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Another New Plaza Cinema packed weekend of screenings and personal appearances awaits us.\u00a0After last Sunday’s rapturous debut screening of\u00a0Remembering Gene Wilder<\/em><\/strong>, we’ll be joined on Friday and Saturday afternoon\u00a0by director Ron Frank. He’ll be accompanied on Saturday by veteran SNL writer-producer Alan Zweibel.<\/p>\n Also on Friday, in a special collaboration with the Latin American Film Center of NY, we’ll be offering\u00a0a very rare showing of the 1976 Mexican classic\u00a0Canoa – A Shameful Memory<\/em><\/strong>, a fictional chronicle of the late-1960s deaths of a group of university employees, which tragically mirrors similar, more recent events in that convulsed nation. Oscar-winning Mexican directors Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro are both passionate advocates of this film. A discussion with our co-hosts will follow the screening.<\/p>\n The legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone (1928-2020) has long had a secure perch in the pantheon of film scorers, with over 400 diverse features and TV series to his credit. As the\u00a0NY Times’<\/em>\u00a0Manohla Dargis put it in her recent review of the new documentary Ennio,<\/p>\n “If you’ve watched a movie in the last half century there’s a good<\/em>\u00a0chance that you’ve heard music by Morricone…who helped define films as we know and hear them.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n But this rich, teeming portrait — screening on Sunday — by Giuseppe Tornatore, whose\u00a0Cinema Paradiso\u00a0<\/em>and many other features were scored by the Maestro, reveals even more of his huge body of life’s work — jazz, classical and pop music arrangements (including the legendary “Se Telefonando” by Mina Mazzini), original, atonal compositions, and ambitious classical suites.<\/p>\n His work has inspired countless movie lovers to dig deeper into cinema and its soundtrack history — including me. If we have time in my intro, I’ll relate a “Don Quixote” Morricone anecdote of my own.<\/p>\n This weekend’s encore screenings include\u00a0The Teachers’ Lounge<\/em><\/strong>, the rollicking\u00a0Hundreds of Beavers<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(family friendly!), Oscar-winners\u00a0Anatomy of a Fall<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a020 Days in Mariupol<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the 2023 Cannes Camera d’or winner (and\u00a0NY Times\u00a0<\/em>Critic’s Pick) from Vietnam,\u00a0Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Another Sunday encore,\u00a0Heaven Stood Still: The Incarnations of Willy DeVille<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0is sold out, as is its upcoming April 20 screening. But don’t despair — we’re planning additional screenings on the weekend of April 26-28. Here’s a doc that shows every sign of becoming, as its director Larry Locke noted last weekend, “a residency title” — not unlike\u00a0Make Me Famous<\/em>, which is also returning (along with its filmmakers, of course) on April 7th.<\/p>\n Finally, we’ve had to again reschedule Martin Scorsese’s\u00a0The Last Temptation of Christ<\/em>, this time to Saturday, April 6th at 12:15 pm. Tickets will go on sale next week. Indispensable Scorsese biographer — and consultant on the production — Mary Pat Kelly will join me for an after-discussion, which I”m certain will be worth the wait! Gary Palmucci. 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