Miami Beach Cinemateque - August 2008 schedule

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 ongoing HD film festival where you don't just watch, you experience!

512 Española Way at Plaza España (305) 67-FILMS (673-567) www.MBCINEMA.com



“BEST ARTS UPGRADE...an absolute playground for the true film

aficionado. HD is sure to make one cool destination even better."

-Miami Sunpost BEST OF SOUTH FLORIDA 2008

“BEST PLACE TO WATCH A MOVIE"

-Miami Sunpost BEST OF SOUTH FLORIDA 2008,"Personal Best", Octavio Campos




13 WED

This event has been POSTPONED to a date TBA.

We hope to have Elliot at MBC in the near future!

An Evening with Elliot Tiber

Author of Taking Woodstock





AUG 14 THU 8:30pm:

“A Voyeur’s Journey:

The Films of ATOM EGOYAN”

With the MBC July/August Photographic Exhibition:

"WHERE THE DESIGN LIES:

Recreating Miami 1959 / 1974"

The Sweet Hereafter (Canada/1997)

With Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks, Sarah Polley, Tom McCamus



On a winter's day, in the small rural community of Sam Dent, British Columbia, a school bus inexplicably crashes into a frozen lake, taking the lives of fourteen children and injuring many others. Shortly thereafter, Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm), a big city lawyer, comes to the community with promises to compensate its citizens for their loss. With a view to mounting a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the accident victims, Stephens interviews the survivors of the crash and the families who are mourning the deaths of their children. Through a series of emotionally charged meetings, we are presented with a prismatic view of the accident and its impact on the town. At the same time, through the interviews and a series of flashbacks, we discover disturbing secrets which reveal that, in some ways, the community was already on the road to losing its children.

WINNER: Cannes Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, FIPRESCI, Ecumenical

Genie Awards Best Motion Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Cinematography

Independent Spirit Awards Best Foreign Film

Toronto Int. Film Festival Best Canadian Film

Toronto Film Critics Best Film, Best Director

Nominated: Academy Awards Best Director, Adapted Screenplay

“Presented midway through this latest, biggest and most wrenching film by the brilliantly analytical Atom Egoyan, the image (of the accident) becomes the basis for a many-faceted moral inquiry. In the aftermath of such calamity, how does life go on?”

-Janet Maslin, New York Times





15 FRI, 16 SAT, 17 SUN, 18 MON

7:50pm & 9:20pm:

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami Theatrical Premiere!

My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin/Canada/2008)

With Darcy Fehr, Ann Savage, Amy Stewert, Louis Negin




This is Guy Maddin’s hilariously wacky and profoundly touching goodbye letter to his childhood hometown. The film is a documentary (or “docu-fantasia” as Maddin proclaims) that blends local and personal history with surrealist images and metaphorical myths that cover everything from the fire at the local park, which leads to a frozen lake of distressed horse heads, to pivotal, sometimes traumatic, factually heightened scenes from Maddin’s own childhood.

"As surprising and delightful as any filmmaker has ever been."

– Robert Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

WINNER: Toronto Int. Film Festival Best Canadian Feature Film 2008

“A GREAT FILM! It is outrageous, illogical, hilarious, and imaginative; in short, Maddin in top form.”—Filmmaker Magazine

“AS WITTY and MOVING as it’s VISUALLY DAZZLING”-Empire

“Hynotic and very funny. . .Truly ONE OF A KIND!- Total Films

“The finest, funniest, saddest film I’ve seen”—Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine





21 THU 8:30pm:

“A Voyeur’s Journey: ATOM EGOYAN”

Felicia’s Journey (Canada/1999)

With Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinée Khanjian




In the brilliantly realized surreal thriller, adapted from William Trevor's popular novel, Felicia (Elaine Cassidy), a pregnant Irish girl searching for her boyfriend in the English midlands, is befriended by Joseph Hilditch (Bob Hoskins), a catering manager who also happens to be a serial killer. Atom Egoyan, Canada's most gifted filmmaker, elevates this cat-and-mouse game into a film that transcends genre by entering the characters' consciousness and implying a world of half-discernible connections in which the weather, the landscape and the chance encounters of strangers suggest the sense of a grand design. — Stephen Holden, The New York Times

WINNER: Genie Awards Best Actor, Screenplay, Cinematography

Vallladolid Int. Film Festival Golden Spike Award Atom Egoyan

Bodil Awards Best Non American Film

Canadian Cinematograpohers Awards Best Cinematography

“Egoyan captures the terror and awe of a classic fairy tale in "Felicia's Journey".

The polarities of good and evil, the temptations and bizarre characters that felicia encounters on here odyssey and the sense of instability--of running hopelessly, as if through a dream--are all here."--Edward Guthman, San Francisco Chronicle





22 FRI, 23 SAT 7:50pm & 9:30pm:

“A Weekend OUT!”

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami Theatrical Premiere!

Chris and Don, a Love Story (Guido Santi, Tina Mascara/2008)

The Hollywood Life of Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy

“No one believed they could last so long. . .”

Documentary with Don Bachardy, Christopher Isherwood, John Boorman,

Leslie Caron, Liza Minnelli, Gloria Stuart, Michael York




Chris and Don is the true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood (whose Berlin Stories was the basis for all incarnations of Cabaret) and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. From Isherwood’s Kit-Kat-Club years in Weimar-era Germany (the inspiration for his most famous work) to the couple’s first meeting on the beaches of 1950s Malibu, their against-all-odds saga is brought to dazzling life by a treasure trove of multimedia. With Isherwood’s status as an out-and-proud gay maverick, and Bachardy’s eventual artistic triumph away from the considerable shadow of his life partner, Chris and Don is above all a joyful celebration of a most extraordinary couple.

WINNER: Best Documentary Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

“Of all the people I came to know in Los Angeles, their marriage was the only one that endured.”—John Boorman, director

“DEEPLY MOVING. Grounded in the artistic inspiration. . .two men found in each other”—Chuck Wilson, LA Weekly





24 SUN One Night Only! 8pm:

“SILENTS...PLEASE!”

A NEW series of classic silent films with LIVE accompaniment!

In collaboration with KINO and The SoBe Music Institute

Queen Kelly (Erich Von Stroheim/USA/1928)

Starring Gloria Swanson as “Queen Kelly”

Ever wonder what came before SUNSET BOULEVARD, the last time Gloria Swanson and Erich Von Stroheim worked together, until that film in 1950?



Photo: Gloria Swanson by Edward Steichen©, 1924

In 1928, after years of struggles within the studio system, master director Erich Von Stroheim found the opportunity to create his crowning achievement: a storybook romance of intoxicating beauty, counterbalanced with a frightfully grim tale of moral corruption. Gloria Swanson, powerful in 1928 enough to be both star and producer, stars as an innocent convent girl who falls under the spell of a handsome prince (Walter Byron) on the eve of his marriage to a diabolical queen (Seena Owen). Unreleased in the United States, Queen Kelly might have been Von Stroheim's greatest film had actress/producer Swanson not halted it in mid-production. Kino presents the critically-acclaimed restoration of Von Stroheim's ambitious epic, which incorporates many of the scenes (set within an African brothel) that caused Swanson to shut down the film.

“A true artist—My God, he had talent”—Orson Welles

The KINO score of the film will be supplemented by a LIVE performance by Ryoji Yamaguchi on classical and acoustic guitar

from the SoBe Music Institute

$12 and $10 MBC Members, Students, and Seniors





28 THU 8:30pm:

“A Voyeur’s Journey: ATOM EGOYAN”

Where The Truth Lies (Canada/2005) (NC17 version)

With Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman, Kristin Adams

“When you have everything you want, how far is too far?”



In 1950s Miami, Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth) are superstar entertainers, an odd couple comedy act (based, loosely, on Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin and other lounge performers). The night a beautiful naked corpse is found in the bath of their hotel suite, the duo breaks up and they never speak again ... until 15 years later they are somehow brought together by an ambitious young writer, Karen O'Connor (Alison Lohman) who is desperately trying to write the Vince Collins biography - complete with details surrounding the mystery death - but competing with Lanny's own plans to publish his life story. . ..

“Terrific. . .a magnificently convoluted noir plot!”—Roger Ebert

WINNER: Outstanding Production Design Director’s Guild of Canada

Genie Awards Best Screenplay

“The set and costumes are supremely evocative, beautifully juxtaposing the shiny giddiness of the '50s and the cooler, darker atmospherics of the '70s.”

--Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune

“Beautifully shot and designed, with a lush orchestral score, Where The Truth Lies is a cinematic pleasure, powerfully combining story and character.”-Urban Cinefile






29 FRI, 30 SAT, 31 SUN 7:45pm & 9:45pm:

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami Theatrical Premiere!

The Last Mistress (Une vielle maîtresse)

(Catherine Breillat/France/2008)

With Asia Argento, Fu-ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida



The Last Mistress marks the monumental pairing of cinema's premiere provocateur, director Catherine Breillat (Romance, Fat Girl) with the most fearless and explosive actor of our generation, Asia Argento (Marie Antoinette, Boarding Gate). A penniless rogue, Ryno de Marigny (newcomer Fu-ad Ait Aattou), shocks 19th century France with his engagement to the virginal gem of the aristocracy, Hermangarde (Roxane Mesquida of Fat Girl). As lurid speculations of Ryno's ten year affair with the carnal Vellini (Argento) manifest, a supremely erotic and wickedly humorous depiction of human lust is revealed - overriding the brittle facade of nobility and reverence. Bolstered by Breillat's mastery of the medium and Argento's commanding performance, The Last Mistress is a highly entertaining yet incredibly provocative film that has resulted in unanimous praise from audiences and critics across the world.

In French with English subtitles

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Cannes Film Festival, New York Int Film Festival,

AFI Int Film Festival, Toronto Int. Film Festival, Chigo Int. Film Festival

“TORRID and ARRESTING! Breillat’s film, without a doubt, contains the most explicit sex, and talk about sex, ever seen in a historical costume drama”

—Screen International

“It’s the kind of film. . .in its aesthetic daring, in the violence of its idea, in its expansive idea, is a film you want to see several times”. –Manhola Dargis, New York Times

“SCANDALOUS and EXOTIC! Asia Argento’s tour-de-force performance.

--Amy Taubin, Film Comment







TICKETS:

FILMS: $10 or $7 MBC Members & Students

SILENTS...PLEASE! $12 or $10 MBC Members/Students/Seniors

Doors open fifteen minutes before screenings

Where the Design Lies: Recreating MIAMI Exhibition: complimentary



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 ongoing HD film festival where you don't just watch, you experience!

512 Española Way at Plaza España (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567) www.MBCINEMA.com










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