{"id":16896,"date":"2023-12-08T05:17:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T05:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/?p=16896"},"modified":"2024-01-19T00:58:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T00:58:25","slug":"films-this-week-12-08-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/films-this-week-12-08-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Films this week 12\/08 to 12\/10\/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; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n\n<p>On this holiday-event-abbreviated weekend, New Plaza Cinema will be offering just\u00a0four screenings &#8212; encores of\u00a0<strong><em>Joan Baez: I Am a Noise<\/em><\/strong>, the award-winning<strong><em>\u00a0Past Lives<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><em>Make Me Famous<\/em><\/strong>, with docmakers Brian Vincent and Heather Spore back for another Q&amp;A, plus one new addition.\u00a0\u00a0<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>The UK&#8217;s Nick Broomfield has built an impressive portfolio of documentaries on star-crossed pop musicians &#8211; Leonard Cohen, Tupac Shakur, Kurt Cobain &#8212; and other controversial public\u00a0figures: Sarah Palin, Heidi Fleiss, and Aileen Wournos. His latest,\u00a0<strong><em>The Stones and Brian Jones<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0chronicles the short, tragic life of an original Rolling Stone whose mid-sixties musical innovations &#8212; the marimba on Under My Thumb, woodwinds on Ruby Tuesday, and sitar on Paint It Black propelled the band forward creatively, even while he was unable to control his own downward\u00a0spiral.\u00a0 \u00a0<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>\u00a0<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Next weekend we&#8217;ll be offering a fuller schedule, including these\u00a0newcomers:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Bella!:<\/em>\u00a0Many of our patrons have requested this recent documentary portrait of 1970s NY Congresswoman Bella Abzug who, per the producers&#8217; notes, &#8220;With her trademark hat and Bronx swagger, entered Congress swinging, battling for credit cards for women, equality for the LGBTQ community and trailblazing a path for leadership that reflected the broad diversity of the country.&#8221;\u00a0Check out this column next week for special screening guests.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><em>Monste<\/em>r: The latest from Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose 2018 Cannes prizewinner\u00a0<em>Shoplifters\u00a0<\/em>was a New Plaza Cinema audience favorite.\u00a0His new film centers on a single mother, her son, and a fight that one day breaks out at his school and devolves into mystery and tragedy.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>And in case you didn&#8217;t catch them last week, here are some details on films coming to our Macaulay screening room over the holidays and winter weeks ahead:\u00a0\u00a0<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sunday Dec 17 at 12:15 pm: Max Alvarez and I will screen and talk about David Lean&#8217;s bittersweet classic\u00a0<em>Brief Encounter.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Opening Dec 22:<em>\u00a0Freud&#8217;s Last Session: Sigmund Freud<\/em>\u00a0(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.<\/li>\n<li>Opening Dec 25:\u00a0<em>The Teachers&#8217; Lounge<\/em>,\u00a0Germany&#8217;s submission for the Best International Film Oscar &#8212; check out the intense\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newplazacinema.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4a0f9c3fe80ef70db6bfb6c6a&amp;id=bb55676d6a&amp;e=8477a9c359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">trailer<\/a>\u00a0online.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>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<li>Many patrons have asked us for Ingmar Bergman classics, so:\u00a0Sunday January 14 at 12:15 pm<em>\u00a0Smiles of a Summer Night\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Sunday January\u00a0 28 at 12:15 pm\u00a0<em>The Seventh Seal<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><strong>Gary Palmucci. 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