This week at MBC...
"Cine-IMPROV" (Live!),
"ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE in HD"
(the debut...Knife in the Water)
and...The Best of Cannes: Tokyo sonata
Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water opens the "Essential Arthouse in HD" series, (THU)
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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MAY 2009 at a Glance:
06: "Cine-IMPROV"
07: "ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE in HD": Knife In The Water
08, 09, 10: "The Best of Cannes in HD": Tokyo sonata
14: "ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE in HD": The 400 Blows
15, 16, 17, 18: "The Best of Cannes in HD": Hunger
21: "ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE in HD": La strada
22, 23: "The Best of Cannes in HD": The Class
24: Oscar® Nominee Best Foreign Language Film: Katyń
28: "ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE in HD": Jules et Jim
29, 30, 31: Berlin Film Festival Audience Award: Lemon Tree
(more "Essential Arthouse" and "Best of Cannes" in HD in June!)
06 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.
“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
Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting at CAVAS Wines!
(across the street at 437 Española Way)
For tickets click HERE
07 THU 8:30pm:
ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE in HD!
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical HD Premiere!
Knife In The Water (Nóz w wodzie)
(Directed by Roman Polanski/Poland/1962)
With Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malonowicz
Roman Polanski's first feature is a brilliant psychological thriller that many critics still consider among his greatest work. The story is simple, yet the implications of its characters' emotions and actions are profound. When a young hitchhiker joins a couple on a weekend yacht trip, psychological warfare breaks out as the two men compete for the woman's attention. A storm forces the small crew below deck, and tension builds to a violent climax. With stinging dialogue and a mercilessly probing camera, Polanski creates a disturbing study of fear, humiliation, sexuality, and aggression. This remarkable directorial debut won Polanski worldwide acclaim, a place on the cover of Time, and his first Oscar nomination. In Polish with English subtitles.
WINNER: FIPRESCI Prize Venice Film Festival
“It was the maverick Roman Polanski who emerged onto the international film scene in the early 1960s obsessed not so much with the big issues of the day as with the quirks and backwaters of human nature.”-Peter Cowie
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08 FRI, 09, SAT, 10 SUN 8:30pm:
The Best of CANNES in HD!
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Cannes Film Festival 2008 WINNER Jury Prize!
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
Tokyo sonata
(Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa/Japan/2008)
With Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
Set in contemporary Tokyo, Tokyo sonata is a story of an ordinary Japanese family of four. The father, Ryuhei Sasaki, like any other Japanese businessman, is faithfully devoted to his work. His wife, Megumi, left on her own to manage the house, struggles to retain a bond with her oldest son in college, Takashi, and the youngest, Kenji, a sensitive boy in elementary school. From the exterior the family is seemingly normal, save for the tiny schisms that exist within.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
WINNER: Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard Jury Prize
Mara del Plata Film Festival Best Director
Kinema Jumpo Awards Best Actress, Best New Actor
“MIRACULOUS!”-The New Yorker
“BRILLIANTLY DIRECTED... an impressive piece of filmmaking.. further proof of Kurosawa's assured, deliberate artistry.”-Indiewire
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14 THU 8:30pm:
ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE in HD!
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical HD Premiere!
The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups)
(Directed by François Truffaut/France/1959)
With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Marier, Albert Rémy
François Truffaut's first feature, The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups), is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut's life-long cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut's own difficult childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime. The film marks Truffaut's passage from leading critic of the French New Wave to his emergence as one of Europe's most brilliant auteurs. In French with English subtitles.
WINNER: Cannes Film Festival Best Director
New York Film Critics best Foreign Language Film
“François Truffaut's first feature, The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups), was more than a semi-autobiographical film; it was also an elaboration of what the French New Wave directors would embrace as the caméra-stylo (camera-as-pen) whose écriture (writing style) could express the filmmaker as personally as a novelist's pen.”
-Annette Insdorf
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15 FRI, 16 SAT, 17 SUN, 18 MON
7:15pm & 9pm:
The Best of CANNES in HD!
Cannes Film Festival 2008 WINNER Camera d'Or!
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
Hunger
(Directed by Steve McQueen/UK/2008)
With Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham
Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland, with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit.
WINNER: Cannes Film Festival Camera d'Or
Gold and Silver Hugo Chicago Film Festival
European Film Awards Discovery Of The Year
“POSITIVELY RIVITING! AN ARTISTIC MASTERPIECE!
A harrowing, poetic film. . .” –Washington Post
“A STAGGERING feature film debut for visual artist Steve McQueen;
a DEVASTATING performance by actor Michael Fassbender.”-Los Angeles Times
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21 THU 8:30pm:
ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE in HD!
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical HD Premiere!
La strada
(Directed by Federico Fellini/Italy/1954)
With Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart
There has never been a face quite like that of Giulietta Masina. Her husband, the legendary Federico Fellini, directs her as Gelsomina in La strada, the film that launched them both to international stardom. Gelsomina is sold by her mother into the employ of Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), a brutal strongman in a traveling circus. When Zampanò encounters an old rival in highwire artist the Fool (Richard Basehart), his fury is provoked to its breaking point. With La strada, Fellini left behind the familiar signposts of Italian neorealism for a poetic fable of love and cruelty, evoking brilliant performances and winning the hearts of audiences and critics worldwide.
In Italian with English subtitles.
WINNER: Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film
Venice Film Festival Silver Lion
New York Film Critics Best Foreign Language Film
“A low-key mood study about a broken-down carnival strongman and his half-wit assistant traveling through the bleak backwaters of post-war Italy wouldn't, at first glance, appear to have much going for it in the way of international critical and commercial appeal. But from the moment of its release in 1954, it was clear that La strada had everything.”-David Ehrenstein
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22 FRI, 23 SAT 8:30pm:
The Best of CANNES in HD!
Cannes Film Festival 2008 WINNER Palm d'Or!
An MBC Premiere HD Digital presentation
in collaboration with Emerging Pictures
The Class
(Directed by Laurent Cantet/France/2008)
With François Bégaudeau, Nassim Amrabt, Laura Bacuela, Juliette Damaille
François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their difficult behavior can still jeapordize any teacher's enthusiasm for the low-paying job. François insists on an atmosphere of respect and diligence. Neither stuffy nor severe, his extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics are put to the test when his students begin to challenge his methods...
In French with English subtitles.
WINNER: Cannes Film Festival Palm d'Or
“The Class ranks with the very best films ever made about teaching, and it's unlike any English or American film about teaching ever made.”-The Baltimore Sun
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24 SUN 8:30pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
2008 OSCAR® Nominee Best Foreign Language Film!
Katyń
(Directed by Andrej Wajda/Poland/2008)
With Artur Zmijewski, Maja Ostaszewska, Andrej Chyra
In master Polish filmmaker Andrej Wajda's most important and highly anticipated new film, a story of Polish officers murdered by the NKVD in Katyń during World War II. It is a picture of women unaware of the crime, who were waiting for their husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers; an uncompromising reckoning with the lie of the communist powers, that was to order Poland to forget those who were killed by Stalin's secret police. It is a film about the invincible struggle for memory and truth.
In Polish with English subtitles.
WINNER: Polish Film awards Best Film, Cinematography, Production Design
Audience Awards: Washington DC Film Fest, Denver Int Film Fest, Ljubljana
“POLAND'S GREATEST FILMMAKER caps his career with the story he waited most of his life to tell.”-Village Voice
“CRITIC'S PICK! a film with a stately, deliberate quality that insulates it against sentimentality and makes it all the more devastating.”-New York Times
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28 THU 8:30pm:
ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE in HD!
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical HD Premiere!
Jules et Jim
(Directed by François Truffaut/France/1962)
With Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre
Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, legendary director François Truffaut's early masterpiece Jules and Jim charts the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession over the course of twenty-five years. Jeanne Moreau stars as Catherine, the alluring and willful young woman whose enigmatic smile and passionate nature lure Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) into one of cinema's most captivating romantic triangles. An exuberant and poignant meditation on freedom, loyalty, and the fortitude of love, Jules and Jim was a worldwide smash upon its release in 1962 and remains as audacious and entrancing today.
In French with English subtitles.
WINNER: Best European film Bodil Film Awards
Best Director Mara Del Plata Film Festival
“When François Truffaut was a twenty-three-year-old film critic, in 1955, he read a
first novel by a seventy-four-year-old writer, Henri-Pierre Roché. “The book overwhelmed me,” he later recalled, “and I wrote: If I ever succeed in making films,
I will make Jules and Jim.”-John Powers
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29 FRI, 30 SAT, 31 SUN 8:30pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
Lemon Tree (Etz Limon)
(Directed by Erin Riklas/Israel/Germany/France/2008)
With Hiam Abbass, Doron Tavory, Ali Suliman
Salma, a Palestinian widow, has to stand up against her new neighbor, the Israeli Defense Minister, when he moves into his new house opposite her lemon grove, on the green line border between Israel and the West Bank. The Israeli security forces are quick to declare that Salma's trees pose a threat to the Minister's safety and issue orders to uproot them. Together with Ziad Daud, her young Palestinian lawyer, Salma goes all the way to the Israeli Supreme Court to try and save her trees. Her struggle raises the interest of Mira Navon, the Defense minister's wife. Despite their differences and the borders between them the two women develop an invisible bond, while forbidden ties grow stronger between Salma and Ziad. In Arabic, Hebrew, French, with English subtitles.
WINNER: Best Actress Hiam Abbass Israeli Film Academy Awards
Audience Award Berlin Film Festival
“The rare ability to make INTELLIGENT, ENTERTAINING CINEMA from hot-button issues is illustrated beautifully in Lemon Tree...a multifaceted drama straddling the Palestinian-Israeli Chasm. . .an outstanding performance from Hiam Abbass”
-Variety
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TICKETS:
FILMS: $10 or $7 MBC Members / Students / Seniors
Polyester $12 or $10 Members, or $15 and $13 with Scratch n' Sniff card
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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