Bert Stern's Original Madman- April 5-11 at Tower Theater in Miami

Breaching an icon’s privacy

Directed by Shannah Laumeister
Starring Marilyn Monroe, Drew Barrymore, Bert Stern, Sophia Loren, Madonna
USA | 2012 | 93 min | Documentary | Not Rated
English with no subtitles

Bert Stern, also known for his seminal film Jazz on a Summer's Day, experienced a meteoric career that began as a mailroom-boy at Look Magazine, where he formed a close relationship with young staff photographer Stanley Kubrick. The launch of Stern's career and the Golden Age of Advertising would coincide with Stern's iconic and legendary "Driest of the Dry" campaign for Smirnoff in 1955. Set against the backdrop of the Egyptian pyramids, this ad would sell more vodka than Smirnoff had dreamed, transforming America into a martini-sipping country and launching Stern to star photographer status at the age of 25. Sought after by Madison Avenue, Hollywood, and the international fashion scene, Bert was at the heart of what creative director George Lois called "the creative evolution." His groundbreaking images of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe, Twiggy and the infamous Lolita image from Kubrick's film, coupled with his astonishing success in advertising, minted Stern - along with Irving Penn and Richard Avedon - as a celebrity in his own right. indeed, Stern’s photographs of Monroe in her last sitting are considered to be the ultimate images of the 20th century icon. After marrying the stunning ballet dancer Allegra Kent, the kid from Brooklyn was sitting on top of the world...until a dramatic fall from grace.

Written by Shannah Laumeister
Editing by Jeff Werner
Cinematography by Gregory McClatchy
Music by Starr Parodi and Jeff Eden Fair

“Original Madman is humorous, compelling, tragic and elegant in equal measures. Bert Stern is the man who, amongst other things, revolutionized American advertising; initiated the relationship between Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and inspired America to become a nation of vodka drinkers.” - Daniel Harling, Take One

2012 Cambridge Film Festival: Official selection
2012 Florida Film Festival: Official selection
2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival: Official selection
2012 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival: Official selection

Showtimes:

• Friday - 4/5/2013
• 4:20 PM, 9:05 PM

• Saturday - 4/6/2013
• 1:40 PM, 6:40 PM

• Sunday - 4/7/2013
• 2:35 PM, 4:45 PM

• Tuesday - 4/9/2013
• 4:20 PM, 6:40 PM

• Wednesday - 4/10/2013
• 4:20 PM, 9:05 PM

• Thursday - 4/11/2013
• 6:40 PM, 9:05 PM

 1508 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33135

Phone:(305) 643-8706 

For more info, please visit Tower Theater Site.

Come stay with us at Florida South Beach Rentals, right on the beach!
 

No - The movie - April 5-11, 2013 at Tower Theater

The marketing of Freedom
MIAMI COMMERCIAL PREMIERE

Directed by Pablo Larraín
Starring Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco
Chile | 2012 | 35 mm | 118 min | Drama | Rated R
Spanish with English subtitles

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote YES or NO to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the NO persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra (Gael Garcia Bernal), to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and under scrutiny by the despot's minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

Screenplay by Pedro Peirano, based on the play The Referendum by Antonio Skármeta
Cinematography by Sergio Armstrong
Editing by Andrea Chignoli
Original Music by Carlos Cabezas

2013 Academy Awards (Oscars): Nominated, Best Foreign Language Film
2013 Miami International Film Festival: Official Selection
2012 Cannes Film Festival (Director’s Fortnight): Won, C.I.C.A.E. Award
2012 National Board of Review, USA: Won, Top Five Foreign Language Films
2012 Toronto, Tokyo, Telluride, London, Hamburg, Film Festivals: Official Selection
2012 São Paulo International Film Festival: Won, Audience Award - Best Foreign Language Film

“Nominated by the Academy as the year's best foreign-language film, No grabs you hard, no mercy, and keeps you riveted.” – Rolling Stone, Peter Travers

“Larraín's script is punctuated by dark bursts of humor, and the filmmaker knowingly navigates his audience to a nail-biting - though never cloying, and fully warranted - climax.” - Simon Miraudo, Quickflix

“Marshall McLuhan called advertising the greatest art form of the 20th century. In No, Pablo Larraín’s sly, smart, fictionalized tale about the art of the sell during a fraught period in Chilean history, advertising isn’t only an art; it’s also a way of life.” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

“Larraín's unarguable point is that, in politics, if we wait for good to issue only from the pure in heart, we will be waiting a very long time.” - Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

Showtimes:

• Friday - 4/5/2013
• 6:35 PM, 9:15 PM

• Saturday - 4/6/2013
• 1:30 PM, 6:35 PM, 9:15 PM

• Sunday - 4/7/2013
• 4:40 PM, 7:15 PM

• Tuesday - 4/9/2013
• 6:35 PM, 9:15 PM

• Wednesday - 4/10/2013
• 4:00 PM, 6:35 PM

• Thursday - 4/11/2013
• 4:00 PM, 6:35 PM

 1508 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33135

Phone:(305) 643-8706 

For more info, please visit Tower Theater Site.

Come stay with us at Florida South Beach Rentals, right on the beach!
 

War Witch (Rebelle)- April 5-11

Directed by Kim Nguyen
Starring Rachel Mwanza, Serge Kanyinda, Alain Lino, Eli Bastien

Canada | 2012 | Digital | 90min | Drama, History | Not Rated
French, Lingala with English subtitles

Montreal-based filmmaker Kim Nguyen paints a poignant and harrowing portrait of Komona, a 14-year-old girl (wonderfully played by nonprofessional actress Rachel Mwanza) who has been kidnapped from her African village by rebels to become a child soldier. She escapes from the camp with an older albino soldier and experiences for the very first time the joys of a peaceful and loving life, but a fresh tragedy will force her to confront and fight the ghosts haunting her mind. Although inspired by a real story that took place in Burma, Nguyen decided to film War Witch in the Democratic Republic of the Congo without giving a specific location to the plot. He worked on the film for 10 years, watching and catching children's points of view with his camera and mixing in tightly edited flashbacks in which the spirits of human beings appear with an ultra-realistic and violent storyline. But War Witch is also a poignant and impossible love story filled with magic, picturesque images, and even light moments like the powerful visit to an albino camp or the chasing of a white rooster.

Screenplay by Kim Nguyen
Cinematography by Nicolas Bolduc
Editing by Richard Comeau
Original sound-track: African folk and pop music

2013 Academy Awards (Oscars): Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film
2013 Canadian Screen Awards (Genie): Nominated for Best Motion Picture, Direction, Best Actress (Rachel Mwanza), Best Supporting Actor (Serge Kanyinda), Best Original Screenplay,
2013 Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best International Film,
2012 National Board of Review: Won, Top Five Foreign Language Films
2012 Berlin International Film Festival: Won, Best Actress (Rachel Mwanza)
2012 Tribeca Film Festival: Won, Best Narrative Feature, Best Actress (Rachel Mwanza)
2012 Toronto International Film Festival: Official Selection
2012 American Film Institute Festival: Official Selection
2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival: Official Selection


“Can films from Africa succeed in the West? War Witch proves the answer Is YES.” - Jonathan Curiel,
NPR, PBS

"A moving and emotional powerhouse…War Witch packs a punch.” – Movieline

“In the middle of War Witch, there blooms a kind of love story that introduces a more rollicking side of African culture.” - Jay Stone, Postmedia News

“Canadian-based writer Kim Nguyen, little known beyond fantasy fest circles, handles the material, displaying a maturity, panache and emotional marksmanship that will elevate his reputation several notches.” – Leslie Felperin, Variety

 Showtimes:

• Friday - 4/5/2013
• 4:10 PM

• Saturday - 4/6/2013
• 4:10 PM, 9:10 PM

• Sunday - 4/7/2013
• 2:40 PM

• Tuesday - 4/9/2013
• 4:10 PM, 9:10 PM

• Wednesday - 4/10/2013
• 6:45 PM

• Thursday - 4/11/2013
• 9:10 PM

 1508 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33135

Phone:(305) 643-8706 

For more info, please visit Tower Theater Site.

Come stay with us at Florida South Beach Rentals, right on the beach!
 

Wuthering Heights- November 16-18, 20, 21, 23-25

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Directed by ANDREA ARNOLD/UK/2012/129mins.
With James Howson, Solomon Glave, Paul Hilton, Shannon Beer,

Amy Wren, Lee Shaw, Simone Jackson 

November 16 at 8:45p (Opening Night)

November 17, 18 at 4:35p

November 20, 21 at 8:40p

November 23-25 at 8:50p

Wuthering Heights is Academy Award®-winning writer-director Andrea Arnold's third feature following the BAFTA® award winning Fish Tank and Cannes Jury Prize winning Red Road, an excitingly fresh and distinct take on the classic novel by Emily Brontë. An epic love story that spans childhood well into the young adult years, the film follows Heathcliff, a boy taken in by a benevolent

Yorkshirefarmer, Earnshaw. Living in Earnshaw's home, Heathcliff develops a passionate relationship with the farmer's teenage daughter, Catherine, inspiring the envy and mistrust of his son, Hindley… Arnold's film brings out the powerful emotions at the heart of Brontë's classic novel, resulting in a viscerally affecting love story. It is a sweepingly old-fashioned tale of family, class, and romance told in a bracingly modern way by one of contemporary cinema's most gifted and unique filmmakers.
 

OFFICIAL SELECTION:

Venice and Toronto Int. Film Festivals

 “A BRAVE, BROODING, AND IMPRESSIVE PIECE OF WORK”-The Guardian

“An extraordinary achievement”-Evening Standard

“GLORIOUS”-The Times

“Arnold's highly cinematic re-imagining feels fresh and vital, a lean creature highly attuned to the moor's ecosystem, red in tooth and claw.”-CineVue

Registration

• Adult (Non-member) - $10.00 (USD)
• MBC Member - $8.00 (USD)
• Student or Senior - $9.00 (USD)

Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall

1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139

For more information, visit Miami Beach Cinematheque

Come stay with us! Visit Florida South Beach Rentals Website. 

 

Searching for Sugar Man at Miami Beach Cinematheque- November 10,

“BEST OF SUNDANCE”

Special Jury & Audience Award, Documentary

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN

Documentary directed by MALICK BENJELLOUL/UK/86mins.

November 10, 11 8:45pm

Searching For Sugar Man tells the incredible true story of Rodriguez, the greatest '70s rock icon who never was. Discovered in a Detroit bar in the late '60s by two celebrated producers struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics, they recorded an album which they believed would secure his reputation as the greatest recording artist of his generation. In fact, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, he became a phenomenon. The film follows the story of two South African fans who set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation leads them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez.

“A GREAT TRIUMPH! A hugely entertaining, emotionally touching, and musically revelatory experience”-Todd Gilchrist, IndieWire

“Part of the appeal of Searching for Sugar Man, director Malik Bendjelloul’s engaging, cleverly structured documentary, is that the film is shaped like a mystery. The more we learn…the more we want to know about the singer.”

-Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald

WINNER: Sundance Special Jury & Audience Documentary Award

Los AngelesFilm Festival Audience Award Best Documentary Moscow Film Festival Best Documentary Melbourne Film Festival Most Popular Documentary

Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall
1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139
 Registration

• Adult (Non-member) - $10.00 (USD)
• MBC Member - $8.00 (USD)
• Student or Senior - $9.00 (USD)

 For more information, visit Miami Beach Cinematheque

Come stay with us! Visit Florida South Beach Rentals Website.