Film & Video

‘Shake ’em On Down’ is the story of Fred McDowell, the godfather of the North Mississippi style of blues and an important influence on the music of the Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, RL Burnside, Taj Mahal and the North Mississipp All Stars. McDowell was working as a cotton picker and tractor driver when he was first recorded by Alan Lomax and Shirley … +

In 1990, seven young male dancers – six gay, one straight -joined Madonna on her most controversial tour. On stage and in the iconic film Truth or Dare, they showed the world how to express yourself. Now, 25 years later, they reveal the truth about life during and after the tour. Strike a Pose is a dramatic tale about overcoming shame and … +

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 … +

Cinedans Dance on Screen Festival director Martine Dekker (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Jumping Frames International Dance Video Festival representative Andrea Baker (Hong Kong, China) will present a workshop and discussion. They will share their insights on their international festivals, including development, mission, and goals for the future. Dekker and Baker will also discuss the similarities and differences between European and Asian aesthetics in … +

PAMM will screen eight short dance works created for the camera as part of Festival ScreenDance Miami. This year’s films were selected by a panel of four screen dance experts. Heidi Latsky’s film Soliloquy will be on view in the Vattikuti Learning Theater in conjunction with ScreenDance Miami programming. Films: Exquisite Corps by Mitchell Rose Mon Corps a Dos by Gaëlle Hannebicque … +

Directed by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín (No, The Club), Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity … +

Set in Madrid during the Bourbon Restoration, Luisa Fernanda contains some of the most inspired numbers of Spanish lyrical genre, with enormous popularity since its premiere at the Teatro Calderón in Madrid on March 26, 1932. The assembly has been co-produced with the Washington opera, and has a magnificent cast of performers led by Plácido Domingo. Recorded live at Teatro Real de … +

Narrated by Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Daisy Ridley, The Eagle Huntress follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been handed down from father to son for centuries. This documentary film by Otto … +

The final work of legendary director Stanley Kubrick, who died within a week of completing the edit, stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, at the time Hollywood’s most bankable celebrity couple, and was shot on a open-ended schedule (finally totaling over 400 days), with closed sets in London standing in for New York City. Cruise and Kidman play William and Alice Harford, … +

Manchester by the Sea is Kenneth Lonergan’s masterpiece about a New England handyman (Casey Affleck) dealing with the death of his brother, the unexpected guardianship of his nephew and a guilt-ridden past that won’t let him go. With Manchester, selected by the National Board of Review as Best Film of the Year, Lonergan leaves the rank of gifted-playwright-turned-indie filmmaker to become a … +

Clara (Sonia Braga, Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands), a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, is the last resident of the Aquarius, one of the few buildings of its age and character that remains in a rapidly changing seaside Recife neighborhood. Now that the other apartments have been swept up by a company with ambitious plans for redevelopment, pressures to move … +

Inventive and wildly fun, NUTS! recounts the mostly-true story of John Romulus Brinkley, a Kansas doctor who in 1917 discovered that he could cure impotence by transplanting goat testicles into men. From there, the story only gets more bizarre. Penny Lane is an award-winning American nonfiction filmmaker who was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2012. … +

On October 7, 2016, CGAC officially becomes the only art cinema in South Florida equipped to screen films in 70mm, the high resolution format that became synonymous with the medium’s epics and films of exceptional visual grandeur. The theater will proudly unveil its new system in two separate programs, the second of which will take place in the spring. In this occasion, … +

On October 7, 2016, CGAC officially becomes the only art cinema in South Florida equipped to screen films in 70mm, the high resolution format that became synonymous with the medium’s epics and films of exceptional visual grandeur. The theater will proudly unveil its new system in two separate programs, the second of which will take place in the spring. Named after a … +

Classical music-loving proto-punk Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his “Droogs” spend their nights getting high at the Korova Milkbar before embarking on “a little of the old ultraviolence”. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he’s arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programed to detest violence. If … +

CCEMiami presents: “Estoy viva… lo voy a contar”, documentary by Lizette Vila and “Mujeres.. el alma profunda. La hija de las estrellas” by filmmaker Ingrid León. “Estoy viva…” goes around personal stories of women that have survived violent acts. In the meanwhile “Mujeres..” presents an approach to old Cuban women who have had an important rol in society, being Cuban society in … +

Set in the 1930s, Woody Allen’s bittersweet romance Café Society follows Bronx-born Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) as he flees his father’s Bronx jewelry store for Hollywood, where he works for his high-powered agent uncle (Steve Carell) and falls for Phil’s charming assistant Vonnie (Kristen Stewart). When Vonnie’s boyfriend breaks up with her, Bobby seizes the opportunity to romance her, and she ultimately … +

Popcorn Frights Film Festival is Florida’s leading genre film festival presenting the best horror films from across the world. The second annual Festival occurs exclusively at O Cinema Wynwood and it includes both Florida’ Premiere movies and America’Premiere movies and shortfilms. The festival will include the films: Fear INC; The Blackcoat’s daughter; Ghost Team; Under the shadow; I am not a serial … +

Susan Te Kahurangi King (b. 1951, Te Aroha, New Zealand) is an artist living in Auckland, New Zealand, whose work has begun to receive worldwide attention for its innovative and expressive approach to drawing. At the age of four King stopped speaking and has since been diagnosed as severely autistic. She ceased speaking and began to draw prolifically. She continued to draw … +

The Coral Gables Art Cinema presents the U.S. theatrical engagement of Isla Bonita, the freshest comedy of the year. Director Fernando Colomo, who ushered in a new era of post-Franco Spanish comedies with Tigres de Papel turns Isla Bonita into an intimate summer interlude in the Mediterranean as his characters wrestle with the vagaries of love and life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxDprF8Nw4E Coral Gables Cinema … +