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Computer Chess

Miami Beach Cinematheque. From September 13 through 19, 2013. Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, Computer Chess transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs.

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La Camioneta

Miami Beach Cinematheque. From September 20 through 26, 2013. Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day.

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PAMM and MBC present Tea

Miami Beach Cinematheque. September 28, 2013. 3:00 p.m. Tea is a film essay documenting artist Mario Garcia Torres’s journey to One Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, a hotel opened in 1971 by Italian conceptual artist Alighiero Boetti (b. 1940- d. 1994). The hotel closed due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

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20 Feet from Stardom

O Cinema Miami Shores. From August 8 through 11, 2013. Millions know their voices, but no one knows their names. In his compelling new film 20 Feet from Stardom, award-winning director Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century.

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Only God Forgives

O Cinema Miami Shores. From August 8 through 11, 2013. A drug-smuggler thriving in Bangkok’s criminal underworld, sees his life get even more complicated when his mother compels him to find and kill whoever is responsible for his brother’s recent death.

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Finishing School: A One-Night Screening of Video Works at Dimensions Variable

August 17, 2013, 7:00 – 10:30 p.m. Dimensions Variable presents Finishing School, a film screening of video works by female artists who integrate elements of performance and video art. The screening was curated by Ania Moussawel and features work by Hilary Basing, Alison Brady & Sarah Knobel, Felecia Carlisle, Kayla Delacerda, Kika Espejo, Carly Gaebe, Ahrong Han, Faith Holland,

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I'm So Excited! (Los amantes pasajeros) by Pedro Almodóvar

Coral Gables Art Cinema. Through August 15, 2013. The biggest hit ever at the Coral Gables Art Cinema, I’m So Excited! (Los amantes pasajeros) has been held over through August 8, continuing its Exclusive Miami First Run Engagement at the Coral Gables Art Cinema. Directed by oscar-winning director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk To Her, The Skin I Live In) and starring a who’s … +

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Cinema Italy presents the film Centochiodi

Tower Theatre. June 28, 2013, 6:30 p.m. Cinema Italy, the company dedicated to promote Italian film in Miami and organizers of the Italian Film Festival, presents its monthly screening at the Tower Theater featuring the film Centochiodi, (100 Nails) directed by Ermanno Olmi.

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Miami Beach Cinematheque presents I Killed My Mother

Directed by Xavier Dolan / Canada / 2009 / US release 2013 / 96 min. From June 28 through July 3, 2013. Focusing on the relationship between Hubert Minel (Xavier Dolan), a 16-year-old Quebecois living in suburban Montreal, and his single mother Chantale (Anne Dorval), I Killed My Mother beautifully captures the anxieties of a mother-son relationship.

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Miami Beach Cinematheque presents the film M

Directed by Fritz Lang / Germany / 1931 / 11 mins.June 27, 2013, 8:00 & 8:30 p.m. Fritz Lang’s classic story of a child murderer brought to justice is now available in a brand-new 2k restoration. Peter Lorre stars as Hans Beckert, a recently released asylum inmate with a compulsion to kill little girls.

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American Black Film Festival presents The Films Over Miami Showcase

Colony Theatre. June 23, 2013, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Film Life, Inc., announced that two local Miami filmmakers, Edson Jean and R. Malcolm Jones, have been chosen to compete in the Narrative Competition and the HBO Short Film Competition of the 17th Annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF). Additionally, the ABFF in partnership with the Southeast Overtown Park West Community Redevelopment … +

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Kenneth Branagh presents Mozart's The Magic Flute

O Cinema Miami Shores. June 9, 2013, 1:00 p.m. Mozart’s classic opera The Magic Flute is breathtakingly transformed in a spectacular new film version conceived and directed by Kenneth Branagh, with a newly-adapted libretto by Stephen Fry. Set during the eve of the first global war a magical drama unfolds as a Tamino, a young soldier sets forth on a perilous journey … +

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Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s

O Cinema Miami Shores. From June 7 through 9, 2013. Now audiences get a rarified chance to peek behind the backroom doors and into the reality of the fascinating inner workings and fabulous untold stories from Bergdorf Goodman’s iconic history in Matthew Miele’s Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s.

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Before Midnight

Coral Gables Art Cinema. From June 7 through 20, 2013. One of the most anticipated films of the summer, Before Midnight, will begin its South Florida First Run Engagement at the Gables Cinema on Friday, June 7, in 2K Digital Cinema Projection. The talk of the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, acclaimed U.S. filmmaker Richard Linklater’s third installment of what is now … +

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The English Teacher

O Cinema Miami Shores. From May 30 through June 2, 2013. A reserved, single English teacher comes out of her shell to help a former student realize his dreams of becoming a playwright in this warm-hearted comedy with an all star cast helmed by Julianne Moore, Greg Kinner and Nathan Lane.

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Frances Ha

Coral Gables Art Cinema. Through June 6, 2013. A universally beloved hit on the film festival circuit, including in Toronto and New York, the uniquely effervescent and hilarious Frances Ha is playing at the Coral Gables Art Cinema seven-days-a-week. Directed by the Oscar nominated Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg), and co-written with the film’s star, indie-favorite Greta Gerwig (To … +

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The Source Family

Directed By Maria Demopoulos & Jodi Wille, 2013, 105 minutes, unratedO Cinema Wynwood. From May 16 through 19, 2013. Filmmakers Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos probe the inner-workings of a Utopian community that thrived in California during the early 1970s in this fascinating documentary film about a figure you’ve likely never heard of but won’t be able to stop thinking about.

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Clandestine Childhood (Infancia clandestina)

Coral Gables Art Cinema. From May 17 through 23, 2013. The gripping drama Clandestine Childhood (Infancia clandestina), which was Argentina’s official submission for this year’s Foreign Oscar, begins its Exclusive Miami Theatrical Premiere in 2K Digital Cinema Projection at the Gables Cinema.

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Gimme The Loot

Directed by Adam Leon, 2013, 81 minutes, unrated.O Cinema Wynwood. From May 16 through 19, 2013. Malcolm and Sofia, two determined teens from the Bronx, are the ultimate graffiti-writers. When a rival gang buffs their latest masterpiece, they must hatch a plan to get revenge by tagging an iconic NYC landmark, but they need to raise $500 to pull off their spectacular … +