THU SEPT 08, 8pm:

“THE DISCREET CHARM OF LUIS BUÑUEL”

MBC Great Director Retrospective

VIRIDIANA

Directed by LUIS BUÑUEL/Mexico/Spain/1961/90 mins.

With Silvia Pinai, Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal

Banned in Spain and denounced by the Vatican, Luis Buñuel’s irreverent vision of life as a beggar’s banquet is regarded by many as his masterpiece. In it, novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism. Winner of the Palme d’or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, Viridiana is as audacious today as ever. (In Spanish with English subtitles)

WINNER: Palme d’Or Cannes Film Festival

“For Luis Buñuel, impiety is a genetic trait and an essential facet of his art. That his work also lifts the spirit — imparting a delirious sensation of the divine-is a most welcome incongruity, one exemplified by his prizewinning 1961 effort, Viridiana.”-Time Out New York

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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FRI-SUN, SEPT 09-11, 6:30 & 8:30pm,

and SAT & SUN 10 & 11, 4:40pm:

“THE DISCREET CHARM OF LUIS BUÑUEL”

MBC Great Director Retrospective

An MBC Premiere Presentation

in collaboration with Emerging Pictures

The return of Woody (and Luis Buñuel!) in the Afternoon!

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS

(Directed by WOODY ALLEN/2011/100mins.)

With Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Carla Bruni,

Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody

Woody Allen’s latest (and most successful) film includes moments in time with the likes of Luis Buñuel (Adrien de Van) and such pals as Salvador Dalí (Adrien Brody) and Man Ray (Tom Cordier), so we couldn’t resist bringing them back for at least a weekend to add modern texture and context to our Luis Buñuel film retrospective that continues throughout September and October at MBC. The film is about a young man’s great love for a city, Paris, the legendary cultural icons associated with it, and the illusion people have that a life different from theirs would be much better.

OPENING FILM: Cannes Film Festival 2011

“Not since 1979’s Manhattan, in which he rhapsodized over the New York of his black-and-white dreams, has Allen used a camera to make such urgent, passionate love to a city.”-Rolling Stone

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WED SEPT 14, 7pm:

“GLOW”

(GLBT films at MBC) presented by MGLFF

“BEST OF OUTFEST”

(Grand Jury Dramatic Feature)

Florida Premiere!

THE WISE KIDS

Written and Directed by STEPHEN CONE/USA/91mins.

With Lee Armstrong, Cliff Chamberlain, Stephen Cone

A vivid, dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, takes place in the transitional space between high school and college, when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future is scarily wide open. Set in and around a Charleston, SC Baptist church, weaving through this ensemble piece are three main characters – Brea, an introspective pastor’s daughter experiencing debilitating doubt, the hyperactive Laura, Brea’s best friend and a devout believer, and Tim, the open-hearted son of a single father, confronting his homosexuality for the first time. Tensions and buried feelings abound, as colleges are chosen and adults behave badly, as Brea, Laura and Tim attempt to hang onto what they have, all the while yearning to break free.

WINNER: Grand Jury Award US Dramatic Feature OutFest

Grand Jury Award Screenwriting OutFest

“The Wise Kids” allows these teenagers to be who they want to be without judgments. It’s WONERFUL AND HEARTENING, and tends more toward the philosophical with its genuine, warm nature. It’s a delight to watch this honest and sweet film.”-Edge Los Angeles

$10 or $5 MBC and MGLFF Members

(Ticket includes cocktail reception at Miami Beach LGBT Center)

(MBC MEMBERS: email us at info@MBCinema.com

to get your discount code before ordering online tics)

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FRI-WED, SEPT 16-21, 7pm,

And SAT & SUN, SEPT 17, 18, 5pm:

An MBC Premiere Presentation

in collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami HD Digital Premiere!

LIFE IN A DAY

(“FILMED BY YOU”)

Directed by KEVIN MACDONALD, produced by RIDLEY SCOTT/90 mins.

Featuring hundreds of people all over the world, filmed in one day

LIFE IN A DAY is a user-generated feature-length documentary, shot on a single day -July 24, 2010- that enlisted the global community to capture a moment of their lives on camera. The world responded by submitting more than 80,000 videos, representing over 4,500 hours of deeply personal, powerful films from contributors from Australia to …Zambia, from the heart of bustling major cities to the furthest and most remote reaches of the earth. LIFE IN A DAY brings together the most compelling YouTube footage into a 90-minute film, crafted by Macdonald, Executive Producer Ridley Scott, Producer Liza Marshall and their team, to offer a unique experience that shows, in beautiful, humorous and joyful honesty, what it’s like to be alive on earth today.

Official Selection: Sundance, Berlin, SXSW Film Festivals

“*****A THRILLING PIECE OF CINEMA!”-The Times

“PROVOCATIVE, GORGEOUS….DEEPLY MOVING!-Wired

“MASTERFUL, LIFE-AFFIRMING, and UPLIFTING!”-The Independent

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FRI-WED, SEPT 16-21, 8:50pm:

An MBC Premiere Presentation

in collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Florida HD Digital Premiere!

New digital restoration…

35^th Anniversary Director’s Cut!

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH

Directed by NICHOLAS ROEG/UK/1976/restored 2011/140mins.

With David Bowie, Buck Henry, Rip Torn, Candy Clark

Time OUT NY interview with NICHOLAS ROEG HERE

“Are you Lithuanian?” After a space craft seemingly crashes to Earth, David Bowie walks off to sell a ring for twenty bucks in a dusty Southwestern town, then almost immediately hires high-priced, thick-spectacled patent attorney (Graduate screenwriter Buck Henry) to register ten world-changing patents. Orange-haired, pale-faced, minimally expressioned Bowie desperately yearns to return himself and water to his parched planet – but will the authorities let him? Roeg’s science fiction cult classic/cautionary moral tale is an assault of fragmented, non-linear narrative style, typically striking visuals, and 70s soundtrack by John Phillips of The Mamas and Papas (along with period “needle drops”). All too often seen in washed-out copies, the newly restored uncut director’s version allows Roeg’s dazzling visuals (Pauline Kael called him “the most visually seductive of directors”) to be seen as they were meant to be.

“THE MOST INTELLECTUALLY PROVOCATIVE GENRE FILM OF THE 1970s!”

-Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
“DAZZLING! TIME HAS DONE NOTHING TO REDUCE ITS COOL, CONFOUNDING STRANGENESS!”-The New Yorker
“A MASTERPIECE! May look like a moody, mysterious sci-fi drama, but it’s really a dark meditation on fame, capitalism, and temptation.”
-New York magazine
“A HYPNOTIC, TRANCE-INDUCING EXPERIENCE! Bowie’s turn, in his first lead performance, is so intense as to feel pretty definitive.”
-IndieWIRE
“ABSORBING AND AS BEAUTIFUL!”-New York Times
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THU SEPT 22, 8pm:

“THE DISCREET CHARM OF LUIS BUÑUEL”

MBC Great Director Retrospective

THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL

Directed by LUIS BUÑUEL/Mexico/1962/94mins.

With Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Enrique Rambal

A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave in Luis Buñuel’s daring masterpiece The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador). Made just one year after his international sensation Viridiana, this film, full of eerie, comic absurdity, furthers Buñuel’s wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes. (In Spanish with English subtitles)

“Luis Buñuel’s ferociously brilliant The Exterminating Angel (1962) is one of his most provocative and unforgettable works. In it we watch a trivial breach of etiquette transform into the destruction of civilization.”

-Marsha Kinder, Exterminating Civilization

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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FRI-WED, SEPT 23-28, 7pm*

(*except Sunday SEPT 25)

& SUN SEPT 25, 5pm:

An MBC Premiere Presentation

in collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami HD Digital Premiere!

THE FUTURE

Directed by MIRANDA JULY/2011/91mins.

With Miranda July, Hamish Linklater, David Warshovsky

Director’s Statement:

“When I was a kid I had a folder labeled “Ways to go back in time/enter other worlds.” I never actually put anything in it, but I still have the folder, and the feeling that there might be a way. And meanwhile, moving forward through time, minute by minute, day by day, has turned out to be its own challenge – no less science fictional, and in moments, almost as impossible. This movie is about that…

And even if you flee your life, I think you still end up in the same place in the end. You still have to be you, you still have to make the dance. It’s just much harder, and some important things are lost along the way. So this story is also told from the point of view of what was lost – a cat. Paw Paw tells the truth simply and is completely exposed, like someone just born or someone very old. He was the only way I could describe the bittersweet vertigo of true love. Which is the thing that got me thinking about mortality in the first place.”

Official Selection: Berlin International Film Festival

-Miranda July

“DEVASTATINGLY SAD AND HILARIOUS…The Future tests the limits of what narrative cinema can be and do”-LA Weekly

“MYSTERIOUS AND MOVING. Almost spiritual in its strangeness”

-Boston Globe

To read the Miranda July blog clickHERE

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FRI-WED, SEPT 23-28, 9pm*

(*except Sunday SEPT 25),

& SAT SEPT 24, 5pm:

An MBC Premiere Presentation

in collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami HD Digital Premiere!

!W.A.R

!WOMEN ART REVOLUTION

Documentary by LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON/2011/83 mins.

With Miranda July, The Guerilla Girls, Yvonne Rainer, Judy Chicago, Marina Abramovic, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, B. Ruby Rich, Ingrid Sischy, Carolee Schneemann, Miriam Schapiro, Marcia Tucker and countless other groundbreaking figures.

An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from its roots in 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, the film details major developments in women’s art through the 1970s and explores how the tenacity and courage of these pioneering artists resulted in what is now widely regarded as the most significant art movement of the late 20th century.

(Be sure to also see artist Miranda July’s film The Future at MBC 23-28.)

“PASSIONATE, CONTENTIOUS, FUNNY, SINCERE, POLITICALLY ATTUNED… Ms. Hershman “Could not be timelier!”-Marcia G Yerman, ALTERNET
“The most comprehensive documentary ever made on the feminist art movement.”-Jessica Roake, BUST Magazine
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SUN, SEPT 25, 7pm:

An MBC SPECIAL EVENT

ONE SCREENING ONLY!

Exclusive Premiere Presentation

in collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Florida Premiere!

Since rocking the indie film world at Sundance with an instantly legendary rant disguised as a distribution rights auction, Kevin Smith has been on a mission to do things differently with the release of his newest work and entree to the horror genre, RED STATE. A 15-city tour followed, with Smith on hand for Q&As. Meanwhile the rest of Smith’s fan-base and even average movie-goers were left to wonder if they’d ever get see the film on the big-screen themselves.

That wait is over…

RED STATE

Directed by KEVIN SMITH/2011/88mins.

With Michael Angarano, John Goodman, Melissa Leo, Nicholas Braun

Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda. Indie “Enfant Terrible” director Kevin Smith takes us on a small town rollercoaster ride, with a film that is equal parts horror film, thriller, and social political commentary.

What has America come to?

“Red State is cleverly contrarian enough to get a rise out of

almost any audience.”-Hollywood Reporter

With Live webcast Q&A with director

KEVIN SMITH

taking questions via Twitter

$20 or $18 MBC Members

(includes your first drink at the official afterparty

at VINYL & KAI Gastropub and Rock Spot,

right across the street from MBC)

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THU, SEPT 29, 8pm:

Cinema Green

In collaboration with ECOMB,

The Environmental Coalition of Miami and the Beaches

TRASH, INC.

The Secret Life of Garbage

(Documentary by CNBC/2010/60mins)

Garbage. It’s everywhere – even in the middle of the oceans – and it’s pure gold for companies like Waste Management and Republic Services who dominate this $52 billion-a-year industry. From curbside collection by trucks costing $250,000 each, to per-ton tipping fees at landfills, there’s money to be made at every point as more than half of the 250 million tons of trash created in the United States each year reaches its final resting place. At a cost of $1 million per acre to construct, operate and ultimately close in an environmentally feasible method, modern landfills are technological marvels – a far cry from the town dump that still resonates in most people’s perceptions. Not only do they make money for their owners, they add millions to the economic wellbeing of the towns that house them. One sure thing about the garbage business: it’s always picking up.

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FRI-WED SEPT 30-OCT 05, 6:45pm:

An MBC Premiere Presentation

in collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami HD Digital Premiere!

THE TREE

(Directed by JULIE BERTUCELLI/Australia/2011/1hr, 40mins.)

With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Morgana Davies

Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist, I’m Not There) stars in French filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli’s achingly beautiful follow-up to her sleeper hit Since Otar Left. The Tree is a mystical drama of loss and rebirth in the Australian countryside. Not since classic 1970s works Picnic at Hanging Rock and Walkabout has the harshly gorgeous outback landscape been such a lyrical yet foreboding metaphor for grief and coming of age. Blindsided with anguish after her husband’s sudden death, Dawn (Gainsbourg)-along with her four young children-struggles to make sense of life without him. Eight-year-old Simone (unforgettable newcomer Morgana Davies) becomes convinced that her father is whispering to her through the leaves of the gargantuan fig tree that towers over their house…

CLOSING NIGHT FILM: Cannes Film Festival 2011

“I shall never see a film as lovely as The Tree…COMES CLOSE TO PERFECTION”-The Australian

“CRITICS PICK! GORGEOU…the environment is so luminous that every outdoor shot has an aura of magical realism. Ms. Gainsbourg, is almost as striking a figure as she was in Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist.”

-Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES

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FRI-MON SEPT 30-OCT 03, 8:45pm:

FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA 2011

Presented by PRAGDA and MBC in collaboration with CCE Miami. Supported by the Embassy of Spain in Washington DC

and the Ministry of Culture of Spain ICAA

The fourth annual internationally touring FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA 2011 unveils the next generation of Spanish film legends. Featuring first-time filmmakers and established masters, the best in contemporary Spanish cinema comes to MBC. Additional support from exclusive wine sponsor Martin Codax Las Rocas, Beacon Hotel, Iberia, American Airlines, and Eurochannel.
FRI, SEPT 30, 8:45pm:

80 DAYS (80 egunean)
by Jose Mari Goenaga & Jon Garaño/Spain, 2010, 105 min.
With: Itziar Aizpuru, Mariasun Pagoaga, José Ramón Argoitia, Ane Gabarain

From Basque directors Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga comes a story of illicit desire handled with warmth, delicacy and humour.This sensitive and unusual love story poses one simple question: if you had to choose, would you follow your mind or your heart? Forbidden by society to develop their budding passion, childhood girlfriends Axun (Itziar Aizpuru) and Maite (Mariasun Pagoaga) were forced to embark on very different paths in life. 80 Days forces us to re-evaluate both the passions that lay buried within, as well as those that we have cultivated without. (In Basque with English subtitles)

San Sebastian International Film Festival – Film Comission Award
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
London Film Festival

“One of the most unusual films in recent Spanish cinema A beautiful surprise.” -El País

The film will be followed by Q&A with the filmmakers

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SAT, OCT 01, 8:45pm:

BICYCLE, SPOON, APPLE

(Bicicleta, cullera, poma)
by Carles Bosch/Spain, 2010, 105 min.

As both the former mayor of Barcelona and former president of Catalonia, Pasqual Maragall has been a popular leader for the people of Spain. In 2007, this charismatic public figure was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Bicycle, Spoon, Apple is an up-close and personal account of his decision to go public with this revelation, of his steadfast determination to beat the disease, and of the strength and support of his family.

By bringing us so deep into the life of an Alzheimer’s sufferer, Bosch demystifies the disease-resulting in a documentary that’s sure to leave viewers forever changed. (In Spanish, Catalan, and English, with English subtitles)
Goya Award Winner – Best Documentary
Gaudí Award Winner – Best Documentary
José Maria Forqué Award Winner- Best Documentary
“Touching, uplifting and informative.” Variety

“It’s a must-see.” The Stranger

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SUN, OCT 02, 8:45pm:

EVERY SONG IS ABOUT ME

(Todas las canciones hablan de mí)

by Jonás Trueba/Spain, 2010, 104 min.
With: Oriol Vila, Bárbara Lennie, Miriam Giovanelli, Ramón Fontseré

A Woody-Allenesque romantic comedy inspired by the aesthetics of the French New Wave, Every Song Is About Me is the most acclaimed debut film of the year. It follows the story of Ramiro, an immature thirty-something wannabe poet who fulfills his passion for literature in his uncle’s small bookshop. One day, he comes home to find a letter left by his fiancée, Andrea, putting an end to their relationship.

Up and coming Jonás Trueba captures the confusion of a generation haunted by music and books, by the need to find a path amidst the certainty of uncertainty and by the compulsion to find love when love has become but the topic of yet another indie-pop song. (In Spanish with English subtitles)
Goya Award nominee for Best Director and Best Actor (Oriol Vila)
Gijón International Film Festival
Cairo International Film Festival

“Love, literature and life lessons are mixed into an engaging but retro whole in the Spanish romantic drama Every Song Is About Me. …Infused with the spirit of French New Wave.” Variety
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MON, OCT 03, 8:45pm:

HALF OF OSCAR (La mitad de Oscar)
by Manuel Martín Cuenca/Spain, Cuba, 2010, 89 min.
With: Verónica Echegui, Rodrigo Sáenz de Heredia

An exploration of family taboos, this quiet and austere third feature from Martín Cuenca (The Weakness of the Bolshevik, Hard Times) delves into the deepest regions of the human soul. The windswept beaches and mountains of Almeria are located on the Mediterranean in the southern province of Andalucia, Spain. It’s an area that is rarely portrayed in Spanish cinema, but one that Manuel Martín Cuenca uses as a central character in Half of Oscar, providing the ideal space to contemplate the complicated relationship between Oscar and his sister Maria. Silence and subtext speak volumes in this poignant film about impossible loves.

(In Spanish with English subtitles)
Toronto International Film Festival

Gijón International Film Festival
Paris Cinema International Film Festival
“A filmmaker at his best…A definitive proof of maturity,

artistic growth and the confirmation of a personal style.”-El País

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TUE, OCT 04, 8:45pm:

LOPE

by Andrucha Waddington/Spain, Brazil 2010, 106 min.
With: Alberto Ammann, Pilar López de Ayala, Luis Tosar, Leonor Watling, Sonia Braga, Juan Diego,Antonio de la Torre

Almodóvar’s pet, Leonor Watling (Talk To Her, Bad Education) and a whole cast of renowned Spanish actors (Luis Tosar, Take My Eyes; Antonio de la Torre, Volver; Pilar López de Ayala, In the City of Sylvia) star in this spectacular romantic epic with echoes of Oscar®-winner Shakespeare in Love. Lope tells the story of the life and loves of immortal dramatist and incorrigible adventurer Lope de Vega y Carpio, a contemporary of “Don Quixote” author Miguel de Cervantes, and a bright star in the literary field of Baroque Spain. In this entertaining and romantic look at his struggles to establish himself, we encounter a man ruled by his passions, and more condemned than commended for his eviscerating wit.

Goya Award Nominee for Best Actress (Pilar López de Ayala)
Toronto, Venice, Stockholm Film Festivals

“A lively, entertaining portrait of a Spanish literary master.” ABC
“The film has soul, a great production design and an entertaining story. It’s the performances, though, which will raise the applauses.” Filmaffinity

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