Many New Plaza viewers may recall Vinterberg’s acclaimed 1998 The Celebration<\/em>\u00a0whose Cannes and NY\/LA Film Critics’ acclaim put him on the map. I\u00a0have my own head-slapping history with that film \u2014\u00a0given the opportunity to screen it in my midtown office a couple days before that year’s Croisette curtain rose, \u00a0I was underwhelmed and voted to “pass.”\u00a0Jury president Martin Scorsese and many other distributors and scribes subsequently felt otherwise….but fortunately, there are many such stories in the film business!<\/p>\n These three nominees can still be rented below as well as the documentaries Still Life in\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u0141\u00f3d\u017a<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, which had one of our better recent opening weekend ticket sales, and The People Vs\u00a0Agent Orange<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, referenced this week in a blistering NY Times<\/strong><\/em><\/a> investigative article.<\/p>\n Another Oscar nominee or two may soon come our way…. Happy Viewing.<\/p>\n Gary Palmucci,\u00a0Film Curator [\/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":" Hello everyone.\u00a0This week’s Oscar nominations announcement finds us with three “anointed” films on our virtual schedule, all multiple nominees. Minari surpassed nearly everyone’s expectations with six nods, including best picture, director, actor, supporting actress, original screenplay and score. Collective\u00a0from Romania matched the landmark feat of Honeyland (one of New Plaza’s most […]<\/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-4535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garys-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535","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=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4549,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions\/4549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/staff_materials\/tickets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/592a6930-87dc-4435-beed-0f66ddfd93b9.png\")
Collective<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0from Romania matched the landmark feat of Honeyland<\/em> (one of New Plaza’s most popular “theatrical”\u00a0films) scoring nominations in both the international film and documentary feature categories. And the Danish dark comedy Another Round<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0scored the most unexpected nomination of all \u2014\u00a0best director for veteran Thomas Vinterberg as well as best international film.<\/p>\n
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