MAY 2008
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 on-going film festival where you don't just watch films, you experience them!
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MBC goes “HD”!
An exciting step forward for your art cinema!
“One of Miami’s most beloved cultural institutions just got better!”
-Kevin Craft, “Beyond the Multiplex” on Miami Herald’s Miami.com
(Read the entire interview HERE)
MBC debuts “high definition” in May, thanks to the dedicated support and
encouragement of the MBC Founding Circle, Members, and community!
From now on, you can enjoy first run art films in the latest state-of-the-art
HD technology, in collaboration with “Emerging Cinemas”, the world’s
leader in digital distribution. . .
DEBUTING with:
"The Best of Cannes in HD!"...
The latest Palm d’Or winner 4 months, 3 weeks, & 2 days (May 03-06),
The latest Camera d’Or Prize (Best First Film) Jellyfish (May 09-12),
The Un Certain Regard Prize winner The Band’s Visit (Jun 06-09),
& the 60th Anniversary Prize, Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park (Jun 13-16)
(with LIVE webcast with Director GUS VAN SANT on June 13th!)
The 2008 Cannes Film Festival poster
by Pierre Collier. Photo: David Lynch
ALSO coming soon: more MBC upgrades and improvements!
And many more hot new films and series. . .
COME IN AND SEE FOR YOURSELF!
MAY at a Glance:
MGLFF screening: Voodoo Woman (May 02 FRI)
"The Best of Cannes in HD!":
4 months, 3 weeks, & 2 days (May 03 SAT, 04 SUN, 05 MON, 06 TUE)
Jellyfish (May 09 FRI, 10 SAT, 11 SUN, 12 MON)
"On The Edge: The Films of DEREK JARMAN" (WED 07, FRI 16, 23)
"MUSIC on FILM" #1: The Ballad of Peter LaFarge (THU 08)
"MUSIC on FILM" #2: Hip Hop Conference: Counting Headz (WED 21)
Independent Lens: New Year Baby (THU 22)
"MUSIC on FILM" #3: Other Side of The Mirror: Bob Dylan (SAT 24)
MGLFF Official Screening:
MAY 02 FRI 10:15pm:
Voodoo Woman
(Documentary/Directed by Carolina Valencia/Canada/Cuba, 2008/ 50 min)
U.S.A Premiere! 2nd screening added!
(8:30pm screening SOLD OUT!)
Independent filmmaker Carlos Valencia has a date with destiny.
While
searching for new film ideas, Carlos turns to the Island of Cuba, to
document the underground worlds of hip-hop music and gay life. Shooting
in Cuba he encounters the Afro-Caribbean religion known as Santeria.
Shrouded in secrecy and unaltered centuries-old traditions, Carlos and his
camera enter filmmaker heaven as they gain unprecedented access into the
occult faith's world of animal sacrifices (graphically depicted) and
speaking in tongues. In English and Spanish with English subtitles
Director/subject Carolina Valencia will attend the screening to
discuss the film with the audience.
MBC Members purchase tics at www.MBCinema.com
Non Members purchase tics at www.MGLFF.com
May 03 SAT, 04 SUN, 05 MON, 06 TUE:
7:30pm & 9:40pm:
“The Best of Cannes in HD!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation
In collaboration with Emerging Cinemas
South Beach Premiere!
Cannes Film Festival Palm d’Or Winner 2007:
4 months, 3 weeks, & 2 days
(4 luni, 3 saptamâni, si 2 zile)
(Cristian Mungiu/Romania/2007)
In the most critically acclaimed film of the year, Otilia and Găbiţă share the
same room in a student dormitory. They are colleagues at the University in
this small town in Romania, during the last years of communism. Otilia rents
a room in a cheap hotel. In the afternoon, they are going to meet a certain Mr.
Bebe. Găbiţă is pregnant, abortion is illegal and neither of them have passed
through something like this before.4 months, 3 weeks & 2 days belongs to a
larger project called: Tales from the Golden Age - a subjective history of
communism in Romania told through its urban legends. The project's aim is
to talk about that period with no direct reference to communism but only
through different stories focused on personal options in a time of misfortunes
that people had to live like normal times.4 months, 3 weeks & 2 days is the
first film of the series.
WINNER: Cannes Film Festival Palm d’Or (Best Film) 2007, FIPRESCI Prize
European Film Awards Best Film, Best Director
National Society of Film Critics, Chicago, LA Film Critics Best Foreign Film
Cesar Awards, Stockholm, Vancouver, Sofia Film Festivals Best Foreign Film
“The #1 Film of the Year. A Great film.”—A.O. Scott New York Times
“Beautifully realistic, faultlessly made.”—Kenneth Turan LA Times
“A surprising, gripping, startingly good drama. So compelling that it seduces
viewers. . .they simply must know what happens next.”—Richard Corliss TIME
07 WED 8:30pm:
On The Edge: The Films of DEREK JARMAN
Jubilee (1977)
With Nell Campbell (“Little Nell”), Adam Ant, Jenny Runacre, Richard O’Brien
Original music by Brian Eno
Simultaneously ugly and beautiful, Jubilee is not just about punk kids in the UK,
but made by the rebellious and yet intellectual artists who were as anti-establishment
as their subjects. Surreal and fanciful, set to sounds of Brian Eno, in the formative
years of Adam Ant and future Rocky Horror stars, Derek Jarman dares to bring to
the screen both a punk and not-so-punk viewpoint of anti-Thatcher British politics.
Jublilee is an autobiographical street expression...
"In Jubilee all the positives are negated, turned on their heads. Its dream imagery
drifts uncomfortably on the edge of reality. . .Afterwards, the film turned prophetic,
Dr Dee's vision came true - the streets burned in Brixton and Toxteth, Adam was
Top of the Pops and signed up with Margaret Thatcher to sing at the Falklands
Ball. They all sign up one way or another."—Derek Jarman
08 THU 8:30pm: “MUSIC on FILM” #1:
The Ballad of Peter LaFarge
(Docemntary, 32min/Sandra Schulman/2007)
Florida Premiere!
Peter LaFarge was a shooting star -- an unsung hero at the crossroads of folk,
protest music, country, blues and love songs. He was a rodeo cowboy, an actor,
a singer and songwriter. He was a husband, a father, and a drug user. He was a
pioneering folk singer in 1960s Greenwich Village and the first to gain national
prominence singing about the plight of Native Americans. He knew the admiration
and friendship of Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. But that wasn't enough to sustain
him. His story is a hard one and a sad one -- a ballad worthy of the traditions he revered.
WINNER: BMI-Woody Guthrie Foundation 2008 Fellowship
Nominated: Best Documentary AIFI San Francisco, Westchester Film Festival
“Discovering that most of the available "facts" about LaFarge were wrong,
Schulman set out making a short film. . ."The Ballad of Peter LaFarge" surveys
the musician's life -- his privileged upbringing as the son of Pulitzer-winning
novelist Oliver LaFarge, his work as an actor and rodeo rider, his meteoric folk
career -- coolly and briskly through a photo montage and narration.”
—Chris Morris, Hollywood Reporter
The Film will be introduced and followed by a Q&A with director
Sandra Schulman, followed by a reception and afterparty
at GEMMA LOUNGE hosted by John Hood.
09 FRI, 10 SAT, 11 SUN, 12 MON
7:30pm & 9:15pm:
“The Best of Cannes in HD!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Cinemas
South Beach Premiere!
Cannes Film Festival Camera d’Or Prize 2007:
Jellyfish (Meduzot)
(Shira Geffen & Etgar Keret/France/Israel/2007)
With Sarah Adler, Tsipor Aizen, Ma-nenita De Latorre, Noa Knoller
The stories of three disparate women intersect at a Tel Aviv wedding. Newly
single Batiya (Sarah Adler) works with the catering crew; Filipina Joy (Ma-
nenita De Latorre) attends the event as the caregiver of an elderly woman;
and the bride (Noa Knoller) sees her honeymoon dreams go up in smoke.
Directed by the popular Israeli novelist Etger Keret and his screenwriter wife,
Shira Geffen, the film has won international acclaim for its whimsical intimacy,
including the Camera d’Or at Cannes.
Winner: Camera d’Or (Best First Film) Cannes Film Festival
Semaine de la Critique Best Film, Jury Prize
Awards of the Israeli Academy Best Film, Director, Actor, Actress nominations
Bratislava Int. Film Festival Jury Prize and Special Mention
“This is a movie about the gulf between parents and children, between lovers,
between friends and even between adults and the children they wish they could
still be. But it is also about the irreducible oddness of being alive. . .It is not about
politics or war or national identity, which for a movie from Israel is a surprise and
also something of a relief. Not that Mr. Keret and Ms. Geffen seem at all disengaged
from the world and its troubles. They are, rather, concerned with a stranger,
but also more intimately familiar, set of problems.”—A.O Scott New York Times
16 FRI 8:30pm:
On The Edge: The Films of DEREK JARMAN
Edward II (1991)
“A classic tale of sex, revenge, and love”
With Steven Waddington, Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton
Cameo by Annie Lennox, costume design by Sandy Powell
Bringing an Elizabethan drama of 1592 (based on a Christoper Marlowe play)
into the present is no simple task, but if anyone can do it Derek Jarman can,
and he felt it his duty. Edward II covers the controversial and “out” king’s life
in all its glory, and his fall from grace, complete with period language, but in a
modern setting. Tilda Swinton once again plays the female that gets in the way
of a successful career of being gay, as Princess Isabella to Steven Waddington’s
King Edward. Elegant and minimalist in a shoestring budget realm of art,
Jarman’s visual aesthetic is at its best, and most accessible.
WINNER: Berlin Int. Film Festival Best Feature Film and FIPRESCI Prize
Venice Int. Film Festival Best Actress
Evening Standard Film Award: Sandy Powell, Best Technical/Artistic Achievement
“Stylish and Unconventional”—New York Post
“MUSIC on FILM” #2:
FIU Dept of African New World Studies presents
The 1st Annual Hip Hop Conference in Miami:
21 WED 8pm:
Counting Headz: South Africa’s Sisters in Hip Hop
(Erin Offer/South Africa/2007)
Counting Headz, South Africa's Sistaz in Hip Hop, is
a labor of love showing the "love-hate-relationship" a lot of women have with hip
hop due to the fact "that most people still aren't over that a woman can do stuff
as well." It portrays DJs, writers and MCs/singers based in South Africa and gives
them the opportunity to talk about their struggle with stereotypes - as one of the
interviewees puts it "if the whole network is male it gets hard for a woman to enter
the industry". Hard doesn't mean impossible, though, with some fighting skills and
a lot of dedication, quite a few women still stick to their mission. The documentary
shows them in action but also tries to portray their more personal sides and opinions
on religion and family. All in all: a must see.
With introduction and Q&A with Keynote Speaker P. Frank Williams.
P. Frank is an Emmy winning TV producer and writer, journalist, author and commentator.
He is a producer for BET’s award winning documentary series American Gangster and
recently won a 2008 NAACP Image Award for Celebration of Gospel.
Complimentary admission (Donations always welcome!)
22 THU 8:30pm: Independent LENS 2008
Florida exclusive previews of award winning documentaries
before they air on PBS...Presented with HANDS ON MIAMI
New Year Baby (Socheata Poeuv/2007)
Born in a Thai refugee camp on
Cambodian New Year, filmmaker Socheata Poeuv grew up in the United States
never knowing that her family had survived the Khmer Rouge genocide. In
NEW YEAR BABY, she embarks on a journey to Cambodia in search of the truth
and why her family's history had been buried in secrecy for so long.
WINNER: AFI Dallas Int. Film Festival Best Documentary
Asian American Int. Film Fest Audience Award, Special Jury Prize Documentary
San Francisco Asian American Int. Film Festival Jury Award
23 FRI 8:30pm:
“On The Edge: The Films of DEREK JARMAN”
Wittgenstein (1993)
With Clancey Chassay, Karl Johnson, Sally Dexter, Tilda Swinton
Costume Design by Sandy Powell
Derek Jarman’s world on film is always somewhere between theatre and cinema,
and the philosophies of one of the 20th century’s most influential minds is right at
home in that format. Wittgenstein the philosopher, the self-tortured eccentric, who
preferred detective fiction and the musicals of Carmen Miranda to Aristotle, is a
fitting subject for Jarman’s irreverent imagination. With childhood memories defining
the playschool characters that make up a tempera painted world in Wittgenstein,
Jarman mixes a playful mood with the outrageous intellectualism, in a stunning,
minimalist (pre-Dogville), and profound work about modern philosophy and the
dark genius that revolutionized it.
WINNER: Berlin Int. Film Festival Best Feature Film
“WONDERFUL. . .a remarkably entertaining portrait. . .leaves the audiences
hungering for more”—Philadelphia Enquirer
24 SAT 8:30pm: “MUSIC on FILM” #3:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Cinemas
South Beach HD Premiere!
(Happy Birthday Bob Dylan!)
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan
Live at the Newport Folk Festival
(Murray Lerner/USA/2007) 80 minutes
With Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Pete Seeger
Academy Award winning filmmaker Murray Lerner captured the spirit of the era
at the Newport Folk Festival, as well as the extraordinary music produced on its
stage, in his woefully neglected Festival! (1967). Now Lerner has gone back to
his Newport footage and crafted a revealing portrait of the young Bob Dylan during
the crucial period of 1963-65, as he grows progressively darker and more withdrawn
and he and his band take their first steps toward rock and roll. The film features
stirring versions of some of his most famous songs, including some legendary duets
with Joan Baez. A great document of an extraordinary artist!
“If you were not at the Newport Folk Festival in the ’60s — or, for that matter,
if you were — “The Other Side of the Mirror” places you in perfect seats, out
of the sun and wind and without any extraneous contextualization. It’s a
remarkably pure and powerful documentary, partly because it’s so simple.
The sound mix is crisp, the black-and-white photography is lovely, and the
songs, above all, can be heard in all their earnest, enigmatic glory, performed
by an artist whose gifts are at once mysterious and self-evident.”
—A.O Scott, New York Times
and coming in JUNE:
Brazilian Film Festival of Miami (May 31-June 05)
June 06 FRI, 07 SAT, 08 SUN, 09 MON
7:30pm & 9:20pm:
“The Best of Cannes in HD!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation
In collaboration with Emerging Cinemas
South Beach Premiere!
Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard Prize 2007:
The Band’s Visit (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret)
(Eran Kolirin Israel/France/2007)
Once-not long ago-a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. They came to play
at an initiation ceremony, but, due to bureaucracy, bad luck, or for whatever reason,
they were left stranded at the airport. They tried to manage on their own, only to find
themselves in a desolate, almost forgotten small Israeli town, somewhere in the heart
of the desert. A lost band in a lost town. Not many remember this...It wasn't that important.
WINNER: Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard Jury Prize
Israeli Film Academy Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress
European Film Awards Discovery of the Year Eran Kolirin
Montreal Film Festival Best Feature Film
Tokyo Film Festival Garnd Prize
“Sweet, Funny, and Hopeful. . .”—Entertainment Weekly
“One of the best foreign films of the year”—National Board of Review
June 13 FRI 8:30pm:
“The Best of Cannes in HD!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Cinemas
South Beach Premiere!
(Premiere with LIVE webcast Q&A
with Director GUS VAN SANT*)
and 14 SAT, 15 SUN, 16 MON
7:30pm & 9:20pm:
Cannes Film Festival 60th Anniversary Prize 2007:
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant/2007)
With Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu, Lauren McKinney
Cinematography by Christopher Doyle
An unsolved murder at Portland’s infamous Paranoid Park brings detectives to a local
high school, propelling a young skater into a moral odyssey where he must not only deal
with the pain and disconnect of adolescence but the consequences of his own actions.
With Christopher Doyle (Wong Kar Wai films) as cinematographer, Gus Van Sant uses
8mm and a square format to capture the realism and grittiness of the skateboarder’s
world, in his most successfully realized independent film since the roots of his career.
Winner: 60th Anniversary Prize Cannes Film Festival
Independent Spirit Awards Producers Award
Bodil Awards Best American Film
“What strikes me the hardest about Paranoid Park is the intimacy, the love—
carnal, paternal, human—of Mr. Van Sant’s expansive, embracing vision.
No one is really ready for Paranoid Park, but neither do we have to go there alone”
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times
“*****! UNFORGETTABLE. Bursting with incredible visuals. Van Sant has
created his most compassionate film about a lost boy since My Own Private Idaho.”
-- Melissa Anderson, Time Out New York
*FRI 13 8:30pm PREMIERE Includes LIVE webcast
Q&A discussion with Director GUS VAN SANT
(interviewed from MBC by his former film teacher
at Rhode Island School of Design, Marian Marzynski)
AND...preceeding the feature film:
Gus Van Sant's rarely seen student films
2 1/2 Minutes
Little Johnny
Late Morning Start
Prices: FRI 13: $20 or $14 MBC Members & Students
SAT, SUN, MON: $10 or $7 Members/Students
For Gus Van Sant’s MYSPACE Page Click Here
For Gus Van Sant’s MYSPACE Page for Paranoid Park Click Here
TICKETS:
FILMS: $10 or $7 MBC Members & Students
Paranoid Park Premiere with Director GUS VAN SANT: $20 and $14 Members
Independent LENS: complimentary
Doors open fifteen minutes before screenings
Exhibition: complimentary
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