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Several decades ago the esteemed Italian director Marco Bellochio made a film titled \u201cSalto nel Vuoto,\u201d or \u201cLeap Into the Void.\u201d If the transition to 2021 after this incredible year feels to many of us like a similarly vertiginous leap, here at New Plaza Cinema <\/strong>we also feel fortunate that \u2014 with your invaluable enthusiasm and support \u2014 we’ve been able to at least figuratively \u201ckeep the lights on.\u201d<\/p>\n Even before the pandemic changed everything, our year had started calamitously when the beloved NYIT cinema was destroyed in a January flood. You, our loyal audience flocked to a benefit screening at Symphony Space, stirred by \u201cCinema Paradiso\u201d and the late Ennio Morricone’s soaring themes, and the Museum of Art and Design quickly agreed to a revived film program in mid-March…but we know what happened then.<\/p>\n Like dozens of other independent cinemas around the country, we knew we had to come up with alternate ways of engaging you until theatres could even think about re-opening. Fortunately a group of indie distributors soon created an informal network, offering their releases to what became a national \u201cvirtual cinema\u201d chain, which we were able to join. Since then we have played over a hundred films to date, with many more already scheduled for 2021.<\/p>\n We also got into the podcasting business with our Classic Film Talk Back series, where I was joined by my long-time friend and colleague, Max Alvarez. I suspect just listing them here will trigger some Sunday afternoon memories:<\/p>\n Swing Time, It Should Happen to You, The 400 Blows, The Last Picture Show, The Band Wagon, No Way Out, Baby Face, The Swimmer, I Vitelloni, The Manchurian Candidate, She Done Him Wrong, Le Samourai, My Darling Clementine, The Stunt Man, The Red Shoes, Paris Blues, Christmas Holiday, Breathless. <\/em><\/p>\n Special support from Claudine Bacher and Janise Bogard made The Red Shoes<\/em> and Le Samourai<\/em> programs possible.<\/p>\n Max also treated us to a series of effervescent lectures on Hollywood Musicals, Hitchcock, Mae West, Paris in the Movies, 1946 in the Cinema, A History of Movie Stunts, The Art of Movie Opening Credits, and the collaborations of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.<\/p>\n Over 6,000 registrants joined us for these events, along with some special guests both announced and \u201csurprise: \u2014 Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s daughter, Burt Lancaster’s niece, Diahann Carroll’s daughter, \u201cStunt Man\u201d Steve Railsback’s nephew and \u201cParis Blues\u201d novelist Harold Flender’s daughter.<\/p>\n Along the way several of our hard-working team mastered Zoom….and we survived a Zoom bombing!\u00a0\u00a0 We also launched our new website.<\/p>\n Now, as 2021 looms we are hopeful to secure a screening space for that long-anticipated day when we can gather again, and the lights go down….We can’t predict just when that will be, but the closing this year of Landmark 57 has created both a shortfall and an opportunity for art film exhibition on our beloved Upper West Side.<\/p>\n With your continued support and steadfastness, we hope to fill that need for this community…please keep watching these screens, wherever they may be!<\/p>\n Thank you and Happy New Year!<\/p>\n Gary Palmucci and all of us at New Plaza Cinema<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_comments show_avatar=”off” show_reply=”off” show_count=”off” _builder_version=”4.4.7″ body_text_color=”#6b6b6b” body_font_size=”12px” custom_button=”on” button_text_size=”14px”][\/et_pb_comments][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_sidebar orientation=”right” _builder_version=”4.4.7″][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Several decades ago the esteemed Italian director Marco Bellochio made a film titled \u201cSalto nel Vuoto,\u201d or \u201cLeap Into the Void.\u201d If the transition to 2021 after this incredible year feels to many of us like a similarly vertiginous leap, here at New Plaza Cinema we also feel fortunate that \u2014 […]<\/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-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garys-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","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=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4077,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}