An evening with Josh Weissbach and Ben Balcom

It’s New Year’s Eve and most of the party guests are in the kitchen admiring photos of their babies. But two lonely strangers find themselves cut off from the rest. Jane was invited because she knows the people in the kitchen. Tim was invited because he painted the kitchen. Jane drunkenly asks Tim, “What are you doing for sex tonight?” And a … +

Following the spectacular success of the first MISO-CHIC dedicated to fashion, this season MISO-CHIC will be presenting a visual arts extravaganza. Painting, sculpture, and urban street art with live performances on stage. Music and Color will be combined as paint for the soul. The program will include from Marturet-Mikesell: Pictures of an Exhibition (World Premiere); from LeFrak: Variations on work by Sandra … +

Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story Selected to Screen at Miami International Film Festival In Competition to win  $10,000. Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story is a brilliant, original and highly engrossing feature-length documentary depicting the life and times of the best-selling children’s author and illustrator Tomi Ungerer.

The Coral Gables Art Cinema presents the U.S. theatrical engagement of Isla Bonita, the freshest comedy of the year. Director Fernando Colomo, who ushered in a new era of post-Franco Spanish comedies with Tigres de Papel turns Isla Bonita into an intimate summer interlude in the Mediterranean as his characters wrestle with the vagaries of love and life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxDprF8Nw4E Coral Gables Cinema … +

The final work of legendary director Stanley Kubrick, who died within a week of completing the edit, stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, at the time Hollywood’s most bankable celebrity couple, and was shot on a open-ended schedule (finally totaling over 400 days), with closed sets in London standing in for New York City. Cruise and Kidman play William and Alice Harford, … +

‘Shake ’em On Down’ is the story of Fred McDowell, the godfather of the North Mississippi style of blues and an important influence on the music of the Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, RL Burnside, Taj Mahal and the North Mississipp All Stars. McDowell was working as a cotton picker and tractor driver when he was first recorded by Alan Lomax and Shirley … +