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On Saturday afternoon, we’re hosting an encore\u00a0screening of the documentary\u00a0Honoring Eric Bentley,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0whose U.S. premiere New Plaza Cinema presented in January.\u00a0This tribute in both testimony and song to one of the heroes of 20th century American theatre. The late playwright, singer, translator, and often pungently perceptive critic Eric Bentley — who enriched our appreciation of Shakespeare, Shaw, Brecht, O’Neill and many others — features appearances and musical performances by a stellar cast of his admirers, including Tony Kushner, Philip Lopate, Karyn Levitt, and Austin Pendleton. After the screening co-producer (and exuberant performer in the film) Karyn Levitt will join Columbia Professor Michael Paller for a discussion and Q&A.\u00a0Check out the informative\u00a0trailer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Director Michael Roemer, whose\u00a0Nothing But a Man<\/em>\u00a0was one of the finest American Independent films of the 1960s, completed another\u00a0feature at the end of that decade which went unseen — and undistributed — until\u00a0a 1989 screening at the New York Film Festival.\u00a0The Plot Against Harry<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0then found its way into theatrical release via the late Dan Talbot’s (owner of our beloved Lincoln Plaza) New Yorker Films, and is back in cinemas again, including ours.\u00a0The deadpan chronicle of small-time gangster Harry Plotnick’s\u00a0release from prison into a changed urban milieu now has an impressive cadre of admirers, including The New Yorker magazine’s Richard Brody:\u00a0“<\/em><\/p>\n

A neglected masterpiece…Should have become an instant classic – of American Jewish cinema, of gangster movies, of film comedy and of bold creativity on a low budget.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

New York Magazine’s<\/em>\u00a0Bilge Ebiri calls director Roemer “One of the great unsung masters of American cinema.”\u00a0Our intimate venue is a perfect place to discover (or revisit) it.<\/p>\n

Also this week,\u00a0Radical Wolfe<\/em><\/strong>, a new documentary portrait of master American stylist Tom Wolfe (The Right Stuff, Bonfire of\u00a0 the Vanities<\/em>) adapted from a renowned\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/em>\u00a0profile by Michael Lewis (Moneyball<\/em>), with voice-overs of many famous Wolfe passages by Jon Hamm.<\/p>\n

Still holding over:\u00a0Past Lives, The Miracle Club<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the “sleeper”\u00a0UK drama,\u00a0Scrapper<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0Make Me Famous<\/em>\u00a0will return next weekend, and an encore screening of\u00a0Crossing Delancey<\/em>\u00a0(after last weekend’s sell-out) will be announced later this fall, hosted by its screenwriter Susan Sandler and filmmaker Jenny Slate.<\/p>\n

Coming Soon:<\/em><\/p>\n