Berlin Alexanderplatz<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, a kinetic re-crafting of the classic\u00a0Alfred Doblin Weimar-era novel, made decades later as German director R.W. Fassbinder’s opus magnum, an epic TV miniseries. This topical new adaptation both telescopes and transposes the story to the modern day as an immigrant from Guinea-Bissau is drawn into Berlin’s sex-and-drugs underworld, its brutal bosses, and pathetic victims.<\/p>\nThe film’s ambitious young Afghan-German director, Burban Qurbani constructs an episodic panorama of contemporary Germany with an inevitably tragic velocity. If this film succeeds in getting you in its grip, I strongly suggest also sampling an episode or two of Fassinder’s masterwork \u2014\u00a0you may find yourself unable to stop at that…<\/p>\n
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Gary Palmucci,\u00a0Film Curator
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Hello everyone. On this weekend following a singular Oscar ceremony \u2014 including a dramatic surprise at the very last moment \u2014 we’re offering two of Sunday night’s winners: The Father (Best Actor, Anthony Hopkins & Best Adapted Screenplay) and Another Round (Best International Film). If you haven’t seen them yet, here’s […]<\/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-4806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garys-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806","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=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4821,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions\/4821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The week’s new film is