Miami Beach Cinemateque - Oct 2007 schedule

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!
512 Española Way at Plaza de España (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567) www.MBCINEMA.com



OCTOBER 2007

Creepy Crawly CRONENBERG!

~VIDEODROME~THE FLY~DEAD RINGERS~NAKED LUNCH~CRASH~





with “Creature Feature: Unexpected Eerie Images”

photography exhibition by Wendy Doscher-Smith



© photos by Wendy Doscher-Smith



October’s “Great Director” is Canadian master of the macabre David Cronenberg.

His stylish films (the latest being Eastern Promises) are intense and intelligent, and not

for the prudish or squeamish. Five of his most notorious films have been chosen for a

month of creepy crawly adventures, opening on October 5th with Videodrome followed by

the opening reception for “Creature Feature: Unexpected Eerie Images”, photography by

Wendy Doscher-Smith. The month of film leads to a grande finale Halloween Party and

exhibition closing on the 31st, featuring a Zombie Fashion Show by Adrienne Ruffin, set to

a Dance Planet X Live Showcase starring Monserrattz, with fashion show video/soundtrack

by DJ Maximus 3000!



OCTOBER At A Glance:

02: "Life Is Too Short" preview of the Italian Film Festival short films

03: Cancun International Film Festival Press Conference

05, 12, 19, 26, 27: "Creepy Crawly CRONENBERG"

05 & 31: "Creature Feature" photography exhibition opening and closing

06: Naked World with artist SPENCER TUNICK

13: "Framing Stage" with Sasha Weisfeld

18: Independent LENS: Miss Navajo

19: Nike Skateboarding Nothing But The Truth Premiere at Colony Theater

28: DOCUSPAIN: Comandante

31: "Creature Feature" Halloween Party and fashion show!



OCT 02 TUE 8:30pm: “Life Is Too Short”

Miami Premieres! A PREVIEW of Italian short films...

from the Italian Film Festival of Miami! (coming Oct 04-07)



The best way for a young director to start a career

and measure his talent, is with a short films. This is why the Italian Film Festival

features a series of short films every year, in order to give young and emerging

artists a chance to be seen outside of Italy. The genres range from drama to comedy,

thriller to martial arts and often you will be surprised by the quality and the wittiness

of some of these short, but not little, works of art. MBC once again joins us in this

project, which has become a tradition since the early years of the IFF.





OCT 03 WED 11am: Announcement of the 1st Annual

CanCun International Film Festival







Press conference for the first annual festival.

Press and MBC Members Welcome

A Special Offer for MBC Members will be announced!

MBC Members RSVP at info@mbcinema.com

Press RSVP at info@creativewebstudio.com



OCT 05 FRI 8:30pm:

Creepy Crawly CRONENBERG!

Videodrome (1983)

“A Shocking New Vision”...

With Debbie Harry, James Woods, Sonja Smits

Brian O’Blivion: “The television screen is the retina to the mind’s eye”...

Max Renn: “Careful...it bites.”

Forecasting the adult video

media explosion that infiltrated American culture in the 1980’s, David Cronenberg’s

fascination with TV and video as a mind controller is one of the first and best of

many sexual paranoia films of the day. James Woods is Max Renn, CEO of sleazy

cable televison channel 83—“Civic TV”. He is obsessed with finding new ways to

stimulate and entertain his audiences, and stumbles across the ultimate taboo—sexy

hyperviolent films that appear as realistic as they come. Videodrome is one of

Cronenberg's most original and provocative works, fusing social commentary

with shocking elements of S&V (sex & violence), and groundbreaking special effects

makeup by Oscar® winner Rick Baker.

WINNER: The Canadian Academy Awards (Genie) Best Director

Best Science Fiction Film Brussel Int’l Film Festival



Opening reception for “Creature Feature: Unexpected Eerie Images”

photography exhibition by Wendy Doscher-Smith follows the film!





OCT 06 SAT 8:30pm: “ART on FILM”

Season Premiere of a NEW series!

Presented by MBC and The Sagamore Hotel, the ART Hotel

A monthly series of films related to the world famous

art collection of the Sagamore Hotel...

The first month's artist: SPENCER TUNICK

(coinciding with his October 8th photoshoot at the Sagamore!)



This project is Guest Curated by Kimberly Marrero





Naked World (documentary/Arlene Donnelly Nelson/2003)

Contemporary artist Spencer Tunick is widely celebrated for his elaborately

posed installations of multiple nude figures within interestingly select public

settings. His temporary site-specific installations have taken place across the

globe in cities including Lyon, Melbourne, Mexico City, New York and Barcelona

to name a few. Tunick gathers legions of volunteers to take part in his elaborate

installations which in the past have drawn numbers well into the thousands.

Arlene Donnelly Nelson's documentary follows the artist as he invites thousands

of people of all races, shapes and sizes out of their clothes and into the streets

for art's sake. Naked World is a visual odyssey that brings to light the unique

vision of the man behind the lens, one that portrays form and human beauty

within unexpected but familiar environments.



Find out more about how Spencer Tunick travels the world HERE.



The film will be followed by Q&A WITH SPENCER TUNICK at MBC,

and afterwards a complimentary cocktail and tapas at “Social Miami”

in the Sagamore (a few minutes walk from MBC).



To be IN Spencer's Oct. 8th photo at The Sagamore click HERE!





OCT 12 FRI 8:30pm:

Creepy Crawly CRONENBERG!

With Miami Short Film Festival Horror Film PREVIEW!

The Fly (1986)

“Something went wrong in the lab today. Very wrong”

With Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz

Those damn flies. They always

seem to get into everything. And in this classic story originally penned by George

Langelaan (which was first published in Playboy Magazine in 1957), one innocent

little fly is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Jeff Goldblum is the brilliant

scientist Seth Brundle, who is masterminding the teleportation method (originally

played by David Hedison in the 1958 version with much less expensive sets).

Gina Davis is the journalist-cum-girlfriend who gets the scoop on covering the

latest in AIDS-era high tech inventions, and gets more than she wanted to know.

She also gets to say the much used line “Be afraid. Be very afraid” for, yes, the

first time ever.

WINNER: Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Best Film,

Best Actor, Best Make-Up, Academy Award Best Make-Up





OCT 13 SAT 9pm: “Framing Stage”

An improvised LIVE one-man show by Sasha Weisfeld!

Where the two dimensions of screen and the four dimensions of live theatre meet!


The stream of consciousness

musical star of MBC's "Cine-improv, Sasha Weisfeld (who opened for David Lynch's

live webcast intro for Inland Empire) presents “Framing Stage” an improvisational

musical extravanganza using new techniques and mechanisms to extract the dreams,

feelings and identity of audience members to create music, songs and characters.

Featuring the musical genius of Kneegore Stravinsky and the films of a lost era.

This performance is not to be missed!

$12 or $10 MBC Members





OCT 18 THU 8:30pm: Independent LENS 2007-2008

Florida exclusive previews of award winning documentaries

before they air on PBS...Presented with HANDS ON MIAMI

Miss Navajo (Billy Luther/USA/2007)

How many beauty contestants can say

“I competed in a pageant where I butchered a sheep?” Crystal Frazier can.

Follow this introverted, self-proclaimed tomboy as she makes bread, weaves

a rug, sweats her way through a language quiz—and that’s just the first day—

on her quest to be the new MISS NAVAJO. Not just any beauty contest, the

Miss Navajo pageant is all about who can rise to the challenge of becoming

a community leader, and who can help save the Navajo culture and language.

WINNER: The Michael Moore Special Founder’s Prize at Traverse Film Festival

Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival

COMPLIMENTARY screening (donations welcome!)



OCT 19 FRI 8:30pm:

Creepy Crawly CRONENBERG!

Dead Ringers (1988)

With Jeremy Irons, Jeremy Irons, and Geneviève Bujold

“Two bodies. Two minds. One Soul”

Have you ever

wondered just how close twins are? How they are able to convince others

of what they have planned and plotted all along, without people knowing

for sure which one is which? Based on real life identical twin brothers, both

gynecologists, Jeremy Irons plays the double roles with a complexity that is

rarely seen in creepy films, even Cronenberg’s own films, before this one.

One brother is dominant, and the other is basically passive, until the underdog

falls for the newest woman in their lives first, for once...What happens now?

“One of the 25 Most Dangerous films ever made”—Premiere Magazine

WINNER: Canadian Academy Awards (Genie) Best Picture, Best Director,

Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay...(11 awards in all)

Los Angeles Film Critics Best Director, Best Supporting Actress

New York Film Critics Best Actor





OCT 24 WED 8pm:

Nike Skateboarding presents

the Miami Premiere of:

Nothing But The Truth (Lionel Goldstein/2007)








FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH:



ANY SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ACTING AND SKATING?

“ A camera and the center of attention is on you. And the verbal thing,

and it’s not something you are totally comfortable doing, so it’s kinda

weird to film it, but I’ve talked in front of a camera before, so it’s not

like it’s totally new.”—Reese Forbes

HOW DID YOU REACT WHEN YOU FOUND OUT WHAT THE MOVIE

WAS ABOUT?

“I don’t know what the movie’s about”—Grant Taylor

ASIDE FROM SKATING, WHAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT PART

OF MAKING A SKATE MOVIE?

“Definitely music, eh? Good skating, of course, that’s the most important

thing. If you have those two elements you’re good”—Weiger Van Wageningen



INVITATION ONLY (for MBC Members)...

at the COLONY THEATER, 1040 Lincoln Road

Limited complimentary tickets for MBC Members available at MBC!

(first come first serve, starting October 12)



OCT 26 FRI 8:30pm:

Creepy Crawly CRONENBERG!

Naked Lunch (1991)

With Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands

Based on the novel by William S. Burroughs

“David Cronenberg and William S. Burroughs invite you to lunch”



Paralleling William S.

Burrough’s hallucinatory experiences as he wrote the novel that Naked Lunch

is based on, including the accidental shooting of his wife (which he spent only

13 days in jail for), the resulting film is a psychedelic trip through a drug addict’s

life. From Jack Kerouac to Allen Ginsberg to Paul Bowles references, the

Burroughs autobiographical journey is based on real people in the life of a

real man, believe it or not. Peter Weller as Bill Lee the exterminator finds himself

becoming addicted to his own stuff, and all logic disappears as he imagines

himself as a secret agent being advised by various creatures such as a talking

roach/typewriter. His only means of surviving is to have some sense of control

through his “reports” of the trip, not unlike the author.

WINNER: Canadian Academy Awards (Genie) Best Picture, Best Cinematography

National Society of Film Critics Best Director, Best Screenplay

New York Film Critics Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress





OCT 27 SAT 8:30pm:

Creepy Crawly CRONENBERG!

Crash (1996) (NC-17 / not suitable for minors. No-one under 17 admitted)

(this is NOT the 2004 Crash by Paul Haggis)

With James Spader, Holly Hunter, Rosanna Arquette, Elias Koteas

“The Most Controversial Film You Will Ever See”

There are people out there

(not you! Or is it you too?) who have weird fetishes and fantasies. Some people’s

sexualities are sometimes attached to unusual subjects. (Does this sound like a

psychologist’s sex-ed class?) Well, meet some people who are overly interested

in car crashes (the actors above who actually survived filming of this fascinating

Cronenberg masterpiece of creepiness, while playing characters kinkier than any

of their other roles). This is not your grandmother’s fetish. The ticket at the world

premiere at the Cannes Film Festival contained a warning to sensitive types

(where it won an unprecedented special prize), and it was rarely seen again,

creeping out most people who saw it. Now is your chance to be a voyeur and

check to see if you are a weirdo too. You have been warned. You weirdo.

WINNER: Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize for originality, daring, audacity

Canadian Academy Awards (Genie) Best Director, Best Screenplay,

Best Cinematography, Best Editing

With the short film: At the Suicide Of The Last Jew In The

World In The Last Cinema In The World (2007)





OCT 28 SUN 8pm: “DOCUSPAIN”

Award winning, provocative documentaries in Spanish*,

produced with Spanish support...once a month at MBC!

*with English subtitles

Presented by

and PRAGDA Barcelona/New York, with support from the Embassy of Spain,

the Spain Foreign Cultural Corporation, the International Documentary Assoc.,

and Tapas y Tintos restaurant.

The program will tour the U.S. during 2007 and 2008. Continuing in the series is the

humorous and very touching piece of Spain Seville Southside; Academy Award®

nominated Balseros; and "The most controversial Spanish film in decades."

as per Fiachra Gibbons from The Guardian--The Basque Ball by Julio

Medem (Sex and Lucia).

Comandante (Oliver Stone/2003) Miami Premiere!



Relations

between the USA and Cuba are anything but normal. One of the

United States’ most outspoken and controversial directors interviews

one of the world’s most outspoken and controversial heads of state –

Comandante, Fidel Castro. No prior arrangements were made about

what questions should or should not be discussed and Castro responds

to each of them. Castro talks for the first time about his relationship to

Che Guevara, Kennedy, and Nixon, but he also talks about certain aspects

of his private life. Largely unseen in the USA, this film is a rare insight into

a man who has defied the USA for so long.

Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, Chicago Int’l Film Festival,

San Francisco Int’l Film Festival



Every DOCUSPAIN film will be followed by an afterparty at Tapas y Tintos,

featuring LIVE Flamenco, complimentary tapas and MAHOU beer for filmgoers!





OCT 31 WED Halloween Night...8pm-MIDNIGHT!

“Creature Feature” Halloween Party!







photography by Wendy Doscher-Smith



YIKES!... It’s Halloweeen! And after all those roaches, flies, and intrusive

foreign objects in all those creepy David Cronenberg films, you need a break!

So drop by tonight for a real treat: The closing Night Party for Wendy Doscher-

Smith’s “Creature Feature: Unexpected Eerie Images” photography exhibition,

including an outrageous Zombie Fashion Show featuring the designs of Adrienne

Ruffin, set to a Dance Planet X Live Showcase starring Monserrattz, with a

fashion show video and soundtrack by DJ Maximus 3000!



Complimentary Admission, but fashion show at 9pm has limited space.

Come early, preferably IN COSTUME, or an option: drop by afterwards!

BEST CREATURE Prize is at 11pm!



The sale of “Creature Feature” photos benefit fotomission.org, legalart.org,
and Wendy Doscher-Smith’s rescue organization: savenyla.com

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
512 Española Way at Plaza de España (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567) www.MBCINEMA.com



FILMS: $10 or $6 MBC Members and Students

"Framing Stage" $12 and $10 MBC Members

Independent LENS: complimentary admission

Halloween Night: complimentary admission

Exhibition complimentary and viewable before and after screenings.

Doors open 1/2 hour before screenings



COMING SOON! A "Sleepless Night" for Filmbuffs

in Plaza de España on November 03!

Miami Beach Cinemateque - Sept 2007 schedule

Sept. 21 FRI 8:30pm: “The Dreamer” (1918-2007)

BERGMAN: The Silence (Tystnaden) (1963)

With Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Jörgen Lindström

Cinematography by Sven Nykvist

Ester (Thulin): “...The forces are all too strong. I mean the forces,

the horrible forces. You need to watch your step among the ghosts and memories.”

The last film in Bergman’s

“Faith Trilogy” (comprised also of Through A Glass Darkly and Winter Light),

The Silence focuses on the inability to communicate with both human or heavenly

presences, and desires of the physical rather than spiritual. In his lifetime wrestle

with religion and human emotion, Bergman was at the pinnacle of his very

personal experimental voyage in the 1960’s, creating one of the most searing,

controversial, and mysterious portraits of his career. Ester (Thulin) and Anna

(Lindblom) are sisters who decide to rest on their way home from a vacation home,

due to Ester’s unexpected illness. The town they stop in is as foreign as their

connection to each other, and the profound experience there will be unforgettable

for both, as well as for Anna’s impressionable son. In Swedish with English subtitles.

“BERGMAN AT HIS MOST POWERFUL! A sexual frankness that blazes

a new trail. Wonderful, marvelous, shuddering performances.”—A. Winston NY Post

WINNER: Swedish Film Institute Academy Awards Best Film, Best Director,

Best Actress Ingrid Thulin






Sept. 22 SAT 8:30pm:

Miami Short Film Festival Preview:



“The Best of Student Short Films”

The best examples of student short films from this year’s Miami Short Film Festival

will be screened at MBC. The film titles and directors will be announced soon,

just after the final selection process takes place. The 6th Annual MSFF will take place

on November 26 through December 02 at various venues including the Bill Cosford

Cinema, the Tower Theater, Miami Museum Of Science, and MBC!






Sept. 28 FRI 8:30pm: “The Aesthete” (1912-2007)

ANTONIONI: Zabriskie Point (1970)

With Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor

Music by Pink Floyd, Jerry Garcia

Exploding with a European artistic

sense that went too far for most Americans--besides the acclimated cinephiles who

clamored to defend it as it shocked the establishment, and formed a cult status around it--

Antonioni followed Blow-Up with an anti-war, anti-consumerist visit to Death Valley

USA. Using young non-actors Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin as his representatives

of the new generation amidst a corrupt society, they wander and ponder throughout

Antonioni’s cinematic canvas. Mark is a dropout fugitive (not unlike his tragic real life),

and Daria is a teetering pro-developer anthropology student. As an Italian in America,

he saw the American situation with his undiluted austere sense of visual style and

sensibility, making this film one of the most debated examples of a foreigner’s point of

view, along with the upcoming Blueberry Nights by Wong Kar Wai, and Bruno Dumont’s

Twentynine Palms (coming soon to MBC!).

“All of Death Valley erupts with life and love...”—Vincent Canby New York Times

“The films (of Antonioni) pose a subject (only to compromise it), constitute objects

(only to dissolve them), propose stories (only to lose them)...but in such a way that

the surface takes on a fascination, becomes a "subject" all its own.”

--Sam Rhodie –from his book Antonioni






Sept. 30 SUN 8pm: “DOCUSPAIN” Season Premiere!

Award winning, provocative documentaries in Spanish,

produced with Spanish support...once a month at MBC!

Presented with MAHOU, and PRAGDA Barcelona/New York,

with support from the Embassy of Spain, the Spain Foreign Cultural Corporation,

and the International Documentary Association

MAHOU, PRAGDA and MBC present a series of provocative and brilliantly conceived Spanish

documentaries that have revived the genre with new forms of expression. The program will tour the

U.S. during 2007 and 2008. Included is the winner of the prestigious Joris Ivens Award at IDFA and

this year’s Academy Award® qualifying My Grandmother's House; Oliver Stone's remarkable and

highly controversial study of Fidel Castro, Comandante; the spectacularly powerful document about

a Brazilian favela that uses music for social change The Miracle of Candeal; Academy Award®

nominated Balseros; "The most controversial Spanish film in decades." as per Fiachra Gibbons

from The Guardian--The Basque Ball by Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia); the humorous and very touching

piece of Spain Seville Southside; the taboo subject of Franco’s concentration camps in Bars In The Memory;

and the emotionally turbulent Memory Train.

La Casa de mi Abuela (My Grandmother’s House) Adan Alaga/2005

How does a pop duet

work out for impulsive and irreverent six-year-old Marina and 75 year old Marita?

Cheeky Marina plays to the camera, ignoring the chiding of her aged grandmother,

Marita. Marita's crumbling house was built by her long-dead husband. She moved in

when they married, over 53 years ago, and nothing much has changed since. Now her

home is under threat; the neighborhood is being torn down, replaced with charmless

apartments.

WINNER: Joris Ivans Award, Miami Film Festival Special Grand Jury Mention

Toronto Hot Docs Grand Jury Prize, Chicago Int’l Film Festival Silver Gen Award

Belgrade Int’l Film Festival Best Documentary







Every DOCUSPAIN film will be followed by an afterparty at Tapas y Tintos,

featuring complimentary tapas and MAHOU beer for filmgoers!








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

512 Española Way at Plaza de España (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567) www.MBCINEMA.com



FILMS: $10 or $6 MBC Members and Students

Gypsy Caravan premiere $15 and $12 MBC Members

Independent LENS: complimentary admission

Exhibition complimentary and viewable before and after screenings.

Doors open 1/2 hour before screenings



COMING SOON! Artist SPENCER TUNICK and Naked World!

and "Creepy, Crawly CRONENBERG" in October!



MBC is supported by the Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council and the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural

Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners

Miami Beach Cinemateque - end of August 2007

August 29 WED 7:30pm:

A special screening presented by MGLFF,

The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival...

Gus Van Sant’s first feature! Mala Noche (1985)

Presented in a newly restored 35mm print!

With its low budget and lush

black-and-white imagery, Gus Van Sant's debut feature Mala Noche heralded an

idiosyncratic, provocative new voice in American independent film. Set in Van Sant's

hometown of Portland, Oregon, the film evokes a world of transient workers, dead-end

day-shifters, and bars and seedy apartments bathed in a profound nighttime, as it follows

a romantic deadbeat with a wayward crush on a handsome Mexican immigrant. Mala

Noche was an important prelude to the New Queer Cinema of the nineties and is a

fascinating time capsule from a time and place that continues to haunt its director's

work. The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival is proud to bring you this seminal work

of cinema from one of the art form’s most important living artists, and this is a perfect

follow-up to the recent MBC retrospective on Van Sant. Don’t miss this rare opportunity

to see his first work, completely restored!

At the BYRON CARLYLE THEATER 501 71st Street, Miami Beach



MGLFF has invited MBC Members to have a special DISCOUNT!

(Non-members are $13, but as an MBC supporter you can enter the code “MBC”

HERE, and get the special price of $10)







August 31 FRI 8:30pm:

The Wrath of WERNER HERZOG:

Little Dieter Needs To Fly (Documentary/1998)

(The documentary that Herzog’s latest feature, Rescue Dawn, is based on.

See Rescue Dawn, and then see the real thing!...)




“Men are often haunted...they seem to be normal, but they are not”

With Dieter Dengler

Before his latest film Rescue Dawn, which was based on the true harrowing

experiences of German-American pilot Dieter Dengler, Werner Herzog made

this documentary about his life. Dieter Dengler re-enacts for Herzog the grueling

trek from captivity he endured in Vietnam, as well as the thoughts and emotions

associated with it—the real ones.

Special thanks to the Werner Herzog Film Office, Munich Germany

“Inspiring, charming, sad and all but tragic, in a Greek-literary sense —

and a character that might have sprung from the brow of Herzog, if not Zeus.”

– John Anderson, Newsday.

“Positively is not to be missed!” –-Time Out New York





COMING in September!...

"The Dreamer & The Aesthete: BERGMAN & ANTONIONI"

Starting Saturday, September 01!



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

512 Española Way at Plaza de España (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567) www.MBCINEMA.com



FILMS: $10 or $6 MBC Members and Students

"FRAMING STAGE" $12 and $10 MBC Members

Doors open 1/2 hour before screenings