Cinema

ICA Miami will present a screening of films by French artist Laure Prouvost.  Laure Prouvost (b. 1978, Lille, France) is an artist currently based in London and Antwerp. She received her BFA from Central St Martins, London in 2002 and MFA at Goldsmiths College, London in 2010. She is a past participant in the LUX Associate Programme. Solo exhibitions include ‘the wet … +

Presented in a brand-new restoration, D.O.A.: A RIGHT OF PASSAGE is the groundbreaking, iconic rockumentary classic about punk’s incendiary origin. Centered around the Sex Pistols’ ill-fated ’78 American tour — which ended with the group infamously disbanding — this molotov cocktail of a rock doc (originally produced by High Times Magazine!) not only features this blistering Pistols footage, but also sweat-soaked, in-your-face performances … +

Modern science fiction wouldn’t be what it is today if not for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, a seminal film that presented a multicultural, dystopian future filled with massive corporate advertising, thick pollution, and flying cars. Central to this world are replicants, human-like androids with limited life spans built by the Tyrell Corporation. When four of them escape from an off-world colony to … +

In the maelstrom of Cuban politics, Memories of Underdevelopment is one film made in the island after the revolution that generations will be revisiting for years to come. A film very much of its time, Memories is redolent of the jaunty, black & white sensibility of the French Nouvelle Vague that was common currency among European filmmakers in the sixties. It chronicles … +

Ad Hoc Cinema and Miami Beach Cinematheque present Charles Burnett and the Black Independent Movement. Looking back on the movement that inspired the work of American vanguard filmmaker(s) Charles Burnett and his contemporaries, Billy Woodbury, Julie Dash, etc., with a very special double feature of two “rarely screened” newly restored cult classics from the LA Underground film scene–during the 70s and 80s–known … +

PROGRAM A (97 mins) The Nominees are: Traffic Stop –Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, USA, 30 mins Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 –Frank Stiefel, USA, 40 mins Edith + Eddie –Laura Checkoway, Thomas Lee Wrights, USA, 29 PROGRAM B (82 mins) The Nominees are: Heroin(e) –Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Kerrin Sheldon, USA, 39 Knife Skills –Thomas Lennon, USA, 40 mins … +

What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes … +

Set in the glamour of 1950s post-War London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he … +

The Nominees are: Dear Basketball – Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant, USA, 5 mins Negative Space – Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, France, 5 mins Lou – Dave Mullins and Dana Murray, USA, 7 mins Revolting Rhymes – Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer, UK, 29 mins Garden Party – Victor Caire and Gabriel Grapperon, France 7 mins Lost Property Office (additional) –Daniel … +

The otherwise conventional Orlando has left his wife and kids for Marina (Daniela Vega), a passionate transsexual and much younger waitress-singer. After his sudden, unexpected death, Marina faces the suspicions of the police, the angry incomprehension of Orlando’s family and the discovery she’ll be denied the usual privileges of a grieving loved-one and life partner. On one level, writer-director Sebastián Lelio (Gloria) … +

Art Films presents the best of films by and about artists paired with food & drinks, followed by a post-film discussion by one of the film’s creators. Co-presented by O Cinema and ArtCenter South Florida. In the 1980s, Richard Hambleton was the Shadowman, a specter in the night who painted hundreds of startling silhouettes on the walls of lower Manhattan and, along … +

From Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, whose GLORIA provided an indelible portrait of a woman adrift, comes this incisive character study of a different nature. Marina (Daniela Vega), the transgender heroine of A FANTASTIC WOMAN, is beautiful, enigmatic, and plunged into a precarious situation after her boyfriend dies unexpectedly in her company. Fifty-seven-year-old divorcé Orlando (Francisco Reyes) wakes in the middle of the … +

An other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation, but her life is changed forever when she discovers a secret classified experiment. Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is a mute, isolated woman who works as a cleaning lady in a … +

Based on unbelievable but true events, I, TONYA is the darkly comedic tale of American figure skater Tonya Harding and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous, ill-conceived, and even more poorly executed attack on … +

On Coney Island in the 1950s, the movie tells the story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny (Kate Winslet), an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty (Jim Belushi), Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey (Justin Timberlake), a handsome young … +

A frustrated and grieving mother (Frances McDormand) antagonizes her local police force (including Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell) to call attention to the lack of progress in the search for her daughter’s killer, in the latest from dark-humour master Martin McDonagh. Strong, brave, fed up with bullshit, and desperate for justice, Mildred Hayes might be 2017’s Woman of the Year. After months … +

Russian sensation of the year, MATHILDE screens at O Cinema Miami Beach on December 14. A big-budget historical drama, MATHILDE tells the true story of a romance between the heir to the Russian throne, future Emperor Nicholas II, and Mathilde Kshesinskaya, a prima ballerina in St. Petersburg. Amid nationwide release in Russia, the movie has been at the center of scandal: religious … +

In LADY BIRD, Greta Gerwig reveals herself to be a bold new cinematic voice with her directorial debut, excavating both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter. Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) fights against but is exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong-willed mom (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse working tirelessly to … +

As the clock strikes midnight on Christmas Eve, Marie’s wooden nutcracker doll comes to life and transforms into a prince! Soon joined by her other toys that have also come to life, Marie and her prince embark on a dreamy unforgettable adventure. A holiday tradition for the whole family, THE NUTCRACKER enchants the Bolshoi stage for two hours of enchantment and magic. … +

In 1988 director Robert Zemeckis’s followed-up his iconic “Back to the Future” with another 80’s classic that has brought joy to so many over the past three decades, WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?. This Academy Award winning animation-live action hybrid introduced us to the loveable Roger Rabbit (voiced by Charles Fleischer) and Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins). Zemeckis was also reunited with his “Back … +

O Cinema Wynwood is transforming into the ultimate slumber party with the 90’s classic: Troop Beverly Hills! Girl Gang Flicks: A Sip-N-Series features some of the most quirky and beloved teen comedies. Sponsored by our friends at Tito’s Vodka. Shelly Long stars in this comedy as a spoiled Beverly Hills wife who decides–wanting to prove her husband’s accusation of her selfishness wrong–to … +