FRIDAY, 2:30pm: "France-Cinema-Miami" discussion panel,
and FRIDAY 8:30pm: "Authors and Their Films"
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
NOV 09 FRI 2:30pm:
FILM INDUSTRY DISCUSSION PANEL
The State and Condition of French Cinema -
With the participation of : Franck Mancuso (Writer/Director) / Philippe Muyl
(Producer/Writer/Director) / Jean Louis Lefevre (Ex Director of Titra Film Paris/
Major Sponsor) / Dana Keith (Director of Miami Beach Cinematheque) / John
Kochman (Exec. Director of Unifrance USA) / Patrick Gimenez (Producer and
General Director of FCM) / Catherine Lamairesse et Catherine Laloeuf (Chair
Focus on french cinema) / Bernard Parisot (President JCDecaux North America) /
Andre Lazare (Producer/Distributor) / Ralph Heyndels (professor of French
Literature at University of Miami) and Journalists.
COMPLIMENTARY Admission!
“FRANCE CINEMA MIAMI” is Nov 9-11 at the AMC Cocowalk!
MBC members get the discount price of $8 at the website:
www.francecinemamiami.com
NOV 09 FRI 8:30pm: “Authors and Their Films”
Lawrence R. Samuel and...
Meet Me In St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli/1944)
With Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor
Legendary MGM
musical director Vincente Minelli (husband to legendary MGM star Judy
Garland, and father of Liza) made his color feature debut with this captivating
musical evocation of Americana and family life in St. Louis at the time of the
1904 World’s Fair. Garland shows how she continued her stardom after her
own debut a few years earlier. MMISL is the most charming, and historically
interesting, of all MGM musicals.
The film will be preceded by a 15 minute introductory talk and
slide show by Lawrence R. Samuel, author of the new book,
The End of The Innocence: The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair.
Samuel will talk about world’s fairs which, before
the days of the jet plane and the Internet, were global gatherings like none other.
He will focus on the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair, that lives on in the memory
of many individuals and in America’s collective consciousness. He will explain how
the Fair allowed millions to celebrate while the conflict in Vietnam came to a boil,
and glorified the postwar American Dream just as a counterculture of sex, drugs,
and rock ’n’ roll was coming into being.
Following the film will be a booksigning of Mr. Samuel’s new book.
and coming up next...
14 WED 8:30pm: Independent LENS 2007-2008
Florida exclusive previews of award winning documentaries
before they air on PBS...Presented with HANDS ON MIAMI
An Unreasonable Man (Stephen Skrovan and Henriette Mandel/2007)
RALPH NADER: How do you define a legacy?
Whoever said, “One person can make a difference” must have been talking about
Ralph Nader. For over forty years Nader has taken on big business and corporate
America all in the name of the people. But lately this consumer advocate’s halo has
been a bit tarnished. Is he a hero? A villain? A principled man? Or an egomaniac?
You decide.
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Sundance Film Festival
“EXCELLENT! Perhaps the most importand doc at Sundance this year!”
--Movie City News
COMPLIMENTARY Screening! (donations welcome)
15 THU 7:30pm (film 8:15pm): “A Nite OUT”
International Conference on “The Passions of Jean Genet”
A special night of the conference presented by
The University of Miami Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
The Road to Love (Tarik El Hob) (Rémi Lange/France/2001)
Slow-burning and smart, French director
Rémi Lange's Jean Genet-inspired The Road to Love is a romantic tale of self-
discovery that also offers a fascinating historical take on homosexuality in
northern Africa. French-Algerian sociology student Karim is having trouble
finding interviewees for his term project, a video documentary on homosexual
relationships in Islamic cultures. Until he meets Farid.
Freedom Award L.A OUTFEST, Jury Award Seattle Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Writer/actor Abdellah Taïa, who appears in the film,
will be in attendance for Q&A after the film.
The film is preceeded by the short film by Jean Genet:
Song of Love (Un chant d’amour) (Jean Genet/France/1950)
While he has written the scenario for Tony
Richardson’s Mademoiselle, and three other unpublished scenarios of film which
never produced, infamous novelist and playwright Jean Genet directed only one
film, Un chant d’amour, which is considered the ultimate in essential seedy pent-up
homo-eroticism, to this day. With no dialogue or soundtrack, Genet manages to
convey the claustrophobic, melancholy world of prison lust with inflammatory
terms as well as charm.
The films will be introduced by French literature and film scholar Professor Ralph
Heyndels of the University of Miami Modern Languages & Literatures Department
The MBC November Exhibition opening night reception preceeds the films:
the Genet inspired collage art of Vincenzo Viti, who has used manuscript
pages of Ralph Heyndels’ forthcoming book entitled Nuit politique du désir
(Political Night of Desire). (for more information visit www.vincenzoviti.com)
Refreshments will be served.
16 FRI 8:30pm: The World Of BRUNO DUMONT:
L’Humanite (Humanity) (1999) Miami Premiere!
With Emmanuel Schotté, Sèverine Caneele, Philippe Tullier
The trappings of a crime drama provide the framework for this blunt look at carnal
sexuality and savage violence. Detective's assistant Pharaon De Winter (Schotté),
who lives with his mother and is silently in love with his neighbor Domino (Caneele),
half-heartedly investigates the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl; meanwhile,
he tags along with Domino and her thuggish boyfriend, who revels in brazenly
flaunting the law in front of an impotent Pharaon. Through this unlikely
protagonist the film probes the thin line between civilization and animal instinct.
In English and French with English subtitles
The film will be introduced by UM English Department Lecturer
and French film scholar Charlie Michael.
WINNER: Grand Prix, Best Actor, Best Actress Cannes Film Festival
17 SAT 8:30pm: “Poets of the Dark: MOVIETELLING”
Live interpretive narrations of film, inspired by the Asian tradition
Presented by UM Poet and Scholar Walter K. Lew
With the participation of poet/performers:
Jen Nellis, dennis M. somera, and Kate Ann Heidelbach
A fascinating, oft-neglected fact of world film history is that nearly
everywhere movies have been regularly shown there was an era in
which they were screened with live speech by orators or voice actors.
The katsuben of Japan and pyônsa of Korea were the most celebrated
forms of this once-global practice. Sometimes praised during their
heyday as “poets of the dark”, in Korea the most iconoclastic “movietellers”
risked imprisonment or worse to share their interpretations of films with
local communities. Perhaps they would have approved of the wit and
freedom with which this evening’s poets have chosen to recast the 20th
century’s most powerful and oppressive artistic form.
After an introduction with archival footage and slides by Walter K. Lew,
Tonight’s performances . . .
convey the drama and poetry of past movietelling while smoothly integrating
their own new uncanny sense:
Jen Nellis comically transforms an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents
into a snake-bitten fable of Dada and Surrealism feuding over the birth of yet
another new movement from the womb of an elbow-sweating Tristan Tzara ca. 1958.
dennis M. somera re-narrates Jerome Robbins’ masterfully choreographed
dance scenes from West Side Story (1961) to reveal the history of U.S.
imperialism in Puerto Rico.
Kate Ann Heidelbach rapturously pursues and expands to new visions Jennifer
Jones’ exalted gaze in The Song of Bernadette (1943).
Tonight's LIVE performance: $12 or $10 Members & Students
18 SUN 8pm:
An Underground Live-Theatre-In-The-Round experience:
“Silencio”...
A Premiere Performance by the newly formed performance group Homo
Sapiens, conceived, written, and performed by David Rohn, with choreography
and direction created in collaboration with performers Danilo de la Torre
(aka Adora), FernandeQ, Geraldine and Juicy P. Audio design by Miguel Prem.
Photography by Dale Stine.
Guantanamo Prison, August 2005:
A love bond exists in a situation where it is least expected- a forbidden love
between a captor and a prisoner. It is a love that is the ultimate currency of
the universe, a love that has been thwarted by an emphasis in the differences
between people(s) instead of the overriding similarities. It is the love, in the
words of Oscar Wilde, “that dare not speak its name”. It refuses to go away.
“Silencio” examines the contemporary clash of religious and cultural systems of the
predominantly Judeo–Christian West and the Islamic Middle East, and in particular,
in the context of homosexuality. With combined individual creative styles, and including
multimedia complements, an unexpected form of expression appears on the Miami landscape.
Tonight's LIVE performance: $12 or $10 Members & Students
23 FRI 8:30pm: The World Of BRUNO DUMONT:
Twentynine Palms (2003) Miami Premiere!
With Yekaterina Golubeva, David Wissak
Twentynine Palms is a small, remote American town deep in the desert of central
California. It provides the unique setting (rendered in gorgeous Cinemascope) for
this darkly comedic chronicle of the romantic and sexual life of a young couple in
love. Denny, a photographer, and his girlfriend Katia, leave Los Angeles to find a
desert setting for a magazine shoot. Their trip is filled with bouts of frantic sex,
impassioned fights, and hasty reconciliations, until the act of desperation leads to
an unforeseen and brutal climax.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival
“One of the most uncompromised films I have ever seen”—Glenn Kenny Premiere
“Compelling and Extreme. Likely to divide people into two strongly opionated camps.”
--Stephen Holden New York Times
**** “It will blow your mind...sexy!”—New York Post
25 SUN 8pm: “DOCUSPAIN”
Award winning, provocative documentaries in Spanish,
produced with Spanish support...once a month at MBC!
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.
Seville Southside (Polígono sur)
(Dominique Abel/Spain/2003) Miami Premiere!
Flamenco is the
lifeblood of the Gitano’s, Spanish gypsies whose exile has lasted for centuries.
In looking for the roots of the so-called “New Flamenco”, the film takes you
on a journey to Tres Mil Viviendas, a rundown estate on Seville’s South Side,
and home to many of the city’s gypsy population.
Berlin Int'l Film Festival C.I.C.A.E Award, GOYA Awards Best Documentary
Every DOCUSPAIN film is followed by an afterparty at Tapas y Tintos,
featuring LIVE flamenco, complimentary MAHOU beer & tapas!
Miami Short Film Festival at MBC Miami Premieres!
presented by the University of Miami, School of Communication
In its 6th year
the Miami Short Film Festival continues to develop and expand, presenting a program
that ranges from the works of international directors to up and coming North American
filmmakers. The festival features over 100 films and videos from all around the world, a
one of a kind selection of short films, which reveals the true spirit of this powerful art form.
The main award of the festival is the $12,000 Grand Prize that goes to the winner of the
International Competition. International candidates also vie for other prizes, and South
Florida entries have a chance to be chosen as best entry in the Local Film Category.
For more information visit www.Miamishortfilmfestival.com
27 TUE 8:30pm
Wednesday (Rob Sorrenti/UK)
Morning Fall (Edward Mcginty/USA)
Checkpoint (Ben Phelps/Australia)
Personal Spectator (Emmanuel Jespers/Belgium)
Total Time 58.40
28 WED 8:30pm
These Boots Are Made For Walken (Jeremy Pack/USA)
Partially True Tales of High Adventure! (Murphy Gilson/USA)
Aquarium (Rob Meyer/USA)
No Paso Nada (Francisco Orvananos/Mexico)
Total Time 63.08
29 THU 8:30pm
Vartan LLP (Myles Price/USA)
The Election (Padraig Reynolds/USA)
Ty Luy (Bernice Gonzalez/Puerto Rico)
In The Mood For Love (Jungbum Shin/South Korea)
Niemand Liebt Dich So Wie Ich (Luca Zamai/Germany)
Total Time 67.65
30 FRI 6:45pm:
Pismo (Matvei Zhivov/Canada)
Loom (Ourstage.com) (Scott Kravitz/USA)
Measles (Yasmeen Ismail/UK)
Archizi (Theophilos Papastylianos/Greece)
King Justice (Miguel Herrera/Australia)
Ctrl Z (Robert Kirbyson/USA)
Total Time 53.03
30 FRI 8:30pm: The World Of BRUNO DUMONT:
Flandres (Flanders) (2006) Miami Premiere!
With Adélaïde Leroux, Samuel Boudin, Henri Cretel
With Flanders, winner of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, Dumont
returns to the land of his childhood with stark, powerful images of the northern
countryside and its people. He contrasts the barbaric, confusing, and perhaps
meaningless battles of war with the pain of survival felt by those who return home.
Barbe (Adélaïde Leroux) is a young woman living in a small village, who loves Andre
(Samuel Boidin). Frustrated by Andre's inability to show affection, Barbe vents her
anger by sleeping with other men...Andre and one of them find themselves serving in
the same outfit as they're sent to an unnamed Middle Eastern nation, where the grim
circumstances of war wears away their humanity, causing unspeakable events.
Meanwhile at home, Barbe discovers she's pregnant...
The film will be introduced by French film scholar Professor Ralph Heyndels of
the University of Miami Modern Languages and Literatures Department.
WINNER: 2006 Grand Prix Cannes Film Festival
“The evil and grace according to Bruno Dumont. He reaches a power of sensations,
a pictorial sensibility, and tactil vibrations”—Le Monde
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 & Students
"Sleepless Night" CINE-THEATRE and Independent LENS: complimentary admission
"Silencio", and "Poets of the Dark: MOVIETELLING" $12 or $10 Members & Students
Exhibition complimentary and viewable before and after screenings.
Doors open 1/2 hour before screenings
COMING SOON! For ART BASEL, and December:
"Inter-Club Miami Beach"
An International showcase of video and performance art!
And the rare films of Andy WARHOL!
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