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02/05/2026

For February’s Monthly Recommendation, we’re spotlighting Alonso Ruizpalacios’ () MUSEO.

“Museo feels like a heist movie made by someone who actually cares about people, not just plot. Ruizpalacios takes this true story and turns it into something very Mexican and very human: two guys who are bored, broke, and stuck decide to do something insane, and for a second it feels like freedom. Until it doesn’t.”

Film recommendation written by Moises Bazbaz , published in full in our February edition monthly newsletter, written by Moises.

Have a recommendation or review? Email us: feedback(@)lafcnyc.org

12/11/2025

Vivid, unruly, and steeped in tropical color, prepare yourself for Joaquim Pedro de Andrade’s most groundbreaking work, an iconic fusion of Cinema Novo’s political vision and Brazilian modernism. Join us this Sunday, December 14th at 6pm at for MACUNAÍMA, followed by a conversation with special guests Katrina Dodson and Patrícia Mourão de Andrade.

Katrina Dodson is a writer, translator, and scholar. She translated the new English edition of Mário de Andrade’s Macunaíma and revised the English subtitles for Kino Lorber’s 2019 release, allowing the film’s political and cultural ironies to come through more clearly alongside its physical and visual humor. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and teaches translation in New York.

Patrícia Mourão de Andrade is a Brazilian film scholar, curator, and writer with a PhD in Film Studies. She has organized thematic programs and retrospectives in Brazil and abroad, and her writing on Brazilian cinema and visual culture has appeared in Film Quarterly, Crisis & Critique, Another Gaze, and other publications.

Join us at 6pm for our Tropicália-inspired artist fair with live music from .mares. New Directions Publishing has generously provided five copies of Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character translated by Katrina Dodson in 2023, which will be available for purchase at the fair. Tickets are available on New Plaza Cinema’s website.

12/10/2025

✨🎨 Meet the artists 🎨✨

To celebrate the finale of our Tropics Fall Apart series, we’re kicking things off with an artist fair before our screening of Macunaíma! These are some of the incredible artists who will be presenting and vending their work. With a special live musical performance by .mares!

Stop by this Sunday, Dec. 14 at 6pm at . The screening follows, with a discussion afterward featuring and . Tickets available via New Plaza Cinema.

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Maria Veronica San Martin .martin.maria is a Chilean born, New York-based multidisciplinary artist and printmaker. Her work explores the impacts in culture of history, memory, and trauma through archives, artist books, installations, sculptures, and performances.
(Image: Dignidad, performance at CUE Gallery, Luma exhibition by Catalina Tuca, New York, 2024).

Adrians Black or Adriana Varella = [they/them] is an artist, born in Rio/Brazil, lives and works in New York City for more than 24 years. Adrians Black is a q***r, feminist, trans, anarchist, multi-disciplinary artist; they do audio-installations, photos,drawings, poetry, painting, performance, video-art-experimental, computer installation, site specific and public art.

Zoë Elena Moldenhauer received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019 and an MA from New York University in 2022. She is the founder of The Aerogramme Center for Arts and Culture – an online platform providing opportunities to artists and writers founded in March 2020.

Manuela Mares .mares is a Brazilian singer and composer from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She plays mostly an MPB repertoire with influences from Gal Costa, Milton Nascimento and Clube da Esquina movements.

12/09/2025

✨🖼️ Meet the artists 🖼️✨

This Sunday, to celebrate our Tropics Fall Apart series finale, we’re hosting an artist fair before our screening of Macunaíma! These are some of the folks who will be presenting and vending their work at the fair!

Come by this Sunday, Dec. 14th at 6pm at . The film screening will take place afterwards, followed by a discussion with and Tickets for film available on New Plaza Cinema’s website.

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Armando Alleyne .armando’s painted and collaged renditions of jazz musicians, Afro-Latin singers, boxers, as well as family members and friends, have a rhythm all their own.

Christine Sloan Sroddard Sánchez is a Salvadoran-American writer, director, performer, and multi-faceted artist creating films, plays, books, murals, and more.

Jonathan Yubi is a first-generation Ecuadorian-American painter from Bergenfield, New Jersey. He paints laborers—often construction workers whose reflective vests and hard hats serve as iconic visual markers.

Tapioca Stories is a New York-based publishing house with Latin American soul. Tapioca Stories introduces young English readers to the finest Latin American children’s books, originally written in Spanish and Portuguese.

11/30/2025

The LAFC and proudly present Joaquim Pedro de Andrade’s MACUNAÍMA, a towering pillar of Tropicalist Cinema Novo.

Adapted from Mário de Andrade’s 1928 experimental modernist classic, Macunaíma follows a shape-shifting hero from the Amazon to São Paulo, colliding with street fighters, industrialists, and water spirits. We will be joined post-film by Katrina Dodson - translator of the novel and revised the subtitles for the release - and by Patrícia Mourão de Andrade , Brazilian cinema scholar.

To celebrate our Tropics Fall Apart series finale, we’re also hosting an artist fair before the film, inspired by Brazil’s Tropicália Movement.

FEATURED ARTISTS:
Zoe Elena Moldenhauer
Christine Stoddard Sánchez
Adrians Black
Armando Alleyne .armando
Jonathan Yubi
María Verónica San Martín .martin.maria
Tapioca Stories
With live music from Manuela Mares .mares

Join us at New Plaza Cinema on Sunday, Dec. 14th at 6pm for the artist fair and film screening. Ticket not required to attend fair. Tickets soon available on New Plaza Cinema’s website. 🎫

11/10/2025

Thank you to everyone who came out for our October screening of La Ciénaga. Big thank you to for hosting us again, and to for leading an engaging discussion post-film.

We are wrapping up our Tropics Fall Apart series this December with a Brazilian comedy that we’re super excited for!

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11/02/2025

This month’s review corner spotlights Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN. Opening in select theaters before arriving on Netflix on November 7.

“As per usual with Guillermo’s work, visually, it’s breathtaking. Del Toro builds a world that looks hand-crafted, filled with lightning, intricate production design, and an elegance that mirrors the characters’ inner worlds. The pacing can at times feel slow but remains fully intentional and integral to his interpretation of the story, letting moments of silence and reflection carry real weight. It’s not a traditional monster movie, it’s something more rooted in its inherent humanity, closer to a story about loneliness and the need to be seen.”

Our newsletter editor, Moises Bazbaz (), wrote this review for our November edition.

Sign up via our website - link in bio. To be featured in a future edition (and here), send your film review to [email protected].

10/20/2025

LA CIÉNAGA introduced Lucrecia Martel as one of contemporary cinema’s most original voices, turning the familiar world of domestic life into something strange, sensual, and unsettling. Released in 2001, as Argentina faced a deep social and economic crisis, Martel’s debut stood out within the New Argentine Cinema movement for its intimacy, acute observation, and formal boldness. Set in the high plains of northwestern Argentina, La Ciénaga portrays the slow unraveling of a self-pitying bourgeois family.

See it this Friday at 8pm . Post-film talk w/ Jens Andermann, author of New Argentine Cinema. Tickets available in bio or Quad Cinema’s site.

10/14/2025

When reality interrupts the plan.
—Lucrecia Martel on the magic behind a great shot.

Catch LA CIÈNAGA next Friday, October 24th at 8pm. Tickets available in bio or Quad Cinema’s website.

Post-film Q&A with Jens Andermann, author of New Argentine Cinema.

10/10/2025

Continuing our fall series Tropics Fall Apart is Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénaga (2001), a cornerstone of Argentina’s cinematic renewal. Set in a provincial town sweltering under an oppressive heatwave, La Ciénaga drifts through the languid days of a bourgeois family whose comforts have begun to curdle, revealing the quiet decay of domestic life.

We’re thrilled to welcome Professor Jens Andermann , author of New Argentine Cinema and editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, for a post-film Q&A.

Join us at Quad Cinema on Friday, October 24th at 8pm. (34 W. 13th St.) Tickets available on Quad Cinema website 🎫

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