THU: "Independent LENS" award winning Miss Navajo,
and FRI: "Creepy Crawly CRONENBERG!" (Dead Ringers)
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’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, complemented by the “Creature Feature:
Unexpectedly Eerie Images” photography exhibition by Wendy Doscher-Smith...
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 and MIA Skateshop
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 (limited comp tics for Members at MBC)...
at the COLONY THEATER, 1040 Lincoln Road
(first come first serve, starting October 12, 1/2 hour before screenings)
For more info contact: MIA Skateshop, 229 9th St. Miami Beach
(786) 621-3511 www.MIAskateshop.com
OCT 24-28...
Celebrate 25 Years of the Miami Film Festival with a retrospective of
some of the films from previous festivals, at the Regal and Bill Cosford...
for more info click on the photo below:
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: Unexpectedly 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
Ordinary
movies?
NEVER!
FILMS: $10 or $6 MBC Members and Students
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!
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Miami Beach Cinemateque - Oct 2007 schedule
"Creepy Crawly CRONENBERG!" continues with The Fly,
and "Framing Stage" with Sasha Weisfeld returns SAT!
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’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, complemented by the “Creature Feature: Unexpectedly
Eerie Images” photography exhibition by Wendy Doscher-Smith...
Your ticket Friday is a chance to WIN TWO FREE TICKETS to Eastern Promises!
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
Your ticket is a chance to win TWO FREE Tickets to Cronenberg's
newest film: Eastern Promises
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 and MIA Skateshop
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 (limited comp tics for Members at MBC)...
at the COLONY THEATER, 1040 Lincoln Road
(first come first serve, starting October 12, 1/2 hour before screenings)
For more info contact: MIA Skateshop, 229 9th St. Miami Beach
(786) 621-3511 www.MIAskateshop.com
OCT 24-28...
Celebrate 25 Years of the Miami Film Festival with a retrospective of
some of the films from previous festivals, at the Regal and Bill Cosford...
for more info click on the photo below:
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: Unexpectedly 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
Ordinary
movies?
NEVER!
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!
and "Framing Stage" with Sasha Weisfeld returns SAT!
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’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, complemented by the “Creature Feature: Unexpectedly
Eerie Images” photography exhibition by Wendy Doscher-Smith...
Your ticket Friday is a chance to WIN TWO FREE TICKETS to Eastern Promises!
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
Your ticket is a chance to win TWO FREE Tickets to Cronenberg's
newest film: Eastern Promises
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 and MIA Skateshop
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 (limited comp tics for Members at MBC)...
at the COLONY THEATER, 1040 Lincoln Road
(first come first serve, starting October 12, 1/2 hour before screenings)
For more info contact: MIA Skateshop, 229 9th St. Miami Beach
(786) 621-3511 www.MIAskateshop.com
OCT 24-28...
Celebrate 25 Years of the Miami Film Festival with a retrospective of
some of the films from previous festivals, at the Regal and Bill Cosford...
for more info click on the photo below:
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: Unexpectedly 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
Ordinary
movies?
NEVER!
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!
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Miami Beach Cinemateque - Sept 2007 schedule
Sept. 16 SUN 8:30pm: “The Aesthete” (1912-2007)
ANTONIONI: Blow-Up (1966)
With David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Jane Birkin, Veruska
In one of the most
influential films in history, Antonioni’s English debut is his up-to-the minute version
of “through a glass darkly” where everyone sees only what they want to see in
individual worlds that may or may not collide, the *image* is the most important
thing. Aesthetically, Antonioni presents a surface point of view, but underneath is
where the real secrets lie. David Hemmings is the hottest fashion photographer in
swinging 60’s London, (based roughly on the legendary David Bailey) and he
accidentally discovers a possible murder while working (influenced roughly on the
then recent JFK assassination). Like our lives, the puzzle is inevitably missing a
few pieces, and the solution is up to us without ever finding all the clues, or even,
ultimately, the characters.
“It emerges as a great film, if not the one we thought we were seeing at the time”
—Roger Ebert
WINNER: Palm d’Or Cannes Film Festival
National Society of Film Critics Best Film, Best Director
19 WED 8:30pm: Miami Premiere!
Presented by SIEMPRE FLAMENCO
& ART WORKS FOR US...
When The Road Bends:
Tales of the Gypsy Caravan
(Documentary/ Jasmine Dellel/2007)
With Fanfare Ciocarlia, Taraf de Haidouks,
and Johnny Depp (as himself)
“You cannot walk straight when the road bends”—Romani proverb
Shot by legendary cinematographer Albert Maysles, this dynamic musical
documentary follows five Gypsy bands from four countries who unite for the
Gypsy Caravan as they take their show around North America for a six-week
tour, astounding every audience they meet. Their musical styles range from
flamenco to brass band, Romanian violin to Indian folk. They celebrate the
best in Gypsy culture in an explosion of song and dance.
WINNER: Audience Award San Francisco Indepenendent Film Festival,
Flanders Int’l Film Festival, Jeonji Korea Int’l Film Festival
Impact Of Music Jury Award Nashville Independent Film Festival
“It would be great if by experiencing the Romani people and their music,
people can learn more about them and understand that—what you’ve
believed about these people has been a lie your entire life”—Johnny Depp
With LIVE music by Paco Fonta and Friends,
and reception with tapas afterwards!
$15 or $12 MBC Members
Sept. 20 THU 8:30pm: Independent LENS 2007-2008
Florida exclusive previews of award winning documentaries
before they air on PBS...Presented with HANDS ON MIAMI
Season Premiere! Florida Premiere!
Please Vote For Me (Weijen Chen/2007)
Want to find out how democracy really
works? Then head to China. Three eight-year-old students—a charismatic
challenger, a ruthless incumbent, and a thoughtful outsider—all campaign
for the coveted position of class monitor in a third grade classroom in Wuhan,
China. Hot debates. Backstabbing. Alliances.
Move over Little League, real sport is coming, and it’s called democracy.
COMPLIMENTARY Screening (donations welcome!)
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
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
ANTONIONI: Blow-Up (1966)
With David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Jane Birkin, Veruska
In one of the most
influential films in history, Antonioni’s English debut is his up-to-the minute version
of “through a glass darkly” where everyone sees only what they want to see in
individual worlds that may or may not collide, the *image* is the most important
thing. Aesthetically, Antonioni presents a surface point of view, but underneath is
where the real secrets lie. David Hemmings is the hottest fashion photographer in
swinging 60’s London, (based roughly on the legendary David Bailey) and he
accidentally discovers a possible murder while working (influenced roughly on the
then recent JFK assassination). Like our lives, the puzzle is inevitably missing a
few pieces, and the solution is up to us without ever finding all the clues, or even,
ultimately, the characters.
“It emerges as a great film, if not the one we thought we were seeing at the time”
—Roger Ebert
WINNER: Palm d’Or Cannes Film Festival
National Society of Film Critics Best Film, Best Director
19 WED 8:30pm: Miami Premiere!
Presented by SIEMPRE FLAMENCO
& ART WORKS FOR US...
When The Road Bends:
Tales of the Gypsy Caravan
(Documentary/ Jasmine Dellel/2007)
With Fanfare Ciocarlia, Taraf de Haidouks,
and Johnny Depp (as himself)
“You cannot walk straight when the road bends”—Romani proverb
Shot by legendary cinematographer Albert Maysles, this dynamic musical
documentary follows five Gypsy bands from four countries who unite for the
Gypsy Caravan as they take their show around North America for a six-week
tour, astounding every audience they meet. Their musical styles range from
flamenco to brass band, Romanian violin to Indian folk. They celebrate the
best in Gypsy culture in an explosion of song and dance.
WINNER: Audience Award San Francisco Indepenendent Film Festival,
Flanders Int’l Film Festival, Jeonji Korea Int’l Film Festival
Impact Of Music Jury Award Nashville Independent Film Festival
“It would be great if by experiencing the Romani people and their music,
people can learn more about them and understand that—what you’ve
believed about these people has been a lie your entire life”—Johnny Depp
With LIVE music by Paco Fonta and Friends,
and reception with tapas afterwards!
$15 or $12 MBC Members
Sept. 20 THU 8:30pm: Independent LENS 2007-2008
Florida exclusive previews of award winning documentaries
before they air on PBS...Presented with HANDS ON MIAMI
Season Premiere! Florida Premiere!
Please Vote For Me (Weijen Chen/2007)
Want to find out how democracy really
works? Then head to China. Three eight-year-old students—a charismatic
challenger, a ruthless incumbent, and a thoughtful outsider—all campaign
for the coveted position of class monitor in a third grade classroom in Wuhan,
China. Hot debates. Backstabbing. Alliances.
Move over Little League, real sport is coming, and it’s called democracy.
COMPLIMENTARY Screening (donations welcome!)
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
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
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Miami Beach Cinemateque - Sept 2007 schedule
SEPTEMBER at MBC:
"The Dreamer and The Aesthete", and 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 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
SEPTEMBER At A Glance:
"The Dreamer and The Aesthete: BERGMAN & ANTONIONI" (SAT 01, SUN 16, FRI 21 & 28)
(with an exhibition "Bergman and Antonioni IMAGES" from the MBC Archives)
XXII International Ballet Festival Dance Series (THU-SUN 06-09)
Jazz On Film #2: Queen Of Swing with NORMA MILLER in person! (SAT 15)
Gypsy Caravan Miami Premiere with "Siempre Flamenco" (WED 19)
Independent LENS 2007-2008 Season Premiere! (THU 20)
Miami Short Film Festival Preview (SAT 22)
"DOCUSPAIN" (New Series Season Premiere!) (SUN 30)
Silenced July 30, 2007: BERGMAN / ANTONIONI
“The Dreamer” and “The Aesthete”
“Before them, films were just movies...By an awful and uncanny coincidence—
the kind of occurrence that, in a movie, would have to be taken as symbolic
lest it seem altogether preposterous — Michelangelo Antonioni and
Ingmar Bergman died on the same day. Since Mr. Bergman was 89 and Mr.
Antonioni 94, neither man’s death came as much of a shock, but the
simultaneity was startling. Not only because they were both great filmmakers,
but more because, in their prime, Mr. Antonioni and Mr. Bergman were
seen as the twin embodiments of the idea that a filmmaker could be, without
qualification or compromise, a great artist.”—A.O Scott NY Times, August 2007
(read the entire article HERE)
Sept. 01 SAT 8:30pm: “The Dreamer” (1918-2007)
BERGMAN: The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan) (1960)
With Max Von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom
Cinematography by Sven Nykvist
Who would have thought
that Wes Craven would be the one to remake (or was it rip-off?) this classic
Bergman film (with Last House On The Left). The two films could not be further
apart in style, but both concern the same parental vengeance caused by murder
and rape of an innocent daughter. Bergman had catapulted to fame with The
Seventh Seal a few years earlier, and returns to a breathtaking medieval milieu
for this folk ballad of monumental emotional proportions. Max Von Sydow as
the father Töre also returns for another round in what is part of an incomparable
set of collaborations with a director, making this among the best films ever made
by a regular “family” of artists working together (Bergman, foremost, but also
always supported by his returning cast, cinematographers, art directors, and editors,
for decades). In Swedish with English subtitles.
WINNER: Academy Award Best Foreign Film, Golden Globes Best Foreign Film
Special Mention Cannes Film Festival: “Too good to be judged.”
XXII International Ballet Festival of Miami
Dance Film Series
Sept. 06 THU 8:30pm: Miami Premieres!
Babel (Peter Sparling, USA, 2005, 7min.)
A former member of Martha Graham Dance Company
returns in a solo that would only be possible on screen. Mirroring the voices in
Arvo Part’s score, he reveals four physical personalities. He transcends boundaries
of gender and character while charting a man’s struggle to embody his own metamorphosis.
Lucinda Childs (Patrick Bensard, France, 2006, 56min.)
Lucinda Childs' work dates back to the sixties,
the period in which New York’s “downtown” circle of artists pushed each other to
explore and experiment beyond convention. Now, after decades based in Paris, Lucinda
lives in Martha’s Vineyard where she takes time to reflect between choreographic
assignments around the world.
Sept. 07 FRI 8:30pm: Miami Premieres!
Opium (Miles Lowry and David Ferguson, Canada, 2006, 24min.)
Suddenly Dance Theatre’s narrative is inspired by a three-month
episode in the life of the French artist Jean Cocteau (1889-1963). OPIUM imagines
Cocteau’s harrowing stay at a clinic near Paris in 1929, where he hoped for a cure for
his addiction to opium.
Georgians In Maryinski (Zurab Inashvili, Georgia, 2003, 47min.)
Manana Kvachadze produced this documentary rich with
information, interviews and archival footage. A treat for ballet lovers with
background on George Balanchine, Vakhtang Chabukiani, and others.
Sept. 08 SAT 8:30pm: Miami Premiere!
Serge Lifar Musagete (Dominique Delouche, France, 2005, 88min.)
Produced by Les Films du Prieuré, this documentary is a
tribute to the lasting legacy of the French-Russian dancer/choreographer Serge Lifar
(1905-1988) who carried on the Diaghilev tradition of the Ballets Russes.
Sept. 09 SUN 8pm: Miami Premieres!
One Flat Thing, Reproduced (Thierry de Mey France 2006 26min)
William Forsythe carved a formidable career in Europe
with infrequent returns to NYC. His collaboration with Thierry de Mey, acclaimed for
his screen adaptations of works by Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker, brings us insights
into his ingenious choreography.
Dido and Aeneas (Barbara Willis Sweete, Canada, 1995, 55min.)
An adaptation by choreographer Mark Morris and his
Mark Morris Dance Group, of the Henry Purcell baroque opera. Dido, the noble
queen of Carthage has fallen in love the Trojan prince, Aeneas. While the court
celebrates the imminent union of the two monarchs, the evil sorceress with her
coven of witches, plots their downfall. Romance leads to heartbreak and tragedy.
Sept. 15 SAT 8:30pm: JAZZ on Film #2:
Queen Of Swing (John Biffar/2007) Miami Premiere!
The documentary
Queen of Swing is the life story of the remarkable and inspiring entertainer
Norma Miller. Her story spans a generation of cultural changes, challenges
and African American heritage. At a time of civil strife in America, the birth
of jazz music and new black dance forms played an important role in breaking
down the barriers to racial equality. Norma Miller was at the center of that
cultural revolution. She danced her way out of the ghetto and right into the
hearts and minds of a world wide audience.
“As you make your bed so will you lie. This is what you do before you die.
Before I die there’s just one thing, I’ll do my thing, and swing, baby, swing.”
...Keep on swingin’ and it’ll keep you going. Duke Ellington said it.
It had to be true.”—Norma Miller
Meet the legendary Norma Miller! She will join director
John Biffar who will introduce the film and be present for Q&A!
Sept. 16 SUN 8:30pm: “The Aesthete” (1912-2007)
ANTONIONI: Blow-Up (1966)
With David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Jane Birkin, Veruska
In one of the most
influential films in history, Antonioni’s English debut is his up-to-the minute version
of “through a glass darkly” where everyone sees only what they want to see in
individual worlds that may or may not collide, the *image* is the most important
thing. Aesthetically, Antonioni presents a surface point of view, but underneath is
where the real secrets lie. David Hemmings is the hottest fashion photographer in
swinging 60’s London, (based roughly on the legendary David Bailey) and he
accidentally discovers a possible murder while working (influenced roughly on the
then recent JFK assassination). Like our lives, the puzzle is inevitably missing a
few pieces, and the solution is up to us without ever finding all the clues, or even,
ultimately, the characters.
“It emerges as a great film, if not the one we thought we were seeing at the time”
—Roger Ebert
WINNER: Palm d’Or Cannes Film Festival
National Society of Film Critics Best Film, Best Director
19 WED 8:30pm: Miami Premiere!
Presented by SIEMPRE FLAMENCO
& ART WORKS FOR US...
When The Road Bends:
Tales of the Gypsy Caravan
(Documentary/ Jasmine Dellel/2007)
With Fanfare Ciocarlia, Taraf de Haidouks,
and Johnny Depp (as himself)
“You cannot walk straight when the road bends”—Romani proverb
Shot by legendary cinematographer Albert Maysles, this dynamic musical
documentary follows five Gypsy bands from four countries who unite for the
Gypsy Caravan as they take their show around North America for a six-week
tour, astounding every audience they meet. Their musical styles range from
flamenco to brass band, Romanian violin to Indian folk. They celebrate the
best in Gypsy culture in an explosion of song and dance.
WINNER: Audience Award San Francisco Indepenendent Film Festival,
Flanders Int’l Film Festival, Jeonji Korea Int’l Film Festival
Impact Of Music Jury Award Nashville Independent Film Festival
“It would be great if by experiencing the Romani people and their music,
people can learn more about them and understand that—what you’ve
believed about these people has been a lie your entire life”—Johnny Depp
With LIVE music by Paco Fonta and Friends,
and reception with tapas afterwards!
$15 or $12 MBC Members
Sept. 20 THU 8:30pm: Independent LENS 2007-2008
Florida exclusive previews of award winning documentaries
before they air on PBS...Presented with HANDS ON MIAMI
Season Premiere! Florida Premiere!
Please Vote For Me (Weijen Chen/2007)
Want to find out how democracy really
works? Then head to China. Three eight-year-old students—a charismatic
challenger, a ruthless incumbent, and a thoughtful outsider—all campaign
for the coveted position of class monitor in a third grade classroom in Wuhan,
China. Hot debates. Backstabbing. Alliances.
Move over Little League, real sport is coming, and it’s called democracy.
COMPLIMENTARY Screening (donations welcome!)
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
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
"The Dreamer and The Aesthete", and 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 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
SEPTEMBER At A Glance:
"The Dreamer and The Aesthete: BERGMAN & ANTONIONI" (SAT 01, SUN 16, FRI 21 & 28)
(with an exhibition "Bergman and Antonioni IMAGES" from the MBC Archives)
XXII International Ballet Festival Dance Series (THU-SUN 06-09)
Jazz On Film #2: Queen Of Swing with NORMA MILLER in person! (SAT 15)
Gypsy Caravan Miami Premiere with "Siempre Flamenco" (WED 19)
Independent LENS 2007-2008 Season Premiere! (THU 20)
Miami Short Film Festival Preview (SAT 22)
"DOCUSPAIN" (New Series Season Premiere!) (SUN 30)
Silenced July 30, 2007: BERGMAN / ANTONIONI
“The Dreamer” and “The Aesthete”
“Before them, films were just movies...By an awful and uncanny coincidence—
the kind of occurrence that, in a movie, would have to be taken as symbolic
lest it seem altogether preposterous — Michelangelo Antonioni and
Ingmar Bergman died on the same day. Since Mr. Bergman was 89 and Mr.
Antonioni 94, neither man’s death came as much of a shock, but the
simultaneity was startling. Not only because they were both great filmmakers,
but more because, in their prime, Mr. Antonioni and Mr. Bergman were
seen as the twin embodiments of the idea that a filmmaker could be, without
qualification or compromise, a great artist.”—A.O Scott NY Times, August 2007
(read the entire article HERE)
Sept. 01 SAT 8:30pm: “The Dreamer” (1918-2007)
BERGMAN: The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan) (1960)
With Max Von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom
Cinematography by Sven Nykvist
Who would have thought
that Wes Craven would be the one to remake (or was it rip-off?) this classic
Bergman film (with Last House On The Left). The two films could not be further
apart in style, but both concern the same parental vengeance caused by murder
and rape of an innocent daughter. Bergman had catapulted to fame with The
Seventh Seal a few years earlier, and returns to a breathtaking medieval milieu
for this folk ballad of monumental emotional proportions. Max Von Sydow as
the father Töre also returns for another round in what is part of an incomparable
set of collaborations with a director, making this among the best films ever made
by a regular “family” of artists working together (Bergman, foremost, but also
always supported by his returning cast, cinematographers, art directors, and editors,
for decades). In Swedish with English subtitles.
WINNER: Academy Award Best Foreign Film, Golden Globes Best Foreign Film
Special Mention Cannes Film Festival: “Too good to be judged.”
XXII International Ballet Festival of Miami
Dance Film Series
Sept. 06 THU 8:30pm: Miami Premieres!
Babel (Peter Sparling, USA, 2005, 7min.)
A former member of Martha Graham Dance Company
returns in a solo that would only be possible on screen. Mirroring the voices in
Arvo Part’s score, he reveals four physical personalities. He transcends boundaries
of gender and character while charting a man’s struggle to embody his own metamorphosis.
Lucinda Childs (Patrick Bensard, France, 2006, 56min.)
Lucinda Childs' work dates back to the sixties,
the period in which New York’s “downtown” circle of artists pushed each other to
explore and experiment beyond convention. Now, after decades based in Paris, Lucinda
lives in Martha’s Vineyard where she takes time to reflect between choreographic
assignments around the world.
Sept. 07 FRI 8:30pm: Miami Premieres!
Opium (Miles Lowry and David Ferguson, Canada, 2006, 24min.)
Suddenly Dance Theatre’s narrative is inspired by a three-month
episode in the life of the French artist Jean Cocteau (1889-1963). OPIUM imagines
Cocteau’s harrowing stay at a clinic near Paris in 1929, where he hoped for a cure for
his addiction to opium.
Georgians In Maryinski (Zurab Inashvili, Georgia, 2003, 47min.)
Manana Kvachadze produced this documentary rich with
information, interviews and archival footage. A treat for ballet lovers with
background on George Balanchine, Vakhtang Chabukiani, and others.
Sept. 08 SAT 8:30pm: Miami Premiere!
Serge Lifar Musagete (Dominique Delouche, France, 2005, 88min.)
Produced by Les Films du Prieuré, this documentary is a
tribute to the lasting legacy of the French-Russian dancer/choreographer Serge Lifar
(1905-1988) who carried on the Diaghilev tradition of the Ballets Russes.
Sept. 09 SUN 8pm: Miami Premieres!
One Flat Thing, Reproduced (Thierry de Mey France 2006 26min)
William Forsythe carved a formidable career in Europe
with infrequent returns to NYC. His collaboration with Thierry de Mey, acclaimed for
his screen adaptations of works by Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker, brings us insights
into his ingenious choreography.
Dido and Aeneas (Barbara Willis Sweete, Canada, 1995, 55min.)
An adaptation by choreographer Mark Morris and his
Mark Morris Dance Group, of the Henry Purcell baroque opera. Dido, the noble
queen of Carthage has fallen in love the Trojan prince, Aeneas. While the court
celebrates the imminent union of the two monarchs, the evil sorceress with her
coven of witches, plots their downfall. Romance leads to heartbreak and tragedy.
Sept. 15 SAT 8:30pm: JAZZ on Film #2:
Queen Of Swing (John Biffar/2007) Miami Premiere!
The documentary
Queen of Swing is the life story of the remarkable and inspiring entertainer
Norma Miller. Her story spans a generation of cultural changes, challenges
and African American heritage. At a time of civil strife in America, the birth
of jazz music and new black dance forms played an important role in breaking
down the barriers to racial equality. Norma Miller was at the center of that
cultural revolution. She danced her way out of the ghetto and right into the
hearts and minds of a world wide audience.
“As you make your bed so will you lie. This is what you do before you die.
Before I die there’s just one thing, I’ll do my thing, and swing, baby, swing.”
...Keep on swingin’ and it’ll keep you going. Duke Ellington said it.
It had to be true.”—Norma Miller
Meet the legendary Norma Miller! She will join director
John Biffar who will introduce the film and be present for Q&A!
Sept. 16 SUN 8:30pm: “The Aesthete” (1912-2007)
ANTONIONI: Blow-Up (1966)
With David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Jane Birkin, Veruska
In one of the most
influential films in history, Antonioni’s English debut is his up-to-the minute version
of “through a glass darkly” where everyone sees only what they want to see in
individual worlds that may or may not collide, the *image* is the most important
thing. Aesthetically, Antonioni presents a surface point of view, but underneath is
where the real secrets lie. David Hemmings is the hottest fashion photographer in
swinging 60’s London, (based roughly on the legendary David Bailey) and he
accidentally discovers a possible murder while working (influenced roughly on the
then recent JFK assassination). Like our lives, the puzzle is inevitably missing a
few pieces, and the solution is up to us without ever finding all the clues, or even,
ultimately, the characters.
“It emerges as a great film, if not the one we thought we were seeing at the time”
—Roger Ebert
WINNER: Palm d’Or Cannes Film Festival
National Society of Film Critics Best Film, Best Director
19 WED 8:30pm: Miami Premiere!
Presented by SIEMPRE FLAMENCO
& ART WORKS FOR US...
When The Road Bends:
Tales of the Gypsy Caravan
(Documentary/ Jasmine Dellel/2007)
With Fanfare Ciocarlia, Taraf de Haidouks,
and Johnny Depp (as himself)
“You cannot walk straight when the road bends”—Romani proverb
Shot by legendary cinematographer Albert Maysles, this dynamic musical
documentary follows five Gypsy bands from four countries who unite for the
Gypsy Caravan as they take their show around North America for a six-week
tour, astounding every audience they meet. Their musical styles range from
flamenco to brass band, Romanian violin to Indian folk. They celebrate the
best in Gypsy culture in an explosion of song and dance.
WINNER: Audience Award San Francisco Indepenendent Film Festival,
Flanders Int’l Film Festival, Jeonji Korea Int’l Film Festival
Impact Of Music Jury Award Nashville Independent Film Festival
“It would be great if by experiencing the Romani people and their music,
people can learn more about them and understand that—what you’ve
believed about these people has been a lie your entire life”—Johnny Depp
With LIVE music by Paco Fonta and Friends,
and reception with tapas afterwards!
$15 or $12 MBC Members
Sept. 20 THU 8:30pm: Independent LENS 2007-2008
Florida exclusive previews of award winning documentaries
before they air on PBS...Presented with HANDS ON MIAMI
Season Premiere! Florida Premiere!
Please Vote For Me (Weijen Chen/2007)
Want to find out how democracy really
works? Then head to China. Three eight-year-old students—a charismatic
challenger, a ruthless incumbent, and a thoughtful outsider—all campaign
for the coveted position of class monitor in a third grade classroom in Wuhan,
China. Hot debates. Backstabbing. Alliances.
Move over Little League, real sport is coming, and it’s called democracy.
COMPLIMENTARY Screening (donations welcome!)
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
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
Sunday, July 29, 2007
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
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Miami Beach Cinemateque - end of July 2007 schedule
Tonight: When The Levees Broke, Parts III & IV
FRI: BITTER SUGAR with Cuban poetry, SAT: PIÑERO!
Coming next week: "The Wrath of WERNER HERZOG"
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
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.
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: 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!
The first 20 people at each ICHASO screening (FRI & SAT) 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
FRI: BITTER SUGAR with Cuban poetry, SAT: PIÑERO!
Coming next week: "The Wrath of WERNER HERZOG"
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
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.
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: 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!
The first 20 people at each ICHASO screening (FRI & SAT) 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
Thursday, July 19, 2007
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
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
Saturday, July 14, 2007
When the Levees Broke: Spike Lee Katrina film July 19
Free Conscious Cinema Film Screening: When the Leeves Broke 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. This is a Family-Friendly event with a minimum age with an adult being 13. PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE. Thursday, July 19th Parts I & IITIME: 8:30pm - 10:30pmMiami Beach Cinematheque, 512 Española Way
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