Miami Beach Cinemateque - July 2007 schedule

JULY is HOT at MBC!
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
The on-going film festival where you don't just watch films, you experience them!
512 Española Way at Plaza de España (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567) www.MBCINEMA.com

JULY At A Glance:
The "Crossover Cinema" of Leon ICHASO (FRI 06, THU 12, FRI 27, SAT 28)
presented by MBC and Latin Cinema Showcase...
(including the Miami Premiere of his latest film, El Cantante*) (THU Aug 02 at Regal South Beach)
Cine-IMPROV! (SAT 07)
The 1st COLOMBIAN Film Festival (FRI 13, SAT 14, SUN 15, FRI 20, SAT 21, SUN 22)
Spike Lee's When The Levees Broke (THU 19 Part I&II, THU 26 Part III&IV)

*The first 20 people at each ICHASO screening get a FREE El Cantante ticket!
(patrons must arrive EARLY for the El Cantante screening. See ticket for details).

06 FRI 8:30pm: The “Crossover Cinema” of Leon ICHASO
El Súper (Co directed with Orlando Jiménez Leal/1979)
With Raimundo Hidalgo-Gato, Zully Montero, Reynaldo Medina
“From the people who brought you the rumba, the mambo, Ricky Ricardo,
daiquiris, good cigars, Fidel Castro, cha-cha-cha, Cuban Chinese restaurants,
and the Watergate plumbers....a Cuban-American comedy”
One of the few definitive independent works about the Cuban exile experience which
has attained cult status, El Súper is a look at the life of Roberto and Aurelia, Cuban
exiles living in New York City with their 17-year-old daughter Aurelita. It's February,
1978; the winter is harsh, and for ten years Roberto's been the super of an apartment
building, firing up the boiler, repairing windows, moving bags of garbage. He's homesick
for Cuba, stuck in repetitive conversations about the Bay of Pigs, Castro, and life back
home. He's too depressed to make love to Aurelia, and when his daughter thinks she's
pregnant and he receives sad news from Cuba, he makes up his mind to quit the city for Miami.
WINNER: Grand Prize Heidelberg International Film Festival
Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor PREMIOS Awards

The first 20 people at each ICHASO screening get a FREE El Cantante ticket!
(patrons must arrive EARLY for the El Cantante screening. See ticket for details).

If you happen to be in Los Angeles on Monday July 09, you can catch
an evening with Leon Ichaso at the Director's Guild Theater...info HERE

07 SAT 9pm: Cine-IMPROV!
A LIVE Comedic Jam served with cinema on the side!

Miami’s hottest improv actors Justine Barron and Michael Murray welcome some
of South Florida’s best improvisers... to perform unscripted theater based on your
suggestions, in the art of “long form improv," rather than the typical comedy you
see at the clubs and on TV. Including film dubbing, the "Armando Diaz Experience*,
and a live improvised "movie" based on the life experiences of one of our audience members,
with stylistic parody, edits, comedic characters, and other scenic devices. Also featuring
a special improvised musical interlude that is not to be missed!
This month’s theme: The Immigrant Experience!

12 THU 8:30pm: The “Crossover Cinema” of Leon ICHASO
Crossover Dreams (1985)
With Rubén Blades, Shawn Elliot, Elizabeth Peña
Director Of Photography: Claudio Chea
Next in Leon Ichaso’s independent immigrant experience cinema is Crossover Dreams,
the story of Salsa singer Rudy Veloz, who works his way through Harlem’s “El Barrio”
to the top of the New York record charts by any means necessary. When his latest
recording in the music industry is less than sensational, his decisions for change lead
to a downward slide through drugs and crime instead of up the commercial ladder of
fame. Sometimes life just ain’t always what it is supposed to be.
Independent Spirit Awards Best Actor Rubén Blades
“The film’s treatment is fresh and perceptive...Against the serious undertone, it hurls
a lot of good music. Blades, the Panamanian salsa star who has crossed over, is not
only a good singer but a surpringly versatile actor...”—Roger Ebert

The first 20 people at each ICHASO screening get a FREE El Cantante ticket!
(patrons must arrive EARLY for the El Cantante screening. See ticket for details).
1st COLOMBIAN FILM FESTIVAL of Miami Beach
“Colombia Revealed” (July 13-15, 20-22)
13 FRI 8:30pm: Additions and Subtractions
(Victor Gaviria/2005)
Additionas and Subtractions is set In Medellin in the 1980s, when drug cartels were at
their peak of power. Santiago is a married engineer coming from a good family and
living a middle class lifestyle, and facing serious financial difficulties. Through a friend
from childhood, he meets Gerardo, a garage owner and drug trafficker, and finds
himself trapped in a vortex of easy money, drug traffickers and paid killers that have
plunged the country into on going bloodshed.
WINNER: Best Latin-American Film Ariel Mexico Awards
Best Film, Director, Supporting Actor Cartagena Film Festival
Best Film Miami Latin Film Festival

1st COLOMBIAN FILM FESTIVAL of Miami Beach
14 SAT 8:30pm: Like Cat and Mouse
(Como el gato y el ratón) (Rodrigo Triana/2003)
After endless petitions, street lighting comes at last to La
Estrella, near Bogotá, but it doesn’t bring unity. After pals Jairo Camargo and
Gilberto Ramirez connect up their homes, a cable comes too close to a power line,
and somebody pulls the plug during that soccer match-and then the bickering
escalates into pranks into dirty tricks into....
WINNER: Golden Sun, Youth Jury Award Biarritz Int. Film Festival
Best Colombian Film Bogota Film Festival
Latin Hertitage Award Miami Latin Film Festival

1st COLOMBIAN FILM FESTIVAL of Miami Beach
15 SUN 8:30pm: The First Night (La Primera Noche)
(Luis Alberto Restrepo/2004)
The First Night is a story of hidden passion set in a Colombia drained by war, violence
and ignorance. Two people, Paulina and Toño, like many others before them, flee
from the countryside into the cities where they are not wanted and are considered
invisible. Between brutality in the countryside and betrayal in the city, Paulina
and Toño face immense challenges and carry repressed, secret passions.
WINNER: Best First Work, Cinematography, Actor Cartegena Film Festival
Best Film Miami Latin Film Festival

1st COLOMBIAN FILM FESTIVAL of Miami Beach
20 FRI 8:30pm: Bolivar Is Me (Bolívar Soy Yo)
(Jorge Alí Triana/2003)
Based on a true story, Bolivar Is Me is a social critique that mixes tragedy with
humor, something characteristic of the lives of many people in Latin America.
It depicts the dreams of a liberator, the “Great Liberator” Simon Bolívar,
(as portrayed by an actor in the country’s most popular soap opera), and the
dreams that the common people have about him, and the realities of an
amazing and contradictory country.
WINNER: Best Film, Best Ibero-American Film Mardel Plata Film Festival
Audience Award Toulouse Latin American Film Festival

1st COLOMBIAN FILM FESTIVAL of Miami Beach
21 SAT 8:30pm: Maximum Penalty (La Pena Maxima)
(Jorge Echeverry/2002)
Mariano, a Colombian man who's obsession with his team makes him commit
the worst decisions of his life, is the focus in in this hilarious view of Colombian
sports fanatisicm. Confident that the Colombian team will beat Argentina in a
shot at the World Cup, he risks everything, even what he values most: his wife's love.
WINNER: Best Film In Spanish San Antonio CineFestival
Best Screenplay Huelva Latin American Film Festival

1st COLOMBIAN FILM FESTIVAL of Miami Beach
22 SUN 8:30pm: El Colombian Dream
Miami Premiere! (Felipe Aljure/2006)
The New Colombia...A story told
by an aborted child who is now 14 years old, which involves his mother, three
teenagers (two twin brothers and their cousin) who make up a love triangle,
the twins' father (an erotic journalist) and his new lover, a drug lord and his
sidekicks, the drug lord's wife who doesn't know who is the father of her baby,
a prostitute with bladder problems, a hit man who is really a frustrated poet,
and a huge drug-related misunderstanding.


CONSCIOUS CINEMA: Be Prepared!
Presented by Hands On Miami
Spike Lee’s When The Levees Broke
19 THU 8:30pm: Parts I & II
26 THU 8:30pm: Parts III & IV
As the world watched in horror, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on
August 29, 2005. Like many who watched the unfolding drama on television
news, director Spike Lee was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster,
but by the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and
recovery effort. Lee was moved to document this modern American tragedy,
a morality play witnessed by people all around the world. The result is
WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS. The film is
structured in four acts, each dealing with a different aspect of the events
that preceded and followed Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans.
Following the film on each night will be a hurricane preparedness course.
COMPLIMENTARY ADMISSION!

27 FRI 8:30pm: The “Crossover Cinema” of Leon ICHASO
Bitter Sugar (Azucar amarga) (1996)
With René Lavan, Mayte Vilán, Miguel Gutiérrez
Director of Phtography: Claudio Chea
Somewhere between hope and despair, a beautiful relationship triumphs and
despite the odds, two people discover the true meaning of love in BITTER
SUGAR. Set against the volatile backdrop of modern-day Havana, Gustavo,
an idealistic honor student, Cuba's "new man" and Yolanda, a realistic and
beautiful young dancer, share little in common, especially their radically
opposing political views. But despite their differences they fall madly in love
while the world as they know it crumbles before them. Inspired by actual events,
director Ichaso, who co-wrote the film with Orestes Matacena, based the
screenplay on several people's lives, weaving fact and fiction into an emotional
compelling story. The result is a moving, gritty and realistic look at two
people whose passion and intensity cannot overcome their struggle.
International Press Academy Satalite Award Nominee
“Profoundly moving!”—Rene Jordan Cosmopolitan
“Blazing White Hot Emotion...Magnetic!”—Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald

The first 20 people at each ICHASO screening get a FREE El Cantante ticket!
(patrons must arrive EARLY for the El Cantante screening. See ticket for details).

28 SAT The “Crossover Cinema” of Leon ICHASO
Piñero (2001)
With Benjamin Bratt, Talisa Soto, Giancarlo Esposito, Rita Moreno, Mandy Patinkin
Director of Photography: Claudio Chea
Benjamin Bratt stars in this true story of ‘Nuyorican’ (Puerto Ricans living
in New York) poet Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a
precursor to rap and hip-hop music. This explosive Latino icon wrote the
1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes, which stemmed from his experience
of doing time in the hard-core Sing-Sing prison for petty thefts and drug
dealing. Pinero’s gift and success was hampered only by a fierce addiction
to heroin that was caused by his inability to deal with the sudden fame.
This habit eventually caused him to contract AIDS which led to his death in 1988.
WINNER: American Latino Media Arts Awards
Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screenplay
Berlin International Film Festival C.I C.A E Award
Montreal World Film Festival Grand Prix des Amériques
“A dizzying, constantly moving ride through an exciting decade in the
blossoming of “Nuyorican” culture, with its most flamboyant figure as our focus”
—A. Klein New Times

The first 20 people at each ICHASO screening get a FREE El Cantante ticket!
(patrons must arrive EARLY for the El Cantante screening. See ticket for details).

August 02 THU 8pm: Miami Premiere!
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 A Q&A AFTER THE FILM

At the REGAL SOUTH BEACH Cinema
LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE
The first 20 people at each ICHASO screening 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 cocktails



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