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New Plaza Cinema this weekend is joining the US Premiere of a new French drama, Farewell, Mr. Haffmann<\/em><\/strong>, starring the Gallic great Daniel Auteuil (Jean de Florette, Les Voleurs, The Well Digger’s Daughter)<\/em>, and currently tracking at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Set in 1942 Paris, a talented jeweler faced with the\u00a0realities of the Nazi occupation strikes up an agreement with an employee to keep his business running, one which over time will set in motion a series of fateful consequences. We’ve often worked with this film’s distributor, Menemsha, a specialist in Jewish-themed period dramas including 1945, Plan A,\u00a0<\/em>and Those Who Remained<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n Our spellbinding screening earlier this month of Rashomon<\/em> will be bookended on Sunday by Akira Kurosawa’s late-career epic Ran<\/strong><\/em>, starring Tatsuya Nakadai as a Lear-like potentate whose 16th-century kingdom is engulfed in fiery chaos. I’ll be around after the screening for some discussion.<\/p>\n We’re also pleased to be able to offer some additional screen time to one of my 2023 favorites, Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days<\/strong><\/em>, set in modern-day Japan some five centuries after Kurosawa’s bloody fresco, with its beautifully subtle lead performance\u00a0by Koji Yakusho.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Remembering Gene Wilder<\/em><\/strong> will return for two more shows this weekend, along with encores of The<\/em><\/strong> Teachers’ Lounge<\/em><\/strong>, the uproarious (and family-friendly) Hundreds of Beavers<\/strong><\/em>, and Nancy Savoca’s Easter Sunday-appropriate Household Saints<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Another American filmmaker’s singular chronicle of religious passion, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ<\/strong><\/em>, will screen next Saturday. I’ll be joined afterwards by Scorsese biographer Mary Pat Kelly, who worked on the picture as a consultant during its various incarnations, for what I’m sure will be a “spirited” discussion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> 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 this weekend is joining the US Premiere of a new French drama, Farewell, Mr. Haffmann, starring the Gallic great Daniel Auteuil (Jean de Florette, Les Voleurs, The Well Digger’s Daughter), and currently tracking at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.\u00a0\u00a0 Set in 1942 Paris, a talented jeweler faced with the\u00a0realities […]<\/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-19163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garys-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19163","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=19163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19165,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19163\/revisions\/19165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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