This Week at MBC:
Marzynski, SYNECDOCHE, Ophüls
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FEBRUARY at a Glance:
05: Marian Marzynski's The Americanization of Young Kimoto
06, 07: Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York
08: The debut of "PLEASURES and LOVES Via Max Opüls": La Ronde
09, 10, 11: Tribute to Krzytof Kieslowski: Trois Clours: Bleu, Blanc, Rouge
12: Marian Marzynski with guest filmmaker Franco de Pena: Future of an Illusion
13, 15: "A Valentine Weekend OUT": Were The World Mine
14: Valentine's Day "SILENTS PLEASE!: The Man Who Laughs with Live Opera!
18: Model Citizens present "Cine-IMPROV!"
19: "PLEASURES and LOVES Via Max Opüls": Le Plaisir
20, 21: "Oscar® Shorts" live action and animation
22: OSCAR NIGHT® AMERICA (Miami's only officially sanctioned Oscar® Party!)
26: "PLEASURES and LOVES Via Max Opüls": Lola Montes
27, 28: I've Loved You So Long
FEB 05 THU 8pm:
An evening with Marian Marzynski
World Premiere advance screening!
The Americanization of Young Kimoto
Marian Marzynski, a veteran documentary filmmaker with roots in the European "cinema verite" movement and a film teacher who educated many of the American prominent filmmakers like
Gus Van Sant, Jean de Segonzac, Oren Jacoby, Bill Richardson and others, has been using documentary aesthetics and techniques to tell fiction-like stories. In "The Americanization of Young Kimoto" he is following one his students at the Rhode Island School of Design
through his post-graduate career and to Japan from where he escaped to become an American filmmaker, but failed.
After the screening the director will engage the viewers in a critical
analysis of the film to help him make the final cuts he envisions.
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FEB 06 FRI, 07 SAT 7pm & 9:15pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Encore Miami Screenings!
Synecdoche, New York
(Charlie Kaufman/2008)
With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michelle Williams,
Tom Noonan, Emily Watson and Dianne Wiest.
For theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), life catering to suburban blue-
hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife
(Catherine Keener) has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin. His therapist (Hope Davis) is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel (Samantha Morton) has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty.
"To say that Charlie Kaufman's 'Synecdoche, New York' is one of the best films of the year or even one closest to my heart is such a pathetic response to its soaring ambition that I might as well pack it in right now."-- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
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FEB 08 SUN 8pm:
The debut of:
“PLEASURES & LOVES Via Max OPHÜLS”
Ah. . .Paris in the 1950s. Or any decade for that matter. There is no city more romantic. And capturing pleasures and loves in Paris is what no director did better in the 1950's as Max Ophüls, not a Frenchman at all, but born in Saarbrücken, Germany. His most famous “mature period” work after a decade in Hollywood, with its lyrical, magical display of sweeping black and white and finally color tracking shot cinematography, and stunning monumental production design, which seems to caress the characters that inhabit within, is best displayed in the trio of films at MBC this month: the beautifully restored versions of La Ronde, Le Plaisir, and Lola Montès. He was an icon of romance with a twist, and his films are now finally “mounted on canvas” properly again, in newly restored versions, half a century after his untimely death in 1957.
“Everyone in the world has two fatherlands: his own and Paris”- Max Ophüls
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
NEWLY RESTORED IN 2008!
La Ronde (Roundabout)
(France/1950)
“A Wonderful Merry-Go-Round of Love With Eleven Stars”
With Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, Serge Regianni, Simone Simon,
Daniel Gélin, Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Louis Barrault, Gérard Phillippe
Literally speaking, La Ronde is a ride in an amusement park. Colloquially, it can also apply to a dance, where the couples, well, they spin around. Ophüls' film is based on a play of the same name, which was about class and the spreading of syphilis through a series of “rencontres sexuelles”. Ophüls drops the disease, and most of the class issues in his interpretation of the work. Instead he opts to examine the intricacies, and the false-shallowness of relationships. In his world, even what may seem to be the most meaningless sexual encounter leaves a mark on those involved, and in a sense everyone else they touch. –Cinematical
In French with English subtitles.
WINNER: “Best Film From Any Source” BAFTA Awards
With FRENCH WINE TASTING included in your ticket!
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A Tribute to Krzystof KIESLOWSKI
Presented with The Romantic Film Festival
Romance In a Can
09 MON 8:30pm:
Three Colors: Blue (Trois Couleurs: Bleu)
(France/Poland/Switzerland/UK/1993)
With Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel
Three Colors: Blue is the first part of Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national motto: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Blue is the story of Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed European composer and her young daughter in a car accident. The film's theme of liberty is manifested in Julie's attempt to spiritually commit suicide by withdrawing from the world and live completely independently, anonymously and in solitude in the Parisian metropolis.
In French, Romanian, and Polish with English Subtitles
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10 TUE 8:30pm:
Three Colors: White (Trzy Kolory: Bialy)
(Poland/France/Switzerland/1994)
With Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr
The second feature in Kieslowski's “Three Colors” trilogy, the black comedy White, Karol Karol is an expatriate Polish hairdresser whose French wife divorces him after just six months of marriage because of his impotency. Penniless and devoid of his passport, Karol must journey back to Poland by hiding in a trunk. Upon his return, he slowly begins amassing a considerable fortune, ultimately hatching a perverse plot for revenge. An allegory about equality, the film is mordantly wry, a cynical look at power, marriage, and capitalism. In Polish and French with English Subtitles
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11 WED 8:30pm:
Three Colors: Red (Trois Couleurs: Rouge)
(Poland/France/Switzerland/1994)
With Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frédérique Seder
The concluding chapter in filmmaker Kieslowski's “Three Colors” trilogy, Red tells the story of luminous Valentine, a young student and fashion model who befriends a bitter former judge. Their accidental meeting is just one of the many chance encounters woven through the narrative fabric of the feature. The subject here is fraternity, and indeed, its central characters are all closely connected, their destinies locked on a collision course.
In French with English Subtitles
A poetry reading precedes the film–poems by a Polish poet, Nobel Prize Winner, Wislawa Szymborska, performed by University of Miami students in cooperation with the American Institute of Polish Culture, in Miami www.ampolinstitute.org. The film “RED” was inspired by “Love at First Sight” poem by Szymborska.
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12 THU 8:30pm
An evening with Marian Marzynski
And guest filmmaker Franco de Peña
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
The Future of an Illusion
(El Porvenir de una Ilusion)
(Franco de Peña/Poland/Cuba/1997) Cinematography: Antoine Vivas Denisov
Pablito, a young kid writes a message for his father asking him to return to Havana,
he inserts it in a bottle and throws it into the Sea.
Puly Orama, the cigar seller, quarrels once and again with his wife about money,
while she carries his infant in arms.
Blanca, the prostitute, is waiting for the love of her life to appear
and take her away from Havana.
Luisa, the aristocrat is waiting for her children to come back to Havana,
to see her before she dies.
They all wait for the New Year to come and bring them a better future,
an illusion that might bring light for their life.
Franco de Peña brings documentary and fiction together, with beautiful photography,
in a painting of soft tonalities and a microcosm tainted with melancholy. Born and raised in Venezuela, Franco de Peña traveled the world, learning and developing his filmmaking skills in Montreal, Berlin, Barcelona and in Poland where he graduated from the famous Polish Film School in Lodz. His film Future of an Illusion shot in 1997 on a Havana street called "Future Street", tells its story applying documentary techniques, and combining acting with life observation. It is also a case of filmmaking under political censorship.
Marzynski, who was making films in the Communist Poland and de Peña,
who learned filmmaking in the post-Communist Poland, will engage in a interview/discussion after the screening.
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13 FRI & 15 SUN 8:30pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
“A Valentine Weekend OUT”
Were the World Mine (Tom Gustafson/2008)
The musical sensation and gay-friendly festival smash hit of the year!
With Tanner Cohen, Wendy Robie, Judy McLane, Nathaniel David Becker
Timothy, prone to escaping his dismal high school reality through dazzling musical daydreams,
gets cast by his eccentric teacher as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. He stumbles upon
a recipe for a love potion hidden within the script, and uses it to turn almost everyone in his narrow-minded town gay. With vibrant imagery, a first-rate ensemble cast and innovative music rivaling the best of pop/ rock and contemporary Broadway, Were the World Mine attempts to push modern gay cinema and musical film beyond expectation.
WINNER: Eleven International Jury Awards, and ten Audience Awards!
“Surpasses in quality almost any film is Sundance this year!”--Indiewire
“CRITIC'S PICK! ENCHANTING, ENDEARING, STRIKING! MOVIE MUSICAL MAGIC!”—New York Times
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14 SAT 8pm: Valentines Day!
“SILENTS Please!”
The MBC series of silent films with LIVE accompaniment!
The Man Who Laughs
(Paul Leni/USA/1928)
Based on the novel by Victor Hugo
With Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, and Olga Baclanova
A tragic love story that shocked but delighted American audiences in 1928 (and almost 100
years later, inspired actor Heath Ledger in preparation for his Oscar® nominated role in Dark Knight), silent star Conrad Veidt (from the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) stars as Gwynplaine, an English nobleman's son who is kidnapped by a political enemy after offending King James II, and then is mutilated by a gypsy "surgeon" who carves a “rictus” smile upon his face. Finding shelter
in a traveling freakshow, he falls in love with a blind girl (The Phantom of the Opera's Mary Philbin), the one person who cannot be repulsed by his appearance. As years pass, Gwynplaine falls in love with her, but refuses to allow himself to marry her because he feels his hideous face makes him unworthy, and the hand of fate draws Gwynplaine back into the world of intrigue.
“ONE OF THE FINAL TREASURES of German inspired silent Expressionism”
—Roger Ebert
Tonight's film will have LIVE OPERA accompanying the existing score, by Miami Music Academy vocalist AMY ALVARADO!
...And includes Coppola Wines with cheese from
Cabot Creamery of Vermont, and chocolates after the film!
Tickets are $16 and $14 for MBC Members for this special event!
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18 WED 8:30pm: The “Model Citizens” present
Cine-IMPROV Live!
Miami's hottest improv actors 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: LOVE (In All The Wrong Places!)
“The Cine-Improv troupe works at a higher level than even the pros you see on Comedy Central, late-night TV, and at clubs. Their improvised take on film removes the middleman and leaves him (rolling) on the cut-up room floor (in this case that's the Miami Beach Cinematheque).”--Greg Baker New Times
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19 THU 8:30pm
“PLEASURES & LOVES Via Max OPHÜLS”
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
NEWLY RESTORED IN 2008!
Le Plaisir (Pleasure)
(France/1952)
“But my friend, happiness is not a joyful thing”.
With Claude Dauphin, Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Danielle Darrieux
Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud
Next subject in Ophüls' beautifully cinematic cannon of examination is that of pleasure, and its close affair with love. The film's trio structure of three separate stories are filmed with sweeping grandeur, with a typical Ophüls wink of the eye. (but not in a Sarah Palin kind of way). First stop is Pleasure and YOUTH: (a man's attempt to hide his age as he courts the ladies); then comes Pleasure and PURITY: (a brothel Madame's attempt to bring balance into her girl's lives by bringing them to her niece's communion in the country); and finally Pleasure and DEATH: (a painter's tragic love affair with his model). Who said pleasure was not multifaceted, very personal, and yes, complicated?
In French with English subtitles.
With FRENCH WINE TASTING included in your ticket!
. . .at CAVAS Wines, after the film!
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OSCAR® WEEKEND!
20 FRI, 21 SAT (times below)
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical Premieres!
OSCAR® SHORTS 2009!
(Two separate programs/
Two separate admissions/See both or one!)
ANIMATED Shorts 7pm nightly:
Lavatory - Love Story - Konstantin Bronzit - 10 min
Oktapodi - Julien Bocabeille - 3 min
Le Maison en Petits Cubes - Kunio Kato - 12 min
This Way Up - Adam Foulkes and Alan Smith - 9 min
Presto - Doug Sweetland - 5 min
Plus extra short listed nominees!
Estimated Running Time - 80 min
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LIVE ACTION Shorts 9pm nightly:
Auf Der Strecke (On the Line) - dir. Reto Caffi - 30 min
New Boy - Steph Green - 11 min
Toyland - Jochen Freydank - 14 min
The Pig - Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh - 22 min
Manon on the Asphalt - Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont - 15 min
Estimated Total Running Time: 94 min
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22 SUN 6pm:
Hurry! Almost SOLDOUT!
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OSCAR NIGHT® AMERICA
. . .SoBe-Style!
MBC's annual fundraising event is Miami's
ONLY OFFICIAL Academy Awards® Party
During the South Beach Wine and Food Festival! . . .
MBC's annual fundraiser sanctioned by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, benefiting the Miami Beach Film Society & Cinematheque
for the seventh year in a row!
Join Food Network's Bobby Flay and actress Stephanie March as they host Oscar Night® America. . . SoBe-Style during the 2009 Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Savor Bobby Flay's famous cuisine while sipping on fabulous cocktails from the Moët Hennessy portfolio of spirits, and finish the night with a spectacular auction.
At the Paris Theatre
550 Washington Avenue, South Beach, FL
Sunday, February 22, 2009
6:30 p.m.: Red Carpet arrival and
Moët & Chandon reception. Music by DJ Pete.
8:00 p.m.: Live telecast of the 81st Annual Academy Awards® on WPLG Local 10
Tickets are $200 for general admission or $225 for reserved seating*
(not including tax & service charge). *including the official
81st annual Academy Awards® program booklet.
(MBC Members receive a $50 discount on either ticket price!)
One discounted ticket per member. Become a member and enjoy not only
discounts to Oscar Night® SoBe-Style but other great benefits all year long.
Visit www.MBCinema.com to become a member for your $50 discount!. . .
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(Reserved Seating tickets SOLD OUT unless you are a member!)
26 THU 8:30pm
“PLEASURES & LOVES Via Max OPHÜLS”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
NEWLY RESTORED IN 2008!
Lola Montès
(Max Ophüls/France/1955/restoration 2008)
With Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook
Max Ophüls' final work, and arguably the masterpiece of a career that encompassed films in five different languages, Lola Montès is the colossal story of dancer turned exploited circus performer Lola Montès, told through flashbacks in various color tones according to the scandalous periods of her life. It was Ophüls' first movie in color and Cinemascope widescreen, and was the biggest-budgeted French film to date. This ravishing new restoration was showcased to huge acclaim at this year's Cannes Film Festival, as well as this year's Telluride and New York Film Festivals. It is the only film ever to have been selected for the New York Film Festival three times: for the very first NYFF in 1963, again in 1969, and this year. In French with English subtitles.
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Cannes, New York, and Teluride Film Festivals 2008
“THE GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIME!, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation on this one proposition above all others. . . Lola Montès is clearly the film of the year, or any year.” –Andrew Sarris, New York Observer 1963,
(and. . . “Sarah Palin is the new Lola Montes”—Andrew Sarris 2008)
“A BAROQUE MASTERPIECE!. . . among the most emotionally and visually ravishing works the cinema has to offer.”–Dave Kehr, New York Times
"THE NEAR PERFECT MARRIAGE OF CLASSICISM AND MODERNISM.”
–Cullen Gallagher, L Magazine
In French with English subtitles
With FRENCH WINE TASTING included in your ticket!
. . .at CAVAS Wines, after the film!
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27 FRI, 28 SAT, SUN 01 7pm & 9pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
I've Loved You So Long
(Il y a longtemps que je t'aime)
(Philippe Claudel/France/Germany/2008)
With Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius
Léa (Elsa Zylberstein) and Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) are sisters. We soon realize that the two sisters are almost complete strangers to each other. Juliette has just been released from prison after serving a long sentence. Léa was still a teenager when Juliette, a doctor, was sent off to prison. Léa contacted Juliette when she was released and suggested that Juliette come to live with her. Juliette had no particular desire to see her sister again.
In French with English subtitles.
WINNER: Berlin Film Festival Ecumenical Prize
European Film Awards Best Actress Kristin Scott Thomas
Official Selection: Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals
“ABSOLUTE PERFECTION!”-Wall Street Journal
"Kristin Scott Thomas is absolutely astounding! She gives one of the best performances of this or any year. A stunning film!"-Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"BRILLIANT! THE MUST-SEE MOVIE OF 2008!”-Hollywood.com
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