August 02 THU 8pm: Miami Advance Screening!
The newest film of Leon ICHASO
El Cantante (Leon Ichaso/2006)
With Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez and produced by Julio Caro, Simon Fields,
Jennifer Lopez, and David Maldonado. Director of Photography Claudio Chea
El Cantante is the dramatic-biography of Puerto Rican salsa pioneer Hector
Lavoe. The film follows Lavoe’s (Anthony) passionate relationship with
Puchi (Lopez) and his skyrocket to international fame. But even when he
has it all, Lavoe is unable to escape the allure of drugs and his personal pain.
Toronto Film Festival and New York Latino Film Festival Official Selection
DIRECTOR LEON ICHASO WILL BE PRESENT FOR Q&A
At the REGAL SOUTH BEACH Cinema
LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE at MBC ONLY at Ichaso screenings!
By attending any Ichaso film (the last one is Sat. July 28), you get a FREE El Cantante ticket!
(patrons must arrive EARLY for the El Cantante screening. See ticket for details).
With Afterparty at GEMMA Lounge
529 Lincoln Road
featuring complimentary TEN CANE RUM and MAHOU BEER!
AUGUST at MBC!...
The Wrath Of WERNER HERZOG, & more!
“We comprehend... that nuclear power is a real
danger for mankind, that over-crowding of the planet is the greatest danger
of all. We have understood that the destruction of the environment is another
enormous danger. But I truly believe that the lack of adequate imagery is a
danger of the same magnitude. It is as serious a defect as being without memory.
What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed
landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am
able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.”
-Werner Herzog
AUGUST At A Glance:
The Wrath Of WERNER HERZOG (FRI 03, 10, 17, 24, 31)
A Night Divine: MSFF Preview and FRANCES, A Mother Divine (SAT 11)
Jazz On Film #1: Dream Supreme with Leo Casino World Premiere (WED 15)
Conscious Cinema: Kamp Katrina (THU 16)
August 03 FRI 8:30pm:
The Wrath of WERNER HERZOG:
Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)
(Germany/1972) “A breathtaking journey into the heart of darkness”
With Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Ruy Guerra
The first of five stormy collaborations with madman-actor Klaus Kinski, Aguirre,
The Wrath Of God is a spectacularly horrifying chronicle of imperialism gone amok,
set in the mid-1500s. A Spanish expedition searching the Amazon for the mythical
city of El Dorado falls into the hands of Don Lope de Aguirre (Kinski), a power-
driven lunatic who dreams of stealing an entire continent. Stunningly photographed
by Thomas Mauch, Herzog's masterpiece takes the viewer on a mad voyage, with a
typical Herzog anti-protagonist proclaiming to be above the laws of nature,
only to find out he is not. In German with English subtitles.
Critics Award Best Foreign Film French Syndicate of Film Critics
Best Cinematography National Society of Film Critics
“NOT TO BE MISSED! A film of such self-assured hallucinatory clarity and
ingenious visual invention that it has no equal… One of the best films of the 70s!”
– Bruce Bennett, The New York Sun
August 10 FRI 8:30pm:
The Wrath of WERNER HERZOG:
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Germany/1974)
“Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence?”
With Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira
Based on a bizarre 19th century true
story, with fiction and reality blurring as in all Herzog films, once again the story
focuses on a man out of tune with his environment. A young man is released from
the sixteen year mysterious imprisonment that left him totally unable to communicate
in the outer world. The Nuremberg townspeople take an immediate interest in the
novelty placed among them, and Kaspar (Bruno S.) is studied, “adopted”, made a
cause celebre, and “educated”. In Herzog’s eyes, the real freaks are the ones who
have been corrupted by society or who corrupt society, and Kaspar is “full of basic
uncontaminated human dignity”. The German title reveals a bit more about the
all-powerful effect of nature over the entire fable-like scenario: “Every Man For
Himself, and God Against All.” In German with English subtitles.
Cannes Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, FIPRESCI Prize, Ecumenical Jury Prize
Best Production Design German Film Awards
August 11 SAT 8:30pm: “A Night Divine”...
Featuring a preview of the Miami Short Film Festival,
and the new feature documentary:
FRANCES, A Mother Divine (Tim Dunn & Michael O’Quinn/2007)
FRANCES, A Mother Divine is a touching, humorous docu-dramedy about Frances
Milstead, the mother of the late actor/drag queen superstar DIVINE (star of John
Waters films such as Pink Flamingos, Polyester, and the original Hairspray). This
documentary champions human rights by capturing a glimpse of the life of Frances
and her courageous humanitarian spirit while she tells her love story to her deceased
son (originally named Harris Glen Milstead), and becomes a mother to an entire community.
Meet Divine’s mother FRANCES, in person!
"Of course the last thing my parents wanted was a son who wears a cocktail
dress that glitters, but they've come around to it."--Divine
Complimentary Admission by INVITATION ONLY
For MBC MEMBERS and Cast and Crew
MBC Members please RSVP to info@mbcinema.com
(You can become a member at www.mbcinema.com)
August 15 WED 8:30pm: JAZZ on Film #1:
World Premiere! Dream Supreme (Jane Carroll/2007)
With Leo Casino, Jasmine Akash,
Adora, Dr. Ali Tyson Cool, Taffy, Maria Sanchez, Dorothy Sims, Marge Whitman
Written by Jasmine Akash and Leo Casino, Original music by Leo Casino
Dream Supreme is a musical fantasy about the chance affair between two of
America’s most loved icons, Marilyn Monroe (played by Jasmine Akash, the
former Miss Universe from Russia) and jazz legend John Coltrane (played by
another jazz legend Leo Casino). Jasmine and Leo perform some of the most
popular songs recorded by Marilyn and Coltrane. The entire film (which
originated as a stage play and is now under the direction of the great Jane
Caroll) takes place in the bedroom of John Coltrane. It is love at first sight,
and a roller coaster of emotions follow throughout as Marilyn is entranced
by Coltrane’s seductive charms.
A LIVE concert will follow with the fabulous duo of Leo Casino & Maryel Epps
And other musical guests!
August 16 THU 8:30pm:
CONSCIOUS CINEMA: Be Prepared!
Presented in collaboration with Hands On Miami
Kamp Katrina (Ashley Sabin/2007) Return engagement!
Kamp Katrina is set post-Hurricane
Katrina in New Orleans where Ms. Pearl, an Upper 9th Ward resident offers
her backyard to 14 displaced people to make a self-made tent community,
“Kamp Katrina.” Confronted with limited resources, they attempt to create
a community for the residents of Kamp Katrina. Ms. Pearl is forced to wear
as many hats as she does costumes providing construction jobs and basic
resources to help assist in rebuilding the city.
“A Standout movie—Kamp Katrina is a snapshot of the slowly evolving human
dramas in the aftermath of the hurricane”—Austin American Statesman
“Bizarrely entertaining, refreshing, and revealing”—Baltimore City
COMPLIMENTARY Admission
August 17 FRI 8:30pm:
The Wrath of WERNER HERZOG:
Stroszek (Germany/1977)
With Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz
Eva: “Well, taking a boat to New York and Florida... Isn't there a park there?
What's it called? Where the bears run around free?”
Bruno: “That's the Grizzlies.”
Capitalist America is the modern corrupted society, with the same actor Bruno S.
(from Kaspar Hauser) in a newly alienated position in a newly developed land:
Wisconsin. His move from Germany to escape an alcoholic life goes nowhere,
since for starters he brings along his neighbor and a village prostitute. Like
Aguirre searching for his “Holy Grail” El Dorado, Bruno finds that America is
not what it seems from afar, but Herzog sees the film not so much as a critique
of American ideals, but a “eulogy” amidst the American Dream. It could happen
anywhere. Written in four days, and shot in unadorned documentary style with
the actors basically playing versions of their own lives, the film is a natural gem
that proves some of the most successful ideas are the obvious ones.
In German and English with English subtitles.
“Without a doubt, one of the greatest movies ever made”—New York Press
"Werner Herzog is the most visionary of contemporary German filmmakers.
Whatever he does is interesting. "--Joseph Gelmis, Newsday
August 24 FRI 8:30pm:
The Wrath of WERNER HERZOG:
Fitzcarraldo (Germany/1982)
With Klaus Kinski, José Lewgoy, Claudia Cardinale
The power of the cinematic image as well as Herzog’s intense determination in
filmmaking is displayed in Fitzcarraldo, one of his most well known and magestic
films. Klaus Kinski plays a “Conquistador of the Useless”, a wealthy industrialist
who dreams of bringing the European opera to the Amazonian jungle. In order for
it to come to fruition financially, his plan is to haul a full sized riverboat over a
mountain to create a new port for utilizing valuable remote rubber trees. The
actual outrageous idea is accomplished by the film crew and the film’s character
with the help of the Peruvian natives, in a spectacular historical feat that was too
perfect for a making-of documentary (Burden Of Dreams, which is as amazing as
the fiction film). Like Herzog’s crazy protagonist, the director’s life depended on
the project, for four years. And like life, it inevitably does not all go as planned.
In German with English subtitles.
Best Director Cannes Film Festival
Outstanding Feature Film German Film Awards
“I live my life or end my life with this film”—Werner Herzog
August 31 FRI 8:30pm:
The Wrath of WERNER HERZOG:
Little Dieter Needs To Fly (Documentary/1998)
(The documentary that Herzog’s latest feature, Rescue Dawn, is based on.)
“Men are often haunted...they seem to be normal, but they are not”
With Dieter Dengler
Before his latest film Rescue Dawn, which was based on the true harrowing
experiences of German-American pilot Dieter Dengler, Werner Herzog made
this documentary about his life. Dieter Dengler re-enacts for Herzog the grueling
trek from captivity he endured in Vietnam, as well as the thoughts and emotions
associated with it—the real ones.
Special thanks to the Werner Herzog Film Office, Munich Germany
“Inspiring, charming, sad and all but tragic, in a Greek-literary sense —
and a character that might have sprung from the brow of Herzog, if not Zeus.”
– John Anderson, Newsday.
“Positively is not to be missed!” –-Time Out New York
T H E M I A M I B E A C H C I N E M A T H E Q U E
512 Española Way at Plaza de España (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567) www.MBCINEMA.com
FILMS: $10 or $6 MBC Members and Students
Cine-IMPROV $12 and $10 MBC Members
Doors open 1/2 hour before screenings
No comments:
Post a Comment