This week at MBC...
"ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE: La strada, and...
"The Best of Cannes" in HD: The Class,
and Foreign Film Oscar® nominee: Katń
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MAY 2009 at a Glance:
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!)
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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COMING in JUNE:
More "ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE in HD",
"The Mysteries of Nuri Bilge CEYLAN",
"The Best of Cannes in HD",
The Brazilian Film Festival, and...
The American Black Film Festival
TICKETS:
FILMS: $10 or $7 MBC Members / Students / Seniors
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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