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New Plaza Cinema patrons — including many first-time visitors — flocked to our holiday week “doubleheader” from Sony Classics in numbers nearly as large as last year’s Bill Nighy-starrer\u00a0Living<\/em>. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gary Palmucci. Film Curator [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_sidebar orientation=”right” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Plaza Cinema patrons — including many first-time visitors — flocked to our holiday week “doubleheader” from Sony Classics in numbers nearly as large as last year’s Bill Nighy-starrer\u00a0Living.Freud’s Last Session\u00a0started strong (Anthony Hopkins turned 86 on New Year’s Eve!), but by last weekend the\u00a0German Oscar submission\u00a0The Teachers’ Lounge\u00a0— with\u00a0its\u00a0riveting young\u00a0star […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garys-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17334,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17319\/revisions\/17334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Freud’s Last Session<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0started strong (Anthony Hopkins turned 86 on New Year’s Eve!), but by last weekend the\u00a0German Oscar submission\u00a0The Teachers’ Lounge<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0— with\u00a0its\u00a0riveting young\u00a0star Leonie Benesch — was breaking out with a series of sellout shows. We’ll have five screenings of\u00a0The Teachers’\u00a0Lounge<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0this weekend to accommodate anticipated demand, plus more of\u00a0Freud’s Last Session<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0
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We’re also very pleased to present a Saturday afternoon screening of master documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s epic new work,\u00a0Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros<\/em><\/strong>, already a 2023 “Best Doc” winner from the New York, Boston and Los Angeles Film Critics’ groups.\u00a0\u00a0
Some of you may recall Wiseman’s previous, panoramic\u00a0City Hall<\/em>, which appeared on our pandemic-era virtual cinema platform. He’s now taken his camera across the Atlantic. In her Critic’s Pick review (and ten-best-list salute) the\u00a0NY Times’<\/em>\u00a0Manohla Dargis proclaimed:\u00a0
“Wiseman’s transporting documentary centers on a dynasty of French chefs who live and work in a pastoral region in central France named Ouches, some 65 miles west of Lyon, where the paterfamilias oversees a team that with love, ingenuity, choreography, sublime technique and a regard for the larger world create one astonishment after another for the delight and delectation of others \u2014 much like the genius behind the camera.”<\/em>
Their restaurant has held three Michelin stars for over half a century — in four rhapsodic hours, we’ll find out how and why. This actually isn’t the longest film we’ve ever screened at New Plaza Cinema (remember\u00a0The Sorrow and the Pity<\/em>?), but at the filmmaker’s request there will be no intermission, so please plan accordingly…
David Lean’s 1945 classic\u00a0Brief Encounter<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0will have an encore showing on Sunday afternoon. Last month’s Q&A after the sold-out screening was one of the most scintillating we’ve ever done, so Max Alvarez and I will be back to host another.\u00a0
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Finally, here are some highlights to look forward to in the coming weeks:<\/p>\n\n
New Plaza Cinema\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n