19 THU, 20 FRI, 21 SAT, 22 SUN
7:45pm & 9:30pm:
“The Best of Cannes in HD!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Beach HD Premiere!
“The Major Revelation of the Cannes Director’s Fortnight” - Le Monde, France
Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani/2007/USA)
With Alejandro Polanco, Isamar Gonzales, Ahmad Razvi, Carlos Zapata
The American Independent festival sensation, CHOP SHOP is the story of Alejandro
(Alejandro Polanco), a twelve-year-old Latino street orphan in Willet’s Point, also
known as the “Iron Triangle,” a vibrant, sprawling, industrial neighborhood teeming
with auto-body repair shops, scrap yards, and garbage dumps on the outskirts of
Queens, New York. Alejandro is a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the
verge of adolescence. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to
make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar. Intimate, heartbreaking
and yet ultimately hopeful, CHOP SHOP is a portrait of a young boy navigating his
way through a chaotic adult world. Set in a stunning and unique location, it is subtle
and simple, but tells a profound story about the people who live, work, and dream there.
“Miraculous! Now we have an American film with the raw power of
CITY OF GOD or PIXOTE, a film that does something unexpected,
and inspired, and brave” --Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“American Independent Cinema at its best” - Daily Telegraph, London
“A mastery of a style!” -Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
25 WED 8:30pm: “Cine-IMPROV!”
A LIVE Comedic Jam served with cinema on the side!
Cannes 2008 poster (Photo: David Lynch)
Miami’s hottest improv actor Michael Murray welcomes 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.
This month’s theme: CANNES!
$12 or $10 MBC Members
A Weekend of Exposés (our’s and their’s):
26 THU & 27 FRI 7:45pm & 9:40pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Beach HD Premiere!
2007 OSCAR: Best Documentary Feature!
Taxi To The Dark Side
(Alex Gibney/2007) 106 min.
From the director of Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, Alex Gibney’s
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE is a gripping investigation into the reckless use of
power by the Bush Administration. The film exposes a policy of detention and
interrogation that condones torture and the abrogation of human rights. Alex
Gibney’s 2007 Academy Award winning Best Documentary exposé of war-time
interrogation techniques has become the last word in exposing the truth in wartime
documentaries.
WINNER: Academy Award Best Documentary 2007
Chicago Int. Film Festival Best Documentary
Writer’s Guild of America Documentary Screenplay Award
"There are those, their numbers shrinking every day, who would agree we
have to 'work the dark side.' Growing numbers of us are yearning for the light.
What is the other side? See this movie, and you tell me." - Roger Ebert
For an interview with Director Alex Gibney click HERE
A Weekend of Exposés (our’s and their’s):
28 SAT & 29 SUN 7:45pm & 9:30pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Beach HD Premiere!
Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize!
Up The Yangtze
(Yung Chang/Canada/2008)
In China, it is simply known as “The River.” But the Yangtze—and all of the life
that surrounds it—is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation wrought by the
largest hydroelectric project in history, the Three Gorges Dam. Canadian documentary
filmmaker Yung Chang returns to the gorgeous, now-disappearing landscape of his
grandfather’s youth to trace the surreal life of a “farewell cruise” that traverses the
gargantuan waterway. With Altmanesque narrative agility, a humanist gaze and wry wit,
Chang beautifully captures the microcosmic society. Singularly moving and cinematically
breathtaking, UP THE YANGTZE gives a human dimension to the wrenching changes
facing not only an increasingly globalized China, but the world at large.
WINNER: Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Documentary
“A GLORIOUSLY CINEMATIC DOC!”—Jake Anderson Variety
“By journey's end, Yung has found, in the Yangtze, a brilliant natural metaphor
for upward mobility in modern China: Whether they hail from the lowlands or
the urban centers, everyone here is scrambling to reach higher ground.”
—Village Voice
Help support Cindy Yu Shui and her family,
The documentary subjects of Up The Yangtze HERE
“One of Miami’s most beloved cultural institutions just got better!”
-Kevin Craft, “Beyond the Multiplex” on Miami Herald’s Miami.com
(Read the entire interview HERE)
TICKETS:
FILMS: $10 or $7 MBC Members & Students
Cine-IMPROV! $12 or $10 MBC Members
Doors open fifteen minutes before screenings
Exhibition: complimentary
COMING in July and August!:
More "Best of Cannes in HD", and...
"A Voyeur's Journey: The Films of ATOM EGOYAN"
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
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