New Plaza Cinema
@NewPlazaCinema
A non-profit cinema on NYC's Upper West Side. Independent, foreign and classic films every weekend.
One of the most popular and critically acclaimed films of 2025 is coming to @NewPlazaCinema! Ryan Coogler's SINNERS — Wed July 30 at 2:15pm + Thurs July 31 at 4:40pm It's part of a full week of films starting this Friday! Tickets available now: newplazacinema.org/calendar/

"Creating anything is hard.” Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014) would have been 58 today.

Virginie Efira stars in the Cannes favorite ALL TO PLAY FOR — starting this weekend at @NewPlazaCinema “Vibrant, enraging…valorizing the kind of woman seldom treated on screen with such respect and compassion” – @Variety newplazacinema.org/calendar/ @HopeRunsHigh
Max Ophüls’ LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (1948) w/ Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan screens Sun 12:15pm “Underrated in its time, but belatedly recognized as one of the glories of the so-called woman’s melodrama.” — Molly Haskell, Film Comment Q&A w/ Max Alvarez and Dan Cahill

We’re proud to join forces w/ @CCCdeNY for the 2025 SUMMER FILM FESTIVAL: INDAGO — Aug 11-14! Eleven award-winning feature films, shorts, and documentaries by Cuban, American, and European filmmakers screening daily at @NewPlazaCinema Schedule + Tickets: newplazacinema.org/2025-summer-fi…

The first screening of our REBEL WITH A CLAUSE summer residency sold out! Will we keep the streak going? (Or is it “can we”?) This and other grammar-related questions will be answered Sun 3pm at @NewPlazaCinema! 🎟 ticketing.useast.veezi.com/sessions/?site…

The NYC SHORT FILM SHOWCASE is now in its third year at @NewPlazaCinema! Join us Fri at 7pm as we celebrate New York filmmakers w/ 11 short films curated by Michael Jacobsohn. 🎟 ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/2043?…

Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger rehearsing IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT with director Norman Jewison, born on this date in 1926. The groundbreaking 1967 film earned Jewison his first of three Oscar nominations for Best Director. #OldHollywood

"There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.” Natalie Wood (1938–1981) was born on this date. #OldHollywood

Festival favorite TO A LAND UNKNOWN is held over for a second weekend — Sun 4:50pm Two Palestinian cousins struggle to make a new life for themselves in Greece in this acclaimed drama from veteran filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel. "Powerful, empathetic, and real."— Collider

The uncut 4K restoration of Masayuki Suo’s SHALL WE DANCE? (1996) is held over — Today (Sat) 12:15 "This charming comedy uses dance as a metaphor for individual expression, risk-taking and intellectual flight." — New York Daily News ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/2046?… @Film_Movement
Stop by Bad Shabbos @ New Plaza Cinema for my Q+As on Saturday and Sunday!
Held over for two months and still going strong! BAD SHABBOS returns this weekend w/ four more shows — two with Q&As! newplazacinema.org/calendar/
JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE is held over for its 7th weekend — Fri 8:20pm + Sun 12:15pm “A romantic comedy for the quiet, thoughtful lovers who yearn for the sincerity of the past.” — Jourdain Searles, @ebertvoices newplazacinema.org/calendar/

We’re proud to present the US theatrical premiere of THE BLOND BOY FROM THE CASBAH this wknd. “Recalls CINEMA PARADISO in its portrait of the Jewish quarter of Algiers when, in the late 1950s, Muslims and Jews co-existed peacefully.” — @NewPlazaCinema film curator Gary Palmucci

Tickets for our *eighth* weekend of BAD SHABBOS are going fast! Don’t miss @NewPlazaCinema's biggest hit of 2025 w/ Q&As with screenwriter Zack Weiner on Sat + Sun! newplazacinema.org/calendar/

We’re proud to present the US theatrical premiere of THE BLOND BOY FROM THE CASBAH this weekend at @NewPlazaCinema Veteran French filmmaker Alexandre Arkady directs this “declaration of love to cinema” (Les Fiches du Cinéma) which evokes CINEMA PARADISO. newplazacinema.org/calendar/

The critically acclaimed Palestinian crime-thriller TO A LAND UNKNOWN is held over for a second weekend — Sun 4:50pm “A tour-de-force of empathic storytelling.” - @IndieWire ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/2050?…

Alfred Hitchcock with Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason in a publicity photo for NORTH BY NORTHWEST, which premiered in L.A. on this date in 1959. #OldHollywood #AlfredHitchcock

THE BLOND BOY FROM THE CASBAH is coming to @NewPlazaCinema with three shows this weekend! “Both lucid and melancholic...a moving film…with a beating heart.” — Télérama newplazacinema.org/calendar/

Held over for two months and still going strong! BAD SHABBOS returns this weekend w/ four more shows — two with Q&As! newplazacinema.org/calendar/
