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Miami Beach Cinemateque - August 2007 schedule

August 02 THU 8pm: Miami Advance Screening!

The newest film of Leon ICHASO

El Cantante (Leon Ichaso/2006)

With Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez and produced by Julio Caro, Simon Fields,

Jennifer Lopez, and David Maldonado. Director of Photography Claudio Chea


El Cantante is the dramatic-biography of Puerto Rican salsa pioneer Hector

Lavoe. The film follows Lavoe’s (Anthony) passionate relationship with

Puchi (Lopez) and his skyrocket to international fame. But even when he

has it all, Lavoe is unable to escape the allure of drugs and his personal pain.

Toronto Film Festival and New York Latino Film Festival Official Selection


DIRECTOR LEON ICHASO WILL BE PRESENT FOR Q&A


At the REGAL SOUTH BEACH Cinema

LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE at MBC ONLY at Ichaso screenings!

By attending any Ichaso film (the last one is Sat. July 28), you get a FREE El Cantante ticket!

(patrons must arrive EARLY for the El Cantante screening. See ticket for details).

With Afterparty at GEMMA Lounge

529 Lincoln Road

featuring complimentary TEN CANE RUM and MAHOU BEER!


AUGUST at MBC!...
The Wrath Of WERNER HERZOG, & more!

“We comprehend... that nuclear power is a real

danger for mankind, that over-crowding of the planet is the greatest danger

of all. We have understood that the destruction of the environment is another

enormous danger. But I truly believe that the lack of adequate imagery is a

danger of the same magnitude. It is as serious a defect as being without memory.

What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed

landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am

able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.”

-Werner Herzog

AUGUST At A Glance:

The Wrath Of WERNER HERZOG (FRI 03, 10, 17, 24, 31)

A Night Divine: MSFF Preview and FRANCES, A Mother Divine (SAT 11)

Jazz On Film #1: Dream Supreme with Leo Casino World Premiere (WED 15)

Conscious Cinema: Kamp Katrina (THU 16)

August 03 FRI 8:30pm:

The Wrath of WERNER HERZOG:

Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)

(Germany/1972) “A breathtaking journey into the heart of darkness”

With Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Ruy Guerra

The first of five stormy collaborations with madman-actor Klaus Kinski, Aguirre,

The Wrath Of God is a spectacularly horrifying chronicle of imperialism gone amok,

set in the mid-1500s. A Spanish expedition searching the Amazon for the mythical

city of El Dorado falls into the hands of Don Lope de Aguirre (Kinski), a power-

driven lunatic who dreams of stealing an entire continent. Stunningly photographed

by Thomas Mauch, Herzog's masterpiece takes the viewer on a mad voyage, with a

typical Herzog anti-protagonist proclaiming to be above the laws of nature,

only to find out he is not. In German with English subtitles.

Critics Award Best Foreign Film French Syndicate of Film Critics

Best Cinematography National Society of Film Critics

“NOT TO BE MISSED! A film of such self-assured hallucinatory clarity and

ingenious visual invention that it has no equal… One of the best films of the 70s!”
– Bruce Bennett, The New York Sun

August 10 FRI 8:30pm:

The Wrath of WERNER HERZOG:

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Germany/1974)

“Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence?”

With Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira

Based on a bizarre 19th century true

story, with fiction and reality blurring as in all Herzog films, once again the story

focuses on a man out of tune with his environment. A young man is released from

the sixteen year mysterious imprisonment that left him totally unable to communicate

in the outer world. The Nuremberg townspeople take an immediate interest in the

novelty placed among them, and Kaspar (Bruno S.) is studied, “adopted”, made a

cause celebre, and “educated”. In Herzog’s eyes, the real freaks are the ones who

have been corrupted by society or who corrupt society, and Kaspar is “full of basic

uncontaminated human dignity”. The German title reveals a bit more about the

all-powerful effect of nature over the entire fable-like scenario: “Every Man For

Himself, and God Against All.” In German with English subtitles.

Cannes Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, FIPRESCI Prize, Ecumenical Jury Prize

Best Production Design German Film Awards

August 11 SAT 8:30pm: “A Night Divine”...

Featuring a preview of the Miami Short Film Festival,

and the new feature documentary:

FRANCES, A Mother Divine (Tim Dunn & Michael O’Quinn/2007)

FRANCES, A Mother Divine is a touching, humorous docu-dramedy about Frances

Milstead, the mother of the late actor/drag queen superstar DIVINE (star of John

Waters films such as Pink Flamingos, Polyester, and the original Hairspray). This

documentary champions human rights by capturing a glimpse of the life of Frances

and her courageous humanitarian spirit while she tells her love story to her deceased

son (originally named Harris Glen Milstead), and becomes a mother to an entire community.

Meet Divine’s mother FRANCES, in person!

"Of course the last thing my parents wanted was a son who wears a cocktail

dress that glitters, but they've come around to it."--Divine

Complimentary Admission by INVITATION ONLY

For MBC MEMBERS and Cast and Crew

MBC Members please RSVP to info@mbcinema.com

(You can become a member at www.mbcinema.com)

August 15 WED 8:30pm: JAZZ on Film #1:

World Premiere! Dream Supreme (Jane Carroll/2007)

With Leo Casino, Jasmine Akash,

Adora, Dr. Ali Tyson Cool, Taffy, Maria Sanchez, Dorothy Sims, Marge Whitman

Written by Jasmine Akash and Leo Casino, Original music by Leo Casino

Dream Supreme is a musical fantasy about the chance affair between two of

America’s most loved icons, Marilyn Monroe (played by Jasmine Akash, the

former Miss Universe from Russia) and jazz legend John Coltrane (played by

another jazz legend Leo Casino). Jasmine and Leo perform some of the most

popular songs recorded by Marilyn and Coltrane. The entire film (which

originated as a stage play and is now under the direction of the great Jane

Caroll) takes place in the bedroom of John Coltrane. It is love at first sight,

and a roller coaster of emotions follow throughout as Marilyn is entranced

by Coltrane’s seductive charms.


A LIVE concert will follow with the fabulous duo of Leo Casino & Maryel Epps

And other musical guests!

August 16 THU 8:30pm:

CONSCIOUS CINEMA: Be Prepared!

Presented in collaboration with Hands On Miami

Kamp Katrina (Ashley Sabin/2007) Return engagement!

Kamp Katrina is set post-Hurricane

Katrina in New Orleans where Ms. Pearl, an Upper 9th Ward resident offers

her backyard to 14 displaced people to make a self-made tent community,

“Kamp Katrina.” Confronted with limited resources, they attempt to create

a community for the residents of Kamp Katrina. Ms. Pearl is forced to wear

as many hats as she does costumes providing construction jobs and basic

resources to help assist in rebuilding the city.

“A Standout movie—Kamp Katrina is a snapshot of the slowly evolving human

dramas in the aftermath of the hurricane”—Austin American Statesman

“Bizarrely entertaining, refreshing, and revealing”—Baltimore City

COMPLIMENTARY Admission

August 17 FRI 8:30pm:

The Wrath of WERNER HERZOG:

Stroszek (Germany/1977)

With Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz

Eva: “Well, taking a boat to New York and Florida... Isn't there a park there?

What's it called? Where the bears run around free?”
Bruno: “That's the Grizzlies.”

Capitalist America is the modern corrupted society, with the same actor Bruno S.

(from Kaspar Hauser) in a newly alienated position in a newly developed land:

Wisconsin. His move from Germany to escape an alcoholic life goes nowhere,

since for starters he brings along his neighbor and a village prostitute. Like

Aguirre searching for his “Holy Grail” El Dorado, Bruno finds that America is

not what it seems from afar, but Herzog sees the film not so much as a critique

of American ideals, but a “eulogy” amidst the American Dream. It could happen

anywhere. Written in four days, and shot in unadorned documentary style with

the actors basically playing versions of their own lives, the film is a natural gem

that proves some of the most successful ideas are the obvious ones.

In German and English with English subtitles.

“Without a doubt, one of the greatest movies ever made”—New York Press

"Werner Herzog is the most visionary of contemporary German filmmakers.

Whatever he does is interesting. "--Joseph Gelmis, Newsday

August 24 FRI 8:30pm:

The Wrath of WERNER HERZOG:

Fitzcarraldo (Germany/1982)


With Klaus Kinski, José Lewgoy, Claudia Cardinale

The power of the cinematic image as well as Herzog’s intense determination in

filmmaking is displayed in Fitzcarraldo, one of his most well known and magestic

films. Klaus Kinski plays a “Conquistador of the Useless”, a wealthy industrialist

who dreams of bringing the European opera to the Amazonian jungle. In order for

it to come to fruition financially, his plan is to haul a full sized riverboat over a

mountain to create a new port for utilizing valuable remote rubber trees. The

actual outrageous idea is accomplished by the film crew and the film’s character

with the help of the Peruvian natives, in a spectacular historical feat that was too

perfect for a making-of documentary (Burden Of Dreams, which is as amazing as

the fiction film). Like Herzog’s crazy protagonist, the director’s life depended on

the project, for four years. And like life, it inevitably does not all go as planned.

In German with English subtitles.

Best Director Cannes Film Festival

Outstanding Feature Film German Film Awards

“I live my life or end my life with this film”—Werner Herzog


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.)

“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

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

Cine-IMPROV $12 and $10 MBC Members

Doors open 1/2 hour before screenings

Miami Beach Cinemateque - July 2007 schedule

Tonight: When The Levees Broke, Parts I & II
This Weekend: Colombian Film Festival!
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

Tonight! CONSCIOUS CINEMA: Be Prepared!
Presented by Hands On Miami
Spike Lee’s When The Levees Broke
19 THU 8:30pm: Parts I & II
As the world watched in horror, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on
August 29, 2005. Like many who watched the unfolding drama on television
news, director Spike Lee was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster,
but by the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and
recovery effort. Lee was moved to document this modern American tragedy,
a morality play witnessed by people all around the world. The result is
WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS. The film is
structured in four acts, each dealing with a different aspect of the events
that preceded and followed Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans.
Following the film on each night will be a hurricane preparedness course.
COMPLIMENTARY ADMISSION!

1st COLOMBIAN FILM FESTIVAL of Miami Beach
Celebrate Colombian Independence Day!
20 FRI 8:30pm: Bolivar Is Me (Bolívar Soy Yo)
(Jorge Alí Triana/2003)
Based on a true story, Bolivar Is Me is a social critique that mixes tragedy with
humor, something characteristic of the lives of many people in Latin America.
It depicts the dreams of a liberator, the “Great Liberator” Simon Bolívar,
(as portrayed by an actor in the country’s most popular soap opera), and the
dreams that the common people have about him, and the realities of an
amazing and contradictory country.
WINNER: Best Film, Best Ibero-American Film Mardel Plata Film Festival
Audience Award Toulouse Latin American Film Festival

An Independence Day reception will follow the film,
with director Jorge Ali Triana!


1st COLOMBIAN FILM FESTIVAL of Miami Beach
21 SAT 8:30pm: Maximum Penalty (La Pena Maxima)
(Jorge Echeverry/2002)
Mariano, a Colombian man who's obsession with his team makes him commit
the worst decisions of his life, is the focus in in this hilarious view of Colombian
sports fanatisicm. Confident that the Colombian team will beat Argentina in a
shot at the World Cup, he risks everything, even what he values most: his wife's love.
WINNER: Best Film In Spanish San Antonio CineFestival
Best Screenplay Huelva Latin American Film Festival

1st COLOMBIAN FILM FESTIVAL of Miami Beach
22 SUN 8:30pm: El Colombian Dream
Miami Premiere! (Felipe Aljure/2006)
The New Colombia...A story told
by an aborted child who is now 14 years old, which involves his mother, three
teenagers (two twin brothers and their cousin) who make up a love triangle,
the twins' father (an erotic journalist) and his new lover, a drug lord and his
sidekicks, the drug lord's wife who doesn't know who is the father of her baby,
a prostitute with bladder problems, a hit man who is really a frustrated poet,
and a huge drug-related misunderstanding.



CONSCIOUS CINEMA: Be Prepared! continues....
Presented by Hands On Miami
Spike Lee’s When The Levees Broke
26 THU 8:30pm: Parts III & IV
As the world watched in horror, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on
August 29, 2005. Like many who watched the unfolding drama on television
news, director Spike Lee was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster,
but by the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and
recovery effort. Lee was moved to document this modern American tragedy,
a morality play witnessed by people all around the world. The result is
WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS. The film is
structured in four acts, each dealing with a different aspect of the events
that preceded and followed Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans.
Following the film on each night will be a hurricane preparedness course.
COMPLIMENTARY ADMISSION!

27 FRI 8:30pm: The “Crossover Cinema” of Leon ICHASO
Bitter Sugar (Azucar amarga) (1996)
With René Lavan, Mayte Vilán, Miguel Gutiérrez
Director of Phtography: Claudio Chea
Somewhere between hope and despair, a beautiful relationship triumphs and
despite the odds, two people discover the true meaning of love in BITTER
SUGAR. Set against the volatile backdrop of modern-day Havana, Gustavo,
an idealistic honor student, Cuba's "new man" and Yolanda, a realistic and
beautiful young dancer, share little in common, especially their radically
opposing political views. But despite their differences they fall madly in love
while the world as they know it crumbles before them. Inspired by actual events,
director Ichaso, who co-wrote the film with Orestes Matacena, based the
screenplay on several people's lives, weaving fact and fiction into an emotional
compelling story. The result is a moving, gritty and realistic look at two
people whose passion and intensity cannot overcome their struggle.
International Press Academy Satalite Award Nominee
“Profoundly moving!”—Rene Jordan Cosmopolitan
“Blazing White Hot Emotion...Magnetic!”—Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald

The first 20 people at each ICHASO screening get a FREE El Cantante ticket!
(patrons must arrive EARLY for the El Cantante screening. See ticket for details).

The film will be preceded by:
the Cuban-American experience poetry
of Richard Blanco
Richard Blanco


28 SAT The “Crossover Cinema” of Leon ICHASO
Piñero (2001)
With Benjamin Bratt, Talisa Soto, Giancarlo Esposito, Rita Moreno, Mandy Patinkin
Director of Photography: Claudio Chea
Benjamin Bratt stars in this true story of ‘Nuyorican’ (Puerto Ricans living
in New York) poet Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a
precursor to rap and hip-hop music. This explosive Latino icon wrote the
1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes, which stemmed from his experience
of doing time in the hard-core Sing-Sing prison for petty thefts and drug
dealing. Pinero’s gift and success was hampered only by a fierce addiction
to heroin that was caused by his inability to deal with the sudden fame.
This habit eventually caused him to contract AIDS which led to his death in 1988.
WINNER: American Latino Media Arts Awards
Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screenplay
Berlin International Film Festival C.I C.A E Award
Montreal World Film Festival Grand Prix des Amériques
“A dizzying, constantly moving ride through an exciting decade in the
blossoming of “Nuyorican” culture, with its most flamboyant figure as our focus”
—A. Klein New Times

The first 20 people at each ICHASO screening get a FREE El Cantante ticket!
(patrons must arrive EARLY for the El Cantante screening. See ticket for details).


August 02 THU 8pm: Miami Premiere!
The newest film of Leon ICHASO
El Cantante (Leon Ichaso/2006)
With Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez and produced by Julio Caro, Simon Fields,
Jennifer Lopez, and David Maldonado. Director of Photography Claudio Chea
El Cantante is the dramatic-biography of Puerto Rican salsa pioneer Hector
Lavoe. The film follows Lavoe’s (Anthony) passionate relationship with
Puchi (Lopez) and his skyrocket to international fame. But even when he
has it all, Lavoe is unable to escape the allure of drugs and his personal pain.
Toronto Film Festival and New York Latino Film Festival Official Selection

DIRECTOR LEON ICHASO WILL BE PRESENT FOR Q&A

At the REGAL SOUTH BEACH Cinema
LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE
The first 20 people at each ICHASO screening get a FREE El Cantante ticket!
(patrons must arrive EARLY for the El Cantante screening. See ticket for details).

With Afterparty at GEMMA Lounge
529 Lincoln Road
featuring complimentary cocktails


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
Cine-IMPROV $12 and $10 MBC Members
Doors open 1/2 hour before screenings

Also...The July MBC photographic exhibition is:
"Auteurs and Iconoclasts" Photos of Industry Artists by Tom LeGoff
including portraits of Spike Lee, John Waters, Darren Aronovsky,
Christina Ricci, Ang Lee, Vincent Gallo, Phillip Seymour Hoffman...
Spike Lee by Tom LeGoff

COMING in AUGUST: "The Wrath of WERNER HERZOG"

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