Art Cinema

From March 2 through 4, 2012. An all new feature film from the twisted minds of cult comedy heroes Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim (“Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job”)! Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime… and the sinister Schlaaang corporation is pissed.

From March 16 through 22, 2012. This beautiful new animated feature from Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque, Calle 54), Spain’s legendary designer Javier Mariscal and Tono Errando, celebrates the music and culture of Cuba with an epic story of love, passion, and heartbreak. Chico & Rita opens on Friday, March 16 and will play seven days a week.

The 29th Annual Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) will shine a spotlight on four up-and-coming directors from around the world, most who will be presenting their films in the U.S./North America for the first time. Joong-Hyun Kim, Alejandro Landes, Pippo Mezzapesa, and Susan Youssef are this year’s featured 4 World Directors to Watch.

Live from the National Theatre of LondonFebruary 25 and 26, 2012. The Coral Gables Art Cinema is currently presenting its new series of programs of live-recorded performances from the renowned National Theatre of London. The second show in the series is the enchanting tragic comedy Travelling Light, which plays on February 25 and 26 at 1:00 p.m.

Coral Gables Art Cimema. February 17 through 23, 2012. This exhilarating new documentary from acclaimed German director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire; Paris,Texas) captures the brilliantly inventive dance world of legendary choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in the summer of 2009. Featuring her groundbreaking and inspiring dance-theater productions, Wenders takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey that dramatically employs the … +

Jan 12 through 15, 2012. From Lech Majewski, one of Poland’s most acclaimed filmmakers, a visually inspired re-staging of Pieter Bruegel’s epic 1564 painting “Way to Calvary,” presented alongside the story of its creation – with Rutger Hauer as Bruegel, Michael York as his friend and art collector, and Charlotte Rampling as the inspiration for his Virgin Mary.

From Dec 30 through Jan 4, 2011. In his fascinating exploration of a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas, master filmmaker Werner Herzog (Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Grizzly Man) probes the human psyche to explore why people kill-and why a state kills. In intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry (scheduled to die within eight days of … +

Dec 28 and 29, 2011. Taking the Best Director Award and two Special Jury Best Acting awards at the latest Sundance Film Festival, among many other festival awards, Tyrannosaur is the new UK critical sensation. The film will be screened at the Miami Beach Cinematheque on Dec 28 and 29 at 8:00 p.m.

From Dec 16 through 21, 2011. The film Sleeping Beauty, directed by Julia Leigh and starring Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie, Peter Caroll, will be screened at the Miami Beach Cinematheque from December 16th through 21st.

From Dec 16 through 22, 2011. Young Goethe In Love begins in 1772. Just coming of age and passionate Johann Goethe aspires to be a poet; but after failing his law exams, he is sent by his father to a sleepy provincial court to mend his ways. When he falls for a Lotte, a local girl, his romantic and artistic instincts must … +

From Dec 23 through 29, 2011. Winner of the prize for Best Actor at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist is a heartfelt and entertaining valentine to classic American cinema.

November 2011. Miami International Film Festival (MIFF), produced and presented by Miami Dade College (MDC), today announced the launch of a Kickstarter project for its “Florida Focus” program. An annual celebration of made/set-in-Florida films, the program’s overall objective is to provide local producers and filmmakers an important and essential opportunity to exhibit their talent within an international film festival model (provided by … +

Oct 27, 2011. 8:00 p.m. As part of its current series, “The Discreet Charm of Luis Buñuel”, the Miami Beach Cinematheque is screening the film The Phantom of Liberty, directed by Buñuel in 1974, starring Julien Bertheau, Miléna Vukotic, Jean Rochefort, and Michel Piccoli.

Oct 26, 2011. 8:30 p.m. The film Wish Me Away, directed by Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf, and starring Chely Wright, Jennifer Archer and Howard Bragman, will be screened at the Miami Beach Cinematheque on October 26 at 8:30 p.m.

Oct 26, 2011. 7:00 p.m. The Museum of Contemporary Art will screen the award winning-film Strangers No More on Wednesday evening, October 26th at 7:00 p.m.  Executive Producer Lin Arison, will introduce the film, which won the 2011 Academy Award for Best Documentary. Strangers No More was shot on location at the Bialik-Rogozin School in Tel Aviv. It is produced and directed … +

Sept 15, 2011. 7:00 p.m. Born in Mexico City and residing in Toronto, Nicolás Pereda has shot all of his films in his native Mexico where divisions of class and geography, rich and poor, rural and urban, fuel his fascination with crossing boundaries and blurring categories, especially fiction and non-fiction.

From Sept 16 through 21, 2011. The Miami Beach Cinematheque will be screening the film “Life in a Day” – featuring hundreds of people all over the world filmed in one day – directed by Kevin MacDonald on September 16th and 21st at 7:00 p.m. and on September 17th and 18th at 5:00 p.m.

Wolfonian Museum Film Screenings. Sept 11, 2011. 4:00 p.m. The Wolfsonian Museum will present Harun Farocki’s film, Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989, 75 minutes). Thematically rooted in the double meaning of Aufklärung – the German word for both enlightenment and aerial surveillance – Farocki’s film maps the murky distinction between imaged event and lived experience in a … +

Jul 24, 2011. Miami Light Project presents the culminating screening of films made by the talented teens who have taken part in our fourth annual Filmmakers Bootcamp summer program.

Jun 6, 2011. 7:00 p.m. Newly remastered for high definition for the first time and presented as a special theatrical high def screening in collaboration with The German Consulate and Sony Pictures Classics, the director’s cut of Das Boot (The Boat)

Miami Beach Cinematheque. Jul 14, 2011. 8:00 p.m. “He was 25 years old. He combed his hair like James Dean. She was 15. She took music lessons and could twirl a baton. For a while they lived together in a tree house. In 1959, she watched while he killed a lot of people.”