{"id":21295,"date":"2024-08-01T11:16:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T11:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/?p=21295"},"modified":"2024-08-01T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T11:22:46","slug":"films-this-week-8-2-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/films-this-week-8-2-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Films this week 8\/2 to 8\/4\/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; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; 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;Post meta info&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.26.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p id=\"#\"><\/p>\n<p>After a long-planned, three-week vacation trip through Portugal, Morocco and Spain, and on my return, an urgent and completely unanticipated visit to an eye surgeon to repair a detached retina, I&#8217;m back at the keyboard as a very busy New Plaza Cinema weekend awaits us.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; Packed with beautiful and extensive clips, home movie, and behind the scenes footage and non-stop cinematic insight from Martin Scorsese, this documentary is both a loving tribute and splendid\u00a0introduction to Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger&#8217;s\u00a0body of work.\u00a0On Sunday we&#8217;ll be joined after the screening by two very special guests: Powell&#8217;s widow, executive producer and three-time Oscar winning Scorsese editor Thelma Schoonmaker, and film critic\/writer\/director Kent Jones. This will be a sure sell-out, so act quickly to secure your tickets!<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer<\/strong><\/em> &#8212; John Buffalo Mailer will join us for a third consecutive weekend of Q&amp;A on this richly detailed doc portrait of his father&#8217;s life and work.\u00a0 Buffalo &#8212; as he enjoys being addressed &#8212; has hinted that one of his siblings may join him on Saturday. Check our <a href=\"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/\">website<\/a> for updates on that&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Israel Swings for Gold<\/strong><\/em> &#8212; Distributor Menemsha Films, New Plaza&#8217;s foremost supplier of Israeli and Jewish-themed films (<em>Farewell Mr Haffmann<\/em>, <em>America<\/em>, the held-over <strong><em>The Boy in the Woods<\/em><\/strong>) serves up this non-fiction portrait of Israel&#8217;s 2021 baseball team, which competed in that year&#8217;s Olympics for the first time.\u00a0With no media then allowed in Tokyo&#8217;s Olympic Village, the players recorded their own experiences. Mostly &#8220;newly minted&#8221;\u00a0Israeli citizens, they encountered not-unexpected doses of anti-Semitism and the lingering dark shadow of Munich &#8217;72.\u00a0Filmmaker Jeremy Newberger chronicled their mix of triumph and struggle, on and off the diamond, and will join us for Q&amp;As on both Saturday and Sunday, perhaps with an athlete or two. Check our <a href=\"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/\">website<\/a> about that, as well.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>L&#8217;Avventura<\/strong><\/em> &#8212; This past year we&#8217;ve showcased to packed houses classics by Visconti and Fellini ; this August we&#8217;ll feature Italy&#8217;s other mid-century cinematic master, Michelangelo Antonioni in his opus magnum, featuring Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Gabrielle Ferzetti, and some uncredited arrangement work on its indelible musical theme by Ennio Morricone.\u00a0 Later this month we&#8217;ll present his now rarely-screened <em>The Passenger<\/em>, starring Jack Nicholson.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Robot Dreams<\/strong><\/em> &#8212; In this recent, family-friendly Oscar nominee for best animated feature, a <em>NY Times<\/em> Critic&#8217;s Pick, Amy Nicholson wrote,<br \/><em>&#8220;Director Pablo Berger,\u00a0<\/em><em>who also adapted the screenplay, expands Sara Varon\u2019s short graphic novel of the same name into a minor epic. To describe the plot \u2014 an NYC dog and a robot are best friends, until they aren\u2019t \u2014 the film sounds pitifully small. But the world inside it feels huge, a sprawling landscape of joy and heartbreak and mixed emotions&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, holding over: our consummate crowd-pleaser <em><strong>Ghostlight<\/strong><\/em>, Richard Armitage starring in <strong><em>The Boy in the Woods<\/em><\/strong>, Sean Penn and Dakota Johnson in <strong><em>Daddio<\/em><\/strong>, and June Squibb, Parker Posey, and Richard Roundtree in <strong><em>Thelma<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you at one or more of them!<\/p>\n<p>Check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/\">New\u00a0Plaza\u00a0Cinema<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newplazacinema.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4a0f9c3fe80ef70db6bfb6c6a&amp;id=b6ca8aee37&amp;e=34a4afac9a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/newplazacinema.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D4a0f9c3fe80ef70db6bfb6c6a%26id%3Db6ca8aee37%26e%3D34a4afac9a&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1722535183212000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3H-7HZHr38wHyR4suJF_zo\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/newplazacinema.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4a0f9c3fe80ef70db6bfb6c6a&amp;id=b6ca8aee37&amp;e=34a4afac9a\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newplazacinema.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4a0f9c3fe80ef70db6bfb6c6a&amp;id=963704119c&amp;e=34a4afac9a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/newplazacinema.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D4a0f9c3fe80ef70db6bfb6c6a%26id%3D963704119c%26e%3D34a4afac9a&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1722535183212000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0i2CUeeSUacIx7ZCGUEaAV\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/newplazacinema.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4a0f9c3fe80ef70db6bfb6c6a&amp;id=963704119c&amp;e=34a4afac9a\">X\/Twitter,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newplazacinema.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4a0f9c3fe80ef70db6bfb6c6a&amp;id=4019258a3e&amp;e=34a4afac9a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/newplazacinema.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D4a0f9c3fe80ef70db6bfb6c6a%26id%3D4019258a3e%26e%3D34a4afac9a&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1722535183212000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2yfNbcX4oClh9jS7fywUVx\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/newplazacinema.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4a0f9c3fe80ef70db6bfb6c6a&amp;id=4019258a3e&amp;e=34a4afac9a\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Gary Palmucci<br \/>Film Curator<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_sidebar orientation=&#8221;right&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  After a long-planned, three-week vacation trip through Portugal, Morocco and Spain, and on my return, an urgent and completely unanticipated visit to an eye surgeon to repair a detached retina, I&#8217;m back at the keyboard as a very busy New Plaza Cinema weekend awaits us. 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