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Hello everyone.\u00a0 With this week’s beastly heat wave, even the subject (and the trailer) \u00a0of our latest documentary addition to Virtual Cinema promises a cooling effect. \u00a0<\/p>\n
In ‘Usedom: A Clear View of the Sea,’ filmmaker Heinz Brinkmann chronicles the history of the Baltic island of Usedom – where\u00a0he was born — from an early 20th century\u00a0luxury\u00a0destination for Berliners, with grand villas and Europe’s longest beach promenade, to the expulsion of Jewish citizens\u00a0by the Nazis and the island’s being split into an East German and Polish half after World War II. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Many decades and socio-political transitions\u00a0later, a diverse population continues to relish the island, from tacky developers\u00a0to relaxed nudists and cheery organic\u00a0farmers.\u00a0 The NY Times’ Jeannette Catsoulis writes\u00a0today, “Shaping personal and geographical\u00a0history into sun-drenched dollops, director Brinkmann fashions a charmingly quirky guide to his island home….”\u00a0<\/p>\n
I’d also like to recommend another\u00a0new documentary opening\u00a0today downtown- ‘Searching for Mr Rugoff,’ \u00a0long time film distribution exec and historian Ira Deutchman’s\u00a0portrait of the mercurial Don Rugoff, whose now-legendary Cinema 5 theatre chain (Cinema I & II, the Paris, Beekman, Sutton etc) set the standard for art house exhibition as we now know it. \u00a0 Full of colorful anecdotes and personal histories by many New York cinema pros including Lincoln Plaza’s Dan Talbot (I myself was interviewed but wound up on the cutting room floor), this is an indispensable piece of Manhattan movie history which New Plaza hopes to offer\u00a0here later this season.<\/p>\n
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