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A Conversation with Alejandro Landes with his film Porfirio

Miami Beach Cinematheque. November 19, 2013, 6:00 p.m. Porfirio is a film about the remarkable real-life Porfirio Ramirez, a small-town Colombian bar owner who dabbled in connections with FARC in the ’90s but now lives as a paraplegic after being shot in the spinal cord during a police raid, and plays himself in Alejandro Landes’s unique fusion of bio-pic and cinéma vérité.

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Dallas Buyers Club

Coral Gables Art Cinema. November 22 – December 6, 2013. Dallas Buyers Club stars one of today’s true matinee idols, Matthew McConaughey, as Ron Woodroof, a hard-living, tough-talking and loudly bigoted Texas electrician, rodeo cowboy and ladies man. Suddenly his life is turned upside-down when he is told he is HIV-positive, extremely ill, with just thirty days left to live.

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Escape to Tomorrow

Directed by Randy Moore / 2013 / 90 mins.Miami Beach Cinematheque. From October 11 through 23, 2013. This is the clandestine project that rocked the latest Sundance Film Festival with buzz like no other film, since the director Randy Moore shot the film secretly, without permission or permits, in the Disney theme parks, avoiding security on a daily basis.

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I'm So Excited (Los amantes pasajeros)

Miami Beach Cinematheque. From September 11 through 22, 2013. A very varied group of people are in a precarious situation aboard a plane flying to Mexico City. A technical failure (a kind of justifiable negligence, even though it sounds contradictory, but that’s what human actions are) has endangered the lives of the passengers on Peninsula Flight 2549.

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The Canyons

Miami Beach Cinematheque. From September 11 through 14, 2013. Notorious writer Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) and acclaimed director Paul Schrader (writer of Taxi Driver and director of American Gigolo) join forces for this explicitly erotic thriller about youth, glamour, sex and surveillance.

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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 … +