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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood at Coral Gables Art Cinema
Friday Aug 30-Thursday Sep 5, 2019

Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth, and arguably most personal, film from the writer-director is a paean to Hollywood’s golden age, an era whose end was … +

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A Bigger Splash at Coral Gables Art Cinema
Wed Aug 21, 2019. 7:45 pm

An intimate and innovative film about English-born, often California-based artist David Hockney and his work, honoring its subject through creative risk-taking. Director Jack Hazan creates an improvisatory narrative-nonfiction hybrid, featuring Hockney, a wary participant, as well as a circle of his friends, capturing the agonized end of the lingering affair between Hockney and his muse, an American named Peter Schlesinger. The result … +

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Improper Conduct screens at Coral Gables Cinema
Sun Mar 31, 2019

Thirty five years ago, Oscar-winning cinematographer Néstor Almendros (Days of Heaven) and El Super co-director Orlando Jiménez Leal joined forces to document the systemic violation of human rights and the persecution of homosexuals in Castro’s Cuba. The film, produced by Barbet Schroeder (Barfly, Reversal of Fortune, Single White Female), was an international eye-opener, picked up major awards from Strasbourg to San Francisco … +

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The Mustang premiers at Coral Gables Cinema
Fri Mar 29, 2019 - Thu Apr 4, 2019

Roman (Matthias Schoenaerts), a convict in a rural Nevada prison who struggles to escape his violent past, is required to participate in an “outdoor maintenance” program as part of his social rehabilitation. Spotted by a veteran trainer (Bruce Dern), he is accepted in the selective wild horse training section of the program. There, Roman discovers his own humanity in gentling an especially … +

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Everybody Knows at Coral Gables Art Cinema
Fri Mar 22, 2019 - Thu Mar 28, 2019

“Popcorn-chompingly compelling.” – Emily Yoshida, New York Magazine “Compulsively absorbing.” – Peter Debruge, Variety Laura and her children travel from Buenos Aires to the village where she was born, on a Spanish vineyard, to attend her sister’s wedding, but unexpected events turn the festivities into a crisis that exposes the family’s hidden past. Iranian master Asghar Farhadi explores greener pastures outside his … +

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Frankenstein at Coral Gables Art Cinema
Fri Nov 16, 2018 - Sun Nov 18, 2018

Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (12 Years A Slave, Star Trek: Into Darkness) and Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting, Mansfield Park) alternating roles as Victor Frankenstein and his creation. The production was a sell-out hit at the National Theatre in 2011, and the broadcast has since become an international sensation, experienced by almost half a … +

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All The President’s Men at Coral Gables Art Cinema
Tue Oct 30, 2018

The Washington Post assigns reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) to cover the arrest of four burglars who broke in to the Democratic National Convention Headquarters inside the Watergate complex. What at first appears to be a minor issue soon turns into full-blown conspiracy as the pair uncover ties between the burglars and the White House. A memorable … +

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ALMODOVAR II, brought by popular demand, at Coral Gables Art Cinema
Fri Sep 14, 2018 - Thu Sep 20, 2018

Back by popular demand and following the success of the recent retrospective of Spain’s revered filmmaker, Coral Gables Art Cinema was deluged by requests for additional gems from Almodóvar’s middle period – some say his finest – which they were hastening to oblige. As in the original program, all titles have been painstakingly restored to their original splendor. Launching this limited one-week series … +

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After Hours in Coral Gables Cinema: Film EL TOPO
Sat Aug 25, 2018

Originally released in 1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo quickly caught the imagination of movie audiences, becoming a landmark in independent film-making. The early screenings at New York’s Elgin Theater sparked the Midnight Movie phenomena, catalyzed by an endorsement from John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Classic Americana and avant-garde European sensibilities collide with Zen Buddhism and the Bible as master gunfighter and mystic … +

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What Have I Done to Deserve This? from Pedro Almodóvar at Coral Gables Art Cinema
Fri Jul 27, 2018 - Sat Aug 4, 2018

Overworked cleaning lady Gloria (Carmen Maura) takes in multiple jobs to make ends meet. Her unforgiving life is inhabited by a cast of eccentric characters: an abusive taxi driver husband who schemes to forge Adolf Hitler’s handwriting, a drug-dealing teenage son who is the actual forger, an unappreciative mother-in-law who hides her sweets, and a prostitute neighbor who pays Gloria to sit … +

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JAWS The Film in Afterhours at CGAC
Sat Jul 7, 2018

Steven Spielberg instilled a fear of water in millions of moviegoers with the release of the very first summer blockbuster, Jaws. A gruesome great white shark terrorizes the resort town of Amity Island, sending police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) on the hunt for the killer creature. After several fatalities cripple the island’s Fourth of July celebrations, Brody enlists oceanographer Matt Hooper … +

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2001: A Space Odyssey in 50th Anniversary at Coral Gables Cinema
Fri Jul 6, 2018 - Thu Jul 12, 2018

CGAC presents a brand new 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s landmark film. Overseen by Christopher Nolan, “this 70mm print was struck from new printing elements made from the original camera negative. This is a true photochemical film recreation. There are no digital tricks, remastered effects, or revisionist edits. This is the unrestored … +

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Won’t You Be My Neighbor? at Coral Gables Cinema
Fri Jun 22, 2018 - Thu Jun 28, 2018

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville’s (Twenty Feet From Stardom, Best of Enemies) latest documentary takes an intimate look at America’s favorite neighbor: Mister Fred Rogers. A portrait of a man whom we all think we know, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is an emotional and moving film that takes you beyond zip-up cardigans and the land of make-believe, and into the heart … +

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Scarface in After Hours at Coral Gables Cinema
Sat Jun 30, 2018

Meet Tony Montana (Oscar-winner Al Pacino), a Cuban refugee newly arrived in Miami courtesy of the Mariel boatlift. Together with friend Manny Ribera (Steven Bauer), Tony turns to criminal acts to make ends meet. As they dive into the world of cocaine, their graphically violent criminal enterprise quickly grows, as does Tony’s insatiable appetite for drugs, money, power, and the woman he … +

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The Complete Studio Ghibli in 2 Weeks! at Coral Gables Cinema
Fri Jun 1, 2018 - Thu Jun 14, 2018

For over three decades, Studio Ghibli has transported audiences across the globe to magical realms filled with fantastic creatures and awe-inspiring sights. Led by co-founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, the Japanese studio has garnered numerous awards, set box office records, and touched the hearts of children and adults alike. Join Coral Gables Cinema for a two-week celebration as we present, in … +

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Kid Flix Mix at Coral Gables Cinema
Fri Apr 27, 2018

A diverse community must put aside their differences to enjoy a tasty meal in Stone Soup (France/Belgium), a hungry creature devises a way to get his fill in Tiger (Germany), and a young croc enjoys a tasty treat in Crocodile (Germany). With visually innovative animation and many Audience Award winners from New York International Children’s Film Festival 2017, Kid Flix Mix is … +

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ALIEN at Coral Gables Cinema’ After Hours
Sat 31 Mar, 2018

Ridley Scott set the standard for science fiction horror with his 1979 masterpiece Alien. After exploring the wreckage of a downed spacecraft, the crew of the Nostromo is picked off one by one by an alien creature sporting a double set of jaws, a blade-tipped tail, and acidic blood. Scott’s masterful use of shadows, framing, and sound capture the palpable fear permeating … +

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (NTL) at Coral Gables Art Cinema
Fri 23 Mar, 2018 - Sun 25 Mar, 2018

Tennessee Williams’ twentieth-century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. Following his smash hit production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Benedict Andrews’ ‘thrilling revival’ (New York Times) stars Sienna Miller alongside, Jack O’Connell and Colm Meaney. On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Southern family gathers at their cotton plantation to … +

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Coral Gables Art Cinema’ Screening of Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Sat 24 Feb, 2018

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 … +

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Cuban Film Memories of Underdevelopment at Coral Gables Art Cinema
Sun 25 Feb, 2018 - Tue 27 Feb, 2018

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 … +