Lincoln Plaza Cinemas Successor Reveals Summer Screening Lineup

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — The spiritual successor of the Upper West Side's recently-shuttered Lincoln Plaza Cinemas announced its full summer film screening lineup.

New Plaza Cinemas will be screening 17 independent films this summer at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, the group's founders said in a press release. New Plaza Cinemas previously announced its partnership with the JCC earlier in June.

The summer film series includes a marathon in memory of late Upper West Side writer Philip Roth and other independent films including films that Lincoln Plaza Cinemas had planned to show before closing, according to New Plaza Cinemas.

Screenings will be held in the JCC's 250-seat auditorium in its building on Amsterdam Avenue and West 76th Street. New Plaza Cinema will look for a more permanent location in the future, founder Norma Levy said in a statement earlier this month.

"We immediately booked as many nights as possible in our theater and started working on a program. As fate would have it, I met Toby Talbot at an event who introduced me to the folks from New Plaza Cinema, and it was a match made in heaven," Isaac Zablocki, director of The Carole Zabar Center for Film at The JCC, said in a statement.

Talbot and her late husband Dan Talbot opened the six-screen Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in 1981 on Broadway between West 62nd and 63rd streets and served as tastemakers of the New York City film scene. Before opening Lincoln Plaza Cinemas the Talbots operated the New Yorker Theater, Manhattan's Cinema Studio and Metro Theater through the 60s, 70s and 80s.

Talbot is not officially affiliated with New Plaza Cinema, but "fully supports" the group, she said in a statement this month.

Here's New Plaza Cinemas' full summer film series lineup:

"The Catcher was a Spy"

• Sunday, June 24 - 2 p.m.
• Sunday, June 24 - 4:30 p.m.
• Sunday, June 24 - 7 p.m.
• Monday, June 25 - 4:30 p.m.
• Monday, June 25 - 7 p.m.
• Wednesday, June 27 - 4:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, June 27 - 7 p.m.

"Goodbye, Columbus"

• Monday, July 2 - 7 p.m.
• Friday, August 17 - 3 p.m.

"Indignation"

• Monday, July 2 - 4:30 p.m.
• Thursday, July 5 - 7 p.m.

"Elegy"

• Tuesday, July 3 - 4:30 p.m.
• Thursday, July 5 - 4:30 p.m.

"American Pastoral"

• Tuesday, July 3 - 7 p.m.

"Double Lover"

• Friday, July 6 - 3 p.m.
• Friday, July 6 - 5:30 p.m.
• Sunday, July 8 - 2 p.m.
• Sunday, July 8 - 4:30 p.m.
• Sunday, July 8 - 7 p.m.

"Lost in America"

• Tuesday, July 10 - 7 p.m.

"Mr. Gaga (with Ohad Naharin)"

• Thursday, July 12 - 7 p.m.

"Bye Bye Germany"

• Sunday, July 15 - 2 p.m.
• Sunday, July 15 - 4:30 p.m.
• Sunday, July 15 - 7 p.m.

"Far From the Tree"

• Monday, July 16 - 7 p.m.
• Friday, July 20 - 3 p.m.
• Sunday, July 22 - 2 p.m.
• Sunday, July 22 - 4:30 p.m.
• Monday, July 23 - 4:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, July 24 - 7 p.m.
• Wednesday, July 25 - 7 p.m.

"Lives Well Lived"

• Thursday, July 19 - 4:30 p.m.
• Friday, July 20 - 5:30 p.m.
• Sunday, July 22 - 7 p.m.
• Wednesday, July 25 - 4:30 p.m.

"When Heroes Fly"

• Thursday, July 19 - 7 p.m.

"In Between"

• Monday, July 23 - 7 p.m.
• Tuesday, July 24 - 4:30 p.m.

"Oh Lucy!"

• Sunday, July 29 - 2 p.m.
• Sunday, July 29 - 4:30 p.m.
• Monday, July 30 - 7:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, August 1 - 4:30 p.m.

"The Desert Bride"

• Sunday, July 29 - 7 p.m.
• Monday, July 30 - 5:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, August 1 - 7 p.m.

"Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel"

• Sunday, August 5 - 2 p.m.
• Sunday, August 5 - 4:30 p.m.
• Sunday, August 5 - 7 p.m.
• Monday, August 6 - 7 p.m.
• Tuesday, August 7 - 5:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, August 7 - 7:30 p.m.

"Hotel Salvation"

• Sunday, August 12 - 2 p.m.
• Sunday, August 12 - 4:30 p.m.
• Sunday, August 12 - 7 p.m.
• Monday, August 13 - 4:30 p.m.
• Monday, August 13 - 7 p.m.
• Wednesday, August 15 - 4:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, August 15 - 7 p.m.

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