WED: Nike's Nothing But The Truth
FRI & SAT: CRONENBERG! (Naked Lunch & Crash)
and SUN: "DOCUSPAIN" (Oliver Stone's Comandante)
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
October’s “Great Director” is Canadian master of the macabre
David Cronenberg. His stylish films (the latest being Eastern Promises) are intense and
intelligent, and not for the prudish or squeamish. Five of his most notorious films have been
chosen for a month of creepy crawly adventures, complemented by the “Creature Feature:
Unexpectedly Eerie Images” photography exhibition by Wendy Doscher-Smith...
OCT 24 WED 8pm:
Nike Skateboarding presents
the Miami Premiere of:
Nothing But The Truth (Lionel Goldstein/2007)
FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH:
ANY SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ACTING AND SKATING?
“ A camera and the center of attention is on you. And the verbal thing,
and it’s not something you are totally comfortable doing, so it’s kinda
weird to film it, but I’ve talked in front of a camera before, so it’s not
like it’s totally new.”—Reese Forbes
HOW DID YOU REACT WHEN YOU FOUND OUT WHAT THE MOVIE
WAS ABOUT?
“I don’t know what the movie’s about”—Grant Taylor
ASIDE FROM SKATING, WHAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT PART
OF MAKING A SKATE MOVIE?
“Definitely music, eh? Good skating, of course, that’s the most important
thing. If you have those two elements you’re good”—Weiger Van Wageningen
INVITATION ONLY (for MBC Members)...
at the COLONY THEATER, 1040 Lincoln Road
Limited complimentary tickets for MBC Members available at MBC!
(first come first serve, starting October 12)
OCT 24-28...
Celebrate 25 Years of the Miami Film Festival with a retrospective of
some of the films from previous festivals, at the Regal and Bill Cosford...
for more info click on the photo below:
OCT 26 FRI 8:30pm:
Creepy Crawly CRONENBERG!
Naked Lunch (1991)
With Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands
Based on the novel by William S. Burroughs
“David Cronenberg and William S. Burroughs invite you to lunch”
Paralleling William S.
Burrough’s hallucinatory experiences as he wrote the novel that Naked Lunch
is based on, including the accidental shooting of his wife (which he spent only
13 days in jail for), the resulting film is a psychedelic trip through a drug addict’s
life. From Jack Kerouac to Allen Ginsberg to Paul Bowles references, the
Burroughs autobiographical journey is based on real people in the life of a
real man, believe it or not. Peter Weller as Bill Lee the exterminator finds himself
becoming addicted to his own stuff, and all logic disappears as he imagines
himself as a secret agent being advised by various creatures such as a talking
roach/typewriter. His only means of surviving is to have some sense of control
through his “reports” of the trip, not unlike the author.
WINNER: Canadian Academy Awards (Genie) Best Picture, Best Cinematography
National Society of Film Critics Best Director, Best Screenplay
New York Film Critics Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress
OCT 27 SAT 8:30pm:
Creepy Crawly CRONENBERG!
Crash (1996) (NC-17 / not suitable for minors. No-one under 17 admitted)
(this is NOT the 2004 Crash by Paul Haggis)
With James Spader, Holly Hunter, Rosanna Arquette, Elias Koteas
“The Most Controversial Film You Will Ever See”
There are people out there
(not you! Or is it you too?) who have weird fetishes and fantasies. Some people’s
sexualities are sometimes attached to unusual subjects. (Does this sound like a
psychologist’s sex-ed class?) Well, meet some people who are overly interested
in car crashes (the actors above who actually survived filming of this fascinating
Cronenberg masterpiece of creepiness, while playing characters kinkier than any
of their other roles). This is not your grandmother’s fetish. The ticket at the world
premiere at the Cannes Film Festival contained a warning to sensitive types
(where it won an unprecedented special prize), and it was rarely seen again,
creeping out most people who saw it. Now is your chance to be a voyeur and
check to see if you are a weirdo too. You have been warned. You weirdo.
WINNER: Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize for originality, daring, audacity
Canadian Academy Awards (Genie) Best Director, Best Screenplay,
Best Cinematography, Best Editing
With the short film: At the Suicide Of The Last Jew In The
World In The Last Cinema In The World (2007)
OCT 28 SUN 8pm: “DOCUSPAIN”
Award winning, provocative documentaries in Spanish*,
produced with Spanish support...once a month at MBC!
*with English subtitles
Presented by
and PRAGDA Barcelona/New York, with support from the Embassy of Spain,
the Spain Foreign Cultural Corporation, the International Documentary Assoc.,
and Tapas y Tintos restaurant.
The program will tour the U.S. during 2007 and 2008. Continuing in the series is the
humorous and very touching piece of Spain Seville Southside; Academy Award®
nominated Balseros; and "The most controversial Spanish film in decades."
as per Fiachra Gibbons from The Guardian--The Basque Ball by Julio
Medem (Sex and Lucia).
Comandante (Oliver Stone/2003) Miami Premiere!
Relations
between the USA and Cuba are anything but normal. One of the
United States’ most outspoken and controversial directors interviews
one of the world’s most outspoken and controversial heads of state –
Comandante, Fidel Castro. No prior arrangements were made about
what questions should or should not be discussed and Castro responds
to each of them. Castro talks for the first time about his relationship to
Che Guevara, Kennedy, and Nixon, but he also talks about certain aspects
of his private life. Largely unseen in the USA, this film is a rare insight into
a man who has defied the USA for so long.
Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, Chicago Int’l Film Festival,
San Francisco Int’l Film Festival
Every DOCUSPAIN film will be followed by an afterparty at Tapas y Tintos,
featuring LIVE Flamenco, complimentary tapas and MAHOU beer for filmgoers!
OCT 31 WED Halloween Night...8pm-MIDNIGHT!
“Creature Feature” Halloween Party!
© photography by Wendy Doscher-Smith
YIKES!... It’s Halloweeen! And after all those roaches, flies, and intrusive
foreign objects in all those creepy David Cronenberg films, you need a break!
So drop by tonight for a real treat: The closing Night Party for Wendy Doscher-
Smith’s “Creature Feature: Unexpectedly Eerie Images” photography exhibition,
including an outrageous Zombie Fashion Show featuring the designs of Adrienne
Ruffin, set to a Dance Planet X Live Showcase starring Monserrattz, with a
fashion show video and soundtrack by DJ Maximus 3000!
Complimentary Admission, but fashion show at 9pm has limited space.
Come early, preferably IN COSTUME, or an option: drop by afterwards!
BEST CREATURE Prize is at 11pm!
The sale of “Creature Feature” photos benefit fotomission.org, legalart.org,
and Wendy Doscher-Smith’s rescue organization: savenyla.com
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
"Framing Stage" $12 and $10 MBC Members
Independent LENS: complimentary admission
Halloween Night: complimentary admission
Exhibition complimentary and viewable before and after screenings.
Doors open 1/2 hour before screenings
COMING SOON! A "Sleepless Night" for Filmbuffs
in Plaza de España on November 03!
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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