Miami Beach Cinemateque - Oct 2007 schedule

THU: "Independent LENS" award winning Miss Navajo,
and FRI: "Creepy Crawly CRONENBERG!" (Dead Ringers)



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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 18 THU 8:30pm: Independent LENS 2007-2008

Florida exclusive previews of award winning documentaries

before they air on PBS...Presented with HANDS ON MIAMI

Miss Navajo (Billy Luther/USA/2007)

How many beauty contestants can say

“I competed in a pageant where I butchered a sheep?” Crystal Frazier can.

Follow this introverted, self-proclaimed tomboy as she makes bread, weaves

a rug, sweats her way through a language quiz—and that’s just the first day—

on her quest to be the new MISS NAVAJO. Not just any beauty contest, the

Miss Navajo pageant is all about who can rise to the challenge of becoming

a community leader, and who can help save the Navajo culture and language.

WINNER: The Michael Moore Special Founder’s Prize at Traverse Film Festival

Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival

COMPLIMENTARY screening (donations welcome!)







OCT 19 FRI 8:30pm:

Creepy Crawly CRONENBERG!

Dead Ringers (1988)

With Jeremy Irons, Jeremy Irons, and Geneviève Bujold

“Two bodies. Two minds. One Soul”

Have you ever

wondered just how close twins are? How they are able to convince others

of what they have planned and plotted all along, without people knowing

for sure which one is which? Based on real life identical twin brothers, both

gynecologists, Jeremy Irons plays the double roles with a complexity that is

rarely seen in creepy films, even Cronenberg’s own films, before this one.

One brother is dominant, and the other is basically passive, until the underdog

falls for the newest woman in their lives first, for once...What happens now?

“One of the 25 Most Dangerous films ever made”—Premiere Magazine

WINNER: Canadian Academy Awards (Genie) Best Picture, Best Director,

Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay...(11 awards in all)

Los Angeles Film Critics Best Director, Best Supporting Actress

New York Film Critics Best Actor









OCT 24 WED 8pm:

Nike Skateboarding and MIA Skateshop

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 (limited comp tics for Members at MBC)...

at the COLONY THEATER, 1040 Lincoln Road

(first come first serve, starting October 12, 1/2 hour before screenings)



For more info contact: MIA Skateshop, 229 9th St. Miami Beach

(786) 621-3511 www.MIAskateshop.com



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



Ordinary

movies?

NEVER!



FILMS: $10 or $6 MBC Members and Students

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!