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• TO SEE DECEMBER MBC TRAILERS CLICK HERE

  • Start
    01 Dec 2013
  •  
    12:00 AM
  • End
    31 Dec 2013
  •  
    11:59 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139

  DECEMBER TRAILERS

  FRI-NOV 22-TUES, DEC 10:

  “BEST OF CANNES”

  (Winner Palme d’Or 2013)

  Miami Encore screenings!

  (La vie d'Adèle)

  by ABDELLATIF KECHICHE:

  FRI, NOV 29-SAT, DEC 14:

  “CINEMA Made in Italy”

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  THE GREAT BEAUTY

  (La Grande Bellezza)

  by PAOLO SORRENTINO:

  FRI, DEC 13-THU, DEC 19:

  “BEST OF VENICE Film Festival”

  (Golden Lion [Best Film] Winner!)

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  FAUST

  by ALEKSANDR SOKUROV:

  SAT, DEC 14-THU, DEC 19:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI

  And an evening with Khalilah Ali

  (wife of Muhammad Ali 1967-1975)

  by BILL SIEGEL:

  FRI, DEC 20-SUN, DEC 22:

  Miami Beach Premiere Engagement!

  THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN

  by FELIX VAN GROENINGEN:

  FRI, DEC 20-SUN, DEC 22:

  Miami Theatrical Premiere Engagement!

  AS I LAY DYING

  by JAMES FRANCO:

  FRI, DEC 27-THU, JAN 02:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  WADJDA

  by HAIFAA AL MANSOUR:

  FRI, DEC 27-THU, JAN 02:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?

  by MICHEL GONDRY:

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• 5pm: "Best of Cannes" (Winner: Palme d'Or) BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR by Abdellatif Kechiche

  • When
    08 Dec 2013
  •  
    5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

  Register

  SUN, DEC 08, 5p:

  “BEST OF CANNES"

  (Winner Palme d’Or 2013)

  Miami Encore screenings!

  BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR

  (La vie d'Adèle)

  Directed by ABDELLATIF KECHICHE/France/2013/179mins.

  With Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopolous

  

  Abdellatif Kechiche’s newest film, based on Julie Maroh’s graphic novel, was the sensation of this year’s Cannes Film Festival even before it was awarded the Palme d’Or. Adèle Exarchopoulos is Adèle, a young woman whose longings and ecstasies and losses are charted across a span of several years. Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris) is the older woman who excites her desire and becomes the love of her life. Kechiche’s movie is, like the films of John Cassavetes, an epic of emotional transformation. Blue pulses with gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges, and arias of joy and devastation, some verbal and some physical.

  (In French with English subtitles)

  WINNER: Palme d’Or

  Cannes Film Festival 2013

  “REMARKABLE! THE FIRST GREAT LOVE STORY OF THE 21^ST CENTURY!”-Andrew O’Hehir, Salon

  “A SHATTERING MASTERPIECE..INTENSELY EROTIC”-Jon Frosch, The Atlantic

  “ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES ABOUT LOVE I’VE EVER SEEN”-Karen Durban, Elle Magazine

   

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• 8:20pm: "CINEMA Made In Italy" Miami Premiere Engagement: THE GREAT BEAUTY (La Grande Bellezza) by Paolo Sorrentino

  • When
    08 Dec 2013
  •  
    8:20 PM - 10:40 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  SUN, DEC 8, 8:20p:

  

  A series of the best of new Italian cinema

  that will continue into April!

  Sorrentino! Bertolucci! Bellochio! And More!..

  In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  THE GREAT BEAUTY

  (La Grande Bellezza)

  Directed by PAOLO SORRENTINO/Italy/2013/142mins.

  With Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferelli, Carlo Buccirosso

  

  Journalist Jep Gamgardella (the dazzling Toni Sevillo, Il Divo and Gomorrah), has been a permanent fixture in Rome's literary and social circles since the legendary success of his one and only novel. Armed with a roguish charm, he has seduced his way through the city's lavish night life for decades, but when his 65th birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. (In Italian with English subtitles).

  OFFICIAL SELECTION: Cannes Film Festival

  Official Italian Academy Award Entry for Best Foreign Language Film

  “Sometimes, movies need to move. Sorrentino’s cinema, with its rapturous camera moves, its bursts of music, and its almost naïve belief that the screen can still evoke bold emotions, is the antidote to the Cinema of Lack.”-Bilge Ebiri, Vulture

  “AN OUTLANDISHLY ENTERTAINING HALLUCINATION”-Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

  “A GORGEOUS MOVIE, the film equivalent of a magnificent banquet composed of 78 sweet courses.“ -Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

  “A TECHNICOLOR LA DOLCE VITA FOR THE BERLUSCONI ERA” -Rachel Donadio, The New York Times

  “THE MOVIE IS A MASTERPIECE, a grand swooning epic, lush to the point of insanity, Fellini turned up to 11.“-Catherine Shoard, The Guardian

  “A DENSELY PACKED, OFTEN ASTONISHING CINEMATIC FEAST that honors Rome in all its splendor in all its splendor and superficiality.”-Jay Weissberg, Variety

  Your ticket to ANY “CINEMA Made In Italy" screening gets you two-for-one specials from 5p to 8p MON-SAT (the night you see the film) at HIGHBAR at DREAM and SERAFINA, before or after screenings!

  Optional specially priced "CINEMA Made In Italy" Dinner MENU at SERAFINA, for before or after screenings! A perfect way to start or end your "Made In Italy" evenings!

  (Reservations: (305) 534-8455)

   

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• 6:30pm: "CINEMA Made In Italy" Miami Premiere Engagement: THE GREAT BEAUTY (La Grande Bellezza) by Paolo Sorrentino

  • When
    10 Dec 2013
  •  
    6:30 PM - 8:40 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    57

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  TUE, DEC 10, 6:30p:

  

  A series of the best of new Italian cinema

  that will continue into April!

  Sorrentino! Bertolucci! Bellochio! And More!..

  In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  THE GREAT BEAUTY

  (La Grande Bellezza)

  Directed by PAOLO SORRENTINO/Italy/2013/142mins.

  With Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferelli, Carlo Buccirosso

  

  Journalist Jep Gamgardella (the dazzling Toni Sevillo, Il Divo and Gomorrah), has been a permanent fixture in Rome's literary and social circles since the legendary success of his one and only novel. Armed with a roguish charm, he has seduced his way through the city's lavish night life for decades, but when his 65th birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. (In Italian with English subtitles).

  OFFICIAL SELECTION: Cannes Film Festival

  Official Italian Academy Award Entry for Best Foreign Language Film

  “Sometimes, movies need to move. Sorrentino’s cinema, with its rapturous camera moves, its bursts of music, and its almost naïve belief that the screen can still evoke bold emotions, is the antidote to the Cinema of Lack.”-Bilge Ebiri, Vulture

  “AN OUTLANDISHLY ENTERTAINING HALLUCINATION”-Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

  “A GORGEOUS MOVIE, the film equivalent of a magnificent banquet composed of 78 sweet courses.“ -Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

  “A TECHNICOLOR LA DOLCE VITA FOR THE BERLUSCONI ERA” -Rachel Donadio, The New York Times

  “THE MOVIE IS A MASTERPIECE, a grand swooning epic, lush to the point of insanity, Fellini turned up to 11.“-Catherine Shoard, The Guardian

  “A DENSELY PACKED, OFTEN ASTONISHING CINEMATIC FEAST that honors Rome in all its splendor in all its splendor and superficiality.”-Jay Weissberg, Variety

  Your ticket to ANY “CINEMA Made In Italy" screening gets you two-for-one specials from 5p to 8p MON-SAT (the night you see the film) at HIGHBAR at DREAM and SERAFINA, before or after screenings!

  Optional specially priced "CINEMA Made In Italy" Dinner MENU at SERAFINA, for before or after screenings! A perfect way to start or end your "Made In Italy" evenings!

  (Reservations: (305) 534-8455)

   

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• 9p: "Best of Cannes" (Winner: Palme d'Or) BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR by Abdellatif Kechiche

  • When
    10 Dec 2013
  •  
    9:00 PM - 11:59 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

  Register

  TUE, DEC 10, 9p:

  “BEST OF CANNES"

  (Winner Palme d’Or 2013)

  Miami Encore screenings!

  BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR

  (La vie d'Adèle)

  Directed by ABDELLATIF KECHICHE/France/2013/179mins.

  With Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopolous

  

  Abdellatif Kechiche’s newest film, based on Julie Maroh’s graphic novel, was the sensation of this year’s Cannes Film Festival even before it was awarded the Palme d’Or. Adèle Exarchopoulos is Adèle, a young woman whose longings and ecstasies and losses are charted across a span of several years. Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris) is the older woman who excites her desire and becomes the love of her life. Kechiche’s movie is, like the films of John Cassavetes, an epic of emotional transformation. Blue pulses with gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges, and arias of joy and devastation, some verbal and some physical.

  (In French with English subtitles)

  WINNER: Palme d’Or

  Cannes Film Festival 2013

  “REMARKABLE! THE FIRST GREAT LOVE STORY OF THE 21^ST CENTURY!”-Andrew O’Hehir, Salon

  “A SHATTERING MASTERPIECE..INTENSELY EROTIC”-Jon Frosch, The Atlantic

  “ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES ABOUT LOVE I’VE EVER SEEN”-Karen Durban, Elle Magazine

   

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• 7p: Miami Premiere Engagement: EVERYBODY STREET by Cheryl Dunn

  • When
    11 Dec 2013
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
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  WED, DEC 11, 7p:

  Miami Beach Premiere Engagement!

  In collaboration with All Day Every Day

  EVERYBODY STREET

  Directed by CHERYL DUNN/2013/82mins.

  

  Featuring: Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Jill Freedman, Bruce Gilden, Joel Meyerowitz, Rebecca Lepkoff, Mary Ellen Mark, Jeff Mermelstein, Clayton Patterson, Ricky Powell, Jamel Shabazz, Martha Cooper, Jeff Mermelstein, and Boogie, with Max Kozloff and Luc Sante.

  Everybody Street illuminates the lives and works of New York ’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades. The documentary pays tribute to the spirit of street photography through a cinematic exploration of New York City , and captures the visceral rush, singular perseverance and at times immediate danger customary to these artists.

  Cheryl Dunn is a documentary filmmaker and street photographer based in New York City . Her films have played at numerous film festivals including Tribeca, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Los Angelesand Havana , and on PBS. Her work has been exhibited in various galleries and museums including Deitch Projects in New York, The Tate Modern in London , and the “Art in the Streets ” exhibition at the Geffen Contemporary MOCA. Cheryl was one of the subjects the documentary, book & traveling museum exhibition “Beautiful Losers”. She has had two books of her photographs published - Bicycle Gangs of New York , and Some Kinda Vocation.

  

  

  

   

  

  

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• 8:45pm: "CINEMA Made In Italy" Miami Premiere Engagement: THE GREAT BEAUTY (La Grande Bellezza) by Paolo Sorrentino

  • When
    11 Dec 2013
  •  
    8:45 PM - 11:00 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

  Register

    

  WED, DEC 11, 8:45p:

  

  A series of the best of new Italian cinema

  that will continue into April!

  Sorrentino! Bertolucci! Bellochio! And More!..

  In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  THE GREAT BEAUTY

  (La Grande Bellezza)

  Directed by PAOLO SORRENTINO/Italy/2013/142mins.

  With Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferelli, Carlo Buccirosso

  

  Journalist Jep Gamgardella (the dazzling Toni Sevillo, Il Divo and Gomorrah), has been a permanent fixture in Rome's literary and social circles since the legendary success of his one and only novel. Armed with a roguish charm, he has seduced his way through the city's lavish night life for decades, but when his 65th birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. (In Italian with English subtitles).

  OFFICIAL SELECTION: Cannes Film Festival

  Official Italian Academy Award Entry for Best Foreign Language Film

  “Sometimes, movies need to move. Sorrentino’s cinema, with its rapturous camera moves, its bursts of music, and its almost naïve belief that the screen can still evoke bold emotions, is the antidote to the Cinema of Lack.”-Bilge Ebiri, Vulture

  “AN OUTLANDISHLY ENTERTAINING HALLUCINATION”-Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

  “A GORGEOUS MOVIE, the film equivalent of a magnificent banquet composed of 78 sweet courses.“ -Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

  “A TECHNICOLOR LA DOLCE VITA FOR THE BERLUSCONI ERA” -Rachel Donadio, The New York Times

  “THE MOVIE IS A MASTERPIECE, a grand swooning epic, lush to the point of insanity, Fellini turned up to 11.“-Catherine Shoard, The Guardian

  “A DENSELY PACKED, OFTEN ASTONISHING CINEMATIC FEAST that honors Rome in all its splendor in all its splendor and superficiality.”-Jay Weissberg, Variety

  Your ticket to ANY “CINEMA Made In Italy" screening gets you two-for-one specials from 5p to 8p MON-SAT (the night you see the film) at HIGHBAR at DREAM and SERAFINA, before or after screenings!

  Optional specially priced "CINEMA Made In Italy" Dinner MENU at SERAFINA, for before or after screenings! A perfect way to start or end your "Made In Italy" evenings!

  (Reservations: (305) 534-8455)

   

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• 7p: Miami Premiere Engagement: EVERYBODY STREET by Cheryl Dunn

  • When
    12 Dec 2013
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

  Register

    

  THU, DEC 12, 7p:

  Miami Beach Premiere Engagement!

  In collaboration with All Day Every Day

  EVERYBODY STREET

  Directed by CHERYL DUNN/2013/82mins.

  

  Featuring: Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Jill Freedman, Bruce Gilden, Joel Meyerowitz, Rebecca Lepkoff, Mary Ellen Mark, Jeff Mermelstein, Clayton Patterson, Ricky Powell, Jamel Shabazz, Martha Cooper, Jeff Mermelstein, and Boogie, with Max Kozloff and Luc Sante.

  Everybody Street illuminates the lives and works of New York ’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades. The documentary pays tribute to the spirit of street photography through a cinematic exploration of New York City , and captures the visceral rush, singular perseverance and at times immediate danger customary to these artists.

  Cheryl Dunn is a documentary filmmaker and street photographer based in New York City . Her films have played at numerous film festivals including Tribeca, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Los Angelesand Havana , and on PBS. Her work has been exhibited in various galleries and museums including Deitch Projects in New York, The Tate Modern in London , and the “Art in the Streets ” exhibition at the Geffen Contemporary MOCA. Cheryl was one of the subjects the documentary, book & traveling museum exhibition “Beautiful Losers”. She has had two books of her photographs published - Bicycle Gangs of New York , and Some Kinda Vocation.

  

  

  

   

  

  

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• 8:45pm: "CINEMA Made In Italy" Miami Premiere Engagement: THE GREAT BEAUTY (La Grande Bellezza) by Paolo Sorrentino

  • When
    12 Dec 2013
  •  
    8:45 PM - 11:00 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    58

  Register

    

  THU, DEC 12, 8:45p:

  

  A series of the best of new Italian cinema

  that will continue into April!

  Sorrentino! Bertolucci! Bellochio! And More!..

  In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  THE GREAT BEAUTY

  (La Grande Bellezza)

  Directed by PAOLO SORRENTINO/Italy/2013/142mins.

  With Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferelli, Carlo Buccirosso

  

  Journalist Jep Gamgardella (the dazzling Toni Sevillo, Il Divo and Gomorrah), has been a permanent fixture in Rome's literary and social circles since the legendary success of his one and only novel. Armed with a roguish charm, he has seduced his way through the city's lavish night life for decades, but when his 65th birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. (In Italian with English subtitles).

  OFFICIAL SELECTION: Cannes Film Festival

  Official Italian Academy Award Entry for Best Foreign Language Film

  “Sometimes, movies need to move. Sorrentino’s cinema, with its rapturous camera moves, its bursts of music, and its almost naïve belief that the screen can still evoke bold emotions, is the antidote to the Cinema of Lack.”-Bilge Ebiri, Vulture

  “AN OUTLANDISHLY ENTERTAINING HALLUCINATION”-Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

  “A GORGEOUS MOVIE, the film equivalent of a magnificent banquet composed of 78 sweet courses.“ -Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

  “A TECHNICOLOR LA DOLCE VITA FOR THE BERLUSCONI ERA” -Rachel Donadio, The New York Times

  “THE MOVIE IS A MASTERPIECE, a grand swooning epic, lush to the point of insanity, Fellini turned up to 11.“-Catherine Shoard, The Guardian

  “A DENSELY PACKED, OFTEN ASTONISHING CINEMATIC FEAST that honors Rome in all its splendor in all its splendor and superficiality.”-Jay Weissberg, Variety

  Your ticket to ANY “CINEMA Made In Italy" screening gets you two-for-one specials from 5p to 8p MON-SAT (the night you see the film) at HIGHBAR at DREAM and SERAFINA, before or after screenings!

  Optional specially priced "CINEMA Made In Italy" Dinner MENU at SERAFINA, for before or after screenings! A perfect way to start or end your "Made In Italy" evenings!

  (Reservations: (305) 534-8455)

   

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• 6:45p: "Best of Venice" Miami Premiere Engagement: FAUST by Alexandr Sokurov

  • When
    13 Dec 2013
  •  
    6:45 PM - 9:10 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  FRI, DEC 13, 6:45p:

  "BEST OF VENICE Film Festival”

  (Golden Lion (Best Film) Winner!)

  Miami Exclusive Premiere Engagement!

  ALEKSANDR SOKUROV’s

  FAUST

  Directed by ALEKSANDR SOKUROV/Russia/2013/140mins.

  With Johannes Zeiler, Isadola Dychauk, Hanna Schygulla

  

  Employing elaborate camera movements, a dense soundscape, intricate production design and spectacular locations, FAUST conjures up a unique and phantasmagoric vision of the Faustian legend. Faust, played by Johannes Zeiler, is a man in search of the ideals of the Enlightenment but he becomes obsessed with the lovely Magarethe (Isolda Dychauk) and eventually sells his soul to the Devil (Anton Adasinsky) also known as the Moneylender, so that he may possess her. Comic, cosmic, painterly and stunningly beautiful scenes abound as the Devil takes Faust on a strange, unforgettable journey that ends in Hell itself. The story of FAUST is one of the most popular in western literature - there is the opera, play, movies and countless other adaptations. FAUST concludes Sokurov’s ambitious “Men of Power” tetralogy, which includes films on Adolph Hitler (“Moloch” 1999 ), Vladimir Lenin (“Taurus” 2001) and Emperor Hirohito (“The Sun” 2005). Russian President, Vladimir Putin, helped provide government funding for the film, and German actress Hannah Schygulla makes a cameo appearance as the Moneylender’s Wife. Sokurov’s FAUST also features the exquisite cinematography of Bruno Delbonnel, cinematographer for "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince", Tim Burton’s "Dark Shadows", "Amélie", and the upcoming Coen Brothers film "Inside Llewyn Davis". (In German with English subtitles)

  WINNER: Golden Lion (Best Film)

  Venice Film Festival

  “There are some films that make you cry, there are some films that make you laugh, and there are some films that change you forever after you see them; and this is one of them.”-Darren Aronofsky, Venice Film Festival jury president

  “FAUST IS A MUST-SEE, OPERATIC ARTHOUSE EVENT.”-Daniel Green, CINE VUE

  “UNDENIABLY THE WORK OF A MASTER…SIMPLY WONDROUS. Like so many Bruegels, Boschs, Vermeers, and Rembrandts come to life. It is so lush, so exhilarating that it almost exhausts you. It is so lush, so exhilarating that it almost exhausts you.” -Joumane Chahine, FILM COMMENT

  “Bliss out the next on the delirium that is Faust the latest from Alexander Sokurov (“Russian

  Ark ”). An eccentric interpretation of the Goethe play, “FAUST IS MEZMERIZING, at times predictably if divertingly bewildering and beautiful, with images that burn into your memory...”-Manohla Dargis, NEW YORK TIMES

  “★★★★★ HIGHEST RATING...wild and visionary...It’s a rude, lewd take on a classic, and irresistible.”-Nigel Andrews, FINANCIAL TIMES
  

   

  

  

  

  

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• 9:15pm: "CINEMA Made In Italy" Miami Premiere Engagement: THE GREAT BEAUTY (La Grande Bellezza) by Paolo Sorrentino

  • When
    13 Dec 2013
  •  
    9:15 PM - 11:40 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

  Register

    

  FRI, DEC 13, 9:15p:

  

  A series of the best of new Italian cinema

  that will continue into April!

  Sorrentino! Bertolucci! Bellochio! And More!..

  In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  THE GREAT BEAUTY

  (La Grande Bellezza)

  Directed by PAOLO SORRENTINO/Italy/2013/142mins.

  With Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferelli, Carlo Buccirosso

  

  Journalist Jep Gamgardella (the dazzling Toni Sevillo, Il Divo and Gomorrah), has been a permanent fixture in Rome's literary and social circles since the legendary success of his one and only novel. Armed with a roguish charm, he has seduced his way through the city's lavish night life for decades, but when his 65th birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. (In Italian with English subtitles).

  OFFICIAL SELECTION: Cannes Film Festival

  Official Italian Academy Award Entry for Best Foreign Language Film

  “Sometimes, movies need to move. Sorrentino’s cinema, with its rapturous camera moves, its bursts of music, and its almost naïve belief that the screen can still evoke bold emotions, is the antidote to the Cinema of Lack.”-Bilge Ebiri, Vulture

  “AN OUTLANDISHLY ENTERTAINING HALLUCINATION”-Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

  “A GORGEOUS MOVIE, the film equivalent of a magnificent banquet composed of 78 sweet courses.“ -Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

  “A TECHNICOLOR LA DOLCE VITA FOR THE BERLUSCONI ERA” -Rachel Donadio, The New York Times

  “THE MOVIE IS A MASTERPIECE, a grand swooning epic, lush to the point of insanity, Fellini turned up to 11.“-Catherine Shoard, The Guardian

  “A DENSELY PACKED, OFTEN ASTONISHING CINEMATIC FEAST that honors Rome in all its splendor in all its splendor and superficiality.”-Jay Weissberg, Variety

  Your ticket to ANY “CINEMA Made In Italy" screening gets you two-for-one specials from 5p to 8p MON-SAT (the night you see the film) at HIGHBAR at DREAM and SERAFINA, before or after screenings!

  Optional specially priced "CINEMA Made In Italy" Dinner MENU at SERAFINA, for before or after screenings! A perfect way to start or end your "Made In Italy" evenings!

  (Reservations: (305) 534-8455)

   

  Show details
• 4p: "Best of Venice" Miami Premiere Engagement: FAUST by Alexandr Sokurov

  • When
    14 Dec 2013
  •  
    4:00 PM - 6:20 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  SAT, DEC 14, 4p:

  "BEST OF VENICE Film Festival”

  (Golden Lion (Best Film) Winner!)

  Miami Exclusive Premiere Engagement!

  ALEKSANDR SOKUROV’s

  FAUST

  Directed by ALEKSANDR SOKUROV/Russia/2013/140mins.

  With Johannes Zeiler, Isadola Dychauk, Hanna Schygulla

  

  Employing elaborate camera movements, a dense soundscape, intricate production design and spectacular locations, FAUST conjures up a unique and phantasmagoric vision of the Faustian legend. Faust, played by Johannes Zeiler, is a man in search of the ideals of the Enlightenment but he becomes obsessed with the lovely Magarethe (Isolda Dychauk) and eventually sells his soul to the Devil (Anton Adasinsky) also known as the Moneylender, so that he may possess her. Comic, cosmic, painterly and stunningly beautiful scenes abound as the Devil takes Faust on a strange, unforgettable journey that ends in Hell itself. The story of FAUST is one of the most popular in western literature - there is the opera, play, movies and countless other adaptations. FAUST concludes Sokurov’s ambitious “Men of Power” tetralogy, which includes films on Adolph Hitler (“Moloch” 1999 ), Vladimir Lenin (“Taurus” 2001) and Emperor Hirohito (“The Sun” 2005). Russian President, Vladimir Putin, helped provide government funding for the film, and German actress Hannah Schygulla makes a cameo appearance as the Moneylender’s Wife. Sokurov’s FAUST also features the exquisite cinematography of Bruno Delbonnel, cinematographer for "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince", Tim Burton’s "Dark Shadows", "Amélie", and the upcoming Coen Brothers film "Inside Llewyn Davis". (In German with English subtitles)

  WINNER: Golden Lion (Best Film)

  Venice Film Festival

  “There are some films that make you cry, there are some films that make you laugh, and there are some films that change you forever after you see them; and this is one of them.”-Darren Aronofsky, Venice Film Festival jury president

  “FAUST IS A MUST-SEE, OPERATIC ARTHOUSE EVENT.”-Daniel Green, CINE VUE

  “UNDENIABLY THE WORK OF A MASTER…SIMPLY WONDROUS. Like so many Bruegels, Boschs, Vermeers, and Rembrandts come to life. It is so lush, so exhilarating that it almost exhausts you. It is so lush, so exhilarating that it almost exhausts you.” -Joumane Chahine, FILM COMMENT

  “Bliss out the next on the delirium that is Faust the latest from Alexander Sokurov (“Russian

  Ark ”). An eccentric interpretation of the Goethe play, “FAUST IS MEZMERIZING, at times predictably if divertingly bewildering and beautiful, with images that burn into your memory...”-Manohla Dargis, NEW YORK TIMES

  “★★★★★ HIGHEST RATING...wild and visionary...It’s a rude, lewd take on a classic, and irresistible.”-Nigel Andrews, FINANCIAL TIMES
  

   

  

  

  

  

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• 7p: AN EVENING WITH KHALILAH ALI and the Miami Premiere Engagement: THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI, by Bill Siegel

  • When
    14 Dec 2013
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
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  SAT, DEC 14, 7p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI

  And an evening with Khalilah Ali

  (wife of Muhammad Ali 1967-1975)

  

  Directed by BILL SIEGEL/2013/94mins.

  Featuring Muhammad Ali, Khalilah Ali, Hana Ali, Rahaman Ali, David Susskind, Malcolm X

  

  No conventional sports documentary, THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI investigates its extraordinary and often complex subject's life outside the boxing ring. From joining the controversial Nation of Islam and changing his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, to his refusal to serve in the Vietnam War in the name of protesting racial inequality, to his global humanitarian work, Muhammad Ali remains an inspiring and controversial figure. Outspoken and passionate in his beliefs, Ali found himself in the center of America's controversies over race, religion, and war. From Kartemquin Films - makers of such acclaimed documentaries as HOOP DREAMS and THE INTERRUPTERS - and Academy Award-nominated director Bill Siegel, THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI examines how one of the most celebrated sports champions of the 20th century risked his fame and fortune to follow his faith and conscience.

  "THE BEST MUHAMMAD ALI DOC I’VE EVER SEEN, and - dare I say - I've seen 'em all." - Dave Zirin, The Nation.

  "AN INVIGORATING DOC brings the long-forgotten controversy to life... captures the thrill of Ali's personality even for viewers with little interest in the sweet science." -John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter

  "If you weren't there at the time, it's hard to believe American celebrities ever burned this bright." - Time Out New York

  "A WHOLLY ILLUMINATING LOOK at Muhammad Ali...surprisingly fresh and vivid..." - Kevin Jagernauth, The Playlist/IndieWire

  KHALILAH ALI will introduce the film and answer questions after the film on Saturday

   

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• 9:30pm: "CINEMA Made In Italy" Miami Premiere Engagement: THE GREAT BEAUTY (La Grande Bellezza) by Paolo Sorrentino

  • When
    14 Dec 2013
  •  
    9:30 PM - 11:40 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
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  SAT, DEC 14, 9:30p:

  

  A series of the best of new Italian cinema

  that will continue into April!

  Sorrentino! Bertolucci! Bellochio! And More!..

  In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  THE GREAT BEAUTY

  (La Grande Bellezza)

  Directed by PAOLO SORRENTINO/Italy/2013/142mins.

  With Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferelli, Carlo Buccirosso

  

  Journalist Jep Gamgardella (the dazzling Toni Sevillo, Il Divo and Gomorrah), has been a permanent fixture in Rome's literary and social circles since the legendary success of his one and only novel. Armed with a roguish charm, he has seduced his way through the city's lavish night life for decades, but when his 65th birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. (In Italian with English subtitles).

  OFFICIAL SELECTION: Cannes Film Festival

  Official Italian Academy Award Entry for Best Foreign Language Film

  “Sometimes, movies need to move. Sorrentino’s cinema, with its rapturous camera moves, its bursts of music, and its almost naïve belief that the screen can still evoke bold emotions, is the antidote to the Cinema of Lack.”-Bilge Ebiri, Vulture

  “AN OUTLANDISHLY ENTERTAINING HALLUCINATION”-Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

  “A GORGEOUS MOVIE, the film equivalent of a magnificent banquet composed of 78 sweet courses.“ -Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

  “A TECHNICOLOR LA DOLCE VITA FOR THE BERLUSCONI ERA” -Rachel Donadio, The New York Times

  “THE MOVIE IS A MASTERPIECE, a grand swooning epic, lush to the point of insanity, Fellini turned up to 11.“-Catherine Shoard, The Guardian

  “A DENSELY PACKED, OFTEN ASTONISHING CINEMATIC FEAST that honors Rome in all its splendor in all its splendor and superficiality.”-Jay Weissberg, Variety

  Your ticket to ANY “CINEMA Made In Italy" screening gets you two-for-one specials from 5p to 8p MON-SAT (the night you see the film) at HIGHBAR at DREAM and SERAFINA, before or after screenings!

  Optional specially priced "CINEMA Made In Italy" Dinner MENU at SERAFINA, for before or after screenings! A perfect way to start or end your "Made In Italy" evenings!

  (Reservations: (305) 534-8455)

   

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• 2:30p: Miami Premiere Engagement: THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI, by Bill Siegel

  • When
    15 Dec 2013
  •  
    2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
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  SUN, DEC 15, 2:30p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI

  Directed by BILL SIEGEL/2013/94mins.

  Featuring Muhammad Ali, Khalilah Ali, Hana Ali, Rahaman Ali, David Susskind, Malcolm X

  

  No conventional sports documentary, THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI investigates its extraordinary and often complex subject's life outside the boxing ring. From joining the controversial Nation of Islam and changing his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, to his refusal to serve in the Vietnam War in the name of protesting racial inequality, to his global humanitarian work, Muhammad Ali remains an inspiring and controversial figure. Outspoken and passionate in his beliefs, Ali found himself in the center of America's controversies over race, religion, and war. From Kartemquin Films - makers of such acclaimed documentaries as HOOP DREAMS and THE INTERRUPTERS - and Academy Award-nominated director Bill Siegel, THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI examines how one of the most celebrated sports champions of the 20th century risked his fame and fortune to follow his faith and conscience.

  "THE BEST MUHAMMAD ALI DOC I’VE EVER SEEN, and - dare I say - I've seen 'em all." - Dave Zirin, The Nation.

  "AN INVIGORATING DOC brings the long-forgotten controversy to life... captures the thrill of Ali's personality even for viewers with little interest in the sweet science." -John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter

  "If you weren't there at the time, it's hard to believe American celebrities ever burned this bright." - Time Out New York

  "A WHOLLY ILLUMINATING LOOK at Muhammad Ali...surprisingly fresh and vivid..." - Kevin Jagernauth, The Playlist/IndieWire

   

  Show details
• 8p: "Best of Venice" Miami Premiere Engagement: FAUST by Alexandr Sokurov

  • When
    15 Dec 2013
  •  
    8:00 PM - 10:20 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  SUN, DEC 15, 8:00p:

  "BEST OF VENICE Film Festival”

  (Golden Lion (Best Film) Winner!)

  Miami Exclusive Premiere Engagement!

  ALEKSANDR SOKUROV’s

  FAUST

  Directed by ALEKSANDR SOKUROV/Russia/2013/140mins.

  With Johannes Zeiler, Isadola Dychauk, Hanna Schygulla

  

  Employing elaborate camera movements, a dense soundscape, intricate production design and spectacular locations, FAUST conjures up a unique and phantasmagoric vision of the Faustian legend. Faust, played by Johannes Zeiler, is a man in search of the ideals of the Enlightenment but he becomes obsessed with the lovely Magarethe (Isolda Dychauk) and eventually sells his soul to the Devil (Anton Adasinsky) also known as the Moneylender, so that he may possess her. Comic, cosmic, painterly and stunningly beautiful scenes abound as the Devil takes Faust on a strange, unforgettable journey that ends in Hell itself. The story of FAUST is one of the most popular in western literature - there is the opera, play, movies and countless other adaptations. FAUST concludes Sokurov’s ambitious “Men of Power” tetralogy, which includes films on Adolph Hitler (“Moloch” 1999 ), Vladimir Lenin (“Taurus” 2001) and Emperor Hirohito (“The Sun” 2005). Russian President, Vladimir Putin, helped provide government funding for the film, and German actress Hannah Schygulla makes a cameo appearance as the Moneylender’s Wife. Sokurov’s FAUST also features the exquisite cinematography of Bruno Delbonnel, cinematographer for "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince", Tim Burton’s "Dark Shadows", "Amélie", and the upcoming Coen Brothers film "Inside Llewyn Davis". (In German with English subtitles)

  WINNER: Golden Lion (Best Film)

  Venice Film Festival

  “There are some films that make you cry, there are some films that make you laugh, and there are some films that change you forever after you see them; and this is one of them.”-Darren Aronofsky, Venice Film Festival jury president

  “FAUST IS A MUST-SEE, OPERATIC ARTHOUSE EVENT.”-Daniel Green, CINE VUE

  “UNDENIABLY THE WORK OF A MASTER…SIMPLY WONDROUS. Like so many Bruegels, Boschs, Vermeers, and Rembrandts come to life. It is so lush, so exhilarating that it almost exhausts you. It is so lush, so exhilarating that it almost exhausts you.” -Joumane Chahine, FILM COMMENT

  “Bliss out the next on the delirium that is Faust the latest from Alexander Sokurov (“Russian

  Ark ”). An eccentric interpretation of the Goethe play, “FAUST IS MEZMERIZING, at times predictably if divertingly bewildering and beautiful, with images that burn into your memory...”-Manohla Dargis, NEW YORK TIMES

  “★★★★★ HIGHEST RATING...wild and visionary...It’s a rude, lewd take on a classic, and irresistible.”-Nigel Andrews, FINANCIAL TIMES
  

   

  

  

  

  

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• 7p: Miami Premiere Engagement: THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI, by Bill Siegel

  • When
    17 Dec 2013
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
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    60

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  TUE, DEC 17, 7p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI

  Directed by BILL SIEGEL/2013/94mins.

  Featuring Muhammad Ali, Khalilah Ali, Hana Ali, Rahaman Ali, David Susskind, Malcolm X

  

  No conventional sports documentary, THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI investigates its extraordinary and often complex subject's life outside the boxing ring. From joining the controversial Nation of Islam and changing his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, to his refusal to serve in the Vietnam War in the name of protesting racial inequality, to his global humanitarian work, Muhammad Ali remains an inspiring and controversial figure. Outspoken and passionate in his beliefs, Ali found himself in the center of America's controversies over race, religion, and war. From Kartemquin Films - makers of such acclaimed documentaries as HOOP DREAMS and THE INTERRUPTERS - and Academy Award-nominated director Bill Siegel, THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI examines how one of the most celebrated sports champions of the 20th century risked his fame and fortune to follow his faith and conscience.

  "THE BEST MUHAMMAD ALI DOC I’VE EVER SEEN, and - dare I say - I've seen 'em all." - Dave Zirin, The Nation.

  "AN INVIGORATING DOC brings the long-forgotten controversy to life... captures the thrill of Ali's personality even for viewers with little interest in the sweet science." -John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter

  "If you weren't there at the time, it's hard to believe American celebrities ever burned this bright." - Time Out New York

  "A WHOLLY ILLUMINATING LOOK at Muhammad Ali...surprisingly fresh and vivid..." - Kevin Jagernauth, The Playlist/IndieWire

   

  Show details
• 8:50p: "Best of Venice" Miami Premiere Engagement: FAUST by Alexandr Sokurov

  • When
    17 Dec 2013
  •  
    8:50 PM - 11:10 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
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    58

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  TUE, DEC 17, 8:50p:

  "BEST OF VENICE Film Festival”

  (Golden Lion (Best Film) Winner!)

  Miami Exclusive Premiere Engagement!

  ALEKSANDR SOKUROV’s

  FAUST

  Directed by ALEKSANDR SOKUROV/Russia/2013/140mins.

  With Johannes Zeiler, Isadola Dychauk, Hanna Schygulla

  

  Employing elaborate camera movements, a dense soundscape, intricate production design and spectacular locations, FAUST conjures up a unique and phantasmagoric vision of the Faustian legend. Faust, played by Johannes Zeiler, is a man in search of the ideals of the Enlightenment but he becomes obsessed with the lovely Magarethe (Isolda Dychauk) and eventually sells his soul to the Devil (Anton Adasinsky) also known as the Moneylender, so that he may possess her. Comic, cosmic, painterly and stunningly beautiful scenes abound as the Devil takes Faust on a strange, unforgettable journey that ends in Hell itself. The story of FAUST is one of the most popular in western literature - there is the opera, play, movies and countless other adaptations. FAUST concludes Sokurov’s ambitious “Men of Power” tetralogy, which includes films on Adolph Hitler (“Moloch” 1999 ), Vladimir Lenin (“Taurus” 2001) and Emperor Hirohito (“The Sun” 2005). Russian President, Vladimir Putin, helped provide government funding for the film, and German actress Hannah Schygulla makes a cameo appearance as the Moneylender’s Wife. Sokurov’s FAUST also features the exquisite cinematography of Bruno Delbonnel, cinematographer for "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince", Tim Burton’s "Dark Shadows", "Amélie", and the upcoming Coen Brothers film "Inside Llewyn Davis". (In German with English subtitles)

  WINNER: Golden Lion (Best Film)

  Venice Film Festival

  “There are some films that make you cry, there are some films that make you laugh, and there are some films that change you forever after you see them; and this is one of them.”-Darren Aronofsky, Venice Film Festival jury president

  “FAUST IS A MUST-SEE, OPERATIC ARTHOUSE EVENT.”-Daniel Green, CINE VUE

  “UNDENIABLY THE WORK OF A MASTER…SIMPLY WONDROUS. Like so many Bruegels, Boschs, Vermeers, and Rembrandts come to life. It is so lush, so exhilarating that it almost exhausts you. It is so lush, so exhilarating that it almost exhausts you.” -Joumane Chahine, FILM COMMENT

  “Bliss out the next on the delirium that is Faust the latest from Alexander Sokurov (“Russian

  Ark ”). An eccentric interpretation of the Goethe play, “FAUST IS MEZMERIZING, at times predictably if divertingly bewildering and beautiful, with images that burn into your memory...”-Manohla Dargis, NEW YORK TIMES

  “★★★★★ HIGHEST RATING...wild and visionary...It’s a rude, lewd take on a classic, and irresistible.”-Nigel Andrews, FINANCIAL TIMES
  

   

  

  

  

  

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• 6:45p: "Best of Venice" Miami Premiere Engagement: FAUST by Alexandr Sokurov

  • When
    18 Dec 2013
  •  
    6:45 PM - 8:50 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
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    60

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  WED, DEC 18, 6:45p:

  "BEST OF VENICE Film Festival”

  (Golden Lion (Best Film) Winner!)

  Miami Exclusive Premiere Engagement!

  ALEKSANDR SOKUROV’s

  FAUST

  Directed by ALEKSANDR SOKUROV/Russia/2013/140mins.

  With Johannes Zeiler, Isadola Dychauk, Hanna Schygulla

  

  Employing elaborate camera movements, a dense soundscape, intricate production design and spectacular locations, FAUST conjures up a unique and phantasmagoric vision of the Faustian legend. Faust, played by Johannes Zeiler, is a man in search of the ideals of the Enlightenment but he becomes obsessed with the lovely Magarethe (Isolda Dychauk) and eventually sells his soul to the Devil (Anton Adasinsky) also known as the Moneylender, so that he may possess her. Comic, cosmic, painterly and stunningly beautiful scenes abound as the Devil takes Faust on a strange, unforgettable journey that ends in Hell itself. The story of FAUST is one of the most popular in western literature - there is the opera, play, movies and countless other adaptations. FAUST concludes Sokurov’s ambitious “Men of Power” tetralogy, which includes films on Adolph Hitler (“Moloch” 1999 ), Vladimir Lenin (“Taurus” 2001) and Emperor Hirohito (“The Sun” 2005). Russian President, Vladimir Putin, helped provide government funding for the film, and German actress Hannah Schygulla makes a cameo appearance as the Moneylender’s Wife. Sokurov’s FAUST also features the exquisite cinematography of Bruno Delbonnel, cinematographer for "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince", Tim Burton’s "Dark Shadows", "Amélie", and the upcoming Coen Brothers film "Inside Llewyn Davis". (In German with English subtitles)

  WINNER: Golden Lion (Best Film)

  Venice Film Festival

  “There are some films that make you cry, there are some films that make you laugh, and there are some films that change you forever after you see them; and this is one of them.”-Darren Aronofsky, Venice Film Festival jury president

  “FAUST IS A MUST-SEE, OPERATIC ARTHOUSE EVENT.”-Daniel Green, CINE VUE

  “UNDENIABLY THE WORK OF A MASTER…SIMPLY WONDROUS. Like so many Bruegels, Boschs, Vermeers, and Rembrandts come to life. It is so lush, so exhilarating that it almost exhausts you. It is so lush, so exhilarating that it almost exhausts you.” -Joumane Chahine, FILM COMMENT

  “Bliss out the next on the delirium that is Faust the latest from Alexander Sokurov (“Russian

  Ark ”). An eccentric interpretation of the Goethe play, “FAUST IS MEZMERIZING, at times predictably if divertingly bewildering and beautiful, with images that burn into your memory...”-Manohla Dargis, NEW YORK TIMES

  “★★★★★ HIGHEST RATING...wild and visionary...It’s a rude, lewd take on a classic, and irresistible.”-Nigel Andrews, FINANCIAL TIMES
  

   

  

  

  

  

  Show details
• 9:15p: Miami Premiere Engagement: THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI, by Bill Siegel

  • When
    18 Dec 2013
  •  
    9:15 PM - 10:45 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
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  WED, DEC 18, 9:15p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI

  Directed by BILL SIEGEL/2013/94mins.

  Featuring Muhammad Ali, Khalilah Ali, Hana Ali, Rahaman Ali, David Susskind, Malcolm X

  

  No conventional sports documentary, THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI investigates its extraordinary and often complex subject's life outside the boxing ring. From joining the controversial Nation of Islam and changing his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, to his refusal to serve in the Vietnam War in the name of protesting racial inequality, to his global humanitarian work, Muhammad Ali remains an inspiring and controversial figure. Outspoken and passionate in his beliefs, Ali found himself in the center of America's controversies over race, religion, and war. From Kartemquin Films - makers of such acclaimed documentaries as HOOP DREAMS and THE INTERRUPTERS - and Academy Award-nominated director Bill Siegel, THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI examines how one of the most celebrated sports champions of the 20th century risked his fame and fortune to follow his faith and conscience.

  "THE BEST MUHAMMAD ALI DOC I’VE EVER SEEN, and - dare I say - I've seen 'em all." - Dave Zirin, The Nation.

  "AN INVIGORATING DOC brings the long-forgotten controversy to life... captures the thrill of Ali's personality even for viewers with little interest in the sweet science." -John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter

  "If you weren't there at the time, it's hard to believe American celebrities ever burned this bright." - Time Out New York

  "A WHOLLY ILLUMINATING LOOK at Muhammad Ali...surprisingly fresh and vivid..." - Kevin Jagernauth, The Playlist/IndieWire

   

  Show details
• 7p: Miami Premiere Engagement: THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI, by Bill Siegel

  • When
    19 Dec 2013
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  THU, DEC 19, 7p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI

  Directed by BILL SIEGEL/2013/94mins.

  Featuring Muhammad Ali, Khalilah Ali, Hana Ali, Rahaman Ali, David Susskind, Malcolm X

  

  No conventional sports documentary, THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI investigates its extraordinary and often complex subject's life outside the boxing ring. From joining the controversial Nation of Islam and changing his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, to his refusal to serve in the Vietnam War in the name of protesting racial inequality, to his global humanitarian work, Muhammad Ali remains an inspiring and controversial figure. Outspoken and passionate in his beliefs, Ali found himself in the center of America's controversies over race, religion, and war. From Kartemquin Films - makers of such acclaimed documentaries as HOOP DREAMS and THE INTERRUPTERS - and Academy Award-nominated director Bill Siegel, THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI examines how one of the most celebrated sports champions of the 20th century risked his fame and fortune to follow his faith and conscience.

  "THE BEST MUHAMMAD ALI DOC I’VE EVER SEEN, and - dare I say - I've seen 'em all." - Dave Zirin, The Nation.

  "AN INVIGORATING DOC brings the long-forgotten controversy to life... captures the thrill of Ali's personality even for viewers with little interest in the sweet science." -John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter

  "If you weren't there at the time, it's hard to believe American celebrities ever burned this bright." - Time Out New York

  "A WHOLLY ILLUMINATING LOOK at Muhammad Ali...surprisingly fresh and vivid..." - Kevin Jagernauth, The Playlist/IndieWire

   

  Show details
• 8:50p: "Best of Venice" Miami Premiere Engagement: FAUST by Alexandr Sokurov

  • When
    19 Dec 2013
  •  
    8:50 PM - 10:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  THU, DEC 19, 8:50p:

  "BEST OF VENICE Film Festival”

  (Golden Lion (Best Film) Winner!)

  Miami Exclusive Premiere Engagement!

  ALEKSANDR SOKUROV’s

  FAUST

  Directed by ALEKSANDR SOKUROV/Russia/2013/140mins.

  With Johannes Zeiler, Isadola Dychauk, Hanna Schygulla

  

  Employing elaborate camera movements, a dense soundscape, intricate production design and spectacular locations, FAUST conjures up a unique and phantasmagoric vision of the Faustian legend. Faust, played by Johannes Zeiler, is a man in search of the ideals of the Enlightenment but he becomes obsessed with the lovely Magarethe (Isolda Dychauk) and eventually sells his soul to the Devil (Anton Adasinsky) also known as the Moneylender, so that he may possess her. Comic, cosmic, painterly and stunningly beautiful scenes abound as the Devil takes Faust on a strange, unforgettable journey that ends in Hell itself. The story of FAUST is one of the most popular in western literature - there is the opera, play, movies and countless other adaptations. FAUST concludes Sokurov’s ambitious “Men of Power” tetralogy, which includes films on Adolph Hitler (“Moloch” 1999 ), Vladimir Lenin (“Taurus” 2001) and Emperor Hirohito (“The Sun” 2005). Russian President, Vladimir Putin, helped provide government funding for the film, and German actress Hannah Schygulla makes a cameo appearance as the Moneylender’s Wife. Sokurov’s FAUST also features the exquisite cinematography of Bruno Delbonnel, cinematographer for "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince", Tim Burton’s "Dark Shadows", "Amélie", and the upcoming Coen Brothers film "Inside Llewyn Davis". (In German with English subtitles)

  WINNER: Golden Lion (Best Film)

  Venice Film Festival

  “There are some films that make you cry, there are some films that make you laugh, and there are some films that change you forever after you see them; and this is one of them.”-Darren Aronofsky, Venice Film Festival jury president

  “FAUST IS A MUST-SEE, OPERATIC ARTHOUSE EVENT.”-Daniel Green, CINE VUE

  “UNDENIABLY THE WORK OF A MASTER…SIMPLY WONDROUS. Like so many Bruegels, Boschs, Vermeers, and Rembrandts come to life. It is so lush, so exhilarating that it almost exhausts you. It is so lush, so exhilarating that it almost exhausts you.” -Joumane Chahine, FILM COMMENT

  “Bliss out the next on the delirium that is Faust the latest from Alexander Sokurov (“Russian

  Ark ”). An eccentric interpretation of the Goethe play, “FAUST IS MEZMERIZING, at times predictably if divertingly bewildering and beautiful, with images that burn into your memory...”-Manohla Dargis, NEW YORK TIMES

  “★★★★★ HIGHEST RATING...wild and visionary...It’s a rude, lewd take on a classic, and irresistible.”-Nigel Andrews, FINANCIAL TIMES
  

   

  

  

  

  

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• 7p: "Best of Berlin: Best Director" Miami Beach Premiere Engagement: THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN by Felix van Groeningen

  • When
    20 Dec 2013
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
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  FRI, DEC 20, 7p:

  Miami Beach Premiere Engagement!

  In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

  THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN

  Directed by FELIX VAN GROENINGEN /Belgium/2013/112mins.

  With Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse

  

  Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage undefined but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested. An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass, The Broken Circle Breakdown is a romantic melodrama of the highest order. (In Flemish with Engish subtitles).

  Leading European Film Awards Nominations:

  Including Best Film, Director, Actor

  Belgium ’s submission for the 2014 Foreign Film Oscar

  WINNER: Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Tribeca Film Festival

  Best Director, Best Film (Audience Award) Berlin Film Festival

  Best Film (audience award) Norwegian Film Festival

   “A BRILLIANT HEARTBREAKER…A cross between Walk The Line and Blue Valentine”-Yahoo Movies

  “The real deal, an alternately wrenching and ecstatic viewing experience."-Sara Stewart, New York Post

  “IMPECCABLY PERFORMED…the closing minutes mark the strongest instance of a climactic music sequence since All That Jazz.”-Indiewire
  

  “★★★★ HIGHEST RATING! A tough, vital, electrifying film…[featuring] two of the most moving performances of the year.”-The Telegraph
  

   

  “AN IMMACULATELY OBSERVED STORY OF LOVE, loss and bluegrass music.”-The Playlist 

  Show details
• 9:10p: Miami Premiere Engagement: AS I LAY DYING by James Franco

  • When
    20 Dec 2013
  •  
    9:10 PM - 10:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  FRI, DEC 20, 9:10p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  FRANCO Does FAULKNER!

  AS I LAY DYING

  Directed by JAMES FRANCO/2013/110mins.

  With James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack, Beth Grant

  

  Based on the acclaimed American novel by William Faulkner, AS I LAY DYING follows a family through their turmoil-filled journey in Mississippi to bring their mother to her grave-site. To depict the 15 individual family voices in the book, and angles at which they view and describe their versions of the story, Franco utilizes split screens and other various visual techniques. To many, this complex classic novel is “unfilmable”, but to Franco, it is another way to tackle a creative challenge.    

  OFFICIAL SELECTION:

  Cannes Film Festival

  “JAMES FRANCO HAS PULLED OFF A DEVILISHLY DIFFICULT LITERARY ADAPTATION WITH THIS FAITHFUL YET CINEMATICALLY VIBRANT VERSION of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying…A rarified art film all the way, one that will divide even brainy students and specialized cinema types, this is by a long way the best of the eight features the mind-bogglingly prolific actor-director-writer has made and is, as such, a big surprise.”-Todd McCarthy, HollywoodReporter

  “That THE EARNEST RESULT IS A QUALIFIED, PERFECTLY RESPECTABLE SUCCESS shouldn’t be a big surprise considering Franco’s seriousness, at least in the realm of literature.”-Justin Stewart, Film Comment

  “..it somehow makes sense that Franco should turn to Faulkner’s rapturous, punch-drunk experimentalism, given all the early-to-mid-20th-century existentialist, outsider icons dotting the multihyphenate’s resume”-Leslie Felperin, Variety

  “At the very least, you must credit James Franco for even attempting to film what some consider to be a near impossible story to tell…Franco can now mark another tally under his growing collection of experimental films.”-Dustin Jansick, Way Too Indie

   

  Show details
• 4:45p: "Best of Berlin: Best Director" Miami Beach Premiere Engagement: THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN by Felix van Groeningen

  • When
    21 Dec 2013
  •  
    4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  SAT, DEC 21, 4:45p:

  Miami Beach Premiere Engagement!

  In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

  THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN

  Directed by FELIX VAN GROENINGEN /Belgium/2013/112mins.

  With Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse

  

  Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage undefined but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested. An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass, The Broken Circle Breakdown is a romantic melodrama of the highest order. (In Flemish with Engish subtitles).

  Leading European Film Awards Nominations:

  Including Best Film, Director, Actor

  Belgium ’s submission for the 2014 Foreign Film Oscar

  WINNER: Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Tribeca Film Festival

  Best Director, Best Film (Audience Award) Berlin Film Festival

  Best Film (audience award) Norwegian Film Festival

   “A BRILLIANT HEARTBREAKER…A cross between Walk The Line and Blue Valentine”-Yahoo Movies

  “The real deal, an alternately wrenching and ecstatic viewing experience."-Sara Stewart, New York Post

  “IMPECCABLY PERFORMED…the closing minutes mark the strongest instance of a climactic music sequence since All That Jazz.”-Indiewire
  

  “★★★★ HIGHEST RATING! A tough, vital, electrifying film…[featuring] two of the most moving performances of the year.”-The Telegraph
  

   

  “AN IMMACULATELY OBSERVED STORY OF LOVE, loss and bluegrass music.”-The Playlist 

  Show details
• 7p: Miami Premiere Engagement: AS I LAY DYING by James Franco

  • When
    21 Dec 2013
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  SAT, DEC 21, 7p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  FRANCO Does FAULKNER!

  AS I LAY DYING

  Directed by JAMES FRANCO/2013/110mins.

  With James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack, Beth Grant

  

  Based on the acclaimed American novel by William Faulkner, AS I LAY DYING follows a family through their turmoil-filled journey in Mississippi to bring their mother to her grave-site. To depict the 15 individual family voices in the book, and angles at which they view and describe their versions of the story, Franco utilizes split screens and other various visual techniques. To many, this complex classic novel is “unfilmable”, but to Franco, it is another way to tackle a creative challenge.    

  OFFICIAL SELECTION:

  Cannes Film Festival

  “JAMES FRANCO HAS PULLED OFF A DEVILISHLY DIFFICULT LITERARY ADAPTATION WITH THIS FAITHFUL YET CINEMATICALLY VIBRANT VERSION of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying…A rarified art film all the way, one that will divide even brainy students and specialized cinema types, this is by a long way the best of the eight features the mind-bogglingly prolific actor-director-writer has made and is, as such, a big surprise.”-Todd McCarthy, HollywoodReporter

  “That THE EARNEST RESULT IS A QUALIFIED, PERFECTLY RESPECTABLE SUCCESS shouldn’t be a big surprise considering Franco’s seriousness, at least in the realm of literature.”-Justin Stewart, Film Comment

  “..it somehow makes sense that Franco should turn to Faulkner’s rapturous, punch-drunk experimentalism, given all the early-to-mid-20th-century existentialist, outsider icons dotting the multihyphenate’s resume”-Leslie Felperin, Variety

  “At the very least, you must credit James Franco for even attempting to film what some consider to be a near impossible story to tell…Franco can now mark another tally under his growing collection of experimental films.”-Dustin Jansick, Way Too Indie

   

  Show details
• 9:10p: "Best of Berlin: Best Director" Miami Beach Premiere Engagement: THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN by Felix van Groeningen

  • When
    21 Dec 2013
  •  
    9:10 PM - 10:40 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  SAT, DEC 21, 9:10p:

  Miami Beach Premiere Engagement!

  In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

  THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN

  Directed by FELIX VAN GROENINGEN /Belgium/2013/112mins.

  With Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse

  

  Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage undefined but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested. An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass, The Broken Circle Breakdown is a romantic melodrama of the highest order. (In Flemish with Engish subtitles).

  Leading European Film Awards Nominations:

  Including Best Film, Director, Actor

  Belgium ’s submission for the 2014 Foreign Film Oscar

  WINNER: Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Tribeca Film Festival

  Best Director, Best Film (Audience Award) Berlin Film Festival

  Best Film (audience award) Norwegian Film Festival

   “A BRILLIANT HEARTBREAKER…A cross between Walk The Line and Blue Valentine”-Yahoo Movies

  “The real deal, an alternately wrenching and ecstatic viewing experience."-Sara Stewart, New York Post

  “IMPECCABLY PERFORMED…the closing minutes mark the strongest instance of a climactic music sequence since All That Jazz.”-Indiewire
  

  “★★★★ HIGHEST RATING! A tough, vital, electrifying film…[featuring] two of the most moving performances of the year.”-The Telegraph
  

   

  “AN IMMACULATELY OBSERVED STORY OF LOVE, loss and bluegrass music.”-The Playlist 

  Show details
• 4p: "Best of Berlin: Best Director" Miami Beach Premiere Engagement: THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN by Felix van Groeningen

  • When
    22 Dec 2013
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  SUN, DEC 22, 4p:

  Miami Beach Premiere Engagement!

  In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

  THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN

  Directed by FELIX VAN GROENINGEN /Belgium/2013/112mins.

  With Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse

  

  Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage undefined but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested. An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass, The Broken Circle Breakdown is a romantic melodrama of the highest order. (In Flemish with Engish subtitles).

  Leading European Film Awards Nominations:

  Including Best Film, Director, Actor

  Belgium ’s submission for the 2014 Foreign Film Oscar

  WINNER: Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Tribeca Film Festival

  Best Director, Best Film (Audience Award) Berlin Film Festival

  Best Film (audience award) Norwegian Film Festival

   “A BRILLIANT HEARTBREAKER…A cross between Walk The Line and Blue Valentine”-Yahoo Movies

  “The real deal, an alternately wrenching and ecstatic viewing experience."-Sara Stewart, New York Post

  “IMPECCABLY PERFORMED…the closing minutes mark the strongest instance of a climactic music sequence since All That Jazz.”-Indiewire
  

  “★★★★ HIGHEST RATING! A tough, vital, electrifying film…[featuring] two of the most moving performances of the year.”-The Telegraph
  

   

  “AN IMMACULATELY OBSERVED STORY OF LOVE, loss and bluegrass music.”-The Playlist 

  Show details
• 6p: "Best of Berlin: Best Director" Miami Beach Premiere Engagement: THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN by Felix van Groeningen

  • When
    22 Dec 2013
  •  
    6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  SUN, DEC 22, 6p:

  Miami Beach Premiere Engagement!

  In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

  THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN

  Directed by FELIX VAN GROENINGEN /Belgium/2013/112mins.

  With Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse

  

  Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage undefined but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested. An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass, The Broken Circle Breakdown is a romantic melodrama of the highest order. (In Flemish with Engish subtitles).

  Leading European Film Awards Nominations:

  Including Best Film, Director, Actor

  Belgium ’s submission for the 2014 Foreign Film Oscar

  WINNER: Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Tribeca Film Festival

  Best Director, Best Film (Audience Award) Berlin Film Festival

  Best Film (audience award) Norwegian Film Festival

   “A BRILLIANT HEARTBREAKER…A cross between Walk The Line and Blue Valentine”-Yahoo Movies

  “The real deal, an alternately wrenching and ecstatic viewing experience."-Sara Stewart, New York Post

  “IMPECCABLY PERFORMED…the closing minutes mark the strongest instance of a climactic music sequence since All That Jazz.”-Indiewire
  

  “★★★★ HIGHEST RATING! A tough, vital, electrifying film…[featuring] two of the most moving performances of the year.”-The Telegraph
  

   

  “AN IMMACULATELY OBSERVED STORY OF LOVE, loss and bluegrass music.”-The Playlist 

  Show details
• 8:10p: Miami Premiere Engagement: AS I LAY DYING by James Franco

  • When
    22 Dec 2013
  •  
    8:10 PM - 9:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  SUN, DEC 22, 8:10p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  FRANCO Does FAULKNER!

  AS I LAY DYING

  Directed by JAMES FRANCO/2013/110mins.

  With James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack, Beth Grant

  

  Based on the acclaimed American novel by William Faulkner, AS I LAY DYING follows a family through their turmoil-filled journey in Mississippi to bring their mother to her grave-site. To depict the 15 individual family voices in the book, and angles at which they view and describe their versions of the story, Franco utilizes split screens and other various visual techniques. To many, this complex classic novel is “unfilmable”, but to Franco, it is another way to tackle a creative challenge.    

  OFFICIAL SELECTION:

  Cannes Film Festival

  “JAMES FRANCO HAS PULLED OFF A DEVILISHLY DIFFICULT LITERARY ADAPTATION WITH THIS FAITHFUL YET CINEMATICALLY VIBRANT VERSION of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying…A rarified art film all the way, one that will divide even brainy students and specialized cinema types, this is by a long way the best of the eight features the mind-bogglingly prolific actor-director-writer has made and is, as such, a big surprise.”-Todd McCarthy, HollywoodReporter

  “That THE EARNEST RESULT IS A QUALIFIED, PERFECTLY RESPECTABLE SUCCESS shouldn’t be a big surprise considering Franco’s seriousness, at least in the realm of literature.”-Justin Stewart, Film Comment

  “..it somehow makes sense that Franco should turn to Faulkner’s rapturous, punch-drunk experimentalism, given all the early-to-mid-20th-century existentialist, outsider icons dotting the multihyphenate’s resume”-Leslie Felperin, Variety

  “At the very least, you must credit James Franco for even attempting to film what some consider to be a near impossible story to tell…Franco can now mark another tally under his growing collection of experimental films.”-Dustin Jansick, Way Too Indie

   

  Show details
• 7p: Miami Premiere Engagement: WADJDA by Haifaa Al Mansour

  • When
    27 Dec 2013
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  FRI, DEC 27, 7p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

  WADJDA

  Directed by HAIFAA

  AL MANSOUR/Saudi Arabia/2013/97mins.

  With Reem Abdullah, Waad Muhammed 

  

  WADJDA is a ten year old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn’t be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda’s mother won’t allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl’s virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself, but her plans are thwarted when she is caught running various schemes at school. Just as she is losing hope of raising enough money, she hears of a cash prize for a Koran recitation competition at her school. She devotes herself to the memorization and recitation of Koranic verses, and her teachers begin to see Wadjda as a model pious girl. The competition isn‘t going to be easy, especially for a troublemaker like Wadjda, but she refuses to give in. She is determined to continue fighting for her dreams... (In Saudi with English subtitles)

  Top Five Foreign Films of The Year-IndieWire

  "AN UNQUALIFIED DELIGHT, A SHARP, INSIGHT FUL COMEDY that subversively explores women's place in Islamic society."-Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

  "This is not just the first feature by Haifaa Al Mansour but THE FIRST FEATURE TO BE DIRECTED BY A WOMAN FROM SAUDI ARABIA. That is quite a burden, and yet by some miracle the movie bears it with lightness and grace."-Anthony Lane, New Yorker

  "A STUNNINGLY ASSURED DEBUT, a slyly subversive delight, and one of my favorite movies of the year so far." -Dana Stevens, Slate.com

  Show details
• 9p: Miami Premiere Engagement: IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY? An Animated Conversation With Noam Chomsky, by Michel Gondry

  • When
    27 Dec 2013
  •  
    9:00 PM - 10:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  FRI, DEC 27, 9p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  END or START your year on

  an intellectually animated note...

  IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?

  An Animated Conversation

  With Noam Chomsky

  Directed by MICHEL GONDRY/2013/88mins.

  

  From Michel Gondry, the innovative director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep, comes this unique animated documentary on the life of controversial MIT professor, philosopher, linguist, anti-war activist and political firebrand Noam Chomsky. Through complex, lively conversations with Chomsky and brilliant illustrations by Gondry himself, the film reveals the life and work of the father of modern linguistics while also exploring his theories on the emergence of language. The result is not only a dazzling, vital portrait of one of the foremost thinkers of modern times, but also a beautifully animated work of art.

  “For the most part, their collaboration is A MAGNIFICENTLY QUIZZICAL DIAGRAM OF TWO CEASELESSLY INQUIRING MINDS in perfect tandem, like a raw X-ray of atomized creativity.”-Steve MacFarlane, Slant

  “Every bit as artfully creative and mind-bendingly perplexive as you would expect from the two involved”-Dustin Jansick, Way Too Indie

  Show details
• 7p: Miami Premiere Engagement: WADJDA by Haifaa Al Mansour

  • When
    28 Dec 2013
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    56

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  SAT, DEC 28, 7p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

  WADJDA

  Directed by HAIFAA

  AL MANSOUR/Saudi Arabia/2013/97mins.

  With Reem Abdullah, Waad Muhammed 

  

  WADJDA is a ten year old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn’t be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda’s mother won’t allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl’s virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself, but her plans are thwarted when she is caught running various schemes at school. Just as she is losing hope of raising enough money, she hears of a cash prize for a Koran recitation competition at her school. She devotes herself to the memorization and recitation of Koranic verses, and her teachers begin to see Wadjda as a model pious girl. The competition isn‘t going to be easy, especially for a troublemaker like Wadjda, but she refuses to give in. She is determined to continue fighting for her dreams... (In Saudi with English subtitles)

  Top Five Foreign Films of The Year-IndieWire

  "AN UNQUALIFIED DELIGHT, A SHARP, INSIGHT FUL COMEDY that subversively explores women's place in Islamic society."-Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

  "This is not just the first feature by Haifaa Al Mansour but THE FIRST FEATURE TO BE DIRECTED BY A WOMAN FROM SAUDI ARABIA. That is quite a burden, and yet by some miracle the movie bears it with lightness and grace."-Anthony Lane, New Yorker

  "A STUNNINGLY ASSURED DEBUT, a slyly subversive delight, and one of my favorite movies of the year so far." -Dana Stevens, Slate.com

  Show details
• 9p: Miami Premiere Engagement: IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY? An Animated Conversation With Noam Chomsky, by Michel Gondry

  • When
    28 Dec 2013
  •  
    9:00 PM - 10:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

  Register

  SAT, DEC 28, 9p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  END or START your year on

  an intellectually animated note...

  IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?

  An Animated Conversation

  With Noam Chomsky

  Directed by MICHEL GONDRY/2013/88mins.

  

  From Michel Gondry, the innovative director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep, comes this unique animated documentary on the life of controversial MIT professor, philosopher, linguist, anti-war activist and political firebrand Noam Chomsky. Through complex, lively conversations with Chomsky and brilliant illustrations by Gondry himself, the film reveals the life and work of the father of modern linguistics while also exploring his theories on the emergence of language. The result is not only a dazzling, vital portrait of one of the foremost thinkers of modern times, but also a beautifully animated work of art.

  “For the most part, their collaboration is A MAGNIFICENTLY QUIZZICAL DIAGRAM OF TWO CEASELESSLY INQUIRING MINDS in perfect tandem, like a raw X-ray of atomized creativity.”-Steve MacFarlane, Slant

  “Every bit as artfully creative and mind-bendingly perplexive as you would expect from the two involved”-Dustin Jansick, Way Too Indie

  Show details
• 6p: Miami Premiere Engagement: WADJDA by Haifaa Al Mansour

  • When
    29 Dec 2013
  •  
    6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  SUN, DEC 29, 6p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

  WADJDA

  Directed by HAIFAA

  AL MANSOUR/Saudi Arabia/2013/97mins.

  With Reem Abdullah, Waad Muhammed 

  

  WADJDA is a ten year old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn’t be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda’s mother won’t allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl’s virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself, but her plans are thwarted when she is caught running various schemes at school. Just as she is losing hope of raising enough money, she hears of a cash prize for a Koran recitation competition at her school. She devotes herself to the memorization and recitation of Koranic verses, and her teachers begin to see Wadjda as a model pious girl. The competition isn‘t going to be easy, especially for a troublemaker like Wadjda, but she refuses to give in. She is determined to continue fighting for her dreams... (In Saudi with English subtitles)

  Top Five Foreign Films of The Year-IndieWire

  "AN UNQUALIFIED DELIGHT, A SHARP, INSIGHT FUL COMEDY that subversively explores women's place in Islamic society."-Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

  "This is not just the first feature by Haifaa Al Mansour but THE FIRST FEATURE TO BE DIRECTED BY A WOMAN FROM SAUDI ARABIA. That is quite a burden, and yet by some miracle the movie bears it with lightness and grace."-Anthony Lane, New Yorker

  "A STUNNINGLY ASSURED DEBUT, a slyly subversive delight, and one of my favorite movies of the year so far." -Dana Stevens, Slate.com

  Show details
• 8p: Miami Premiere Engagement: IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY? An Animated Conversation With Noam Chomsky, by Michel Gondry

  • When
    29 Dec 2013
  •  
    8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  SUN, DEC 29, 8p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  END or START your year on

  an intellectually animated note...

  IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?

  An Animated Conversation

  With Noam Chomsky

  Directed by MICHEL GONDRY/2013/88mins.

  

  From Michel Gondry, the innovative director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep, comes this unique animated documentary on the life of controversial MIT professor, philosopher, linguist, anti-war activist and political firebrand Noam Chomsky. Through complex, lively conversations with Chomsky and brilliant illustrations by Gondry himself, the film reveals the life and work of the father of modern linguistics while also exploring his theories on the emergence of language. The result is not only a dazzling, vital portrait of one of the foremost thinkers of modern times, but also a beautifully animated work of art.

  “For the most part, their collaboration is A MAGNIFICENTLY QUIZZICAL DIAGRAM OF TWO CEASELESSLY INQUIRING MINDS in perfect tandem, like a raw X-ray of atomized creativity.”-Steve MacFarlane, Slant

  “Every bit as artfully creative and mind-bendingly perplexive as you would expect from the two involved”-Dustin Jansick, Way Too Indie

  Show details
• 7p: Miami Premiere Engagement: WADJDA by Haifaa Al Mansour

  • When
    01 Jan 2014
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  WED, JAN 01, 7p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

  WADJDA

  Directed by HAIFAA

  AL MANSOUR/Saudi Arabia/2013/97mins.

  With Reem Abdullah, Waad Muhammed 

  

  WADJDA is a ten year old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn’t be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda’s mother won’t allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl’s virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself, but her plans are thwarted when she is caught running various schemes at school. Just as she is losing hope of raising enough money, she hears of a cash prize for a Koran recitation competition at her school. She devotes herself to the memorization and recitation of Koranic verses, and her teachers begin to see Wadjda as a model pious girl. The competition isn‘t going to be easy, especially for a troublemaker like Wadjda, but she refuses to give in. She is determined to continue fighting for her dreams... (In Saudi with English subtitles)

  Top Five Foreign Films of The Year-IndieWire

  "AN UNQUALIFIED DELIGHT, A SHARP, INSIGHT FUL COMEDY that subversively explores women's place in Islamic society."-Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

  "This is not just the first feature by Haifaa Al Mansour but THE FIRST FEATURE TO BE DIRECTED BY A WOMAN FROM SAUDI ARABIA. That is quite a burden, and yet by some miracle the movie bears it with lightness and grace."-Anthony Lane, New Yorker

  "A STUNNINGLY ASSURED DEBUT, a slyly subversive delight, and one of my favorite movies of the year so far." -Dana Stevens, Slate.com

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• 9p: Miami Premiere Engagement: IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY? An Animated Conversation With Noam Chomsky, by Michel Gondry

  • When
    01 Jan 2014
  •  
    9:00 PM - 10:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
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  WED, JAN 01, 9p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  END or START your year on

  an intellectually animated note...

  IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?

  An Animated Conversation

  With Noam Chomsky

  Directed by MICHEL GONDRY/2013/88mins.

  

  From Michel Gondry, the innovative director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep, comes this unique animated documentary on the life of controversial MIT professor, philosopher, linguist, anti-war activist and political firebrand Noam Chomsky. Through complex, lively conversations with Chomsky and brilliant illustrations by Gondry himself, the film reveals the life and work of the father of modern linguistics while also exploring his theories on the emergence of language. The result is not only a dazzling, vital portrait of one of the foremost thinkers of modern times, but also a beautifully animated work of art.

  “For the most part, their collaboration is A MAGNIFICENTLY QUIZZICAL DIAGRAM OF TWO CEASELESSLY INQUIRING MINDS in perfect tandem, like a raw X-ray of atomized creativity.”-Steve MacFarlane, Slant

  “Every bit as artfully creative and mind-bendingly perplexive as you would expect from the two involved”-Dustin Jansick, Way Too Indie

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• 7p: Miami Premiere Engagement: WADJDA by Haifaa Al Mansour

  • When
    02 Jan 2014
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
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  THU, JAN 02, 7p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

  WADJDA

  Directed by HAIFAA

  AL MANSOUR/Saudi Arabia/2013/97mins.

  With Reem Abdullah, Waad Muhammed 

  

  WADJDA is a ten year old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn’t be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda’s mother won’t allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl’s virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself, but her plans are thwarted when she is caught running various schemes at school. Just as she is losing hope of raising enough money, she hears of a cash prize for a Koran recitation competition at her school. She devotes herself to the memorization and recitation of Koranic verses, and her teachers begin to see Wadjda as a model pious girl. The competition isn‘t going to be easy, especially for a troublemaker like Wadjda, but she refuses to give in. She is determined to continue fighting for her dreams... (In Saudi with English subtitles)

  Top Five Foreign Films of The Year-IndieWire

  "AN UNQUALIFIED DELIGHT, A SHARP, INSIGHT FUL COMEDY that subversively explores women's place in Islamic society."-Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

  "This is not just the first feature by Haifaa Al Mansour but THE FIRST FEATURE TO BE DIRECTED BY A WOMAN FROM SAUDI ARABIA. That is quite a burden, and yet by some miracle the movie bears it with lightness and grace."-Anthony Lane, New Yorker

  "A STUNNINGLY ASSURED DEBUT, a slyly subversive delight, and one of my favorite movies of the year so far." -Dana Stevens, Slate.com

  Show details
• 9p: Miami Premiere Engagement: IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY? An Animated Conversation With Noam Chomsky, by Michel Gondry

  • When
    02 Jan 2014
  •  
    9:00 PM - 10:30 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
  • Spaces left
    60

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  THU, JAN 02, 9p:

  Miami Premiere Engagement!

  END or START your year on

  an intellectually animated note...

  IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?

  An Animated Conversation

  With Noam Chomsky

  Directed by MICHEL GONDRY/2013/88mins.

  

  From Michel Gondry, the innovative director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep, comes this unique animated documentary on the life of controversial MIT professor, philosopher, linguist, anti-war activist and political firebrand Noam Chomsky. Through complex, lively conversations with Chomsky and brilliant illustrations by Gondry himself, the film reveals the life and work of the father of modern linguistics while also exploring his theories on the emergence of language. The result is not only a dazzling, vital portrait of one of the foremost thinkers of modern times, but also a beautifully animated work of art.

  “For the most part, their collaboration is A MAGNIFICENTLY QUIZZICAL DIAGRAM OF TWO CEASELESSLY INQUIRING MINDS in perfect tandem, like a raw X-ray of atomized creativity.”-Steve MacFarlane, Slant

  “Every bit as artfully creative and mind-bendingly perplexive as you would expect from the two involved”-Dustin Jansick, Way Too Indie

  Show details
• 4:15p: Miami Jewish Film Festival: North American Premiere OUR BIG TIME by Wolfram Paulus

  • When
    27 Jan 2014
  •  
    4:15 PM - 5:45 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
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    60

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  Miami Jewish Film Festival

  MON, JAN 27, 4:15p:

  North American Premiere!

  OUR BIG TIME

  Directed by Wolfram Paulus

  Austria-Germany-Romania/90 minutes/2013

  German with English subtitles

  
  

  As WWII rages on, two students at a boarding school form an enduring friendship as it becomes clear that one is merely trying to survive the tyranny of the Nazis.

  Presented with the award-winning short film NYOSHA

  Sponsored by the Consulate General of Germany in Miami 

  
  

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• 6:30p: Miami Jewish Film Festival: North American Premiere HERE WE ARE (ESTAMOS AQUI) by Cintia Chamecki

  • When
    28 Jan 2014
  •  
    6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
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  Miami Jewish Film Festival

  TUE, JAN 28, 6:30p:

  North American Premiere!

  HERE WE ARE

  (ESTAMOS AQUI)

  Directed by Cintia Chamecki

  Brazil-US/84 minutes/2013

  Portuguese with English subtitles

  
  

  Filmmaker Cintia Chamecki tells the story of her grandparents and their arduous journey from their Eastern European shtetl to South America and their final destination: Curitiba, Brazil.

  Director Cintia Chamecki will be in attendance.

  
  

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• 6:30p: Miami Jewish Film Festival: World Premiere FELIX TIKOTIN: A LIFE DEVOTED TO JAPANESE ART by Santie Kramer

  • When
    29 Jan 2014
  •  
    6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
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  Miami Jewish Film Festival

  WED, JAN 29, 6:30p:

  World Premiere!

  FELIX TIKOTIN:

  A LIFE DEVOTED TO JAPANESE ART

  Directed by Santie Kramer

  Netherlands-Japan-Israel-France/77 minutes/2013

  Dutch, German, English, French, Japanese with English subtitles

  
  

  German Jewish art dealer Felix Tikotin’s passion for Japanese art carried him all over the world. Twenty-five years after his death, Tikotin’s grandson tries to unravel his past adventures.

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• 7p: The MBC Great Director's Series and MIFF "From The Vault": "SCHLESINGER, Bloody SCHLESINGER" The Miami Premiere of the digital restoration of MIDNIGHT COWBOY, and An Evening With MICHAEL CHILDERS

  • When
    13 Mar 2014
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
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    60

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  THU, MARCH 13, 7p:

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