Two GREAT indies this Weekend at MBC!. . .
"NEW AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS":
AZAZEL JACOBS~Momma's Man (SAT 7:45pm & 9:35pm)
"THIS IS INDEPENDENT FILM DEFINED!"--Manolah Dargis, NY Times
JOSHUA SAFDIE~The Pleasure of Being Robbed (SUN 8:30pm)
"THE AMERINDIE BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR!" --Salon
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 photographs are also for sale (and MBC Members get a special price!).
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NEWS at MBC!
OSCAR NIGHT® AMERICA 2009 (Feb 22, 2009) IS ON SALE EARLY!
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MBC is participating of a cultural exchange program with Spain, and we
have a new intern for nine months! Come say hi to Rafa from Barcelona!
NOVEMBER 2008 at a Glance:
14, 15: "New American Independents": Azazel Jacobs Momma's Man
16: "New American Independents": Joshua Safdie: The Pleasure of Being Robbed
18-21: Miami Short Film Festival
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!
15 SAT 7:45pm & 9:35pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
NEW AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS: Azazel Jacobs
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
Momma's Man
(A Film by Azazel Jacobs/USA/2008)
With Ken and Flo Jacobs, Richard Edson, Dana Varon
Starring the young director’s parents, legendary avant-garde American filmmaker Ken Jacobs and his wife Flo, Momma’s Man is brought to you by the producers of Half Nelson and Maria Full of Grace. The film chronicles the increasingly anxious dilemma of Mikey, a young husband and father who stops off at his parents' loft during a business trip to New York and finds himself emotionally unable to leave. Unsure of his own motivations, he makes up excuses about why he's staying – his flight is delayed; his flight is canceled – but while his doting mother (the director's real mother) is more than happy to enable his procrastination, his father (the director's real father) grows suspicious of his son's changes of plans.
Official Selection: Sundance and New York Film Festivals
"THIS IS INDEPENDENT FILM DEFINED..."--Manohla Dargis, New York Times
“AN EXTRAORDINARY MOVIE IN EVERY WAY.”—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
“Profoundly Affective!”—Andrew O’Hehir, Salon
Check out Momma’s Man blogspot HERE
Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting. . .
at CAVAS Wines! (across the street at 437 Española Way)
16 SUN 8:30pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
NEW AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS: Joshua Safdie
Closing Night: Cannes Director’s Fortnight!
Florida Theatrical Premiere!
The Pleasure of Being Robbed
(Directed by Joshua Safdie/USA/2008)
with Eléonore Hendricks, Josh Safdie, Wayne Chin
By turns delightful, exasperating, goofy and opaque, The Pleasure of Being Robbed has been called a “mumblecore” film, but either that's totally wrong or the term means nothing beyond an inexpensively made indie about people in their 20s. Nobody sits around talking about relationships in Safdie's film, and in fact most of the talk in the movie consists of lies, misdirections and driving instruction. His main character (Eléonore Hendricks) is either a kleptomaniac or a semi-professional thief, and as such is constantly in motion. Shot guerrilla-style on the streets of New York and Boston, The Pleasure of Being Robbed is both a fresh, original work and one that bears the marks of New Wave-era art cinema.—Andrew O’Hehir, Salon
Official Selection Closing Night Director’s Fortnight Cannes Film Festival
"THE AMERINDIE BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR!" --Salon
"Evokes alternative NY cinema of the 1960's"--Cahiers du Cinema
Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting. . .
at CAVAS Wines! (across the street at 437 Española Way)
Miami Short Film Festival (Nov 18-21)
18 TUE 8pm: “WORD!”
The word is to the story what the image is to the film – the basis for the whole tale.
This collection of imaginative shorts shares its source of inspiration from the world of literature. Total running time: 68 min.
Butterfly Narrative, 6:00, Chris Olsen, USA
Crowded with Voices Animation, 5:00, Anya Belkina, USA
The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato’s Allegory in Clay
NOMINEE, Best Animation Animation, 3:10, Michael Ramsey, USA
Alicja Wonderland Experimental, 20:00, Martin Gavreau, Poland/UK
A Life’s Passion Documentary, 6:40, Gary Thomas, Canada
Proud Iza Narrative, 19:31, Anna Condo, USA
Your MBC Ticket is good for 50% on drinks
at Chocolate (next door) after the films!
19 WED 8pm: MSFF: "HELL on EARTH”
Visually and viscerally astonishing explorations of psyches, grappling with demons of
all kinds - both internal and external. Feverish visions and pulse-pounding thrills await you in this program! Total running time: 68 min.
An Unquiet Mind Experimental, 6:00, Chihwen Lo, USA
Some of an Equation NOMINEE, Best Experimental
Experimental, 7:49, Burke Roberts, Spain/UK
A Season to Wither Narrative, 10:48, Leigh Ann Maynard, Canada
Permute Animation, 4:25, Lydia Fu, Canada
Hunger (Gorta) Narrative, 14:00, Mark Lynch, Ireland
Room 38 (Quatro 38) Narrative, 25:00, Thomas Edward Hale, Brazil
Your MBC Ticket is good for 50% on drinks
at Chocolate (next door) after the films!
20 THU 8pm: MSFF: BROTHERS & SISTERS
Our brothers and sisters are often our first and last friends, constants through a lifetime of comings and goings. This quartet of films examines sibling connections, through humor, sorrow, baseball bats and above all, the unwavering fidelity that characterizes blood ties. Total running time: 72 min.
The Ladies Documentary, 13:00, Christina Voros, USA
You Better Watch Out NOMINEE, Best Narrative
Narrative, 21:43, Steven Callen, Australia
Hartslagen Narrative, 13:14, Vincent Coen, Belgium
Rushers Narrative, 24:00, Joey Boukadakis, USA
Your MBC Ticket is good for 50% on drinks
at Chocolate (next door) after the films!
21 FRI 8pm:MSFF: "COME TOGETHER”
These films explore a series of sexual longings and collisions that look at sex and its myriad of possibilities – beautiful, quick, slow, awkward, complicated, dangerous, painful, and tender. Some encounters may never have a second chance; some are all about the second chance. Total running time: 87 min.
Aprop NOMINEE, Best Experimental and Best Foreign
Experimental, 6:20, Aitor Echeverria, Spain
The Confession Narrative, 3:40, Thomas Hefferon, Ireland
Player NOMINEE, Best Narrative Narrative, 19:51, Mary Nighy, UK
My First Kiss NOMINEE, Best Narrative Narrative, 16:36, David Wexler, USA
Pelo Ouvido Narrative, 17:18, Joaquim Haickel, Brazil
To Catch Narrative, 1:00, Alec Brownstein, USA
still lives Narrative, 11:00, Michael Rababy, USA
Über Alice NOMINEE, Best Narrative Narrative, 10:00, Rebecca Feldman, USA
Your MBC Ticket is good for 50% on drinks
at Chocolate (next door) after the films!
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 F&W afterparty
on Monday night at "Chat Noir" at Dream Nightclub!
TUE 25 6:30-8:30pm:
From Florida to Hollywood:
A Conversation 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 MATIZ Frida Kahlo exhibition. $12 or $10 MBC Members / Students / Seniors
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
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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