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Hello everyone. We’re continuing\u00a0for a second week with the new film version of Berlin Alexanderplatz<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, acclaimed at last year’s Berlin Film Festival. To clarify what last Friday may have seemed a bit unclear to some of our readers, this is the third adaptation of Alfred Doblin’s classic Weimar Germany-era novel, following\u00a0a 1931 feature film and the epic 1980 R.W. Fassbinder TV mini-series which\u00a0I also recommended last week. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Astute critic and film festival programmer Alissa Simon has written:\u00a0“In this audacious, neon-lit reinterpretation of Alfred D\u00f6blin\u2019s 1929 novel, after surviving his perilous journey African immigrant Francis vows to be a good man, but he soon realizes how difficult it is to be righteous while undocumented in Germany \u2014\u00a0without papers, without a nationality, and without a work permit.” <\/em><\/strong>Timely circumstances for all too many corners of our uncertain planet.\u00a0<\/p>\n We’re also continuing with two of last month’s Oscar winners:\u00a0The Father<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (Best Actor, Anthony Hopkins and Best Adapted Screenplay) which will be available here through May 16 and Another Round<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (Best International Film, Denmark).\u00a0<\/p>\n This movie has been a long-running crowd pleaser\u00a0with Virtual Cinema audiences around the country. Readers may recall my misadventure with director Thomas Vinterberg’s earlier (and also prize-winning) film,\u00a0The Celebration,\u00a0<\/em>two-plus decades ago in Cannes. And though the U.S. DVD had long fallen out of print, I recently found a copy in the NYPL’s archives, and will soon see how it “holds up.”<\/p>\n 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. We’re continuing\u00a0for a second week with the new film version of Berlin Alexanderplatz, acclaimed at last year’s Berlin Film Festival. To clarify what last Friday may have seemed a bit unclear to some of our readers, this is the third adaptation of Alfred Doblin’s classic Weimar Germany-era novel, following\u00a0a […]<\/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-4840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garys-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840","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=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4843,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions\/4843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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