MBC AUGUST At A Glance:
NOW until TUE AUG 02, 8pm:
WORLD ON A WIRE by R.W. FASSBINDER
FRI-TUE, AUG 5-9, 6:50pm:
CAMERAMAN: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
FRI-TUE, 05-09 8:40pm, SAT & SUN 6 & 7, 5pm:
PAGE ONE: Inside The New York Times
by ANDREW ROSSI
WED AUG 10, 8pm: MY JOY by SERGEI LOZNITSA
FRI-WED, AUG 12-17, 6:50pm:
BUCK by CINDY MEEHL
FRI-WED, 12-17, 8:40pm, SAT & SUN 13 & 14, 5pm:
PASSIONE by JOHN TURTURRO
AUG 19-24: BRAZILIAN FILM FESTIVAL
THU, AUG 25, 8pm: “Cinema Green” GASLAND
FRI-TUE, AUG 26-30, 7pm & SAT 27, 5pm:
TABLOID by ERROL MORRIS
FRI-TUE, AUG 26-30, 8:45pm & SUN 28, 5pm:
THE INTERRUPTERS by STEVE JAMES
SAT & SUN, AUG 27 & 28, 9am-4:30pm:
SCREENWRITING 101 and TRUE STORY TO SCREEN
with GREGORY ALLEN HOWARD
WED AUG 31, 8pm:
MBC Retrospective Opening!
“THE DISCREET CHARM OF LUIS BUÑUEL”
with LIVE electronic accompaniment by Gabriel Pulido
(MORE DETAILS on each event BELOW)
FRI-TUE, JUL 29-AUG 02, 8pm:
An MBC Premiere Presentation
in collaboration with The German Consulate in Miami
Miami EXCLUSIVE HD Digital Premiere!
New digital restoration…Lost for decades!
Fassbinder’s Sci-Fi Classic!
(by RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER/West Germany/1973, 212 mins.)
A dystopic science-fiction epic, World on a Wire is German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s gloriously cracked, boundlessly inventive take on future paranoia. With dashes of Kubrick, Vonnegut, and Dick, but a flavor entirely his own, Fassbinder tells the noir-spiked tale of reluctant action hero Fred Stiller (Klaus Lowitsch), a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate and governmental conspiracy. At risk? Our entire (virtual) reality as we know it. This long unseen three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth is a satiric and surreal look at the weird world of tomorrow from one of cinema’s kinkiest geniuses. In German with English Subtitles.
“A TEXTBOOK EXAMPLE OF A FILM THAT WAS AHEAD OF ITS TIME… an analog-age Avatar, a movie that anticipates Blade Runner in its meditation on artificial and human intelligence and The Matrix in its conception of reality as a computer-generated illusion.” – Dennis Lim, The New York Times
“*****! THE DISCOVERY OF THE SEASON!, rarely screened in America but very much a key chapter in Fassbinder’s story.”-Time Out New York
“UNMISTAKEABLY THE WORK OF ITS DIRECTOR… the sheer audacity with which Fassbinder and his longtime cinematographer, Michael Ballhaus, move the camera, alighting as if by accident on resonant and complex compositions, is nothing short of breathtaking.”
-A.O. Scott, The New York Times
“THERE ARE MOVIES THAT MAKE NEWS AND MOVIES THAT ARE NEWS. World on a Wire is one of the latter. Suddenly: a virtually unknown, newly restored, two-part tele-film directed by long-gone wunderkind R.W. Fassbinder at the height of his powers.” – J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
“BRILLIANTLY SARDONIC… may be even more timely now than when it was made.” -Richard Brody, The New Yorker
The Great Directors Series is supported by Funding Arts Network, Inc.
MBC Members receive complimentary NESPRESSO coffee
at the Great Directors Series films!
ADVANCE TICKETS & MORE INFO HERE
FRI-TUE, AUG 5-9, 6:50pm:
An MBC Premiere Presentation
in collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Beach HD Digital Premiere!
The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
(Documentary directed by CRAIG MCCALL/UK/2010/90mins.)
With Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall
Jack Cardiff’s career spanned an incredible nine of moving picture’s first ten decades and his work behind the camera altered the look of films forever through his use of Technicolor photography. Craig McCall’s passionate film about the legendary cinematographer reveals a unique figure in British and international cinema. In 2001, Jack Cardiff was the first cinematographer to receive an honorary Academy Award for his life achievement in the field of cinematography.
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Cannes, Telluride, New York Film Festivals
“WE HAVE TO KEEP MAKING FILMS LIKE THIS ONE!”-Martin Scorsese
“THE BEST CAMERAMAN IN THE WORLD!”-Marilyn Monroe
“ESSENTIAL VIEWING TO ANYONE WHO LOVES CINEMA”-Daily Express
“PURE MAGIC!”-Empire
ADVANCE TICKETS & MORE INFO HERE
FRI-TUE, AUG 05-09, 8:40pm,
And SAT & SUN, AUG 6 & 7, 5pm:
An MBC Premiere Presentation
in collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Digital Premiere!
(Documentary by ANDREW ROSSI/2011/1 hr, 31mins.)
In the tradition of great fly-on-the-wall documentaries, the film deftly gains unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as our main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, Page One chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil. Meanwhile, rigorous journalism is thriving-Page One gives us an up-close look at the vibrant cross-cubicle debates and collaborations, tenacious jockeying for on-record quotes, and skillful page-one pitching that brings the most venerable newspaper in America to fruition each and every day.
“RIVETING!”-Slate, “A GOTTA SEE DOC”-Entertainment Weekly
“STARTINGLY UP TO DATE!”-The Village Voice
“TIMELY. Simply being a fly on these hallowed walls will offer much to savor” -Variety
“A COGENT, PROVOCATIVE PORTRAIT. Captures the minutiae of the newsroom, from the rapid transcription of interviews to the rush of deadlines, as if observing an Olympic sport” -IndieWire
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WED, AUG 10, 8pm:
An MBC Premiere Presentation
USA THEATRICAL PREMIERE PREVIEW!
“Best of Cannes: Cinephile’s Choice”
Occasionally MBC will give audiences an opportunity to see some of the most challenging, provocative, acclaimed, and masterful international films of the year that usually do not get a wide theatrical release, but deserve attention. This is one of them. It opens soon in New York.
(Directed by SERGEI LOZNITSA/Ukraine/127mins.)
With Viktor Nemets, Vladimir Golovin, Olga Shuvalova
A truck driver takes a wrong turn and finds himself lost in a bleak Russian underworld, struggling to survive amidst increasingly violent reminders of the country’s dark history. The first fiction film by acclaimed documentarian Sergei Loznitsa, My Joy is a mischievous, ultra-nihilistic parable of post-Communist Russia, shot by master cinematographer Oleg Muto (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days). It is one of the accomplished and affecting films that was featured in competition at Cannes 2010, that slipped through the cracks and has not opened yet in the United States, and its American theatrical debut is at the Miami Beach Cinematheque.(In Russian with English subtitles.)
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Nominee Palm d’Or, Cannes Film Festival
New York, Karlovy Vary, Melbourne, São Paulo, San Francisco Film Festivals
“The most unexpected and arresting picture in the main Cannes competition”
-Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com
“MY JOY HAS THE FEEL OF A TAPESTRY, UNITED BY ONE ENIGMATIC CENTRAL FIGURE…Excitingly, Loznitsa is still early in his career and has a lot of people left to follow down these untrodden paths.”-Michael Koresky, Reverse Shot
ADVANCE TICKETS & MORE INFO HERE
FRI-WED, AUG 12-17, 6:50pm:
An MBC Premiere Presentation
in collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Beach HD Digital Premiere!
Best of Sundance:
US Documentary Audience Award
(Documentary by CINDY MEEHL/2011/1hr, 28mins)
The story of Buck Brannaman
“Your horse is a mirror to your soul, and sometimes you may not like what you see. Sometimes, you will.” So says Buck Brannaman, a true American cowboy and sage on horseback who travels the country for nine grueling months a year helping horses with people problems. BUCK, a richly textured and visually stunning film, follows Brannaman from his abusive childhood to his phenomenally successful approach to horses. A real life “horse-whisperer”, he eschews the violence of his upbringing and teaches people to communicate with horses through leadership and sensitivity, not punishment. A truly American story about an unsung hero, BUCK is about an ordinary man who has made an extraordinary life despite tremendous odds.
WINNER: Sundance Film Festival 2011 – Best US Doc Audience Award
Official Selection: SXSW Film Festival 2011
Audience Award Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
“A HAUNTING, BEAUTIFULLY TOLD TALE ABOUT A GENUINE AMERICAN ORIGINAL.”-Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com
“It keeps you fascinated, even enthralled; elicits astonishment, even wonderment, and makes you grateful for the chance to meet someone remarkable.”-Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
“HOLDS YOUR ATTENTION AND HEART for a tight 88 minutes.”
-Manohla Dargis, New York Times
“You don’t have to be a horse nut to fall for “Buck,” one of those rare documentaries whose subject is so inherently fascinating that a fictional character could hardly compete.” -John DeFore, Washington Post
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FRI-WED, AUG 12-17, 8:40pm,
And SAT & SUN, AUG 13 & 14, 5pm:
An MBC Premiere Presentation
in collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Digital Premiere!
(Documentary by JOHN TURTURRO/USA/Italy/90mins.)
Little wonder that Passione, John Turturro’s wild, colorful, sexy ode to the music and people of Naples, was “rapturously received” (Variety) and interrupted by
“spontaneous outbreaks of applause” (Sight + Sound Magazine) in Italy, where it played for more than four months (its soundtrack on the charts for five). Turturro describes Passione as “a musical adventure that comes directly out of the people and the volcanic land they inhabit. Conjuring ancient stories and myths that still live – of love, sex, jealousy, and social protest – each song is a small screenplay, an emotional postcard. I tried to see if I could understand in a small way, a little bit of the soul of the city, while at the same time killing clichés about it. There are places you go and once is enough. Then there’s Napoli.”
(In English and Italian with English subtitles)
“**** CRITICS’ PICK! Thoroughly enjoyable.
A killer soundtrack!”
-Time Out New York
“A MUST-SEE. PASSIONE is the Buena Vista Social Club of Naples!”
-The Wall Street Journal
“A cinematic love letter to the swinging sounds
of the Italian city of Naples.”-Variety
ADVANCE TICKETS & MORE INFO HERE
AUG 19-24:
The Films of ARNALDO JABOR
2011 BFF Honoree
Arnado Jabor is a legendary Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer, and renowned political commentator. He directed nine films between 1965 and 1990. BFF honors Jabor this year with a retrospective of his classic works, and his latest Film from 2010, A Suprema Felicidade, which will be screened Hors Competition.
1973 Toda Nudez Será Castigada
(All Nudity Shall be Punished)
(Berlin Silver Bear)
1978 Tudo Bem
(Everything is Alright)
1980 Eu Te Amo
(I Love You)
(Love Me Forever or Never)
(Cannes Best Actress)
PLUS
Classic Brazilian Documentaries
(Schedule for both programs below)
FRI AUG 19, 9pm: Dzi Croquettes
SAT, AUG 20, 7pm: Elza
9pm: Love me Forever or Never (Jabor)
SUN, AUG 21, 7pm: Cuban Memory of the World
9pm: Everything is Alright (Jabor)
MON, AUG 22, 7pm: A Night in 67
9pm: I Love You (Jabor)
TUE, AUG 23, 7pm: Smokescreen
9pm: All Nudity Shall be Punished (Jabor)
ADVANCE TICKETS & MORE INFO HERE
THU, AUG 25, 8pm:
An MBC Premiere Presentation
in collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Digital Premiere!
Cinema Green
In collaboration with ECOMB,
The Environmental Coalition of Miami & the Beaches
(Documentary by JOSH FOX/2010/1hr, 47mins.)
The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox was asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarked on a cross-country odyssey, uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. Residents in Pennsylvania report that they’re able to light their drinking water on fire, just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations in GasLand. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown.
WINNER: Special Jury Prize Documentary, Sundance FF
Grand Jury Prize Environmental FF, Yale
Special Jury Prize, Sarasota FF
“SENSATIONAL!…A piece of beautiful cinema…Rough-hewn and poetic.”
-Robert Koehler, Variety
“VOLCANIC…With humor and inquisitiveness, 2010’s most alarming wake-up call.”-Hammer to Nail
ADVANCE TICKETS & MORE INFO HERE
FRI-TUE, AUG 26-30, 7pm:
And SAT AUG 27, 5pm:
An MBC Premiere Presentation
in collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Beach HD Digital Premiere!
(Documentary directed by ERROL MORRIS/2011/88mins.)
This dark, funny and altogether surreal film was one of the standout hits at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, winning indieWIRE’s critics poll for Best Documentary. Master documentarian Errol Morris (Gates of Heaven, Vernon, Florida, Fog of War), further redefines and pushes the boundaries of documentary film with the tale of Joyce McKinney and the infamous “Case of the Manacled Mormon.” In 1977, Miss Wyoming McKinney flew to England with a pilot and a bodyguard to abduct the love of her life. Or was it to liberate him from a cult? Joyce, all of the people that cross her path, and the British tabloids help construct an epic Rashomon-like tale that is as hilarious as it is unbelievable. Part black comedy, part film noir, Tabloid is always surprising and features one of the most captivating characters of Morris’s career.
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Telluride, Toronto, SXSW Film Festivals
“MARVELOUSLY BIZARRE. As wild as anything you can imagine!”
-A.O Scott, New York Times
“ONE OF THE MOST THOROUGHLY ENTERTAINING FILMS OF THE YEAR!”
-Eric Hynes, The Village Voice
Read the WeGotThisCovered interview with ERROL MORRIS HERE
ADVANCE TICKETS & MORE INFO HERE
FRI-TUE, AUG 26-30, 8:45pm,
And SUN AUG 28, 5pm:
An MBC Premiere Presentation
in collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Beach HD Digital Premiere!
BEST of Miami Film Festival:
Best Documentary 2011
(Documentary directed by STEVE JAMES/ USA/144 mins.)
From the filmmakers of Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising story of three dedicated individuals who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they, themselves once employed. These “violence interrupters” – who have credibility on the street because of their own personal histories – intervene in conflicts before the incidents explode into violence. Shot over the course of a year, The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbol for the violence in our cities. The Interrupters follows Ameena, Cobe and Eddie as they go about their work, and while doing so reveals their own inspired journeys of hope and redemption. The Interrupters is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn persistence of violence in our cities.
Special Jury Award – Full Frame Film Festival 2011
Best Doc Audience Award – Philadelphia Cinefest
Best Doc Award – Miami Int’l Film Festival 2011
Best Doc Award – Minneapolis Film Festival 2011
True Life Fund Winner – True/False Film Fest 2011
“AN INCREDIBLE AND MOVING FILM.”-Cinematical
“THE BEST DOCUMENTARY THIS YEAR SO FAR!”-Indiewire
ADVANCE TICKETS & MORE INFO HERE
SAT & SUN, 27 & 28, 9am-4:30pm:
The Miami International Film Festival,
BFMG/CineVisun, Gregory Allen Howard, Inc.,
and the Miami Beach Cinematheque
Present:
SCREENWRITING 101 and TRUE STORY TO SCREEN
A two day intensive session led by GREGORY ALLEN HOWARD,
Award winning screenwriter, producer, and playwright
This intensive will help those that want to write scripts, those working on scripts, those that want to polish their script and the seasoned screenwriter as well. If you want to learn about the industry or are in the industry, this workshop will give producers, directors, actors and editors an inside look into the beginning spark of the creative process of filmmaking and how a story and characters develop.
Gregory Allen Howard, Award-winning screenwriter, producer, author, playwright, and essayist whose credits include Remember The Titans and Ali, and the stage play, Tinseltown Trilogy, will lead this intensive two-day screenwriting session. Mr. Howard is the first and only African American screenwriter in the history of film to script a $100 million movie. He is a two-time NAACP Image Award Winner for Titans and Ali, winner of the prestigious Christopher Award for Titans, and the Howard University Paul Robeson Award for artistic excellence. As a writer/producer, Mr. Howard’s most recent projects include “The Chaos” a 6–hour mini–series for Epix that involves the CIA’s attempt to subvert the anti-war movement in the late 60s; and “Better Angels,” a social drama starring and directed by Forest Whitaker that begins shooting in late 2011.
$95 Day One, $25 Master Class Day Two
More info and Tickets: HERE
WED AUG 31, 8pm:
Opening Night of the MBC Retrospective:
“THE DISCREET CHARM OF LUIS BUÑUEL”
With LIVE electronic accompaniment
By Gabriel Pulido
Directed by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí
With Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff
France 1928, 16mins.
Spanish director Luis Buñuel’s first film, the surrealistic masterpiece Un Chien Andalou, was written over the course of a three-day exchange of fantasies and dreams with Salvador Dalí and contains what is, perhaps, one of the most memorable scenes in film history: a razor blade slicing an eyeball. Made in 1929, it aimed to shock rather than please its audience and soon became a film classic.
“Our only rule was very simple: no idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted” – Luis Buñuel
And
Directed by Luis Buñuel.
With Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst
France 1930, 63 min.
Poetic, absurd, erotic, visionary and scandalous, L’Age d’or can still “provoke, baffle and delight” (New York Times) more than seventy years after its creation. L’Age d’or showcases the incomparably obsessive cinematic imagination of Luis Buñuel at its beginning and the celebrated surrealism of Salvador Dalí at its peak. In 1930, following their short film triumph Un chien andalou, Buñuel and Dalí created an hour long avant-garde tour de force that’s both an aesthetic avalanche of boldness and a withering attack on a society that elevates pious morality over sexual freedom. As scorpions battle, partisans (led by famed surrealist painter Max Ernst) stumble and the forces of middle-class righteousness repeatedly interrupt two neurotic lovers, L’Age d’or delivers a gleeful fever dream of Freudian unease that arouses, unnerves, amuses and galvanizes. (In French with English subtitles)
“L’Age d’or reassures us that as long as we have eyes,
we will still be susceptible to shock” -The New York Times
The MBC Retrospective
“THE DISCREET CHARM OF LUIS BUÑUEL”
includes a Buñuel vintage memorabilia exhibition,
and continues on Thursday nights
in SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER,
culminating with a site-specific
Buñuel-inspired film-installation at MBC:
Sonámbula, by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
for SLEEPLESS NIGHT (6pm-6am, Nov 05).
“Even today, I’ve no idea what the truth is, or what I did with it.”
-Luis Buñuel
ADVANCE TICKETS & MORE INFO HERE
$12 or $11 students/seniors, $10 MBC Members
The Great Directors Series is supported by Funding Arts Network, Inc.
MBC Members receive complimentary NESPRESSO coffee
at the Great Directors Series films!
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