FRI AUG 16, 9:10p:

RECORD BREAKING RUN HELD OVER!

FINAL SCREENING!

ONLY GOD FORGIVES

Directed by NICOLAS WINDING REFN/France/Thailand/USA/2013/90mins.

With Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Yayaying Rhatha Phongam,

Tom Burke, Vithaya Pansringarm

Julian, an American fugitive from justice, runs a boxing club in Bangkok as a front for his drug business. His mother, the head of a vast criminal organization, arrives from the US to collect the body of her favorite son, Billy. Julian's brother has just been killed after having savagely murdered a young prostitute. Crazy with rage and thirsty for vengeance she demands the heads of the murderers from Julian. But first, Julian must confront Chang, a mysterious retired policeman-and figurehead of a divine justice-who has resolved to scourge the corrupt underworld of brothels and fight clubs. (In English and Thai w/ English subtitles).

 WINNER: Sydney Int. Film Festival Grand Prize Best Film

OFFICIAL SELECTION: World Premiere Cannes Film Festival

USA Premiere Los Angeles Film Festival

"I have just watched ONLY GOD FORGIVES by Nicolas Winding Refn...I...It...I...*eyeballs roll back in head, falls over* #Cannes2013"

(Peter Bradshaw's tweet on May 22...followed by...)

"★★★★★ HIGHEST RATING! Winding Refn's bizarre infernal creation, an entire created world of fear, really is gripping. EVERY SCENE, EVERY FRAME, IS EXECUTED WITH PURE FORMAL BRILLIANCE."

-Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

"★★★★★ HIGHEST RATING! This is a darkly amoral, sensually immersive and atmospheric slow-burn to hell that flips the conventional vengeance narrative. Gosling might have a few words to say, but Scott Thomas owns every scene she's in. TIME WILL UNVEIL THE GREATNESS OF REFN'S CUNNING VISION."-Janz Anton Iago, The Movie Jerk 

Read the IndieWire Playlist interview with Nicolas Winding Refn HERE

ADVANCE TICKETS:

FINAL SCREENING!...

THU, AUG 22, 7p, 9p;

THU, AUG 29, 7p, 9p:

An MBC Premiere Presentation

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami Encore Screenings!

THE BLING RING

Directed by SOFIA COPPOLA/2013/88mins.

With Emma Watson, Claire Julien, Israel Broussard, Taissa Farmiga,

Katie Chang, Leslie Mann, Gavin Rossdale, Paris Hilton

From Oscar-winning writer and director Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation), The Bling Ring tells the story of a group of teenagers who burglarize celebrities' homes in Los Angeles. Tracking their targets' whereabouts online, they break in and steal their designer clothes and possessions. Through the Bling Ring members' eyes, we see temptations that almost any teenager would feel-what starts out as teenage fun spins out of control and leaves us with a sobering view of today's culture of celebrity and luxury brand obsession. Inspired by actual events, and based on the Vanity Fair article "The Suspects Wore Louboutins" by Nancy Jo Sales, the film features, among others, real-life Bling Ring victim, Paris Hilton.

OPENING NIGHT: Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival

"A modern-day cautionary tale about youth run amok that, for all its ripped-from-the-headlines topicality, still exudes a dreamy, otherworldly perfume." - Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
"A slam-dunk conservative critique of American culture."

-Kyle Smith, New York Post
"Deceptively shallow but ultimately fascinating."

-Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
"A cool and intriguing cinematic journey."-Andrew O'Hehir, Salon

ADVANCE TICKETS:

THU, AUG 22, 7p

THU, AUG 22, 9p

THU, AUG 29, 7p

THU, AUG 29, 9p

FRI, AUG 16, 6:50p;

SAT & SUN, 17 & 18, 4:20p;

MON, TUE, AUG 19-20, 6:30p;

WED, AUG 21, 6:50p & 9p:

An MBC Premiere Presentation

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami Premiere Engagement!

HANNAH ARENDT

Directed by MARGARETHE VON TROTTA/Germany/2013/113mins.

With Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer

In the award-winning Hannah Arendt, the sublime Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe von Trotta (Vision, Rosa Luxemburg) for a brilliant new biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt's reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker-controversial both for her portrayal of Eichmann and the Jewish councils-introduced her now-famous concept of the "Banality of Evil." Using footage from the actual Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three countries, von Trotta beautifully turns the often invisible passion for thought into immersive, dramatic cinema.

(In German w/ English subtitles.)

WINNER: Lola Award (German "Oscars")

Best Actress, Silver Award Best Film

"The best movie this critic has ever seen about the life and times of a writer"-Brandon Harris, Filmmaker Magazine

"ARDENT AND INTELLIGENT.... TURNS IDEAS INTO THE BEST KIND OF ENTERTAINMENT...Its climax, in which Arendt defends herself against critics, MATCHES SOME OF THE GREAT COURTROOM SCENES IN CINEMA."
-A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Margarethe von Trotta's EXTRAORDINARY film...has managed to make THRILLING CINEMATIC DRAMA out of its protagonist's lifelong engagement with ideas."-Daphne Merkin, THE DAILY BEAST

ADVANCE TICKETS:

FRI, AUG 16, 6:50p

SAT, AUG 17, 4:20p

SUN, AUG 18, 4:20p

MON, AUG 19, 6:30p

TUE, AUG 20, 6:30p

WED, AUG 21, 6:50p

WED, AUG 21, 9p

 SAT, AUG 17, 7p:

Opening Film and Photography Exhibition:

WEST ENCOUNTERS EAST

With opening reception following the film!

ADVANCE TICKETS & INFO:

SAT, AUG 17, 7p

"CINEFOOT"

Tribute to the World Cup

Brazilian Soccer Films!

SAT, AUG 17, 9p:

GARRINCHA-ESTRELLA SOLIT�RIA

ADVANCE TICKETS & INFO:

SAT, AUG 17, 9p

SUN, AUG 18, 7p:

GRANDSTAND LUNG

ADVANCE TICKETS & INFO:

SUN, AUG 18, 7p

SUN, AUG 18, 9p:

HELENO

ADVANCE TICKETS & INFO:

SUN, AUG 18, 9p

MON, AUG 19, 9p:

ZICO IN THE NET

ADVANCE TICKETS & INFO:

MON, AUG 19, 9p

TUE, AUG 20, 9p:

1958, THE YEAR THE WORLD

DISCOVERED BRAZIL

ADVANCE TICKETS & INFO:

TUE, AUG 20, 9p

FRI-SUN, AUG 23-25, 7p & 9p;

WED, AUG 28, 7p, 9p:

An MBC Premiere Presentation

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami Premiere Engagement!

PRINCE AVALANCHE

Directed by DAVID GORDON GREEN/USA/2013/94mins.

With Emile Hirsch, Paul Rudd

Driven by striking performances from Rudd and Hirsch, Prince Avalanche is an offbeat comedy about two men painting traffic lines on a desolate country highway that's been ravaged by wildfire. Against this dramatic setting, beautifully shot by frequent Green collaborator Tim Orr, the men bicker and joke with each other, eventually developing an unlikely friendship. Funny, meditative and at times surreal, Prince Avalanche features a moving score by Explosions in the Sky and David Wingo, and was loosely adapted from an Icelandic film called Either Way.

WINNER: Best Director Berlin Film Festival

"A DEEPLY ENJOYABLE, WONDROUS DELIGHT. Meditative, remarkably funny and sublime. It might be Green's most vital film to date."

-Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist on Indiewire
"ONE OF MY FAVORITE EXPERIENCES T AT THE MOVIES IN A LONG TIME. Poignant and hilarious. I felt more transported to a different time and place with Prince Avalanche than I do with most sci-fi time travelling, special effects-heavy movies. Some of those most breathtaking sequences of cinematography in any film this year." -Aly Semigran, Hollywood.com
ADVANCE TICKETS:

FRI, AUG 23, 7p

FRI, AUG 23, 9p

SAT, AUG 24, 7p

SAT, AUG 24, 9p

SUN, AUG 25, 7p

SUN, AUG 25, 9p

WED, AUG 28, 7p

WED, AUG 28, 9p

An MBC Premiere Presentation

Miami Exclusive Premiere Engagement!

Part II of Ulrich Seidl's Paradise Trilogy:

PARADISE: FAITH

Directed by ULRICH SEIDL/Austria/2013/113mins.

With Maria Hofstatter, Nabil Saleh, Natalya Baranova

Anna Maria, sister to Teresa (from PARADISE: Love) and a single woman in her 50s, devotes her summer to missionary work in an effort to return Austria back to the path of virtue.  Carrying a foot-high statue of the Virgin Mary, she goes door-to-door preaching Catholicism.  One day, after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, returns home.  Anna Maria's life is turned upside-down and her prayers are now joined by fighting.  PARADISE: Faith - the second installment in Ulrich Seidl's PARADISE Trilogy - recounts the stations of the cross of a marriage and the longing for love. (In German with English subtitles.)

WINNER: Special Grand Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival

Best Script and Euroimages Award, Seville Film Festival

"In what has to be the most significant auteur helmed cinematic motif project since Kieslowski's Three Colors, Ulrich Sidle's Paradise Trilogy blazes on with the second installment, PARADISE: FAITH, which follows LOVE. PARADISE: FAITH happens to be one of the darkest, funniest, and delightful films of the year. Seidl's trilogy will definitely stand as one of the most accomplished cinematic achievements of the decade"

-Nicolas Bell, Ion Cinema

"Ms.Hofst�tter and Mr. Saleh - this is his first role - are brilliantly convincing to an almost alarming degree." New York Times

"Contains some of the most memorable moments of film we've seen this year."-Indiewire

ADVANCE TICKETS:

Miami Exclusive Encore Screenings of Part I!

Part I of Ulrich Seidl's Paradise Trilogy:

PARADISE: LOVE

Directed by ULRICH SEIDL/Austria/2012/120mins. 

With Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kasungu, Inge Maux, Gabriel Mwarua

Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the beaches of Kenya to work as a sex tourist or "Sugar Mama".  There, she moves from one Beach Boy to the next, buying their love only to be disappointed and quickly learning that here, love is strictly a business.  PARADISE: LOVE is the first of Ulrich Seidl's "PARADISE Trilogy" about three women in one family who take separate vacations in the hope of finding happiness. (In German and English with English subtitles).

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Cannes Film Festival, Miami Film Festival

"In what has to be the most significant auteur helmed cinematic motif project since Kievlowski's Three Colors, Ulrich Siedl's Paradise Trilogy blazes on...Seidl's trilogy will definitely stand as ONE OF THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED CINEMATIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE DECADE"

-Nicolas Bell, Ion Cinema

Paradise Trilogy book of photography available for purchase at MBC!

"WHAT YOU CAN'T FIND ON EARTH..."

Ulrich Seidl in conversation with Claus Philipp about his PARADISE Trilogy

ADVANCE TICKETS:

And COMING SOON (October)...

PART III of The Paradise Trilogy

PARADISE: HOPE