{"id":18133,"date":"2024-02-15T00:28:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T00:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/?p=18133"},"modified":"2024-02-16T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T14:30:12","slug":"films-this-week-2-16-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/films-this-week-2-16-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Films this week 2\/16 to 2\/19\/2024"},"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;4.23.4&#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>New Plaza Cinema on this President&#8217;s Day weekend is offering a veritable cornucopia of international cinema &#8212; four new attractions and seven holdovers and reprises. Let&#8217;s get right to it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New this weekend:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>La Ceremonie<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; Claude Chabrol&#8217;s\u00a0masterful 1995 dark drama is back in American release after a long absence, with its turbulent trio: Sandrine Bonnaire (mysterious housemaid),\u00a0Isabelle Huppert (her devious ally),\u00a0 and Jacqueline Bisset (a suspicious matron).\u00a0 In her rave, mid-90s <em>NY Times<\/em> review, Janet Maslin proclaimed: &#8220;<em>La Ceremonie, which takes its title from the ritual that precedes execution by guillotine, shows off this film maker&#8217;s graceful way of building tension in slow, subversive increments until violence erupts as a natural outgrowth of his characters&#8217; secret lives.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>Max Alvarez and I will be on hand to welcome Chabrol&#8217;s spellbinder back to US screens\u00a0and parse its many disturbing undercurrents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Pocketful of Miracles <\/em><\/strong>&#8212; Aviva Kempner, longtime chronicler of the 20th century Jewish-American experience (<em>Life and Times of Hank Greenberg<\/em>, <em>Yoo-Hoo Mrs Goldberg<\/em>)\u00a0documents the remarkable lives of two siblings, Holocaust survivors who emigrated to post-war America.\u00a0Columbia film professor Annette Insdorf, a frequent New Plaza Cinema supporter, will join Aviva to introduce and discuss Saturday night&#8217;s screening, and Monday&#8217;s show will feature more special guests.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Disco Boy<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; Franz Rogowski, breakout star of last year&#8217;s <em>Passages<\/em>,\u00a0is again incandescent in this chronicle of a young French Legionnaire&#8217;s\u00a0fateful\u00a0mission to the Niger Delta: a striking debut film from a young Italian writer-director-film editor, Giacomo Abbruzzese.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Am\u00e9lie\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>&#8212; a restored edition of the multi-Oscar-nominated 2001 French classic whose quicksilver trailer has graced our screen since Christmas week. Its teeming, captivating cast includes Audrey Tautou, Matthieu Kassovitz, Dominique Pinon and Yolande Moreau.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our &#8220;holds&#8221; and bring-backs include:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>The Teachers&#8217; Lounge<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; Oscar-contending for Best International Film, and now in its ninth week.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Crime Is Mine<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; This whirligig French farce is perhaps our biggest crowd-pleaser\u00a0of the moment. Get your tickets online and early for Sunday&#8217;s screening.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Occupied City<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; Steve McQueen&#8217;s epic documentary chronicle of the fate of Amsterdam&#8217;s Jews in 1940-45 is back after many audience requests: four-and-a-half riveting hours, with an intermission.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; This poignant doc on the first woman to climb Mount Everest will include a Q&amp;A with Nepali educator and activist Lhakpa Gurung.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Driving Madeleine<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; Our audiences have fallen in love with Line\u00a0Renaud and Dany Boon&#8217;s\u00a0performances in director Christian Carion&#8217;s Parisian heartrender.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>I Heard It Through the Grapevine<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; Producer Pat Hartley will join us for a Q&amp;A after this restored 1982 documentary&#8217;s\u00a0President&#8217;s Day screening; it follows author James Baldwin&#8217;s journey through a post-Civil Rights era Black America.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Monster<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda&#8217;s latest &#8212; as it did downtown &#8212; is starting to build an appreciative audience here on the Upper West Side&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And coming to New Plaza Cinema on the weekend of February 23:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Io Capitano<\/em> &#8212; Another Best International Feature Oscar nominee, from Italy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><em>Household Saints<\/em> &#8212; Director Nancy Savoca will join us for a screening of her newly restored, rediscovered 1993 American indie classic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><em>Make Me Famous<\/em> &#8212; after over 20 screenings, the &#8220;downtown art scene\u00a0doc that could&#8221; is back for another encore, with (of course) its indefatigable filmmakers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Gary Palmucci. 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