This Week at MBC...
ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE in HD: The Spirit of the Beehive screens THU Aug 13, 8:30pm!
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AUGUST 2009 At A Glance:
12 WED 8:30pm GLOBAL LENS: Those Three (An seh)
13 THU 8:30pm ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE: Spirit of the Beehive
14 FRI, 15 SAT, 16 SUN 7pm: Departures (Okuribito)
14 FRI, 15 SAT, 16 SUN 9:15pm: In The Loop
14, 15, 16: Adrienne Arsht comp screenings for MBC Members
19 WED 8:30pm GLOBAL LENS: The Photograph
21 FRI, 22 SAT, 23 SUN 7pm: “Cinema GREEN” FOOD, Inc.
21 FRI, 22 SAT, 23 SUN 9:15pm: Tony Manero
26 WED 8:30pm GLOBAL LENS: The Photograph
27 THU 8pm: ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE: High and Low
28 FRI, 29 SAT, 30 SUN 7:15pm: Adoration
28 FRI, 29 SAT, 30 SUN 9:15pm: (BACK by popular demand!) Girlfriend Experience
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12 WED 8:30pm
GLOBAL LENS
In collaboration with The Global Film Initiative
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
Those Three
(An seh)
(Directed by Naghi Nemati/Iran/2007)
With Youssef Yazdani, Dariush Ghazbani, Esmail Movahedi
Just one day from completing their military training, three conscripts desert their camp and escape into the frozen wilderness of Northern Iran. Travel through this mountainous, snowbound region is dangerous, but "those three" opt for the independence it promises and must now forge their way through an uncertain landscape, with only friendship to see them through. In this austere and mesmerizing debut feature, director Naghi Nemati's attention to the minutiae of human relationships is a quiet and deliberate meditation on the value of responsibility, connection and sacrifice.
In Farsi and Turkish with English subtitles.
“Naghi Nemati's assured, poetic debut proves that the Iranian talent factory is still up and running.” –Screen Daily
WINNER: Bangkok Int. Film Festival Special Jury Prize
For tickets click HERE
13 THU 8:30pm:
ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE in HD!
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical HD Premiere!
The Spirit of the Beehive
(El espíritu de la colmena)
(Directed by Victor Erice/Spain/1973/99 mins.)
With Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería, Fernando Fernán Gómez
The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena) is widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s. In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of the country’s devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes possessed by the memory of it. Produced as Franco’s long regime was nearing its end, The Spirit of the Beehive is a bewitching portrait of a child’s haunted inner life and one of the most visually arresting movies ever made.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
WINNER: Grand Prize San Sebastian Film Festival
“Released in 1973, in the dying days of General Franco’s forty-year dictatorship, The Spirit of the Beehive soon established itself as the consummate masterpiece of Spanish cinema.”-Paul Julian Smith
For tickets click HERE
14 FRI, 15 SAT, 16 SUN 7pm:
Best Foreign Film Oscar® WINNER 2009!
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical HD Premiere!
Departures (Okuribito)
(Directed by Yojiro Takita/Japan/2009/130min.)
With Masahiro Motoki, Riyoko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamakazi
Academy Award® winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Departures is a delightful journey into the heartland of Japan as well an astonishingly beautiful look at a sacred part of Japan's cultural heritage. Departures follows Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), a devoted cellist in an orchestra who is suddenly left without a job. He answers a classified ad entitled “Departures” only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a person who prepares deceased bodies for burial. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living. In Japanese with English subtitles
WINNER: Academy Award 2009 Best Foreign Language Film
Ten Japan Academy Prizes including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor
"ENORMOUSLY AFFECTING, EVEN HAUNTING film with a superb lead performance by Masahiro Motoki." -New York Magazine
For tickets click HERE
14 FRI, 15 SAT, 16 SUN 9:15pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical HD Premiere!
In The Loop
(Directed by Armando Iannucci/UK/2009)
With James Gangolfini, Mimi Kennedy, Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander
In The Loop is a smart comedy and Sundance Film Festival hit from the acclaimed team who created the award-winning BBC TV comedy series Alan Partridge and The Thick of It. The film is drawing instant comparisons to some of the great political and absurdist comedies such as Doctor Strangelove, Wag The Dog, Thank You For Smoking, and Monty Python. With razor-sharp, truly laugh-out-loud dialogue the film pokes fun at the absurdity and ineptitude of our highest leaders. With everyone looking out for number one, and the fate of the free world at stake (but apparently incidental), the hilarious ensemble cast of characters bumbles its way through Machiavellian political dealings, across continents, and toward comic resolutions that are unforeseeable.
OFFICIAL SELECTIUON: Sundance, Tribeca, and Los Angeles Film Festivals
“SCATHINGLY FUNNY...a smart sophisticated comedy.”-Manohla Dargis, NY Times
“DON'T MISS IT...the sheer volume of eloquent vulgarity and biting dialogue is indeed timeless; there are so many great lines that rush by you that you need at least two viewings to catch them all.”- David Fear, Time Out New York
For tickets click HERE
LOOK WHAT’s NEW AT MBC!...
MBC MEMBER COMP Screenings at Adrienne Arsht Center!
14 FRI 8pm, 15 SAT 10:45pm, 16 SUN 7pm:
An Adrienne Arsht Center presentation!
Florida Premiere!
RiseUp
(A documentary film by Luciano Blotta/2009)
Welcome to the Jamaican Underground Music Scene!
RiseUp is a journey into the heart of Jamaica- the island that gave birth to the world wide phenomenon of Reggae. In a society where talent abounds and opportunity is scarce, three distinct and courageous artists fight to rise up from obscurity and write themselves into the
pages of history.
WINNER: Best Music Documentary SilverDocs Documentary Festival
“TRANSCENDS THE MUSIC SUBCULTURE GENRE. . .
with abundant grace and style!”-IndiWire
Free for members of Adrienne Arsht Center and MBC!
At the Carnival Studio Theater in the Ziff Ballet Opera House
At the Arsht Center For the Performing Arts
MBC MEMBERS RSVP: (786) 468 2040 or email membership@arshtcenter.org)
(Become a MBC Member at www.MBCinema.com)
19 WED 8:30pm
GLOBAL LENS
In collaboration with The Global Film Initiative
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
The Photograph
(Directed by Nan Achnas /Indonesia/2007)
With Lim Kay Tong, Shanty, Lukman Sardi
Sita is a spirited young woman working to support her family as a singer and prostitute in a local brothel. Always short of funds and bullied by her pimp, she convinces an elderly portrait photographer, Mr. Johan, to rent her a room; in failing health, Mr. Johan is desperate to find an apprentice to carry on his work before he dies. The unlikely bond that develops between Sita and Mr. Johan is the basis of writer–director Nan Achnas's visually brilliant and poignant human drama about the profound effect one life can have on another.
In Indonesian with English subtitles.
WINNER: Karlovy Vary Film Festival Special Jury Prize
For tickets click HERE
21 FRI, 22 SAT, 23 SUN 7pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical HD Premiere!
“Cinema GREEN”
A NEW environmental film series in collaboration with: ECOMB
The Environmental Coalition of Miami & the Beaches
FOOD, Inc.
(A documentary film by Robert Kenner/USA/2009/94 min.)
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
The film will be introduced and followed by a Q&A on Friday
with an expert TBA.
For tickets click HERE
21 FRI, 22 SAT, 23 SUN 9:15pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical HD Premiere!
Tony Manero
(Directed by Pablo Larrain/Chile/2008/98 min.)
With Alfredo Castro, Paula Lattus, Héctor Morales
As Augusto Pinochet holds Chile in the grip of dictatorship, a fifty year old man obsessed with John Travolta’s character from Saturday Night Fever imitates his idol each weekend in a small bar on the outskirts of Santiago. Each weekend, Raúl Peralta and his friends – a devoted group of dancers – gather in a small bar and act out their favorite scenes from Saturday Night Fever. Raúl longs to become a showbiz superstar, and when the national television announces a Tony Manero impersonating contest it seems like he may finally have a shot at living his dreams (or does he?). . .-All Movie Guide
In Spanish with English subtitles.
OFFICIAL COMPETITION: Cannes, Toronto, Miami, New York Film Festivals
WINNER: Grand Coral First Prize and Best Actor Havana Film Festival
Best Film Istanbul Film Festival
“SNEAKS UP ON YOU FROM BEHIND!...if you dig the terrain where dark comedy, horror, and political allegory mix, and if you appreciate having your mind well and truly messed with, you should check it out.”-Salon.com
“A BRUSQUE BLACK COMEDY—at times shocking and, in some ways, sui generis.”
-Village Voice
For tickets click HERE
26 WED 8:30pm
GLOBAL LENS
In collaboration with The Global Film Initiative
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
The Photograph
(Directed by Nan Achnas /Indonesia/2007)
(SEE DECRIPTION ABOVE)
For tickets click HERE
27 THU 8pm:
ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE in HD!
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical HD Premiere!
High and Low
(Tengoku to jigoku)
(Directed by Akira Kurosawa/Japan/1963/143 mins.)
With Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
Proving that he can produce contemporary drama as effectively as period pieces, Akira Kurosawa directs legendary actor Toshiro Mifune in the unforgettable role as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in the highly influential High and Low. The epic saga is a compelling race-against-time thriller and a penetrating portrait of contemporary Japanese society.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
WINNER: Best Film and Best Screenplay Mainichi Film Concours
“High and Low represents quite a different project: a contemporary rather than a period film. . .It is the only time Kurosawa ever worked explicitly with material of American origin, and he used it not to illuminate a vanished epoch but to produce a map of contemporary Japan that ranges from the complacent and affluent “heaven” to the needy and nihilistic “hell” of the film’s Japanese title.”-Geoffrey O’Brien
For tickets click HERE
28 FRI, 29 SAT, 30 SUN 7:15pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical HD Premiere!
Adoration
(Directed by Atom Egoyan /Canada/2008/100 mins.)
With Arsineé Khanjian, Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard, Devon Bostick
Adoration, celebrated Canadian-Armenian director Atom Eyogan’s twelfth feature film, speaks to our connections—with each other, with our family history, with technology and with the modern world. Sabine (Arsinee Khanjian), a high school French teacher, gives her class a translation exercise based on a real news story about a terrorist who plants a bomb in the airline luggage of his pregnant girlfriend. The assignment has a profound effect on one student, Simon (Devon Bostick). Simon re-imagines that the news item is his own family's story, with the terrorist standing in for his father. . .The film is woven with the common threads that appear in much of Egoyan’s work: the differences between appearance and reality, the subjective nature of truth, and the dynamics of family.
In English and French with English subtitles.
WINNER: Cannes Film Festival Ecumenical Jury Prize
“A PROFOUND and PROVOCATIVE exploration of cultural inheritance”
-Stephen Holden, New York Times
"FASCINATING ... ENGROSSING ...full of elegantly fractured chronology and provocative ideas." -Variety
"Egoyan's most affecting film since The Sweet Hereafter”-Philadelphia Inquirer
For tickets click HERE
BACK!...BY POPULAR DEMAND!
28 FRI, 29 SAT, 30 SUN 9:15pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
The Girlfriend Experience
(Directed by Steven Soderbergh/2009)
With Sasha Grey, Chris Santos, Glenn Kenny, Timothy Davis
Set in the weeks leading up to the 2008 presidential election, The Girlfriend Experience is five days in the life of Chelsea (adult film star Sasha Grey in her non-adult film debut), an ultra high-end Manhattan call girl who offers more than sex to her clients, but companionship and conversation – “the girlfriend experience.” Despite a wide variety of happy customers, Chelsea wants to expand her business. Her real boyfriend Chris, a personal trainer at a downtown gym, has come to terms with his girlfriend’s level of experience, not to mention the posh apartment they share as a result of her success. . .
“***** THE FIRST IMPORTANT CINEMATIC STATEMENT ABOUT THE RECESSION. The smartest thing Soderbergh did was to cast Sasha Grey.”
–Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
“AN ICICLE SHARP PORTRAIT. The film manages a career spanning panache.”
–Jan Stuart, Washington Post
For tickets click HERE
TICKETS:
FILMS: $10 or $7 MBC & MIFF 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
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