![]() Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult star opposite Ralph Fiennes in this “eat the rich” thriller. ![]() ![]() His servers see themselves as family, but he warns a certain character that there is a line between guests and help, and she must be careful once she crosses it. Something sinister lurks beneath the surface of Hawthorne, a lavish restaurant located in a remote island location where a domineering chef rules. With a screenplay from writers Will Tracy (“Succession”) and Seth Reiss (“Late Night with Seth Meyers”), the film embarks on a creepy culinary experience with several well-known stars. © 2022 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved.īefore or after your Thanksgiving feast, “The Menu” could make you feel better about what might have gone wrong in your preparations or celebration of the holiday. It’s prevented a total bottleneck of releases for when theaters might reopen, but it certainly means that some movies (like, say, Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow or Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always) didn’t quite lead the cinephile conversation like they should have.Anya Taylor-Joy in THE MENU. The program enables first run films from smaller distribution companies like Kino Lorber, NEON, and Music Box Films to get into homes via paid video-on-demand, but end users can choose to watch it “through” the theater or arts institution of their choice. Many independent cinemas joined-in with a “Virtual Cinemas” experiment that kicked off in April. “It's a really social space, everyone is friends with everyone, everyone is happy to see each other and now it’s, well, we’ve all had to make sacrifices,” she says about the Ludlow Street hotspot known for its stylish bar, restaurant, elegantly attired ticket sellers, and two screens showing a mix of rep titles, docs, and new indies. “It’s been heartbreaking,” says Aliza Ma, head of programming at the stylish (and not not-for-profit) relative newcomer Metrograph. People, or at least New Yorkers, still want to go to the movies. Movie Theaters Netherlands Haarlem Movie Theaters in Haarlem, Netherlands. ![]() We’re leaving a lot of places out (and we haven’t even gotten to Brooklyn yet) but these oases boldly feature first-run foreign language films, American independents, and archival films programmed by theme, even as mainstream viewers mass-dose on streaming. Head out on any random weeknight and you might get to view a rarely screened 35mm print at the Upper West Side’s Film at Lincoln Center, Harlem’s Maysles Documentary Center, Midtown’s Museum of Modern Art, the Lower East Side’s Anthology Film Archives, or Greenwich Village’s Quad Cinemas. We who suffer high rents, cramped housing, and seasonal scents of questionable origin can at least boast a robust indie filmgoing culture, providing a cinematic escape from the city’s realities and an outlet beyond typical Hollywood fare at megaplexes. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the independent theaters that have long been a part of NYC’s cultural legacy (the city once considered “ the gateway to the film art market” in the ‘50s), have been shuttered. “My raison d’être is to be where the social and creative life in the city interact,” she sighs, longing for a return trip to the pictures. “How am I coping? Horribly!” So says Caroline Golum, a filmmaker, programmer, critic, and raconteur who is such a movie buff that someone made a short film about her ubiquitous presence in NYC’s independent arthouse scene.
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