"I once asked Barbara Stanwyck the secret of acting. She said: 'Just be truthful, and if you can fake that, you've got it made.'" Fred MacMurray (1908-1991) was born on this date. #DoubleIndemnity #OldHollywood #FilmNoir

One more chance to catch Antonioni’s THE PASSENGER (1975) — Tonight (Fri) 8:15pm at New Plaza Cinema

No Place for Sissies via Truthdig - I LIKE IT HERE, a documentary by Ralph Arlyck is now playing at New Plaza Cinema in NYC truthdig.com/articles/no-pl…

Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) — Sat 2:30pm + Mon 2:10pm at New Plaza Cinema. 70th anniversary 4K restoration. "Its power is undiminished.” — The New York Times 🎟 ticketing.useast.veezi.com/sessions/?site…

"Everybody wants to make movies, but very few people know how." Oscar winner James Coburn (1928-2002) was born on this date.

Three chances to catch I LIKE IT HERE this weekend at New Plaza Cinema — Sat 6:30pm, Sun 6:15pm, Mon 12:15pm “part memoir, part personal essay on aging and mortality… loaded with gentle humor” - Alissa Wilkinson, The New York Times Q&A with producer Emmet Dotan Sat + Sun!

“Hitchcock was so inventive, and so well prepared, and knew exactly what he wanted to get in a scene.” — Jimmy Stewart REAR WINDOW debuted on this day in 1954. #RearWindow

Harriet Andersson in Bergman's SUMMER WITH MONIKA (1953) — Today (Sun) 12:15pm at New Plaza Cinema

Director Hal Ashby and Ruth Gordon behind the scenes on HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971). Ashby's string of offbeat classics made him a defining filmmaker of the 1970s. He was born on this date in 1929.

Alan Ladd (1913-1964) was born on this date. “That the old fashioned motion picture gangster with his ugly face, gaudy cars and flashy clothes was replaced by a smoother, better looking and better dressed bad man was largely the work of Mr. Ladd.” — New York Times obit, 1964

Mitzi Gaynor behind the scenes on SOUTH PACIFIC (1958). The actress, singer, dancer, TV variety show queen, and national treasure is 93 today! #MitziGaynor #OldHollywood

"the role of a lifetime” — Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine Alain Delon in Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAI (1967) — Fri 6pm + Sat 5:50pm at New Plaza Cinema New 4K restoration.

WAR GAME — Fri 4pm + Sat 8pm at New Plaza Cinema "a nail-biter of a documentary” — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times newplazacinema.org @wargamefilm

GOOD ONE — Fri 8pm + Sat 2:05pm at New Plaza Cinema Critic’s Pick! Writer/director India Donaldson’s feature debut is “astounding...full of the kind of emotional detail that can only come from personal experience.” — Alissa Wilkinson, The New York Times

We’ve got our titles for tomorrow; let us know what you’ll be watching at New Plaza Cinema this weekend.

Fellini’s LA STRADA w/ Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina premiered at the Venice Film Festival on this date in 1954.

Ingrid Bergman behind the scenes on Roberto Rossellini’s JOURNEY TO ITALY, which premiered on this day in 1954.

"If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am." — Peter Sellers One of cinema's great chameleons was born on this date in 1925.

On the set of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF w/ director Norman Jewison (1926-2024) and Topol (1935-2023). The actor who brought Tevye to life on film (and on stage more than 3,500 times) was born on this date.

"I'm just very fortunate that I've made movies that seem to have endured." Brian De Palma is 84 today.