During its 1999-2007 run on HBO, the series \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d became a sort of polestar for me. I watched much of it with my son, who was a junior high student in season one, and midway through college by its still-hotly-debated finale. As Tony Soprano and his family, friends and partners in crime each year descended ever deeper into violent darkness, my son made the inevitable trek from adolescence into early adulthood. The world of New Jersey gangsters was thankfully far removed from ours, yet the series\u2019 dramatic arc seemed to mirror the sharp jabs of disillusionment that my son must have been facing as he moved into his twenties, and that also seems to permeate so much of American life in this new century.<\/p>\n
I think that\u2019s why the series keeps finding new generations of viewers and has inspired this cinema spin-off from its creators. As for my son, now in his mid-thirties, he got married last month – a joyous event. Over the summer he reported that he and his fianc\u00e9e were rewatching a certain classic TV series – in its entirety\u2026.<\/p>\n
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Gary Palmucci,\u00a0Film Curator
New Plaza Cinema<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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We\u2019re continuing our current lineup of Virtual Cinema for one more week, with some new titles due later this month. \u2018The Sopranos\u2019 prequel film The Many Saints of Newark finally arrives in theatres this weekend – though few in my \u2018hood seem to be playing it, perhaps due to its simultaneous […]<\/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-5824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garys-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824","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=5824"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5840,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions\/5840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}