{"id":16954,"date":"2023-12-15T13:34:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T13:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/?p=16954"},"modified":"2024-01-19T00:58:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T00:58:14","slug":"films-this-week-12-15-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/films-this-week-12-15-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Films this week 12\/15 to 12\/17\/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>This abbreviated New Plaza Cinema weekend will offer the final screenings of music docs <strong><em>Joan Baez: I Am a Noise<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>The Stones and Brian Jones<\/em><\/strong>, as well as this diverse trio:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Monster<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; The latest from Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose 2018 Cannes Palme d&#8217;or winner <em>Shoplifting <\/em>was a New Plaza Cinema audience favorite.\u00a0 His new film centers on a single mother, her son, and a fight that one day breaks out at his school and devolves into mystery\u00a0and irony.\u00a0In her <em>NY Times<\/em> Critic&#8217;s PIck review, Natalia Winkelman wrote, &#8220;A master of family affairs, Kore-eda directs with a discerning but delicate style&#8230;accented by an aching score by the late\u00a0Ryuichi Sakamoto, Monster is one of the finest films of the year&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Past Lives <\/em>&#8211;<\/strong> It&#8217;s been on our screen for most of the past four months, and just this week won &#8220;debut film&#8221;\u00a0awards from the LA and Boston Film Critics, some Golden Globe nominations, as well as a\u00a0rhapsody\u00a0from newly anointed <em>NY Times<\/em> film critic Alissa Wilkinson:\u00a0&#8220;Once in a while, an understated stunner from a debut director (in this case, playwright Celine Song) arrives early in the year, grabs you by the heart and won&#8217;t let go&#8230;it&#8217;s brilliant and moving, an examination of destiny, chance, love and the invisible thread that binds one soul to the next.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Brief Encounter &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>This month&#8217;s classic film screening is another bittersweet romantic &#8220;grabber,&#8221;\u00a0David Lean&#8217;s 1945 gem, scripted by Noel Coward and indelibly acted by Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, and Stenley Holloway. Max Alvarez and I will be there for some after-film discussion&#8230;tickets are selling fast for this one.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next weekend we&#8217;ll be commencing two new releases from Sony Pictures Classics, from Germany and the UK, and much more to come in the New Year.<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>I&#8217;ve mentioned these recently, but just in case you&#8217;ve missed it:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opening Dec 22 &#8211;\u00a0<em>Freud&#8217;s Last Session: Sigmund Freud<\/em> (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 &#8211; <em>The Teachers&#8217; Lounge<\/em>,\u00a0Germany&#8217;s submission for the Best International Film Oscar. 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