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Hello everyone. Producer-director and industry eminence-grise Ira Deutchman has made his new documentary \u2018Searching for Mr Rugoff\u2019 available to New Plaza viewers just one week after its downtown theatrical premiere.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s been just as generous to us (and to all participating US art houses) with the \u2018deal terms\u2019 \u2013 100% of each \u2018virtual ticket\u2019 you purchase goes directly to support our ongoing programs.<\/p>\n
In his usual droll fashion The New Yorker\u2019s Anthony Lane led off his review, \u201cIf you are a New Yorker with catholic tastes and a long memory, it may well be that your life was shaped by Donald S. Rugoff, though his name will ring no bells. Back in the day, whenever you took your seat at a movie theatre like the Plaza, the Paris, the Beekman or the Sutton, you were entering the realm of Rugoff\u2026.\u201d This is a richly detailed account of a moviegoing era whose influence still echoes in our ever-cherished tastes, and memories of cinema.<\/p>\n
With this week\u2019s tumultuous events in Afghanistan, the documentary \u2018What We Left Unfinished\u2019 takes on a mega-jolt of added tragic poignancy. As I wrote two weeks ago: NY Times critic Devika Girish wrote \u201c\u2026five movies started and then abandoned during Afghanistan\u2019s 1978-92 Communist era form a dazzling time capsule of the nation\u2019s political and cultural history. The director (and now Brooklyn resident) Mariam Ghani \u2013 daughter of since-departed president Ashraf Ghani \u2013 digs into the archives of Afghan Film, a state-run company that endured the whims and demands of various regimes before the Taliban destroyed most of its holdings in the 1990s.\u201d The films excerpted reflect the country\u2019s series of political upheavals \u2013 one was commissioned by an Afghan president whose subsequent assassination in the late 70s Russian takeover prompted the end of the project. Each of these five unfinished films display a visual sophistication and production values on a par with many other international productions of the period and suggest a potentially rich Afghan film culture, now buried under decades of censorship and bloody struggle.<\/p>\n
Need we say more?<\/p>\n
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Gary Palmucci,\u00a0Film Curator <\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/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. Producer-director and industry eminence-grise Ira Deutchman has made his new documentary \u2018Searching for Mr Rugoff\u2019 available to New Plaza viewers just one week after its downtown theatrical premiere. He\u2019s been just as generous to us (and to all participating US art houses) with the \u2018deal terms\u2019 \u2013 100% of […]<\/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-5349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garys-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349","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=5349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5398,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions\/5398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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