New Plaza Cinema

Io Capitano tracks a pair of Senegalese cousins as they struggle to make their way from their home in Dakar to Europe. Director Matteo Garrone invites you into a story with visual clarity and narrative urgency, featuring complicated, transparent, achingly hopeful characters.

Saturday morning we’ll encore Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause; this time we’ll be joined afterwards by the late director’s daughter Nicca, along with 50s Hollywood historian Foster Hirsch and Make Me Famous filmmakers Brian Vincent and Heather Spore, who are deep into production on a new James Dean documentary.

The late Michael Apted’s The Long Way Home is a revealing, rollicking portrait of the Soviet underground rock legend Boris Grebenshchikov, who became the first to record in the West during the early, optimistic days of Glasnost. This newly remastered edition includes an epilogue created by producer Steven Lawrence and editor Susanne Rostock, who will join the show after the screening.