Monday, June 16, 2008

Miami Beach Cinemateque - June 2008 schedule

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"



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