Spacek as Charles’ wife ….the screenplay is a model of its kind, in which Ed and his daughter-in-law\u2019s\u00a0search for Charles is developed in a series of scenes that seamlessly join past and present actions into a nonstop, forward-moving narrative.”<\/em><\/p>\n