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Good news this week for both art house theatres and moviegoers – Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>opened last weekend to ‘smash’ box office in its first engagements around the country, including over $100,000 at just one theatre, the Angelika in downtown Manhattan. \u00a0It’s a very hopeful sign that older specialized audiences are ready to come back to cinemas if the picture is ‘right,’ \u00a0and that Anderson, despite some mixed reviews, \u00a0remains the ‘golden boy’ of his generation of American movie makers.<\/p>\n As there are no Virtual Cinema additions this week, it might be a good moment to highlight some of the ‘heroes’ of New Plaza Cinema’ whose previous films played – sometimes to full houses – at our late, lamented NYIT cinema, and whose new work is currently being showcased in various venues.<\/p>\n The annual festival DOC NYC<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> will feature dozens of recent and new documentaries both in various cinemas and online from Nov 10-18, including these New Plaza alumni:<\/p>\n At<\/a><\/strong><\/em>tica<\/strong><\/em><\/a>– Producer\/directors Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry, who generously joined us for a ‘Talk Back’ on their earlier Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool<\/em><\/strong>,<\/a>\u00a0revisit the infamous 1971 New York prison uprising in a scalding new work, which will also play an Oscar qualifying run Oct 29-Nov 4 at the Village East Cinemas.<\/p>\n In The Same Breath<\/strong><\/em><\/a>– Nanfu Wang, whose One Child Nation<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>was a 2019 programming highlight for us, \u00a0investigates how both the US and Chinese governments shaped information at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n Julia<\/strong><\/em><\/a>– Filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen hosted two sold out screenings- as many of you may remember – \u00a0of their indelible doc RBG<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in the first week of our NYIT programs. \u00a0 They have remained staunch New Plaza supporters and their newest, opening Nov 12 commercially, \u00a0chronicles the amazing life of super-chef Julia Child.<\/p>\n The Rescue<\/em><\/strong><\/a>– Producer\/directors E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chen, whose Oscar-winning Free Solo<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>was also a big hit in our early weeks at NYIT, \u00a0go inside on the dramatic rescue of 12 young soccer players and their coach trapped by monsoon floods inside a cave in Thailand.<\/p>\n Roadrunner: \u00a0A Film About Anthony Bourdain<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>– From Morgan Neville, whose Won’t You Be My Neighbor?<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was a memorable early ‘draw’ for us, here’s another chance to see one of the most popular docs -or specialized films, period – of this year.<\/p>\n Also, \u00a0being featured at MOMA’s annual year-end series ‘The Contenders’: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gary Palmucci, Film Curator <\/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=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_sidebar orientation=”right” _builder_version=”4.4.7″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good news this week for both art house theatres and moviegoers – Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch opened last weekend to ‘smash’ box office in its first engagements around the country, including over $100,000 at just one theatre, the Angelika in downtown Manhattan. \u00a0It’s a very hopeful sign that older specialized […]<\/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-6455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garys-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455","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=6455"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6468,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455\/revisions\/6468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The Card Counter<\/em><\/strong><\/a>– Writer\/director Paul Schrader appeared at two sold out NYIT screenings of First Reformed<\/strong><\/em><\/a>,\u00a0which yielded the first Oscar nomination of his long, storied career. \u00a0His new film stars Oscar Isaac as a gambler and military veteran haunted by his past , seeking to reform a young man bent on revenge against a mutual enemy. \u00a0Both director and star will appear at a discussion \/ Q&A following a MOMA screening at 7 pm on Nov 18. \u00a0(Ticket info – www.moma.org\/film)<\/p>\n
New Plaza Cinema<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n