APRIL 2009 at the Miami Beach Cinematheque!‏

“High-Def HITCH!” continues all April, with the MBC HITCHCOCK GRAPHICS exhibition March 31-April 30!

MBC is opening it's archives for the April exhibition "HITCHCOCK GRAPHICS", which includes rare vintage memorabilia, much of it autographed by the director and stars, and including important pieces on loan, such as the spectacular photograph "Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren, Los Angeles 1962, by Lawrence Schiller!


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APRIL 2009 at a Glance:

March 31: High-Def HITCH: Psycho

01, 03, 04: Cine-THEATRE: Hughie starring David Tawil

02: High-Def HITCH: The Birds

03 & 04: Medicine For Melancholy

05 & 06: Dog Eat Dog

07: Miami Beach Dance Festival: Bollywood Straight From the Heart

10:The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

11, 12: Waltz with Bashir

13-19: Sicilian Film Festival

19: Miami Latin Gay Film Festival: MARISOL in Tombola!

21: High-Def HITCH: Topaz

22: "Cine-IMPROV"

23, 24: Examined Life

25, 26: Wendy and Lucy

30: High-Def HITCH: Frenzy



31 TUE

“High-Def HITCH!”

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!

Psycho

(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1960)

With Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam



In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was perhaps the best-known film director in the world, when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From

its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt in a lunchtime liaison in

a cheap hotel (hardly a common moment in a major studio film in 1960), Psycho announced

that it was taking the audience to places it had never been before, and on that score what followed would hardly disappoint. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job. Impulse takes over and Marion takes off with the company cash, and stops for the night at the Bates Motel, where innkeeper Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) cheerfully mentions that she's the first guest in weeks. “There's hardly a film fan alive who doesn't know what happens next”

-Starpulse

"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it."-Alfred Hitchcock

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April 01 WED 8:30pm,

& 04 SAT & 05 SUN 5pm:

LIVE THEATRE at MBC!

“Cine-THEATRE”

Eugene O'Neill's HUGHIE

A One-Act (one hour) play including cinematic supplements!

Starring David Tawil

Also featuring Mark Kroczynski / Directed by Aaron Gonzalez



Multi-Pulitzer Prize winning Playwright Eugene O'Neill wrote the one act play Hughie in 1940, set in the year 1929. . .two years that resound loudly in American history. Hughie is about the American psyche in periods of economic and emotional distress, which is why 2009 is a perfect year to reflect on our current conditions and where they slide into perspective. Small-time gambler Erie Smith lives in a seedy New York hotel, and Hughie, the hotel's clerk is a captive audience for Erie's regular ranting and tall tales. Erie comes home from a night of grief-stricken drinking because Hughie has died. Will there ever be a companionship replacement for one loner seeking solace in another?

$15 or $12 MBC Members/Seniors/Students

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April 02 THU 8:30pm:

“High-Def HITCH!”

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!

The Birds

(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1964)

With Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy



The story begins as an innocuous romantic triangle involving wealthy, spoiled Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), handsome Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), and schoolteacher Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). The human story begins in a San Francisco pet shop and culminates at the home of Mitch's mother (Jessica Tandy) at Bodega Bay, where the characters' sense of security

is slowly eroded by the curious behavior of birds in the area. At first, it's no more than a sea gull swooping down and pecking at Melanie's head. Things take a truly ugly turn when hundreds of birds converge on a children's party. “The birds have run amok, and once the onslaught begins, there's virtually no letup.”

"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."-Alfred Hitchcock

"Hitch was all about the chase with his blondes. I don't think he ever wanted to-

how will I say? - culminate the chase." -Tippi Hedren

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03 FRI 7pm & 9pm:

and 04 SAT 7pm & 8:45pm:

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!

MEET DIRECTOR BARRY JENKINS!



Medicine For Melancholy

Directed by Barry Jenkins

With Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins



A love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-something's dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco-a city with the smallest proportional black population of any other major American city.

WINNER: Special Jury Prize Sarasota Film Festival

Independent Spirit Award and Someone To Watch award nominee

“Barry Jenkins' terrific debut feature, Medicine for Melancholy, is an intimate and sociologically astute study of a young African-American couple...remarkable...bold, insightful movie.”-Michael Fox, SF Weekly

“EXCELLENT, SURPRISING, and SUBTLE...remind yourself, your roommates, your friends and family to see Medicine For Melancholy.”-D. Scot Miller, SF Guardian

Meet director BARRY JENKINS on the Friday night screenings!

Q&A will follow the screenings. This event is co-presented by "CCCV"



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05 SUN, 06 MON

7pm & 9pm:

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!

Dog Eat Dog (Perro come perro)

Directed by Carlos Moreno/Colombia/2008

With Eusebio Benitez, Oscar Borda



Dog Eat Dog, a tale of double-crosses and retribution is Colombia's official entry to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film. El Orejon is an agoraphobic crime boss who lives surrounded by telescopes in a luxury high-rise apartment in the center of Cali, Colombia. When his godson is killed he asks a voodoo priestess to avenge the murder by casting a deadly spell on the shooter, Eusebio. Miles away, Victor is hired by the boss to carry out a job, but makes a disastrous decision to break the sacred law of the crime world and keeps the cash for himself. As the stash of money passes from hand to hand, who will have the wits to be the last one standing?

WINNER: Gramado Film Festival Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography

Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival Best Actor

Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, Miami Int. Film Festival

"Dog Eat Dog" is a very funny film, not in the traditional devices of the one-liner and wisecracks, but in a more subtle language of facial expressions. The slow but confident pace, which is engaging and tense, is unusual in a film of its type and gives lie to just how boring the frantic editing of recent thrillers has become.”-Quiet Earth

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07 TUE 8pm:

Miami Beach Dance Festival

Bollywood!

Straight From the Heart

(Hum dil de chuke sanam)

Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. 2000

Starring Aishwariya Rai, Salman Khan, Ajay Devgan

Running time : 188 minutes



Have you ever seen a REAL Bollywood film? (Not the made-for-Hollywood stuff). Now is your chance to see an authentic award winning emotional drama with the outstanding choreography, acting, and production values that you have heard all about. In this dramatically complex family story, Nandini (the soulful, beautiful, confident heart of the family, played by India's biggest star sensation Aishwariya Rai) hides her new love interest from her strict father. Her arranged marriage can not stop “the desire that rules her heart!” Meanwhile, this basic Indian story is told in the elaborate, colorful, flamboyant style that made India's Bollywood the most successful and prolific movie-making place on earth! Viva Bollywood!

In Hindi, English, Hungarian, with English subtitles.

WINNER: Indian Film Fare Awards Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress

National Film Awards India: Best Choreography

International Indian Film Academy Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress

The film will be preceded by a Bollywood dance demonstration

by Geeta Dias! This is a complimentary event! (donations welcome!)





09 THU 8:30pm: “High-Def HITCH!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!

Torn Curtain

(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1966)

With Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy



In a sign of the times, Universal wanted “big Hollywood stars” in the films they presented, even Hitchcock films. So Paul Newman and Julie Andrews were cast even though Hitchcock wanted his regulars Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. In this thriller of paranoia and double crossing, a double agent has to contend with enemies on both sides of the political fence as well as the woman he loves. Prof. Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) is an gifted American physicist who, at the height of the Cold War, decides to defect to East Germany. To his surprise, his fiancée, fellow scientist Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews) follows him, and she soon discovers Armstrong is no traitor, but acting as a secret undercover agent.

"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."-Alfred Hitchcock

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10 FRI 8:30pm:

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!

The Pervert's Guide To Cinema

Directed by Sophie Fiennes/UK/Austria/Netherlands/2008

Featuring ZIZEK!



The Pervert's Guide To Cinema takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, acclaimed philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves. Whether he is untangling the famously baffling films of David Lynch, or overturning everything you thought you knew about Hitchcock, Zizek illuminates the screen with his passion, intellect, and unfailing sense of humor.

WINNER: British Independent Film Awards Best Documentary

“Highly entertaining and often brilliant.” –Guardian (UK)

“Here's a film guaranteed to make you smarter than all your friends for 48 hours, or at least feel like you are.” –Minneapolis Star Tribune

* * * * * “ESSENTIAL VIEWING FOR CINEPHILES! But also for anyone else interested in the enduring power of cinema.”—Time Out

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11 SAT, 12, SUN 8:30pm:

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Encore Miami Screenings!

Waltz With Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)

Directed by Ari Folman/Israel/Germany/France/2008



Director Ari Folman's animated documentary has been acclaimed worldwide and is winner of 6 Israeli Film Academy Awards, including Best Film, Director, Screenplay and Art Direction. One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. The two men conclude that there's a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images. In Hebrew, German, Arabic, English, with English subtitles.

WINNER: Israel Awards Best Film, Golden Globes Best Foreign Film

César Awards Best Foreign Film, Israeli Film Academy Best Film, Director

“AN ABSOLUTE STUNNER!” –Wall Street Journal

“PROVACATIVE, HALLUCINATORY, INCENDIARY!. . .it's unlike any film you've seen, period.” –Los Angeles Times

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Sicilian Film Festival (April 13-19)



13 MON 6pm: SFF Opening Ceremony with wines of Sicily

followed by 7pm: The Viceroys (I Vicere') by Roberto Faenza

$20 opening ceremony and film



8:45pm: La baronessa di Carini by Umberto Marino



14 TUE 7pm: La baronessa di Carini by Umberto Marino



8:45pm: The Viceroys (I Vicere') by Roberto Faenza



10:30pm: If You Close Your Eyes (Se chiudi gli occhi) by Lisa Romano



15 WED 6pm: The Island Inside: A Journey With Vincenzo Consolo (L'isola in me: in viaggio con Vincenzo Consolo) by Ludovica Tortora De Falco



7:15pm: Taormina Shorts in cooperation with Taormina Film Festival

Our Sea (Mare nostro) by Andrea D'Asaro 20', Maradona Baby by Nino Sabella 10', Sgangsters by Mario Cosentino, 17', The Door of Forgiveness (Bab al Samah – La porta del perdono) by Francesco Sperandeo 15', The Nude Life (La vita nuda) by Dino Santoro 21', The Hallway (Il corridoio) by Gaia Bonsignore 6'



9pm: Homage to the Sicilian Producer George Litto

Dressed to Kill by Brian Di Palma

16 THU 6pm: Documentaries From Sulfur To Coal (Dallo zolfo al carbone)

by Luca Vullo 30', The Magic of Acitrezza (La malia di Acitrezza) by Paolo Brunatto 29'



7pm: Conference: Being a Sicilian Producer by Augusto Allegra

with Cover Boy by Carmine Amoroso

$15 (conference and films)



9:00pm: A Gide's Love (Un amore di Gide) by Diego Ronsisvalle



17 FRI 6:30pm: Short films: Party Night (Amiche) by Massimo Natale 14', Original Talents (Originali talenti) by Manolo Cristian Abbondati 20', A Scrooge Meets Cinderella Story (Cenerentola e lo sfruttatore) by Andria Litto 17', Faida 2 - The return (Faida 2 - Il ritorno) by Giorgio Galieti 10', A Heart Inside The Sea (Un cuore dentro al mare) by Claudia Labianca 20', The Fishing Light (La Lampara) by Giovanni Sinopoli 13', Being Handy (Mi chiamo Handy) by Vincenzo Cosentino 7'



8:45pm: The Sicilian Girl (La siciliana ribelle) by Marco Amenta

18 SAT 7pm: Documentaries Black Vessel (Il mare come il vino) by Luigi Valente 22'; Vara by Joseph Gardella 35'; Easter in Sicily (Pasqua in Sicilia) by Sigal Bujman 50'



8:40pm: Detective Montalbano: Paper Moon (Il Commissario Montalbano:

la luna di carta) by Alberto Sironi TV Series



10:30pm: SFF Afterparty at The Forge, 432 41st Street, Miami Beach

with host Juan Carlos Perez Complimentary Champagne until 12.

RSVP for guest list to jcpwonder@yahoo.com

19 SUN 6pm: Documentaries: Street Food Palermo by Laura Ravaioli 22'; Prince Alliata's Sweet Life (Il tonno, il corvo, la granita, Francesco Alliata, una vita dolce)

by Alfredo Antonaros 29'



7pm: Helen (Elena) by Salvo Bitonti 15'

and A Breath Of Life (Diceria dell'untore) by Beppe Cino 97'

With special guest Franco Nero

$30



9pm: SFF Fundraising Party

with concert by Kelly J. Roberts, and the official SFF Awards

and Italian Buffet Dinner with Wines of Sicily

Villa Viscuso, 8300 Hawthorne Ave, Miami Beach

Call (305) 710-4593 for reservations and info.

benefiting the not-for-profit “Sicilian Cultural and Film Festival”

$50



For SFF Tickets and details on films visit www.MBCinema.com

(Events are $10 each, or $7 MBC Members, unless otherwise noted).



Miami Latin Gay Film Festival

19 SUN 2pm:

A Sing-Along matinee with. . .

¡MARISOL in Tómbola!

PRESENTED WITH CENTRO CULTURAL ESPANOL

(Directed by Luis Lucia/1962)

Just in time for Gay Pride Weekend and the Miami Latin Gay Film Festival!



Who do you get when you cross Julie Andrews, Haley Mills, and Shirley Temple with Charo, and Jennifer Lopez? MARISOL. . .that's who! Marisol was Spain's colorful answer to wholesome entertainment during the grey General Franco dictatorship. Her young and flamboyant vitality was also a secret symbol of leftie liberation, and that includes, of course, being a gay icon for all the colorful boys (and girls) yearning to be just like her, or yearning to, at least, sing just like her, which brings us to YOU. If you speak or sing or, at least, read Spanish, now is your single rare chance to relive or live for the first time your Spanish heritage and childhood, singing your heart out with MARISOL (on screen) in her classic film Tómbola (which is about. . .um, Marisol being fabulous!).

“Her figure and her grace fill the screen from the beginning till the last sequence, and the feature's festive and sentimental rhythm never declines.” Olé! Olé! Olé!

-La Vanguardia 1962

In Spanish with Spanish lyrics provided for singing along!

Join us afterwards for Sangria and home-made Spanish omelette,

included in your price! $12 or $10 MBC Members

For advance tickets visit www.MBCinema.com



21 TUE 8pm:

“High-Def HITCH!”

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!

Topaz

(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1969)

With Frederick Stafford, Karin Dor, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret



Filmed on locations ranging from Denmark to the Universal backlot, Hitchcock's Topaz is based on a novel by Leon Uris. Frederick Stafford is cast as Andre Devereaux, a French secret agent assigned to snoop around Cuba in the months prior to the 1962 missile crisis. Someone is supplying castro--and, by extension, Moscow -- with NATO secrets; it is up to Devereaux to liquidate the "mole." Aiding Devereaux is CIA agent Nordstrom (John Forsythe) and aristocratic anti-Castro Cuban Juanita (Karin Dor), who happens to be the girlfriend of pro-castroite Rico Parra (John Vernon).

"The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture."-Alfred Hitchcock

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22 WED 8:30pm: “Cine-IMPROV!”
A LIVE Comedic Jam presented by “the Model Citizens”

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: Let's DANCE!

“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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23 THU & 24 FRI

7pm and 8:45pm:

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami Theatrical Premiere!

Examined Life

Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms,

and puts it back on the streets...

Directed by Astra Taylor/Canada/2009

Featuring Cornel West, Peter Singer, Kwarne Anthony Appiah, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor



In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Slavoj Zizek questions current beliefs about the environment while sifting through a garbage dump. Judith Butler and a friend stroll through San Francisco's Mission District questioning our culture's fixation on individualism. And while driving through Manhattan, Cornel West—perhaps America's best-known public intellectual—compares philosophy to jazz and blues, reminding us how intense and invigorating a life of the mind can be. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”—Socrates
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25 SAT & 26 SUN

7pm and 8:35pm:

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami Theatrical Premiere!

Wendy and Lucy

Directed by Kelly Reichardt/USA/2009

With Michelle Williams



Wendy Carroll is driving to Ketchikan, Alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery, and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with far-ranging repercussions for herself and Lucy. Wendy and Lucy addresses issues of sympathy and generosity at the edges of American life, revealing the limits and depths of people's duty to each other in tough time.

“A PITCH PERFECT TRIUMPH!—Manohla Dargis, New York Times

“What may emerge as THE BEST PERFORMANCE of the YEAR!”—Film Comment

"What will happen to her? The strength of this short, simple, perfect story of a young woman and her dog is that this does not seem, by the end, to be an idle or trivial question. What happens to Wendy -- and to Lucy -- matters a lot, which is to say that Wendy and Lucy, for all its modesty, matters a lot too."--A.O. Scott New York Times

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30 THU 8:30pm:

“High-Def HITCH!”

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!

Frenzy

(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1972)

With Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey



Frenzy marked Hitchcock's return not only to England for the first time in twenty years but also to the subject matter with which he'd started his career in thrillers back in 1926 - murder, and a hunt for a serial killer in London. As the latest female victim of the "Necktie Murderer" is found in the Thames, raped and strangled, we meet Richard Blaney (Jon Finch), a bitter, belligerent ex-Royal Air Force officer who can't seem to find his way in life. We also meet his girlfriend, a barmaid (Anna Massey); his ex-wife, a professional matchmaker (Barbara Leigh-Hunt); and his best friend. Their connection to the necktie murders will be clear to us in the first thirty minutes, as Chief Inspector Oxford (Alec McCowan) and his men tighten a circle around the wrong man, who rapidly runs out of options and allies.
"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."-Alfred Hitchcock

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TICKETS:

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

Cine-Theatre: $15 or $12 Members

Sicilian Film Festival opening Night $20

SFF Conference Being a Sicilian Producer $15

SFF Evening with Franco Nero $30


Parking: 16th St. between Collins and Washington (covered lot)

or 16th St and Drexel Avenue (open lot)

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!

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