THU: Independent LENS: Mapping Stem Cell Research
FRI: "Experiments of Andy WARHOL": Vinyl
SAT-MON: Preview of the Puerto Rican Film Fest of MB!
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
13 THU 8:30pm: Independent LENS 2007-2008
Florida exclusive previews of award winning documentaries
before they air on PBS...Presented with HANDS ON MIAMI
Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita
(Maria Finitzo/2007)
Some consider stem cell research the Holy
Grail of regenerative medicine. Others view the idea as morally wrong. But
what would you do if your child became paralyzed from the waist down and you
had access to the research that might allow them to walk again one day? These
are questions our society continues to grapple with. Follow a respected neurologist
into the unknown territory of stem cell research.
WINNER: “The Gold Hugo” and Award of Excellence Chicago Int’l Film Festival
Sundance Institute and Christopher Reeve Paralysis Fund grants
for excellence in documentary filmmaking
Complimentary Screening (donations always welcome!)
14 FRI 8:30pm:
“The Experiments of Andy WARHOL”
From the collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
MBC offers opportunities to see rare official screenings...
The legacy of Andy Warhol has been a centerpiece of our exposure to American pop
culture for decades, however, his work in the medium of film is less known and rarely
available for public view. In the early 1970’s Warhol withdrew his films from authorized
distribution, so the prolific five year period of his experimental work in film (1963-1967)
is less famous than his silk-screens and works in other disciplines. Thanks to the safe-
keeping by the Museum of Modern Art in New York of the Andy Warhol Foundation donation
of the original 16mm film elements, and the transfer to digital by the Andy Warhol Museum,
Pittsburgh, with the retention of the original sixteen frames per second running speeds of the
earliest silent works, the films are making a world tour in select museums and cinematheques.
Vinyl (Andy Warhol/1965)
16mm film transferred to digital files (dvd)
Black and white, sound, 67 minutes
Collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
With Gerard Malanga, J.D. MacDermott, and “extras” Ondine and Edie Sedgwick
Music by Velvet Underground
The first Warhol film to be based (very loosely) on a novel, $3000 was forked over
to have the rights to use Anthony Burgess’s “Clockwork Orange” as a platform,
years before the Kubrick version. Vinyl is a featurette with two continuous 33 minute
reels roughly based on the bad boy Alex character. With several other 1965 featurettes,
it introduced and set the stardom of Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, and other budding
"superstars”. It is also the most dramatic and “painterly” of the featurettes, a chiaroscuro
set piece in a claustrophobic space, allowing simple gestures to be magnified.
No-where to run, no-where to hide... “the Gerard Malanga whip dance”
A PREVIEW of the upcoming
Puerto Rican Film Festival of Miami Beach
Presented with Latin Cinema Showcase
PUERTO RICO—films based on true stories
A Female Puerto Rican Filmmaker's Perspective
The films of FLORA PEREZ-GARAY
15 SAT, 8:30pm: Bala Perdida (Stray Bullet)
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Written by: Flora Pérez- Garay Directed by: Raul Marchand Sanchez (2003)
With Marisol Calero, Sharon Riley, Danny Rivera, Rey Pascual
Two youths are filled with musical talents and dreams and hopes for the
future. They practice diligently for the upcoming Christmas concert.
Their innocence, zeal for life, and friendship are overshadowed by the social
and economic issues of Puerto Rico. Bala Perdida, based on a true story,
will leave a chilling feeling in your bones with a tragic conclusion.
16 SUN, 8:30pm: El Cuerpo Del Delito
(Body of Evidence) In Spanish with English subtitles.
Written by: Flora Pérez- Garay Directed by: Raul Marchand Sanchez (2005)
With Marisol Calero, Sharon Riley, Danny Rivera, Rey Pascual
El Cuerpo Del Delito is the shocking and compelling true story of two women.
Together united by destiny and tragedy they find strength in each other to reach
their purpose of catching the criminals who committed the brutal crimes.
Their story presents the extremes to which a violent lover is capable of reaching
when rejected.
17 MON, 8:30pm: Fuego en Alma (Fire in the Soul)
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Written by: Flora Pérez- Garay Directed by: Abdiel Colberg
With Hijo Braulio Castillo, Idalia Perez Gary, Rey Pascual, Julian Gil
Reflecting the closeness of Puerto-Ricans in New York with those on
the island, three stories among couples are set on the island and combined
to cast emotions of passion, jealousy, doubt and infidelity- couples that are
burned by sudden and unexpected feelings and are pushed to make the decision
that will change their lives, forever influenced by the events of September 11.
21 FRI 8:30pm:
“The Experiments of Andy WARHOL”
From the collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
MBC offers opportunities to see rare official screenings...
The Nude Restaurant (Andy Warhol/1967)
16mm film transferred to digital files (dvd)
Color, sound, 99 minutes
Collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
With Viva, Billy Name, Allen Midgette, Electro Banana, Taylor Mead,
Ingrid Superstar, Jullian Burroughs, Rod LaRod
The restaurant Max’s Kansas City was the most frequented place of the day in
New York City for the culturati, celebrities, and the glitterati that surrounded them,
with everyone from Dali, Duchamp, and Tennessee Williams, to Jim Morrison
dropping in. So in October of 1967, at the finale of the “Summer of Love”, with
Vietnam on the minds of even the most jaded Warhol “superstars” a group was
filmed on location at the restaurant, nick-named appropriately “The Mad Hatter”.
Highlighted by a rambling monologue by Viva, the “Jane Fonda of Alternative
Cinema”, it is a time capsule document of the period and the phenomena of
sexploitation amidst puritan Americana.
22 SAT 8:30pm: Cannes Palm d’Or 2006:
The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Ken Loach/UK/2006)
With Cillian Murphy, Padriac Delaney, Liam Cunningham
One of the United Kingdom’s best and fiercely independent realist filmmakers,
Ken Loach, who has relentlessly and continuously brought the plights of the
contemporary working English, Scottish, and Irish to our attention, brings us
a mesmerizing account of one of the pivotal roots to their story, and finally wins
the Cannes Film Festival’s main prize, the Palm d’Or, in doing so. Ireland 1920:
workers from field and country unite to form volunteer guerilla armies to face
the ruthless “Black and Tan” squads that are being shipped from Britain to block
Ireland’s bid for independence. But despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts
and families who fought side by side, find themselves pitted against one another
as sworn enemies, putting their loyalties to the ultimate test.
WINNER: Palm d’Or Cannes Film Festival
Irish Film and Television Awards Best Film, Audience Award
European Film Awards Best Cinematography
28 FRI 8:30pm:
“The Experiments of Andy WARHOL”
From the collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
MBC offers opportunities to see rare official screenings...
photo:
Andy Warhol
Lonesome Cowboys, 1967-68
16mm film, color, sound, 109 minutes
© 2007 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA,
a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.
Lonesome Cowboys (Andy Warhol/1967-68)
16mm film transferred to digital files (dvd)
Color, sound, 109 minutes
Collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
With Joe Dallesandro, Viva, Taylor Mead, Louis Waldon, Julian Burroughs
The original gay cowboy movie was one of the first Warhol attempts at a
commercial distribution, running for months in art houses in Los Angeles and
San Francisco. Lonesome Cowboys was the beginning of a new direction,
helmed by Paul Morrissey, who had been the manager of the Warhol “empire”
and “factory”. Originally conceived as a western version of Romeo and Juliet
(“Ramona and Julian”), it was filmed on location in Arizona, where the locals
were shocked and confused by the notorious filmmakers and cast.
"Get Ultra Violet for the part! I QUIT!"—Viva
WINNER: Best Film San Francisco Film Festival
29 SAT 9pm: "Cine-IMPROV" is back!
A LIVE Comedic Jam served with cinema on the side!
Miami’s hottest improv actors Michael Murray and Sasha Weisfeld
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" by the incomparable Sasha Weisfeld!
This month’s theme: WARHOL!
30 SUN 8pm: “DOCUSPAIN”
Award winning, provocative documentaries in Spanish,
produced with Spanish support...once a month at MBC!
Presented by MAHOU, and PRAGDA Barcelona/New York,
with support from the Embassy of Spain, the Spain Foreign Cultural
Corporation, the International Documentary Association,
and Tapas y Tintos restaurant.
Balseros (Charles Bosch and Joseph M. Domenech/Spain/2002)
In summer 1994,
more than 50,000 Cubans took to the sea in a motley array of rafts and
floating junk in an attempt to reach the Florida shores. Shot with an
intense sense of both immediacy and intimacy, Balseros dives in to the
difficulties of pursuing the ’American Dream’.
Every DOCUSPAIN film will be followed by an afterparty at Tapas y Tintos,
featuring LIVE Flamenco, complimentary tapas and MAHOU beer for filmgoers!
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
"Independent LENS" complimentary
"Cine-IMPROV" $12 and $10 MBC Members and Students
Doors open 1/2 hour before screenings
COMING SOON!
A followup to Francis Ford Coppola's Miami Beach visit...
MBC invites you to a complimentary screening of:
Youth Without Youth, his latest film!
Tuesday, January 08, at the Colony Theater. Limited seats available.
Tickets must be picked up at any MBC screening, starting date TBA!
