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We have two new additions to our Virtual Cinema lineup. \u00a0 <\/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":" We have two new additions to our Virtual Cinema lineup. \u00a0Director Radu Jude has been ‘coming up’ on the international film scene in this past decade. \u00a0His ‘Romanian western’ \u00a0Aferim! played at Lincoln Plaza (‘picked’ by the NY Times’ A.O. Scott), \u00a0the black comedy I Do Not Care If We Go […]<\/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-6635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garys-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635","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=6635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6670,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions\/6670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Director Radu Jude has been ‘coming up’ on the international film scene in this past decade. \u00a0His ‘Romanian western’ \u00a0Aferim! <\/em><\/strong><\/a>played at Lincoln Plaza (‘picked’ by the NY Times’ A.O. Scott), \u00a0the black comedy I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians<\/em><\/strong><\/a> was featured in our NYIT programs and his new provocation, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>was in this year’s NY Film Festival and will soon open commercially.\u00a0
Today we’re offering another recent film of his, described lovingly by Richard Brody in this week’s New Yorker<\/a> online: \u00a0
“Documentary-fiction hybrids are having a major moment, and there\u2019s another remarkable one now coming out in theatres : Uppercase Print<\/em><\/strong>,<\/a> a Romanian film. Directed by Radu Jude, who\u2019s best known for his fiction films, \u201cUppercase Print<\/em><\/strong>\u201d expands the practice of nonfiction filmmaking into ingeniously imaginative dimensions. The movie is centered on Jude\u2019s filming of a play, which is performed in the conspicuously theatrical setting of a stage-like studio. Yet the play itself, by Gianina C\u0103rbunariu, is a work of nonfiction, and an extraordinary, haunting one. She derives the text from the archives of Romania\u2019s Communist-era secret police, the feared Securitate, to reconstruct a local event of grand symbolic moment that took place forty years ago in the Romanian town of Boto\u0219ani….” \u00a0
Brody delves deeper into layers of tragicomic detail–which he excels at– in his review<\/a>, but this may well be a film to watch first, with these plot ‘basics,’ then read further for the historical references. \u00a0\u00a0
We also have a new offering from an unlikely source: \u00a0the tiny island nation of Malta, whose acclaimed drama Luzzu<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is their submission for the \u00a0Best International Film category at the 2022 Academy Awards. \u00a0 \u00a0A highlight of this year’s Sundance and New Directors\/ New Films festivals,\u00a0
Luzzu <\/em><\/strong>chronicles the life of a proud, zealous Mediterranean fisherman (the title refers to his sturdy boat) caught between the ancient traditions of his trade and a dilemma very much of the modern world. \u00a0
The NY Times’ reviewer wrote, \u00a0“Malta’s views are arresting, but the images Maltese-American writer- director Alex Camilleri chooses would never be found in a travel brochure. \u00a0In his subtle, verite approach he captures something special – not just one man’s crisis, but a community’s culture.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
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