{"id":16790,"date":"2023-12-02T21:07:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T21:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/?p=16790"},"modified":"2024-01-19T00:58:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T00:58:32","slug":"films-this-week-11-30-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/films-this-week-11-30-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Films this week 11\/30 to 12\/03\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; specialty=&#8221;on&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;Post Layout&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; collapsed=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_4&#8243; specialty_columns=&#8221;3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; collapsed=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=&#8221;3_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Gary&#8217;s Corner original Marybeth&#8217;s edit&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.2&#8243; link_text_color=&#8221;#0c71c3&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; transform_scale_linked=&#8221;off&#8221; transform_translate_linked=&#8221;off&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n\n<p>One of New Plaza Cinema&#8217;s\u00a0most popular films of this fast-receding year just had a triumphant week &#8212; perhaps the first of many.<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><strong><em>Past Lives <\/em><\/strong>won &#8220;Best Film of 2023&#8221; at the Gotham Awards, then &#8220;Best First Film&#8221; for director Celine Song at the NY Film Critics&#8217; balloting. I was following the latter on Thursday morning, and got the <strong><em>Past Lives<\/em> <\/strong>news in the nick of time, about five minutes before\u00a0our NY Times ad deadline. We&#8217;ll be doing two shows this weekend to celebrate, along with encore screenings of <em><strong>Joan Baez: I Am a Rock<\/strong><\/em>, <strong><em>The\u00a0Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill<\/em><\/strong>, and David Fincher&#8217;s kinetic <strong><em>The Killer<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 \u00a0<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Plus, two very special screenings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Saturday at 4:45 pm: <strong><em>Only in Theatres,<\/em><\/strong> with director Raphael Sbarge hosting an encore of his doc on the difficult post-pandemic journey of an independent cinema chain; owner Greg Laemmle will supply an update on this past eventful, &#8216;Barbenheimer&#8217; exhibition year, and how his theatres have fared since last fall.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Sunday at 2:45 pm: A 50th Anniversary screening of Martin Scorsese&#8217;s <strong><em>Mean Streets<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0with our very special guest\u00a0Mary Pat Kelly, author of <em>Martin Scorsese &#8211; A Journey<\/em> (just out in a new, updated edition) on hand to introduce and join me in a Q&amp;A on a Scorsese classic, just\u00a0one of many that have inspired and influenced filmgoers and filmmakers around the world&#8230;I strongly suggest checking out on you tube <a href=\"https:\/\/newplazacinema.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4a0f9c3fe80ef70db6bfb6c6a&amp;id=155b34d06c&amp;e=8477a9c359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">Bong Joon-ho&#8217;s 2020 Best Director&#8217; Oscar acceptance speech<\/a> for moving proof of that.\u00a0 Mary Pat Kelly has an amazing life story of her own, and has been an &#8216;eyewitness&#8217; to Marty&#8217;s career for nearly six decades. Tickets are selling fast for this one&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next weekend, and beyond:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Selected shows: <em>The Stones and Brian Jones<\/em>, a new doc from the\u00a0UK&#8217;s NIck Broomfield on the (unjustly) &#8220;forgotten Stone.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Sunday Dec 10 at 5:30 pm:\u00a0 Filmmakers Brian Vincent and Heather Spore will return to mark the six months&#8217; residency of<em> Make Me Famous<\/em>, which recently played to its first full house in Williamsburg.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday Dec 17 at 12:15 pm: Max Alvarez and I will screen and talk about David Lean&#8217;s bittersweet classic <em>Brief Encounter<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Opening Dec 22 : <em>Freud&#8217;s Last Session<\/em>, Sigmund Freud (two time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins) and C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode) cross paths in what promises to be a fascinating debate of intellects and psyches.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Opening Dec 25: <em>The Teachers&#8217; Lounge<\/em>,\u00a0Germany&#8217;s submission for the Best International Film Oscar &#8212; check out the intense<a href=\"https:\/\/newplazacinema.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4a0f9c3fe80ef70db6bfb6c6a&amp;id=49db74ba0c&amp;e=8477a9c359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\"> trailer<\/a> online.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And in January:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Menus Plaisirs &#8211; Les Troisgros<\/em>:\u00a0Frederick Wiseman&#8217;s\u00a0epic restaurant documentary, another NY Film Critics&#8217; winner this week.<\/li>\n<li>Friday January 12 at 7:30 pm: our latest installment of NYC Filmmakers&#8217; Short Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many patrons have asked us for Ingmar Bergman classics, so:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sunday January 14 at 12:15 pm:<em> Smiles of a Summer Night<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sunday January\u00a0 28 at 12:15 pm <em>The Seventh Seal<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please join us!<\/p>\n<p><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><strong>Gary Palmucci. Film Curator<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>New Plaza Cinema\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_sidebar orientation=&#8221;right&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  One of New Plaza Cinema&#8217;s\u00a0most popular films of this fast-receding year just had a triumphant week &#8212; perhaps the first of many.Past Lives won &#8220;Best Film of 2023&#8221; at the Gotham Awards, then &#8220;Best First Film&#8221; for director Celine Song at the NY Film Critics&#8217; balloting. 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