{"id":16479,"date":"2023-11-17T00:18:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T00:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/?p=16479"},"modified":"2023-11-17T00:35:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T00:35:12","slug":"films-this-week-11-17-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/films-this-week-11-17-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Films this week 11\/17 to 11\/19\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New Plaza Cinema jumps back into a full schedule this weekend at our Macaulay Honors College screening\u00a0room — with at least one damaged seat now repaired!<\/p>\n

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The recent documentary\u00a0Joan Baez: I Am a Noise<\/em><\/strong> proved to be a sell out hit in its first New Plaza Cinema screenings last weekend. We’ve added additional shows this time around, but as always strongly suggest purchasing your tickets online and in advance.\u00a0\u00a0

Another, not so recent but equally fascinating doc will finally\u00a0be making its Upper West Side theatrical debut this weekend.\u00a0I’ll let its longtime distributor Ken Eisen from Waterville ME, a friend — and “friendly competitor” from my decades in the\u00a0indie releasing biz — tell us about\u00a0it in his own words:\u00a0

“Twenty years ago, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill<\/strong>, Judy Irving\u2019s funny, beautiful, charming, unique film, came out of left field \u2014 otherwise known as San Francisco \u2014 to become a favorite with audiences across the country, a word-of-mouth indie smash that wound up playing on over 500 screens, with engagements (many lasting for months) spiraling on for well over a year, Shadow Distribution\u2019s greatest hit.

Now, Judy has made a sparkling, hand-restored new 4k digital restoration of this timeless film.\u00a0We\u2019ve taken it off all available other mediums, and are opening it in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and\u2026your town? \u2014 in the coming weeks and months. Dance with the birds in the film\u2019s trailer:\u00a0https:\/\/vimeo.com\/849992597<\/a>.”\u00a0<\/em>

Many of you have seen and laughed along with that drily hilarious trailer this past month.\u00a0Filmmaker Judy Irving will join us for a Q&A after each screening this weekend.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0

Saturdays have frequently been our day to offer up three hour epics of various nationalities — The Leopard,\u00a0 The Mother and the Whore, Farewell My Concubine<\/strong><\/em> — and we’re traveling to Argentina this time with The Delinquents<\/em><\/strong>, a highlight of the recent NY Film Festival.\u00a0Its drolly serpentine plot, commencing when a bank employee tells his colleague — over beers — that he’s just robbed their employer, is described further by the NY Times’<\/em> Ben Kenigsberg:\u00a0

“He hasn’t taken an unreasonable amount – merely what the two would earn in 25 more years of working there.\u00a0Moran intends to turn himself in and go to prison for much less than that – with good behavior, he calculates he’ll spend three and half years behind bars. In the interim, Roman can watch the bag of cash, which they will split.\u00a0If he refuses to cooperate, Moran could easily frame him as an accomplice anyway.”<\/em> A mazelike saga of social and behavioral dark comedy ensues.\u00a0

Also this weekend: Our second Noirvember feature, Jules Dassin’s 1950 headlong classic Night and the City<\/em><\/strong>, with Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney. There will also be\u00a0reprise screenings of Nyad<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0The Persian Version<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0and Make Me Famous<\/em><\/strong>, with our inexhaustible filmmakers Brian Vincent and Heather Spore back to report on their national tour…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Gary Palmucci, Film Curator
New Plaza Cinema<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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