I hope I’m wrong about this, but our Friday night showing was possibly the last NewScreen of the year, due to the coronavirus pandemic. There were four of us, so social distancing wasn’t an issue… well maybe it was at the bar, but precautions were taken and hands were well washed.

We settled into our sofas, probably only 5 feet apart, and enjoyed Amodóvar’s best film in years, and then returned to the bar to demolish half a loaf of freshly baked banana bread. Tradition is important, specially in tough times.

Our short feature was In Pursuit of Ghosts, by Max Cooper and Tim Hodge – a mesmerizing loop of an Eadweard Muybridge human motion study, with added graphics.