Friday, January 16, 2009

A Latino Weekend: Carlos Reygadas and Contemporary ARGENTINE Cinema with Wine Tasting...at MBC!

Carlos REYGADAS' Battle in Heaven is THU!

“A MEXICAN MASTERPIECE! This year's movie to beat!”-The Village Voice
...and this (Art Deco) Weekend at MBC:
Two contemporary Argentine award winners,
With Argentine WINE TASTING!

Battle In Heaven by Carlos Reygadas screens THU, Jan 15, 8:30pm



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JANUARY 2009 at a Glance:

15: Carlos REYGADAS: Battle In Heaven

16: New Argentine Cinema: Intimate Stories

17: New Argentine Cinema: Lost Embrace

19: Just added: The Florida screening of Crawford...say goodbye to Bush!

21: “Cine-Kink”: The Films of Richard Kern

22: Australian Film Showcase: The Home Song Stories

23-29: Steven SODERBERGH's CHE (Parts I & II)

30, 31: Let The Right One In

Feb 01: Carlos REYGADAS: Silent Light



15 THU 8:30pm:

"The Brilliant Light of Carlos REYGADAS"

Battle in Heaven (Batalla en el cielo)

(Mexico/2005)

With Marcos Hernández, Anapola Mushkadiz, Bertha Ruiz



Marcos, the driver of a rich family, and his wife kidnap a baby for ransom money, but the plan turns wrong when the infant dies. In this treat for aficionados of adventurous world cinema, Carlos Regadas has proven that he a director who takes chances, and he has become the controversial enfant terrible of Mexican filmmaking in doing so. A master at turning ugliness into beauty and morphing the banal into the mystical, Reygadas tackles serious themes - guilt, class, religion - through elliptic narratives and breathtaking cinematic sleights of hand.

For mature audiences only. In Spanish with English subtitles.

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Cannes, Toronto, Sundance Film Festivals

WINNER: FIPRESCI Prize Rio de Janeiro Film Festival

Screen International Award European Film Awards

Critics Prize and Best Cinematography Lima Int Film Festival

“A MEXICAN MASTERPIECE! This year's movie to beat!”-The Village Voice

“A STUNNING REVELATORY EXPERIENCE!”—Los Angeles Times

READ an interview with Carlos Reygadas HERE

Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting at CAVAS Wines!

(across the street at 437 Española Way)

For tickets click HERE



ART DECO WEEKEND:

Down Argentine Way.Vino.Tango

Award winning contemporary films from Argentina

with Argentine wine tasting!

16 FRI 8:30pm:

San Sebastian Film Festival Special Jury Prize!

Intimate Stories (Historias mínimas)

(Carlos Sorin/Argentina/2002)

With Javier Lombardo, Antonio Benedictis, Javiera Bravo, Laura Vagnoni

A charming and affecting tale charting the fortunes of three small town heroes pursuing their dreams, Carlos Sorin's Historias Minimas offers further evidence of the current riches to be found in Argentine cinema. Awarded a special jury prize at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, it's a deceptively simple yet delightful road movie concerned with three disparate characters heading for the Argentine city of San Julian. In Spanish with English subtitles.

WINNER: Argentinian Film Critics Association Best Film, Best Director,

Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best New Actor, Best Art Direction

Havana Film Festival martin Luther King Award

San Sebastian Film Festival FIPRESCI & Special Jury Prize

“A GEM OF A MOVIE! The vision of simple people helping one another expresses an essential humanity that doesn't feel forced or sentimental.”

-Stephen Holden NY Times

After the film (included in your ticket price):

ARGENTINE WINE TASTING at Cavas Wine Tasting Room!

For tickets click HERE



17 SAT 8:30pm:

Berlin Film Festival Grand Jury Prize!

Lost Embrace (El Abrazo partido)

(Daniel Burman/Argentina/2004)

With Daniel Hendler, Adriana Aizemberg and Sergio Boris

Ariel and his mother run a lingerie shop located in downtown Buenos Aires. It's a comfortable, cloistered world, but many young people there still search for their immigrant roots. Ariel, however, wants more than that; he yearns to understand why his father left the family shortly after his birth to fight a war in Israel and why he never returned. In Spanish with English subtitles.

WINNER: Berlin Int. Film Festival Grand Jury Prix and Best Actor

Bangkok World Film Festival Best Film

Mara del Plata Film Festival Best Film

“CAPTIVATING! A slice of life comedy.”-Entertainment Weekly

“A FILM OF UNEXPECTED, ALMOST INDESCRIBABLE OFF-

CENTER CHARM that deepens as it goes on.” –Kenneth Turin Los Angeles Times

After the film (included in your ticket price):

ARGENTINE WINE TASTING at Cavas Wine Tasting Room!

For tickets click HERE



Just Added!

19 MON 8:30pm:

Say goodbye to “W”

At the official FLORIDA Premiere screening of

Crawford

A new documentary being screened in every state of the union.

“Small Town Values” big time politics' winning slogan. But does the political machine,

so desirous of this wholesome image, actually value the small town itself?

In 1999, then Governor George W. Bush bought a ranch in the one-stoplight town of Crawford, Texas, calling it “home” just in time to set his sights on the White House. Having invented Bush's “folksy image,” the campaign's victory thrusts Crawford onto the world stage and an insular community of barely 700 explodes overnight. While the high school band plays the inauguration and the Baptist pastor declares a miracle, Crawfordites sell souvenirs hand over fist, finding themselves nearly trampled under the heels of the international press corps, patriotic tourists and boomtown opportunists. Then, four and a half years into Bush's tenure, Cindy Sheehan and her peace movement arrive at the doorstep of the “Western White House.” Crawford takes center stage. Left to deal with the aftermath, the real people of Crawford are changed forever. Now comes CRAWFORD, an often funny, deeply human story told by unforgettable characters. As witness to one man's (and his spin doctor's) decision to intertwine his life with the real small town America, the film ultimately becomes a microcosm of a nation in flux — a unique and poignant reflection on the Bush era.

MBC Members FREE (otherwise, $5 for this special screening).

Your ticket is also a chance to win a set of “W” shot glasses, to toast his return to his now very different “home town”!

Buy tickets HERE



21 WED 8:30pm: “Cine-Kink”

A new series for mature audiences (only).

The Short Films of Richard Kern

MBC's “Cine-Kink” night, a new semi-monthly tribute to the artistic side of kinky subjects, opens with a compilation of short films by the bad boy of underground film: Richard Kern. Mr. Kern, a photographer, filmmaker, and general mood enhancer, depending on your mood to be enhanced, became famous in the Ronald Reagan 1980's for his explicit but artistic visions of S&M, gothic romps, and related rough around the edges topics. His films are occupied by characters such as Lung Leg and Lydia Lunch, the prolific recording and spoken word artist, who he made an acting legend of the NYC underground scene with this collection of short films starring her. Warning: these are experimental, alternative, explicit creations, and not for sissies. Coming soon: Kinky classics, with surprise shorts! You must be 18 or older to be admitted.

“Have fun.”—Richard Kern

Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting at CAVAS Wines!

(across the street at 437 Española Way)

Tonight's event features a LIVE performance

by BELAXIS BUIL in a cube.

For tickets click HERE



22 THU 8pm:

Emerging Pictures and Screen Australia present the

2009 USA AUSTRALIAN FILM SHOWCASE

New Films From Australia

with Australian wine tasting!

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami Theatrical Premiere!

Australia's official 2009 Oscar® entry

The Home Song Stories (Tony Ayres/Australia/2008)

How far do you have to journey to find your home?

With Joan Chen, Qi Yuwu, Joel Lok, Irene Chen, Steven Vidler

Starring Joan Chen (“The Last Emperor”), Australia's 2008 Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film charts the lives of a young family trying desperately to hold itself together in an increasingly complex world. The Home Song Stories is an epic, unforgettable tale of beauty, tragedy, and childhood lost.

WINNER: L'Oreal Paris AFI Awards for Best Film, Best Direction, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actress, Best Editing, Best Production Design.

“A finely chiseled drama about an unstable Chinese mother struggling to reconcile her desires with her children's needs in early '70s Australia, The Home Song Stories speaks bittersweet truths about life in the Chinese diaspora.”–Variety

After the film (included in your ticket price):

WINE AUSTRALIA TASTING at Cavas Wine Tasting Room!

For tickets click HERE



23-29 FRI-THU: Premiere One week run!

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Exclusive Miami Beach Theatrical Premiere!

Best Actor 2008 Cannes Film Festival!

Steven Soderbergh's CHE

(In two parts/ USA/Spain/France/2008)

With Benicio Del Toro, Demian Bichar, Santiago Cabrera, Carlos Bardem,

Julia Ormond, Joaquim De Almeida, Yul Vasquez

The Argentine (Part One) 7pm nightly

PART ONE: 2hrs 17min.
On November 26, 1956, Fidel Castro sails to Cuba with eighty rebels. One of those rebels is Ernesto “Che” Guevara, an Argentine doctor who shares a common goal with Fidel Castro - to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Che proves indispensable as a fighter, and quickly grasps the art of guerrilla warfare. As he throws himself into the struggle, Che is embraced by his comrades and the Cuban people. This film tracks Che's rise in the Cuban Revolution, from doctor to commander to revolutionary hero.

In English and Spanish with English subtitles

For tickets click HERE



Guerilla (Part Two) 9:30pm nightly

PART TWO: 2hrs 10min.
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. The story of the Bolivian campaign is a tale of tenacity, sacrifice, idealism, and of guerrilla warfare that ultimately fails, bringing Che to his death. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.

In English and Spanish with English subtitles

Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Benicio Del Toro

For tickets click HERE



"CHE IS NOTHING LESS THAN THE FILM EVENT OF THE YEAR! By giving us the rise and fall of one of the great icons of history, Steven Soderbergh and Benicio Del Toro, who gives an incredible soulful performance, have given audiences around the world something that will be discussed for years to come."

—Jonathan Sehring IFC

Click HERE for an interview with Director Steven Soderbergh

At the New York Film Festival

Click HERE for the Cannes Film Festival Press Conference Audio File



ADMISSION: $10 or $7 MBC Members (for each part, separately)

Optional snack box available between shows $15.



Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting at CAVAS Wines!

(across the street at 437 Española Way)



30 FRI & 31 SAT 7:30pm & 9:40pm:

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami Theatrical Premiere!

Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)

(Tomas Alfredson/Sweden/2008)

With Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragner

Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire. Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson weaves friendship, rejection, and loyalty into a disturbing, darkly atmospheric, yet unexpectedly tender tableau of adolescence. The sleeper hit of the year, already scheduled for a Hollywood makeover due to its popularity. But we know, the originals, like this one, are always better than the remakes!

In Swedish with English subtitles.

WINNER: Tribeca Film Festival Best Narrative Feature

Rotten Tomatoes Critical Consensus Award

Fant-Asia Film Festival Best Film, Best Director, Best Photography

Gotenberg Film Festival Best Film, Best Cinematography

Woodstock Film Festival Audience Award

“A GENRE MASTERPIECE! Absolutely one of the most brilliant narratives I have had the pleasure to see in the last decade.”–Variety

“ONE OF THE STANDOUT ORIGINALS OF 2008”—Hollywood Elsewhere

“This is a vampire movie like no other. MEZMERIZING”-David Jansen Newsweek

“SENSATIONAL! The horror elements are kick ass!”—Paper Magazine

Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting at CAVAS Wines!

(across the street at 437 Española Way)

For tickets click HERE



FEB 01 SUN 8pm: One Night Only!

Miami Theatrical Premiere!

"The Brilliant Light of Carlos REYGADAS"

Silent Light (Stellet licht)

(Mexico/France/Netherlands/2007)

With Cornelio Wall, Maria Pankratz, Mirium Toews, Peter Wall

Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico.

Against the law of God and man, Johan falls in love with another woman.

In Plautdietsch and Spanish with English subtitles.

WINNER: Jury Prize Cannes Film Festival

Best Direction, Best Cinematography Ariel Awards Mexico

Best Film Chicago Int. Film Festival

First Prize, Best Director, Best Cinematography Havana Film Festival

Independent Spirit Awards Best Foreign Film

FIPRESCI Prize Rio de Janeiro Film Festival

“THE BEST FILM OF 2007”-Dana Keith, Director, Miami Beach Cinematheque

"OVERWHELMINGLY POWERFUL!"-The Guardian

Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting at CAVAS Wines!

(across the street at 437 Española Way)

For tickets click HERE



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



COMING IN FEBRUARY!

"PLEASURES & LOVES Via Max Ophüls"

Synecdoche, New York, Were The World Mine,

and much more!



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







Ordinary

movies?

NEVER!



Silent Light by Carlos Reygadas

(screening February 01)

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