This Week at the MBC:
and the...FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL WINNER:
In Search of a Midnight KISS! “A MASTERWORK!”—Indiewire
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
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-Miami Sunpost BEST OF SOUTH FLORIDA 2008
“BEST PLACE TO WATCH A MOVIE"
-Miami Sunpost BEST OF SOUTH FLORIDA 2008,"Personal Best", Octavio Campos
SEPTEMBER AT A GLANCE:
Film Chile Miami (THU, FRI Sept 11, 12)
In Search of a Midnight Kiss (SAT-MON Sept 13-15)
Directed by PAUL NEWMAN (Sept 18, 25, Oct 02)
Cine-IMPROV! (this month's theme: NEWMAN) (Sept 17)
GONZO: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S Thompson (Sept 19)
Man On Wire (encore screening!) (Sept 20)
SILENTS PLEASE!: The Wind, with LIVE accompaniment (Sept 21)
The Man of Two Havanas (Sept 22-24)
Monsieur Verdoux (newly restored) (Sept 26, 27)
HD OPERA! Aida (Sept 28)
Film Chile Miami (Sept 11-12 at MBC)
presented by ProChile, Chile's Trade Commission
Sept 11 THU 8:30pm: Program I Miami Premiere!
Desierto Sur (South Desert)
(Shawn Garry, Chile, 2008, 100 min.)
With Marta Etura, Carolina Varleta, Alejandro Botto, Ernesto Malbran
Sofia is a young Spanish girl who loses her mother to an illness. An enigmatic letter falls into her hands, one that her mother sent to Chile when she was still alive. The letter is returned by the post office when the recipient could not be found. While reading it, Sofia gets a stunning glimpse of her mother’s hidden past: a love she had never forgotten, and a desire to have her ashes scattered in the Atacama Desert. Impulsively, Sofia decides to travel to Chile to deliver the letter personally, and thus shed some light on her mother’s past. She carries the letter along with a pair of plastic bottles containing her mother’s ashes in a back- pack. Her destination: An unknown and remote town called Desierto Sur. In Spanish with English subtitles
WINNER: Viña del Mar Film Festival, Best Director, Special Jury Award,
Audience Award
The film will be introduced by filmmaker/actress Carolina Varleta,
followed by a Q&A, after the film.
Film Chile Miami
presented by ProChile, Chile's Trade Commission
Sept 12 FRI 8:30pm: Program II
Calle Santa Fe
(Documentary by Carmen Castillo, Chile/France/Belgium, 2007, 163 min.)
“The title refers to the street in Santiago where Miguel Enriquez, the leader of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), was gunned down by secret police in 1974. After three decades in exile, Enriquez’s widow, Carmen Castillo, returns to that haunted address and embarks on a soul-searching journey into her conflicted past, and into the unresolved modern history of her homeland. The result is less a documentary than a testament, as Castillo re-establishes contact with the neighbor who saved her life, the parents of deceased MIR activists, and her own family. A moving meditation on revolutionary fervor and the landscape of memory.” -New York Film Festival
In Spanish with English subtitles
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard
New York Film Festival
“Much more than simply an exploration of the Chilean junta's legacy, Calle Santa Fe
is a personal tour through populist revolt”—Variety
“GRIPPING, SWEEPING mix of personal memoir and political history that, despite the odd longueur, works wonderfully precisely thanks to the embracing of the personal angle and the contradictions it brings.”-The Flickering Wall
13 SAT, 14 SUN, 15 MON 7:50 & 9:30pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
Florida Film Festival Grand Jury Prize WINNER!
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
(Alex Holdridge/USA/2008) 90mins
With Scoot McNairy, Sara Simmonds, Brian McGuire, Twink Caplan
From the producer of Before Sunset and Dazed and Confused, In Search of a Midnight Kiss is a rollicking comic ride and tender journey though love, sex, and modern romance in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. Wilson (Scoot McNairy), a twenty-nine-year old guy who has just had the worst year of his life, is new to Los Angeles, has no date, no concrete plans and every intention of locking the doors and forgetting the last year ever happened. That is until his best friend, Jacob (Brian McGuire), browbeats him into posting a personal ad on Craig’s List. When Vivian (Sara Simmonds), a strong-willed woman hell bent on being with the right guy at the stroke of midnight responds, a chaotic, sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching journey through the black and white streets of L.A. begins.
WINNER: Grand Jury Prize Florida Film Festival
Best Editing Woodstock Film Festival
Official Selection: Tribeca, AFI, Chicago, Edinburgh Film Festivals
“A MASTERWORK!”—Indiewire
“A beautiful Lo-Fi romance!—The Observer
“EFFECTIVE, ATTRACTIVE, and PROMISING! Holdridge aspires to a Woody Allen style romantic comedy in the vein of Manhatton”—Hollywood Reporter
17 WED 8:30pm: “Cine-IMPROV!”
A LIVE Comedic Jam served with cinema on the side!
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: PAUL NEWMAN directs!
“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
18 THU 8:30pm:
Directed by PAUL NEWMAN #1:
Rachel, Rachel (1968)
With Joanne Woodward, Estelle Parsons, James Olson, Kate Harrington
In Paul Newman’s powerful directorial
debut, he casts his wife Joanne Woodward in the role of Rachel Cameron, a 35-year-old
spinster schoolteacher, who feels that her life has been meaningless. She lives in a small New England town with her simpering widowed mother in an apartment over the funeral parlor that once belonged to her father. Haunted by memories of her childhood and her father, Rachel spends each frustrating day taking care of her mother and working with the schoolchildren.
Her pent-up frustrations (sexual and otherwise) are released when a visiting preacher urges her
to give expressions to her repressed emotions. . .
“Newman decided to direct himself. "What the hell," he said, "I majored in directing at the Yale Drama School." Disdaining the usual directorial flourishes, he told his crew, Rachel-style: "I'm a virgin and I need your help." He coached Actress Woodward—his wife—in whispers and in a sort of private language. . . Joanne Woodward inhabits her part as a soul does a body”--TIME
WINNER: Best Director, Best Actress New York Film Critics
Best Director, Best Actress Golden Globes
“**** Highest Rating. Every year, hundreds of movies are released to audiences around the world. Only a handful of the smaller budget features obtain classic status, and this is one of those rare gems”—New York Daily News
19 FRI 8:30pm: ONE NIGHT only!
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Gonzo,The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
(A film by Alex Gibney/USA/119 mins/2008)
With Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Jimmy Carter, Pat Buchanan
Gonzo is the definitive film biography of Hunter Thompson, a mythic American figure, a man that Tom Wolfe called our "greatest comic writer," the man that launched a thousand sips of bourbon, endless snorts of cocaine and a brash, irreverent, fearless style of journalism - named "gonzo" after an anarchic blues riff by James Booker. Gonzo is directed by Alex Gibney, the director of Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room and the Academy Award winning Taxi to the Dark Side. While Gibney shaped the screen story, every narrated word in the film springs from the typewriters of Thompson himself.
"Gonzo is a MUST-SEE for everyone."--Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
"Accessible, entertaining and hugely kinetic..."--Tasha Robinson, Chicago Tribune
20 SAT 8:30pm: ONE NIGHT only!
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Man on Wire (James Marsh/2008)
Documentary of the story of Philippe Petit
BACK by popular demand!
On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York’s twin towers, then the world’s tallest buildings. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. Following six and a half years of dreaming of the towers, Petit spent eight months in New York City planning the execution of the coup. James Marsh’s documentary brings Petit’s extraordinary adventure to life through the testimony of Philippe himself, and some of the co-conspirators who helped him create the unique and magnificent spectacle that became known as “the artistic crime of the century”.
WINNER: Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize World Documentary
And Audience Award World Documentary
"EXHILIRATING--Stephen Holden, New York Times
"EUPHORIC and WILDLY ENTERTAINING!"--Scott Faundas, LA Weekly
"It's too electric and gripping to be called a mere documentary"
--Jeffrey Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere
21 SUN 8pm: “SILENTS...PLEASE!”
Classic silent films with LIVE accompaniment!
The Wind (Victor Sjöström/USA/1928) 73mins.
Starring Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love
Swedish master director Victor Sjöström was assigned at MGM the daunting task of creating a film from the Dorothy Scarborough novel, The Wind. It would be the last work of this master in the USA, just as 1928 would be the end of the silent artistic achievements for many directors, due mainly to the advent of “talkies”. The film is an artistic creation for an American studio, in fact considered one of the most beautiful silent films ever made, so when MGM demanded a happy ending, that ending would be symbolic of the difference in European and American product. Legendary silent actress Lillian Gish plays Letty, who moves to West Texas where the unrelenting wind always blows and the sand gets into virtually everything. Life would get worse, forcing her to make desperate decisions. Filmed in the blazing Mojave desert, Lillian Gish recalled that it was the most difficult film (of all the difficult films) she ever made.
Recipient of National Film Preservation Register in 1993
“No one would deny that The Wind is a work of art or, after seeing it, cavil much at the opinion of a French critic, who said that Sjostrom was capable of making "the most beautiful films in the world."—The Guardian
“SJÖSTRÖM’S AMERICAN MASTERPIECE” Roy Armes, Camera Journal
The film’s score will be supplemented by a LIVE performance by
Jessey Howard on flute and other instruments.
$12 and $10 MBC Members/Students/Seniors
22 MON, 23 TUE, 24 WED 8pm:
Miami Premiere Theatrical Run!
The Man of Two Havanas
(A documentary film by Vivien Lesnik Weisman/2007/97mins.)
"OK. Here’s the situation. I was born in Havana. That makes me Cuban. But, I was raised in little Havana, which makes me Cuban-American. However, since I don’t see Castro as the root of all evil in the universe, nor would I strangle him with my bare hands if given the opportunity, I am a little out of step with my tribe. And I really don’t care. But my father does care. He cares a great deal. . . -Vivien Lesnik Weisman, Director
With a childhood filled with bombings and assassination attempts on her father, the filmmaker explores her relationship with him and the Cuba he left behind. Through the prism of a daughter we explore the past, the present, and the nature of social responsibility and personal sacrifice.
“A deeply personal and finely-felt documentary”—Nathan Southern New York Times
Director Vivien Lesnik Weisman will be in attendance for Q&A
on the Monday and Tuesday screenings.
25 THU 8:30pm:
Directed by PAUL NEWMAN #2:
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
With Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrizan
Based on the Novel by Ken Kesey
In a multi-faceted American classic of tough decisions
and emotions written by Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest) Hank Stamper (Newman) and his father Henry Stamper (Fonda) operate a logging business in Wakonda, Oregon. The town comes to grips of economic despair, due to the local union's strike against a large lumber combine. When the Stampers are asked to join the strikers, they refuse and are considered traitors. However, Hank continues to push his family on cutting trees, despite Hank's wife (Remick) wishes for him to give up the businesss. This drama in the Northeast leads to even
more family tragedy and unrest, beautifully directed by Paul Newman.
Academy Award Nominee Best Supporting Actor Richard Jaeckel
“Newman starts tunneling under the material, coming up with all sorts of things we didn't quite expect, and along the way he proves himself as a director of sympathy and a sort of lyrical restraint.”—Roger Ebert
“As he showed in Rachel, Rachel, Mr. Newman knows how to direct actors, and he has obtained amazing performances from the entire cast”—Vincent Canby, NY Times
Here's "a little news flash":
This is BANNED BOOKS WEEK (Starting Sept 27)
Celebrate the freedom to read and visit the local library!
26 FRI, 27 SAT 8:30pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Restored Version Miami Theatrical Premiere!
Monsieur Verdoux “A Comedy of Murders”
(A film by Charles Chaplin/USA/124 mins/1947/restored 2008)
Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux is widely considered one of his best works (this one is well past the silent era), and his most political. Chaplin immodestly proclaimed it "the cleverest, most brilliant film of my career." Originating from a true story, this self-described "comedy of murders" was based on an idea by Orson Welles, which Chaplin reportedly bought for five thousand dollars in a refusal to be directed by anyone but himself. Verdoux stars Chaplin as the mustachioed bluebeard whose charming manners cloak a deep-seated, murderous hatred. Plagued with censorship problems, and temporarily pulled from distribution at the height of the Cold War Hollywood witch-hunts, Verdoux was initially vilified for its risqué societal critique.
"IT IS A MASTERPIECE! SEE IT"-- Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
"A mordant satire that exemplifies the fine line between comedy and tragedy, Verdoux transcends the borders of genre, and deserves to be seen multiple times.”– Dave Kehr
"AMONG THE GREAT WORKS OF THIS CENTURY..."– James Agee
28 SUN 8pm: HD OPERA! A New Series!
See the best Operas in the world. . .in HD. . .
Right in your own neighborhood!
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Aida An Opera in Four Acts with one intermission
Performed at: Teatro alla Scala, Milan Date of performance: Dec. 2006
Approximate running time: 2 hours 37 minutes and one intermission
Music: Giuseppe Verdi, Italian libretto: Antonio Ghislanzoni
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly, Staging and sets: Franco Zeffirelli
Performers: The King, bass: Marco Spotti, Amneris, mezzo-soprano: Ildiko Komlosi, Aida, soprano: Violeta Urmana, Radames, tenor: Roberto Alagna, Ramfis, bass: Giorgio Giuseppini, Amonasro, baritone: Carlo Guelfi
Set in ancient Egypt during the reign of the Pharaohs, AIDA conforms to the notion that
in the game of love and war, all is fair. Perhaps. Political intrigue, love, betrayal, passion, and vengeance conspire in a tragic love triangle that pits three people conflicted by their love for country, family, and each other. One of opera’s most revered classics, AIDA delivers an intense, compelling drama highlighted by spectacular theatrical pageantry.
Don’t know much about Opera? Now is your chance to experience the theatrical
drama of a world class opera in HIGH DEFINITION projection. You will be
provided a full written synopsis of the story, And you can discuss with opera
enthusiasts at intermission. Try it! You’ll like it!
$18 and $15 MBC Members/Students/Seniors for this Special Event
OCT. 02 THU 8:30pm:
Directed by PAUL NEWMAN #3:
The Effect of Gamma Rays on
Man in the Moon Marigolds (1972)
With Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts (Elinor Newman), Roberta Wallach
“Life's been a real bitch to Beatrice Hunsdorfer. And vice versa.”
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Paul Zindel, this is another critically acclaimed joint effort of husband and wife team Newman and Woodward. Produced and directed by Newman, Woodward portrays the eccentric young widow who is raising her two disparate daughters in an atmosphere of bitterness, hatred and over-protection that threatens their very growth and development. The title of the movie reflects the mothers’ anger at her daughter's science teacher, when her daughter’s experiment shows how radiation kills marigolds, but sometimes causes them to grow more beautiful. This experiment becomes a metaphor for her own life, as she struggles to bloom in a household deadened by her mother's alcoholism and her sister's lethargy.
~All Movie Guide
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival
WINNER: Cannes Film Festival Best Actress
“The talents of everyone connected to this film are unmistakable, including Mr. Newman, a director of sensitive and straightforward style”—NY Times
“Newman has gotten it all together here as a director, letting the story and the players unfolds with simplicity, restraint and discernment.”--Variety
TICKETS:
FILMS: $10 or $7 MBC Members / Students / Seniors
SILENTS...PLEASE! $12 or $10 MBC Members / Students / Seniors
HD OPERA! $18 or $15 MBC Members / Students / Seniors
Doors open fifteen minutes before screenings
Where the Design Lies: Recreating MIAMI Exhibition: complimentary
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!
512 Española Way at Plaza España (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567) www.MBCINEMA.com
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