Tonight: When The Levees Broke, Parts I & II
This Weekend: Colombian Film Festival!
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
Tonight! CONSCIOUS CINEMA: Be Prepared!
Presented by Hands On Miami
Spike Lee’s When The Levees Broke
19 THU 8:30pm: Parts I & II
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!
1st COLOMBIAN FILM FESTIVAL of Miami Beach
Celebrate Colombian Independence Day!
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
An Independence Day reception will follow the film,
with director Jorge Ali Triana!
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! continues....
Presented by Hands On Miami
Spike Lee’s When The Levees Broke
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).
The film will be preceded by:
the Cuban-American experience poetry
of Richard Blanco
Richard Blanco
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 Q&A
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
Also...The July MBC photographic exhibition is:
"Auteurs and Iconoclasts" Photos of Industry Artists by Tom LeGoff
including portraits of Spike Lee, John Waters, Darren Aronovsky,
Christina Ricci, Ang Lee, Vincent Gallo, Phillip Seymour Hoffman...
Spike Lee by Tom LeGoff
COMING in AUGUST: "The Wrath of WERNER HERZOG"
MBC is supported by the Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council and the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural
Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners
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