Art Cinema

Few stories in the history of Cuban popular music have as felicitous an outcome as those of the musicians that came to be known collectively as the Buena Vista Social Club. Director Lucy Walker chronicles the two decades of success that followed the release of the band’s original album produced by Ry Cooder and the documentary by Wim Wenders. Using the band’s … +

Saturday, April 15, 2017 | 2:00–4:00 pm Based on traditional Russian fairy tales, children stories, and folk tales, the Soviet Union produced a stunning array of animated films which have been recognized as classic masterpieces of animation. This family friendly afternoon will feature storytelling and animation by masters such as Yuriy Norshteyn, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Lev Atavanov, Boris Dehzhkin, and others. Films will … +

Actor Raúl Arévalo (Marshland, I Am So Exited) makes an impressive directing debut with The Fury of a Patient Man, a revenge thriller that tells a surprising and cruel story through photography and mise-en-scene. Starring Antonio de la Torre (Marshland, Volver), the film is one of the biggest surprises out of Spain cinema last year, it won the Goya Award as Best … +

1984, directed by Michael Radford tells the classic George Orwell story set in a world where absolute conformity in action, word and thought including loyalty to Big Brother is demanded. In 1984, the world is divided into three vast states, whose inhabitants are dominated by all powerful governments. Winston, a worker, starts an illegal love affair with Julia, and becomes the target … +

One night only screening of HOUSE, Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi (1977). This satirical murder mystery pits a woman who is the epitome of glamour against a clever murderer during a holiday stay at a strange ghostly mansion. Seven young women, who have chosen as nicknames the brand names of much-advertised consumer products, begin to disappear in a decidedly suspicious manner. Are they … +

After his mother’s sudden death, Zucchini is befriended by a police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home, filled with other orphans his age. At first he struggles to find his place in this at times strange and hostile environment. But with Raymond’s help and his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love, as he searches for … +

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 … +

From May 9th – May 25th. Miami Premiere Engagement! Who is Vivian Maier? Now considered one of the 20th century’s greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime.

May 8th – May 15th. Continuing first edition of “Films on the Beach” The French Embassy Cultural Services in partnership with the City of Miami Beach Arts in the Parks, MBC, and Tigertail’s FLAFRA festival and MJFF for the Thursday May 15th program

May 7th, 6:00pm. Miami Dance Festival Film Night Fame tells the story of high school students striving to make it big in New York, based on a real public high school, the Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music and Performing Arts in Manhattan.

Through May 18th Award winning director and cinematographer Jeremy Saulnier (I Used to Be Darker, Putty Hill) finds a narrative thriller voice with his new film that has been a sensation on the festival circuit.

Friday, April 18, 2014 from 7:00pm to 9:30pm What was it like to visit one of the finest cinemas in the country eighty-six years ago? This was the age of the picture palace with opulent new amenities (marble floors, smoking rooms, playgrounds) and surprising new technologies;

Thursday, April 10th at 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm For the first time, a film gives audiences a front row seat to a significant and inspiring scientific breakthrough as it happens.

March 23, 2014, 4:15 PM – 6:30 PM Filmmaker, opera director, calligrapher, ceramist, poet, and wood block artist Hiroshi Teshigahara’s most famous film is Woman in the Dunes,

Nymphomaniac is the wild and poetic story of a woman’s journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg).

March 22, 2014, 4:45 PM – 6:30 PM In this Czech New Wave landmark, two girls both named Marie take on the world they live in but choose not to conform to. In grand Dadaist tradition but with a feminist pulse,

Irene lives alone on the coastline outside Rome. To her father and her married lover, she’s a student. In reality, she often travels to Mexico where she can legally buy a powerful barbiturate.

March 13, 2014, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM John Schlesinger’s look at the streets of New York and the relationship between two small-time hustlers played by Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman has become one

March 20, 2014, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM John Schlesinger followed his Academy Award–winning Midnight Cowboy with this sophisticated and highly personal take on love and sex.

March 26, 2014, 7:00pm – 9:00pm Video Shorts curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez & Cristina Ghetti. Participating Artists from MIAMI, FL, USA: Moira Holohan, Cristina Pettersson