Events

The Miami Beach Film Society’s OSCAR PARTY 2019
Sun Feb 24, 2019

MBC CELEBRATES twenty six years of OSCAR NIGHT PARTIES with a… Casual, Members Only, Dress Down, BYO, FREE, Non-official Academy Awards® Viewing Party! After many years as an officially sanctioned Oscar Night party, MBC is celebrating this year with a home-style casual event. All you have to do to come is become a member, or renew/extend, between now and when it hits … +

Cinema

Miami New Drama: Cocaine Cowboys at Colony Theatre
Thu Mar 7, 2019 - Sun Apr 7, 2019

Based on the acclaimed documentaries by Billy Corben, Cocaine Cowboys chronicles the development of the illegal drug trade in Miami during the 1970s and 1980s through the eyes of Rivi Ayala, a hired assassin working with the notorious drug dealer Griselda Blanco. Created from the actual texts of Ayala’s depositions, newspaper articles of the time, and other found documents, this new theatrical documentary … +

Editorial

‘Shoplifters’ is a deeply moving look at the meaning of family

In Shoplifters, family isn’t something you’re necessarily born with – it’s something you build. Winner of the top prize at the most recent Cannes Film Festival, Shoplifters is a film with a bottomless amount of compassion, one that very well may be one of the most emotional movie-going experiences of the year. In Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest, we’re introduced to a poverty-stricken Japanese … +

Events

The First Annual Polish Film Festival of Miami (15 Nov 2018)
Thu Nov 15, 2018

Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave, South Beach. LAST FAMILY (Ostatnia Rodzina) 2018 · Directed by Jan P. Matuszynski – feature film directorial debut of Jan. P. Matuszynski the film is based on the bizarre true story of the cult Polish painter Zdzisław Beksiński. He never believed that family life would always be sunshine and rainbows. As he tapes everything … +

Events

MIAMI short FILM FESTIVAL 2018
Sun Nov 11, 2018

The 17th Annual Miami Short Film Festival takes place over the course of 5 days at the new, state-of-the-art Silverspot Cinemas in Downtown Miami featuring in-theater service from our chef inspired TRILOGY menu, an extensive assortment of fine wines, ice cold beers, and signature cocktails that we bring right to your seat. Silverspot Cinema, a theater for the true film lover. Here is … +

Cinema

MFFF 2018: A PERFECT 14 by Giovanna Morales Vargas
Sat Sep 22, 2018

A Perfect 14 explores the world of plus size models fighting to reshape the fashion industry and the beauty standards of society. The film follows the journeys of models Elly Mayday (Canada), Kerosene Deluxe (Netherlands) and Laura Wells (Australia) as they struggle against our culture’s distorted perception of body image. A Perfect 14 also questions the fashion industry leaders and pioneers in … +

Cinema

Miami Premiere Engagement! SUPPORT THE GIRLS by Andrew Bujalski
Sat Sep 22, 2018 - Wed Oct 3, 2018

The American Indie auteur and “mumblecore” pioneer Andrew Bujalski, who brought us the brilliant riff on 1980s technology and geekism, COMPUTER CHESS, takes on the current American small business world. Lisa (Regina Hall) is the last person you’d expect to find in a highway-side “sports bar with curves,”– but as general manager at Double Whammies, she’s come to love the place, and … +

Cinema

Miami Fashion Film Festival 2018: The Gospel According to André
Fri Sep 21, 2018

André Leon Talley has been a fixture in the world of fashion for so long that it’s difficult to imagine a time when he wasn’t defining the boundaries of great style. Kate Novack’s intimate portrait, The Gospel According to André takes viewers on an emotional journey from André’s roots growing up in the segregated Jim Crow South to become one of the most influential tastemakers … +

Cinema

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 … +

Cinema

Miami Fashion Film Festival 2018
Thu Sep 20, 2018 - Sat Sep 22, 2018

Bringing attention to the historical interdependence between art and fashion and its influences, the Miami Fashion Film Festival adds to the “fashion is art” narrative with local and international films that highlight fashion design through storytelling, graphics, sound, and motion, in real and digitally imagined environments. The MFFF will bring Screenings, Workshops, Panels also parties! 2018 Filmmakers are:  Laia Gil, Adriana Naranjo, … +

Cinema

Miami Premiere Engagement of the new restoration: WANDA
Fri Sep 14, 2018 - Sun Sep 23, 2018

With her first and only feature film—a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen. Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate vérité style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda (Loden), who has left … +

Cinema

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 … +

Cinema

SMDCAC’ Indie Flicks: Dark Money
Fri Sep 14, 2018

SMDCAC in Indie Flicks: Independent Film Series will screen the Documentary Film: Dark Money. Just in time for the midterm elections, this political documentary thriller examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy; the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. A gripping story, Dark Money uncovers the shocking and vital truth of how American elections … +

Cinema

NICO, 1988! at Miami Beach Cinémathèque
Fri Aug 31, 2018 - Thu Sep 6, 2018

NICO, 1988 features a tour de force performance from Trine Dyrholm’s as the aging Nico (aka Christa Päffgen), interpreting rather than impersonating the famed singer-songwriter as she approaches 50. Leading a solitary existence in Manchester Nico’s life and career are on the ropes, a far cry from her glamorous days as a Warhol superstar and celebrated vocalist for The Velvet Underground. Nico’s … +

Cinema

Cult Classic Film: ATOMIC CAFE at Miami Beach Cinémathèque
Fri Aug 31, 2018 - Thu Sep 6, 2018

Miami Premiere Engagement of the 4K restoration of the Cult Classic! Armageddon has never been so darkly funny as in The Atomic Cafe. This 1982 cult classic juxtaposes Cold War history, propaganda, music and culture, seamlessly crafted from government-produced educational and training films, newsreels and advertisements. Taken together, these sources cheerily instruct the public on how to live in the Atomic Age, … +

Cinema

Yellow Submarine in Remastered 50th Anniversary Edition at Stonzek Theatre
Fri Aug 3, 2018 - Thu Aug 9, 2018

Newly ReMastered 50th Anniversary Edition of the Beatles Classic Yellow Submarine is an animated meandering journey filled with puns and dry British humor, where psychedelic music videos take precedent over any linear story. What little there is of a plot, however, concerns a vibrantly colored place called Pepperland that resembles the album cover for Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band come to … +

Cinema

Miami Premiere Engagement!’ The Third Murder at Miami Beach Cinémathèque
Fri Aug 17, 2018

Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s won the 2018 Cannes Palme D’Or (for Shoplifters) but The Third Murder is the other great award winning film from the master in the same year. Leading attorney Shigemori takes on the defence of murder-robbery suspect Misumi who served jail time for another murder 30 years ago. Shigemori’s chances of winning the case seem low – his client freely admits his guilt, despite … +

Cinema

McQueen, the Documentary at O Cinema Miami Beach
Fri Aug 10, 2018

Beginning with his modest upbringing in London, Lee Alexander McQueen quickly ascended the ranks of the international fashion world. After graduating from Central Saint Martins and establishing his eponymous label, McQueen became head designer of Givenchy at age 27 and went on to win the Fashion Awards’ (then the British Fashion Awards) prize for British Designer of the Year four times. His … +

Cinema

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 … +

Attractions

JAWS’ Anniversary Celebration from floating theater at Dania Beach
Fri Jul 20, 2018

As a celebration of the original shark movie, 1975 pop culture classic, “Jaws,” you could join and watch the movie from  an outdoor floating theater (literally).  Doors open at 6:30, the spectators will have access to food and drinks (to purchase) during this Beach Bash for brave swimmers. When a young woman is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping near the New … +

Cinema

Documentary “Restless  Creature:  Wendy  Whelan” at Miami Beach Cinémathèque
Sat Aug 4, 2018

Restless  Creature:  Wendy  Whelan offers  an  intimate  portrait  of  prima  ballerina Wendy  Whelan  as  she  prepares  to  leave  New  York  City  Ballet  after  a  record-setting three  decades  with  the  company.  One  of  the  modern  era’s  most  acclaimed  dancers, Whelan was a principal ballerina for NYCB and, over the course of her celebrated career, danced  numerous  ballets  by  George  Balanchine  and  Jerome  Robbins,  as  … +

Cinema

2018 Popcorn Frights Film Festival at Savor Cinema
Fri Aug 10, 2018 - Thu Aug 16, 2018

Popcorn Frights Film Festival, the Southeast’s biggest horror film festival has announced their first wave of programming for the 2018 edition with world premieres, live performances, and special guests. This year’s festival will be held  at Popcorn Frights new home base of Fort Lauderdale’s Savor Cinema. 2018’s opening night will feature a triple bill including Havana Darkness, the first English language horror … +