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We\u2019re going “all in” this Oscar weekend at the New Plaza Cinema @ West End Theatre with ten nominated titles. Two of them are new to our programs, from our recent association with Netflix: previous Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s Neapolitan family drama\u00a0The Hand of God<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(a Best International Film nominee) and Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s\u00a0The Lost Daughter<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(three nods including her adaptation of Elena Ferrante\u2019s novel).\u00a0<\/p>\n To me, the main fascination with this year\u2019s Oscars is how two of the main categories \u2014\u00a0Best Picture and Best Actress\u2014 seem to be utter “toss-ups. I can see scenarios in which three or four different films could win “Best Picture,” and after seeming a complete free-for-all “Best Actress” seems to have come down to Jessica Chastain vs Penelope Cruz, both of whom we\u2019ve showcased here.\u00a0Parallel Mothers<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0even played to a sold-out house last weekend\u00a0\u2014 our first since\u00a0Summer of Soul<\/em><\/strong>, the documentary feature favorite.\u00a0That\u2019s one Oscar category where\u00a0New Plaza Cinema<\/strong>\u00a0was able to snag all five contenders.\u00a0<\/p>\n Watching \u2014 as well as often projecting\u00a0\u2014 so many of this year\u2019s nominees in a concentrated period has for me been a bracing experience, proving how much dedicated aspiration and sheer talent is still very much out there in the movie world… Stanley Nelson\u2019s scorching investigation of\u00a0Attica\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>and Guillermo del Toro\u2019s sprawling, go-for-broke canvas in\u00a0Nightmare Alley<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0are only two examples.\u00a0<\/p>\n I suspect there are a few of these ten you haven\u2019t yet seen.\u00a0 Please join us this weekend, at the West End Theatre\u2019s big screen!\u00a0<\/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\u2019re going “all in” this Oscar weekend at the New Plaza Cinema @ West End Theatre with ten nominated titles. Two of them are new to our programs, from our recent association with Netflix: previous Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s Neapolitan family drama\u00a0The Hand of God\u00a0(a Best International Film nominee) and Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s\u00a0The […]<\/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-8187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garys-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187","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=8187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8191,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187\/revisions\/8191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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