Cinema

In 1990, seven young male dancers – six gay, one straight -joined Madonna on her most controversial tour. On stage and in the iconic film Truth or Dare, they showed the world how to express yourself. Now, 25 years later, they reveal the truth about life during and after the tour. Strike a Pose is a dramatic tale about overcoming shame and … +

Their Tehran apartment block on the brink of collapse, a couple is obliged to move into a shabby nearby flat. Soon an unfriendly visitor comes calling and there is an eruption of violence. Before we can get our bearings, this work of slow-burning suspense has us unnerved and unable to look away. Farhadi rose to international prominence after A Separation won the … +

A moving group portrait of particular people in a particular place (Santa Barbara) at a particular moment in the 20th century (1979), one lovingly attended detail at a time. The great Annette Bening, in one of her very best performances, is Dorothea, a single mother raising her son, Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann), in a sprawling bohemian house, which is shared by an … +

PAMM will screen eight short dance works created for the camera as part of Festival ScreenDance Miami. This year’s films were selected by a panel of four screen dance experts. Heidi Latsky’s film Soliloquy will be on view in the Vattikuti Learning Theater in conjunction with ScreenDance Miami programming. Films: Exquisite Corps by Mitchell Rose Mon Corps a Dos by Gaëlle Hannebicque … +

Directed by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín (No, The Club), Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity … +

Set in Madrid during the Bourbon Restoration, Luisa Fernanda contains some of the most inspired numbers of Spanish lyrical genre, with enormous popularity since its premiere at the Teatro Calderón in Madrid on March 26, 1932. The assembly has been co-produced with the Washington opera, and has a magnificent cast of performers led by Plácido Domingo. Recorded live at Teatro Real de … +

Narrated by Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Daisy Ridley, The Eagle Huntress follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been handed down from father to son for centuries. This documentary film by Otto … +

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, … +

Manchester by the Sea is Kenneth Lonergan’s masterpiece about a New England handyman (Casey Affleck) dealing with the death of his brother, the unexpected guardianship of his nephew and a guilt-ridden past that won’t let him go. With Manchester, selected by the National Board of Review as Best Film of the Year, Lonergan leaves the rank of gifted-playwright-turned-indie filmmaker to become a … +

Kenneth MacMillan’s full-length ballet is a compelling exploration of identity in the turbulent wake of the Russian Revolution. Events overtake the young Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov and her family: World War I is declared, and then the Russian Revolution brings their privileged lives to an end. A woman who believes herself to be Anastasia, sole survivor from the massacre of the Romanovs, … +

PAMM will screen WLRN Public Television’s latest original production, “Streets of Wynwood,” which will take a wild ride into the riot of color, creativity and chaos that is Miami’s street art scene. Every year during Art Basel Miami, street artists from around the globe converge on Miami’s Wynwood district. This premiere presentation will transport the viewer into this nomadic subculture to meet … +

Clara (Sonia Braga, Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands), a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, is the last resident of the Aquarius, one of the few buildings of its age and character that remains in a rapidly changing seaside Recife neighborhood. Now that the other apartments have been swept up by a company with ambitious plans for redevelopment, pressures to move … +

Inventive and wildly fun, NUTS! recounts the mostly-true story of John Romulus Brinkley, a Kansas doctor who in 1917 discovered that he could cure impotence by transplanting goat testicles into men. From there, the story only gets more bizarre. Penny Lane is an award-winning American nonfiction filmmaker who was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2012. … +

On October 7, 2016, CGAC officially becomes the only art cinema in South Florida equipped to screen films in 70mm, the high resolution format that became synonymous with the medium’s epics and films of exceptional visual grandeur. The theater will proudly unveil its new system in two separate programs, the second of which will take place in the spring. In this occasion, … +

On October 7, 2016, CGAC officially becomes the only art cinema in South Florida equipped to screen films in 70mm, the high resolution format that became synonymous with the medium’s epics and films of exceptional visual grandeur. The theater will proudly unveil its new system in two separate programs, the second of which will take place in the spring. Named after a … +

ICA Miami and O Cinema present the South Florida premiere of Call Her Applebroog, a 2016 documentary film by Beth B about her mother, renowned painter, sculptor, and filmmaker Ida Applebroog. Through a series of intimate interviews and memories culled from journals, Applebroog reflects on her career defined by a fearless investigation of power, gender, politics, and mass media, as well as … +

Peter Latang (Jesse Wakeman) left working class Warwick, Rhode Island to reinvent himself as a slick, Wall Street mover and shaker. Fifteen years later, when he’s forced to return home to bury his Grandmother he loses his wallet on the trip. Stranded, the only person he can think of to help him out is his next door neighbor and former childhood friend … +

Classical music-loving proto-punk Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his “Droogs” spend their nights getting high at the Korova Milkbar before embarking on “a little of the old ultraviolence”. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he’s arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programed to detest violence. If … +

CCEMiami presents: “Estoy viva… lo voy a contar”, documentary by Lizette Vila and “Mujeres.. el alma profunda. La hija de las estrellas” by filmmaker Ingrid León. “Estoy viva…” goes around personal stories of women that have survived violent acts. In the meanwhile “Mujeres..” presents an approach to old Cuban women who have had an important rol in society, being Cuban society in … +

Agents of Change by Frank Dawson, chronicles the story of the movement for black and ethnic studies which grew out of the impact of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements on college campuses between 1965 and 1972. It presents the dramatic, untold story of those students on the front lines at SF State and Cornell University. It introduces today’s audiences to … +

Set in the 1930s, Woody Allen’s bittersweet romance Café Society follows Bronx-born Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) as he flees his father’s Bronx jewelry store for Hollywood, where he works for his high-powered agent uncle (Steve Carell) and falls for Phil’s charming assistant Vonnie (Kristen Stewart). When Vonnie’s boyfriend breaks up with her, Bobby seizes the opportunity to romance her, and she ultimately … +