JUNE Calendar at Cinematheque

The Miami Beach Cinematheque is an on-going film festival that screens movies in their cozy theatre on Espanola Way. This month, don’t miss Rossellini Realism, a Brazilian Film Festival, Andy Warhol’s “BAD” and much more…

JUNE 30 FRI 8:30pm
The Great Directors: ROSSELLINI, 100 Years Old!: Viaggio en Italia - (Voyage In Italy) (Rossellini/1954) With Viaggio en Italia, Bergman manages to subtly and elegantly tell the story of a wealthy British marriage in trouble (Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders as Catherine and Alexander), with the background of the vitality of Napoli and the desolation of Pompei playing important roles in invigorating their lives. The Cashiers du Cinema critics crowned the film one of the best of all time. Meanwhile, the mass audiences were once again not ready for Rossellini’s realism and rejection of “plot”, which was being produced on a planet far from Hollywood. 

JUNE 26 MON 9:30pm
“Shelley Novak’s Hollywood” -( An outrageous evening hosted by the illustrious film buff in drag!) Andy Warhol’s BAD (Jed Johnson/1977) In the last film with the Andy Warhol name attached to it, Carroll Baker plays a Serial Mom-style character running an electrolysis/ female hit-squad ring out of her house. The role was originally meant for Vivian Vance (I Love Lucy’s Ethel), who declined because she had fans being the nicest woman in America.  Nice the character ain’t…and outrageous, offensive, and hilarious the film is!

PLUS!... SOUTH BEACH, the new music video! Maximus 3000 and Monserrattz directorial debut for “South Beach” the Music video; the visual extension to Dance Planet X’s music single and project “South beach”.  The Video charms the viewer with it’s multi-dimensional journey of the worlds that comprise the ‘real’ South Beach.  An anthem for South Beach,  it *“pays backhanded teasing tribute to Miami’s Highlife”  and addresses the duality of the onslaught of “Locust” like tourism that can plague, and yet symbiotically, help South Beach’s economic status quo.  With its coupling of Betty Boop lyrics and Andy Warholesque video editing, the Video and Song are a monumental Miami masterpiece.

JUNE 24 SAT 8:30pm
“2005 Oscar® Films You Need To Know” Oscar® Nominee: Best Documentary Feature Darwin’s Nightmare -(Hubertt Sauper/Austria Belgium/France) 107mins. your worst…DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE, a clear-eyed examination of the underbelly of globalization. Feeling more like sci-fi/horror than documentary, DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE is the stranger-than-fiction tale of two relentless killing machines: the Nile Perch which, over the course of a few decades, ate through everything that used to live in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria; and the foreign capitalists who introduced that non-native fish in order to sell it to European consumers.  “A fascinating cautionary tale in the guise of a documentary showing how, in the age of globalization, things can evolve in the worst possible of unforeseen ways. Witty, incisive, heart-breaking, angry, shocking, and very imaginative.” – Time Out UK WINNER: Best Documentary European Film Awards, Best Documentary Silverdocs, Grand Prize Environmental Film Festival Paris, Europa Cinemas Jury Award Venice Film Festival, National Film Board Doc Award Montreal New Fest, Best Film Copenhagen Dox

JUNE 23 FRI 8:30pm
The Great Directors: ROSSELLINI, 100 Years Old! Stromboli - (Rossellini/1950) Ingrid Bergman loves cinema! With Ingrid Bergman and Mario Vitale Rossellini’s new (extra-marital) lover Ingrid Bergman, in an interesting parallel to the drama in her own life, plays Lithuanian refugee Karin, who marries an Italian peasant for a way of escape from her present post war situation, and she finds out that his life on the almost deserted island of Stromboli is not an easy change to acclimate to. The abstract serenity of a Catholic fisherman’s world leaves Karin alienated and distraught, and her development in dealing with it all plays out while the island’s volcano could explode at any moment. 

JUNE 18 SUN 8:30pm
“MUSIC on FILM” Miami Premeire! - With LIVE performance by Malcolm Holcomb. Born and raised in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, Malcolm Holcombe is being recognized by the contemporary U.S and European Folk/Americana community as a performer of national stature, and an uncommonly unique guitarist/vocalist about whom Rolling Stone magazine says: “Haunted country, acoustic blues and rugged folk all meet here.

“Townes Van Zandt: Be Here To Love Me - (directed by Margaret Brown/2005) Perhaps one of the most underrated songwriters of the last century, BE HERE TO LOVE ME chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of Townes Van Zandt with simple unpredictability that mimics the way the artist lived his short life.  Directed by Margaret Brown, this haunting and lyrical film combines emotional interviews with Van Zandt’s immediate family and such luminaries as Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, and Guy Clark with rare footage of Van Zandt at home and on stage.  As a musician and songwriter, Townes Van Zandt was legendary, inspiring artists from Bob Dylan to Norah Jones to Steve Earle among many others. In the years since his death in 1997, he has become widely respected as one of the greatest American musicians of his, or any, generation.

JUNE 17 SAT 8:30pm
“Café Con Cinema” - An undoubtedly emotionally charged documentary that examines the ongoing crisis between both the people of Cuba and Cuban exilic communities that exist throughout the U.S. The documentary focuses on almost every aspect of exodus: Operation Pedro Pan, The Freedom Flights, The Mariel Lift, The Rafter Crisis, Defection, and more recently, those who have won lotteries to flee Cuba. Lejos de la Isla boasts an incredible lineup of Cubans and Cuban-Americans who have found interest in helping us share these stories with the rest of the world.

JUNE 16 FRI 8:30pm
The Great Directors: ROSSELLINI, 100 Years Old! - Miami Premiere! Isabella as David O. Selznick (Guy Maddin/2006/16min) Far from a conventional documentary tribute, this is a stylized, witty meditation on Roberto Rossellini’s cinematic aesthetic and his belief in cinema as a moral art. Isabella Rossellini plays every role in the film — including her mother Ingrid Bergman, Federico Fellini and Alfred Hitchcock — except for her father, who appears only as an oversized belly.

JUNE 15 THU 8:30pm
Independent LENS Miami Premiere! - The Emmy award-winning PBS series Independent Lens is like an independent film festival in your living room, but screened (exclusively in Florida) at MBC Before Airing so YOU can get a preview peek and give your impression.  Presented by HANDS ON MIAMI The Devil’s Miner (2005/Kief Davidson and Richard Lancani) 80min. Living in poverty with their mother in the mountains of Bolivia, 14-year-old Basilio and his 12-year-old brother, Bernardino, brave deadly conditions while working long shifts in the Cerro Rico silver mines to earn enough money to attend school. THE DEVIL’S MINER follows the brothers into the underground mining tunnels where they tempt fate to gain a better life.

JUNE 11 SUN, 8pm
A Nite OUT: Miami Premieres! Best Lesbian Short Films “Best Lesbian Short Films” - screening & social at the Miami Beach Cinematheque

June 10, 8:30-9:30 pm
Producer/recording artist Sandra Grace, the founder/executive producer of BLSF, brings her sold-out New York program to South Beach.  She will also give away free music CD’s while supplies last.

JUNE 09 FRI 8:30pm
Brazilian Film Festival: FARIA: Story Of Fausta - (O Romance da Empregada) (Bruno Barreto/1988/90min) A domestic servant, divided between the ups and downs of life in the house where she works, and the hardships in her own house, finds herself in both violent and hilarious situations. Q&A with Betty Faria

JUNE 08 THU 8:30pm
Brazilian Film Festival: FARIA:Confiscated Goods - (Bens Confiscados) (Carlos Reichenbach/2005/109min) Américo Baldani, a powerful senator, is publicly unmasked by his official wife and his opponents for corruption, misuse of power and bigamy. About to lose his political rights and have his property confiscated, he kidnaps his bastard son, Luis Roberto (17 years old), and hides him from the media in a tourist town in the extreme southern portion of the country. The senator convinces an ex-lover, 50 year-old nurse Serena, to take care of his son. It is the tense, conflicting and affectionate relationship between these two characters, Serena and Luis, in which Confiscated Goods deals.  Q&A with Betty Faria

JUNE 07 WED 8:30pm
Brazilian Film Festival: FARIA: Bye Bye Brazil - (Carlos Diegues/1979/115min) Bye Bye Brazil is the story of the “Caravana Rolidei”, a troupe of musicians and performers who travel by truck through out Brazil, offering entertainment in small towns and other out‑of-the‑way locales throughout the picturesque interior. The troupe includes Lord Gypsy (Jose Wilker), King of Magicians and Clairvoyants; Salome (Betty Faria), Queen of the Rumba; and Swallow (Principe Nabor), the Muscle King. They are soon joined by an accordionist­ named Ciço (Fabio Junior) and his pregnant wife Dasdô (Zaira Zambelli). We follow the adventures of these five characters on the road as they encounter fellow travelers, adventurers, and vagabonds, and discover a Brazilian which the archaic and the modern,  misery and abundance, tragedy and beauty, and the past and the future, all coexist. Q&A with Betty Faria

JUNE 06 TUE 8:30pm
Brazilian Film Festival: PEREIRA dos SANTOS: Memories Of Prison - (Memórias do Cárcere) (1984/185min) - This film is one of the best and most realistic made in Brazil in the 1980’s… The story of Graciliano Ramos’s life, and others, who were in prison during the Vargas Regime of the 1930’s. The narrative is realistic, without exaggeration, adapted from the original Graciliano Ramos document of the time. Memories of Prison is a testimonial of the reality of people living in rotten basements without even knowing why, suffering with torture provoked by a dictatorial regime known as “THE DICTATORSHIP”.

JUNE 05 - 09
The 10th Brazilian Film Festival of Miami Tributes to legendary director Nelson Pereira dos Santos and actress Betty Faria - NELSON PEREIRA dos SANTOS is the father of the “CINEMA NOVO” movement in Brazil.  “The single most important and coherent body of work in the history of Brazilian and, arguably, Latin American cinema.”—Film Society of Lincoln Center BETTY FARIA is one of the most talented actresses in Brazil. “Betty does not like to act, she likes to become the character. She does not simply perform the character as written…she transforms the character into herself.”—director Bruno Barreto

JUNE 05 MON 8:30pm
Brazilian Film Festival: PEREIRA dos SANTOS: Barren Lives - (Vidas Secas) (1963/100min) Barren Lives is the cornerstone of the CINEMA NOVO movement. Derived from Graciliano Ramos´ eponymous novel, this Brazilian Grapes Of Wrath is set in the early 1940s, and describes two years in the life of an itinerant cow-hand´s family struggling to eke out an existence in the drought-ravaged, landowner-dominated sertão of the country’s Northeast. Q&A with Nelson Pereira dos Santos

JUNE 03 SAT 7:50pm & 9:25pm
OSCAR® SHORTS!: “The 2005 Oscar® Films You Need To Know” The latest 2005 animated and live action nominees and winners! - Both Programs A & B: 2 hr 56 minutes, plus 10 minute intermission 7:50pm: Program A: Animated Shorts (1 hr 17 minutes) The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation (WINNER!), 9, Badgered, The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, The Fan and the Flowerpot 9:25pm: Program B: Live Action Shorts (1hr 39 minutes) Our Time is Up,  Ausreisser (The Runaway), The Last Farm, Six Shooter (WINNER!), Cashback

JUNE 02 FRI 8:30pm
“BERGMAN: THEN & NOW” - It takes an eighty five year old progressive film director to utilize the newest digital technology in filmmaking… Saraband was shot at SVT, with the latest HD technology. It was released worldwide, only in digital form, so Bergman is one of the first to move beyond 35mm exhibition, once again ahead of his time. In Saraband, Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) meet again after thirty years without contact (after Scenes From A Marriage), when Marianne suddenly feels a need to see her ex-husband again. She decides to visit Johan at his old summer house in the western province of Dalarna. And so, one beautiful autumn day, there she is, beside his reclining chair, waking him with a light kiss….and then she realizes that things are not all as they should be, and she finds herself unwillingly drawn into a complicated power struggle.

Tickets

FILMS: $10 or $6 MBC Members and Students unless otherwise noted
MUSIC On Film: $12 or $8 Members
ROSSELLINIPASS: $25 or $15 MBC Members
Exhibitions: Complimentary and viewable before and after films

MIAMI BEACH CINEMATHEQUE
Address: 512 Española Way at Plaza de España
Phone: (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567)
Web: www.MBCINEMA.com

MBC is MIAMI’s “BEST ART CINEMA” 2006!…
(for the third year in a row!) 

“Weaving a quirky collage of video, photography, installations, performance art, curated film series, and cinema-inspired live theater, this cozy film house continues drawing the culturati and curious like a magnet…With no signs of slowing down or resting on its laurels, the Miami Beach Cinematheque is a soothing celluloid lover’s oasis in our Milk Dud-and-multiplex desert.” —MIAMI NEW TIMES

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