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On this slightly abbreviated\u00a0weekend (we’ll be closed Friday night for a CUNY event) we’re adding one new film to the New Plaza Cinema lineup, from an up and coming Australian director, Kitty Green, whose\u00a0previous, harrowing The Assistant<\/em> made some waves in 2020.\u00a0\u00a0

In her NY Times<\/em>\u00a0“Critic’s Pick” review, Jeanette Catsoulis lauds The Royal Hotel <\/em><\/strong>as a “keenly calibrated thriller…Place two young, attractive American female backpackers (Ozark’s<\/em> Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick) in a forlorn mining town somewhere in the Australian Outback; surround them with sex-starved, boorish miners; allow them no access to cell service or reliable transport.Their ensuing trials are a cyst that Green and her co-writer, Oscar Redding, take their sweet time to lance.”\u00a0

The physical\u00a0and often emotional desolation\u00a0of the Australian landscape has been the site of several of that nation’s cinema classics —\u00a0Wake in Fright,\u00a0 Sunday Too Far Away,\u00a0 Mad Dog Morgan<\/em>, and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith<\/em>. In a concurrent interview<\/a> in last week’s NY Times<\/em>\u00a0— well worth reading in full — Kitty Green explains,\u00a0“I guess I like to make films about things I’m afraid of…And I think as a woman in this world, it naturally becomes about gender dynamics and these kinds of spaces, because that’s where my fear is realized.”\u00a0 \u00a0

Her family background also played a considerable role — in degrees both amusing and hair-raising:\u00a0“My paternal grandfather,” she notes, “owned a pub like the Hugo Weaving character in the movie,” and her mother, a photographer and noted professor, supplied some strong creative influence:\u00a0“She’d often leave the films she watched outside my room — they’d be in the Blockbuster case, so I’d never know what I was getting.\u00a0I’d just slot it in and it’d be like Haneke’s Piano Teacher<\/em> or something. It was that kind of film education.”\u00a0\u00a0

In addition to screenings of The Royal Hotel<\/em><\/strong>, two of our hardest-working documentary filmmakers will be back this weekend for further Q&As\u00a0— Richard Dewey (and possible other guests — check our website) with Radical Wolfe<\/em><\/strong>; and director Brian Vincent and producer Heather Spore with Make Me Famous<\/em><\/strong>, no doubt having stories to tell about their recent San Francisco premiere.\u00a0\u00a0

Last weekend’s big uptick in attendance for Pedro Almodovar’s “mini-double,”\u00a0Strange Way of Life<\/em><\/strong> and The Human Voice<\/em><\/strong>, prompted us to add a couple more screenings, as well as of our seemingly inexhaustible entrancer,\u00a0Celine Song’s Past Lives<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0

The engagement of Nyad which we announced last week was postponed by distributor Netflix. We hope to screen it in early November.\u00a0And coming next month, a re-release of the very popular documentary — out of circulation\u00a0for many years, and not streaming — The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill<\/em>.
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Finally,\u00a0our monthly film classics series will celebrate film noir — since it’s “Noirvember” — with screenings on Sunday, November 12th and 19th.\u00a0The titles will be announced here next week.\u00a0
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Gary Palmucci, Film Curator
New Plaza Cinema<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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