'Fourteen screens have gone down in the last four years or so on the Upper West Side, leaving a situation considerably contracted from what it once was. We're hoping to fill some of that gap,' says Gary Palmucci, the curator of New Plaza Cinema.
, which has been nominated for Best Documentary as well as Best International and Best Animated Feature; andThere also will be showings of, a 1969 classic French melodrama with Alain Delon and Romy Schneider.
Screenings are scheduled to begin on Friday, February 18. Initial plans call for multiple daily showings on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, as well as holiday Mondays. They also plan to continue their TalkBack and lecture series online, though Palmucci notes they may phase out the streaming showings.
Palmucci, who has lived in the city for about 45 years, says he was eager to get back to cinemas once theaters reopened in the city last March. He remains optimistic that in light of the slow easing of pandemic restrictions, people will be eager to resume communal activities like movie-going. "We have a mailing list of about 13,000 people, mostly on the Upper West Side, and the thing that we really found in our tenure at the [NYIT Auditorium] is that there was a very loyal group of people who came to our theater who really felt the absence of Lincoln Plaza, almost as if they lost a family member or something," he said.
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