Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Every column has felt overloaded as of late, as if home video distributors know we’re all planning on finally leaving the house soon, and want to sell us a few more things while they can.

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Bronx-born, Italian-based filmmaker Abel Ferrara is a character and so is Cypriot independent movie theater owner Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou. “I do it cause it combines two things I like to do,” Nicolaou says in Ferrara’s new documentary “The Projectionist.” “Make money and keep neighborhood theaters alive. Nicolaou was a mainstay in the 1970s Times Square adult film house scene, went on to get into the arthouse film exhibition business and has been in the New York theater business for decades.

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Nick Nicolaou doesn’t have a perfect answer for why he does what he does. That is both the blessing and the curse of Abel Ferrara’s documentary ode to the tradition of New York cinephilia, “The Projectionist.” It can be a problem when a viewer has spent the length of a feature with a subject and at the end, still does not truly understand what drives him. Nicolaou tells Ferrara that he simply loves two things: “Making money and keeping neighborhood theaters alive.” Could it be that simple?

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