This weekend at MBC: Look who's a "New American Independent" too> MADONNA!‏

This Weekend at MBC!. . .

Look who's a...
"NEW AMERICAN INDEPENDENT" too!
MADONNA! ~ Miami Premiere of her debut film Filth and Wisdom

(SAT, SUN, & MON: 7:45pm & 9:35pm)

Your ticket includes entrance to the Monday night

official afterparty at "Chat Noir" at DREAM!



And...the November MBC photographic exhibition:

“The Frida Files” by LEO MATIZ

Leo Matiz (1917-1998) was born in Aracateca, Colombia, but was known internationally as a “citizen of the world”. The intense and stark compositional beauty of his photographs are world famous, particularly in some of the iconic portraits of our time, and especially in his immortal legendary portraits of Frida Kahlo. Matiz was a master at depicting the internal passions of his subjects, with graphic grace and sharp contrasting

elements defining their features. Like Sergei Eisenstein’s gorgeously photographed film Que Viva Mexico! (which screens November 30th as a companion piece and closing night event to this MBC exhibition, and is accompanied by the modernist electronic music of DJ Maximus 3000), the images of Leo Matiz capture history told through faces. These images are on display courtesy of Alejandra Matiz, the artist’s daughter. The photos are also for sale.



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NOVEMBER 2008 at a Glance:

22-24: Look who's also a New American Independent: MADONNA Filth and Wisdom

26: A newly restored American Independent: Kent Mackensie The Exiles

28,29: “New American Independents”: Lance Hammer Ballast

30: "SILENTS, Please!": Que Viva Mexico! with LIVE accompaniment!








22 SAT, 23 SUN, & 24 MON 7:45 & 9:30pm:

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Surprise. . .

look who’s an AMERICAN INDEPENDENT too: MADONNA!

Miami Theatrical Premiere!

Filth and Wisdom

(Directed by Madonna/USA/2008)

with DJ Ade, Gogol Bordello, Olegar Fedoro, Stephan Graham, Shobu Kapoor




Madonna's directorial debut, Filth and Wisdom, is a hilariously sexy tale of three roommates who must delve into mischievous and naughty behavior in pursuit of bigger and brighter futures. A Ukrainian immigrant, A.K. (Eugene Hutz), finances his dreams of 'trans-continental superstardom' with his band, Gogol Bordello, by turning tricks as a role-playing cross dresser. As A.K. literally whips the privileged of London into shape, he also secretly pines for the object of his affection, Holly (Holly Weston), an aspiring ballerina looking for her big break while moonlighting as a slippery stripper. Meanwhile, Juliette (Vicky Mclure) steals medicine from her pharmaceutical job in hopes of quenching her dreams of helping Africa's youth. Filth and Wisdom is every bit as erotic and playful as it is poignant and touching, revealing the universal struggles we all face in our pursuits of happiness.

Official Selection: Berlin Film Festival

“SHEER EXUBERANCE!...Madonna has done herself proud, with an artistic ambition that has simply bypassed her husband, Guy Richie”—The Times

Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting. . .

at CAVAS Wines! (across the street at 437 Española Way)



Each ticket is good for entrance into the official afterparty

on Monday night at "Chat Noir" at Dream Nightclub!









TUE 25 6:30-8:30pm:

From Florida to Hollywood:

Conversations with David Frankel

Director of The Devil Wears Prada and Marley and Me

Presented by the Entertainment Industry Incubator and

The Miami International Film Festival, in collaboration with

The Miami Beach Cinematheque




Join us for a humorous and enlightening discussion with David Frankel, Academy Award-winning Hollywood director, as he shares his experiences and insights on making it to Hollywood, filming in Florida, directing A-listers, and his upcoming release Marley & Me. An adaptation of a New York Times bestselling book by John Grogan, Marley & Me stars Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, and a highly strung Labrador retriever! Frankel is perhaps best known for directing Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada (2006). He won an Academy Award for Best Short for Dear Diary (1997) and an Emmy Award for Best Director for his work on the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers (2001). He received another Emmy nomination for directing the pilot for the HBO series Entourage (2004). His first feature film, Miami Rhapsody, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995.

This is a complimentary event. Limited seating.



26 WED 8:30pm:

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

A newly restored AMERICAN INDEPENDENT:

Kent Mackensie

Miami Theatrical Premiere!

The Exiles (Kent Mackensie/USA/1961)



From the people who brought you the restored version of Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, THE EXILES chronicles one night in the lives of young Native American men and women living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles. Based entirely on interviews with the participants and their friends, the film follows a group of exiles — transplants from Southwest reservations — as they flirt, drink, party, fight, and dance. In July 1957, filmmaker Kent Mackenzie spent long hours making friends and earning the confidence of these Indians who finally agreed to re-enact scenes from their lives for this picture.

"MIRACULOUS...the night photography alone would make the film immortal."
—Richard Brody The New Yorker

"ENTHRALLING and BREATHTAKINGLY GORGEOUS"—New York Magazine

Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting. . .

at CAVAS Wines! (across the street at 437 Española Way)





28 FRI, 29 SAT 7:45pm & 9:35pm:

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

NEW AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS: Lance Hammer

Miami Theatrical Premiere!

BEST DIRECTOR 2008 Sundance Film Festival!

Ballast

(Lance Hammer/USA/2008)




With Michael J. Smith Sr, JimMyron Ross, Tarra Riggs, Johnny McPhail

BALLAST is one of those rare films that maximize the medium through an aesthetic of understatement. Every frame is deliberately and beautifully composed, every cut artfully and economically executed—not only to transmit a quietly gripping story but to reveal characters’ layered emotional experiences and the specific textures and sensations of their locales. In the

cold, winter light of a rural Mississippi Delta township, a man’s suicide radically transforms three characters’ lives and throws off-balance what has long been a static arrangement among them. With circumstances thrusting them into proximity, a subtle interdependence and common purpose emerge for Marlee and Lawrence as they navigate grief, test new waters, and tentatively move forward.

WINNER: Best Director & Excellence in Cinematography Sundance Film Festival

Film Society of Lincoln Center and Museum of Modern Art Directing Prize

Grand Jury Prize Buenes Aires Film Festival

FIPRECSI Prize: New York and Buenes Aires Film Festivals

“A STARTINGLY ASSURED, PITCH PERFECT FIRST FEATURE!”

—Manohla Dargis NY Times

Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting. . .

at CAVAS Wines! (across the street at 437 Española Way)





30 SUN 7:45pm:

“SILENTS...PLEASE!”

A special audio-visual experience

unlike you have ever seen before!

Featuring the LIVE electronic music styling of DJ Maximus 3000!

Que Viva Mexico! (Sergei Eisenstein/Mexico/Russia/1931)

The KINO restoration of a lost masterpiece of cinema




A blend of the ethnographic, the political, the scenic and the surreal, Qué Viva México! is nothing short of brilliant; a highly stylized (silent with limited subtitles) documentary on the people and volatile social climate of Mexico. It remains superior to the legion of films it strongly influenced: Orson Welles' It's All True, Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo and the works of Sergio Leone. With sequences devoted to the Eden-like land of Tehuantepec, the savage majesty of the bullfight, the struggles of the noble peasant and the hypnotic imagery of the Day of the Dead, Qué Viva México! is a vivid tapestry of Mexican life which, thanks to Grigory Alexandrov and Nikita Orlov's careful restoration, takes its rightful place alongside Eisenstein's other legendary works.

Tonight the film is complemented and contrasted with the modern electrionic sounds of DJ Maximus 3000. The film will be followed by the closing night reception for the MBC LEO MATIZ Frida Kahlo exhibition. $12 or $10 MBC Members / Students / Seniors





COMING SOON:

ART BASEL 2008 at MBC!

FOUR NIGHTS OF COMPLIMENTARY EVENTS!



TICKETS:

FILMS: $10 or $7 MBC Members / Students / Seniors

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

Cine-IMPROV! $12 or $10 MBC Members / Students / Seniors

Complimentary event: "The Big Read Project"

Doors open fifteen minutes before screenings



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