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The fall movie season officially kicks off this weekend with the start of the New York Film Festival.\u00a0 New Plaza Cinema will be getting into the act next Friday with a run of Pedro Almodovar\u2019s latest,\u00a0Strange Way of Life<\/em>, starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, direct from its sold-out Alice Tully Hall premiere.<\/p>\n But before that, we’ll be joining the NY Premiere runs of a new documentary\u00a0on legendary guitarist Carlos Santana.\u00a0In his\u00a0Variety\u00a0<\/em>review last summer, my friend Owen Gleiberman reported:\u00a0<\/p>\n “Built around an extended interview with Santana, who at 75 is spry and rueful and funny and confessional, Rudy Valdez\u2019s documentary presents his life and career in a straightforward way, but that doesn\u2019t explain why the film is so enthralling…Santana, we discover, had a very different arc than other rock stars.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Opening with a deconstruction of the iconic first four organ-and-bass notes of “Oye Como Va”\u00a0(which will surely test our venerable JBL speakers), and moving on to his other milestones including the legendary set at Woodstock — per Gleiberman:\u00a0“the story he tells about that performance is one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll anecdotes I’ve ever heard”<\/em>\u00a0— here’s a chronicle that’s a treat for both our ears and a half century of memories.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Also new on the Macaulay screen this weekend:\u00a0<\/p>\n The Storms of Jeremy Thomas<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0– the singularly adventurous UK producer, whose dozens of credits include David Cronenberg’s\u00a0Naked Lunch<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Crash<\/em>, Nagisa Oshima’s\u00a0Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence<\/em>\u00a0and Bertolucci’s Oscar-sweeping\u00a0The Last Emperor\u00a0<\/em>has a life story nearly as fascinating as his screen credits.\u00a0Cinema history specialist Mark Cousins escorts us into it in this unique, excerpt-rich documentary portrait.\u00a0<\/p>\n Passages<\/em><\/strong>-stalwart indie director Ira Sachs’ (Keep the Lights On<\/em>, Sundance-winner\u00a0Forty Shades of Blue<\/em>) latest has been playing strongly around town for several weeks; we’ll be featuring it as our own bit of\u00a0“Saturday Night Fever”\u00a0<\/em>– the first (I believe) NC-17 film we’ve had on a New Plaza Cinema program.\u00a0The lives of a long-time male couple are disrupted when a young woman (Adele Exarchopoulos, star of\u00a0Blue is the Warmest Color<\/em>) enters their lives.\u00a0Sachs is a skillful manipulator of the many eruptive equations of desire.<\/p>\n And, just added to our weekend Q&A schedule!\u00a0Friday’s 4 pm screening of the briskly entertaining\u00a0Radical Wolfe<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0will feature an after-discussion with its director Richard Dewey and the late Tom Wolfe’s daughter, Alexandra.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Max Alvarez and I will parse the 1932 Paramount pre-code horror opus\u00a0Island of Lost Souls<\/em><\/strong>, starring Charles Laughton in the first screen adaptation of H.G. 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And\u00a0director Brian Vincent and his wife, producer Heather Spore will again join us after Saturday’s show of\u00a0Make Me Famous<\/em><\/strong>, now entering the fourth month of its robust run.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gary Palmucci, Film Curator [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_sidebar orientation=”right” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The fall movie season officially kicks off this weekend with the start of the New York Film Festival.\u00a0 New Plaza Cinema will be getting into the act next Friday with a run of Pedro Almodovar\u2019s latest,\u00a0Strange Way of Life, starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, direct from its sold-out Alice Tully […]<\/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-15743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garys-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15743","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=15743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15753,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15743\/revisions\/15753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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